#arrow

For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#combined #energy #more #narrowness #nothing

No one will ever know what 'In Cold Blood' took out of me. It scraped me right down to the marrow of my bones. It nearly killed me. I think, in a way, it did kill me. ↗

— Truman Capote

#bones #cold #did #down #ever

I love Italian food but that's too generic a term for what's available now: you have to narrow it down to Tuscan, Sicilian, and so on. ↗

— Lee Child

#down #food #generic #i #i love

I think in the end, when you're famous, people like to narrow you down to a few personality traits. I think I've just become this ambitious, say-whatever's-on-her-mind, intimidating person. And that's part of my personality, but it's certainly not anywhere near the whole thing. ↗

— Madonna Ciccone

#anywhere #become #certainly #down #end

When I was seventeen, I worked as a counsellor at a co-ed sleep-away camp for eight weeks. I loved it but it could be harrowing - it was far too much responsibility for someone my age. ↗

— Harlan Coben

#camp #could #counsellor #eight #far

There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire. ↗

— William Congreve

#beauty #cannot #courage #dare #narrow

You had to feel the swell change. You had to go with the change. He told me that. No eye is on the sparrow but he did tell me that. ↗

— Joan Didion

#did #eye #feel #go #had

I don't have feeling in my feet to my fingertips; I also have active lesions in my bone marrow and in my eyes. ↗

— Karen Duffy

#also #bone #bone marrow #eyes #feeling

Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith. ↗

— Christopher Fry

#despair #escape #faith #into #narrow

Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing. ↗

— Konrad Lorenz

#compete #every #every man #everything #expert