Middle Quotes

Once you call something a story, it's set in stone. It has a beginning, a middle, and an end that can't be transformed, because by definition, if you do that, it's not the same story anymore

The reason I talk so much about the middle class is it's the glue that holds America together. It really is. And we don't speak enough to their legitimate concerns.

You're looking at a middle-class guy. I am who I am.

So listen, man, "weird" is my middle name. I'm ready for anything. The weirder, the better.

You get to the big leagues, and you think, 'Can I do this stuff?' Then you take the first pitch down the middle for Strike 1, and you think, 'I could have hit that.'

You have to live among rich liberals to understand what they're saying. You'll never believe what they mean by 'middle class.' They mean themselves.

The philosophers must station themselves in the middle.

We go through these metamorphous just like a caterpillar does before becoming a butterfly and the middle of that metamorphosis it always feels uncomfortable.

I'm trying to suggest a kind of Middle Earth, in Tolkien terms. It's a contiguous world; it's like ours but different.

One of the unique things is that whether we were out at sea or in the middle of the water tank, a lot of times you just couldn't leave. Especially when we were out at sea.

If you're standing in the middle of a ring and you're playing the villain, and everyone is booing and throwing things at you, that's real.

We need to talk to all the players in the Middle East, not because we agree with them, but because they play a role.

We cannot continue to see the Middle East in the context of 9/11. We must see it in the context of 2011.

Middle class Americans don't ask for special favors, they just want basic fairness, and a President who fights for that ideal.

We're not going to break anything. Don't think of it as breaking in to SeaWorld. Think of it as visiting SeaWorld in the middle of the night for free.

Interesting capitalization,' I said. 'Yeah. I'm a big believer in random capitalization. The rules of capitalization are so unfair to words in the middle.

We cannot hand our faith to one another.... Even in the Middle Ages, when faith was theoretically uniform, it was always practically individual.

I keep on reading the Morning Star newspaper to see if there's any hope, but it seems to be in the 19th century; it seems to be written for dropped-out, middle-aged liberals.

I think middle-class people have the biggest trauma if they have nice imagey parents, all smiling and dolled up.

I was married very young. I lived a very middle class life. I was married at age 21, divorced at 31. I didn't sleep on people's couches.

Teachers don't work in the summer, and photographers don't shoot in in the middle of the day.

Certainly we've seen the enormous changes across the whole of the Middle East. The democratic genie is out of the bottle.

Each Middle East country has their own unique kinds of challenges; but the fundamentals, the desire for democracy and freely elected governments is a common thread throughout.

My sister's asthmatic. In the middle of an asthma attack she got an obscene phone call. The guy said, "Did I call you or did you call me?"

I'm an independent, straight in the middle. I've donated to candidates that I thought would be good that are Republican and Democrats alike.

By keeping most tax rates at present levels, Obama and the Democrats will claim that they have championed tax cuts for the middle class.

Country music historically has been sort of middle-aged people's music.

There's a crystallization that goes on in a poem which the young man can bring off, but which the middle-aged man can't.

The lightning spread of 'Western-style' gambling overseas has increased the problems of addicted and problem gamblers, organized crime and alleged corruption in Asia and the Middle East

People who want to act rich when they're upper-middle class. They try too hard.

I was also sitting in from the middle of senior year of high school at Sweet Basil, it was a great club in New York.

The middle class, one of the great achievements in history, is becoming more of a relic than a reality.

One of the great sadnesses of my life, as I take stock at middle age, is the sense that the adventure largely ended by the time I was twenty-five.

Before I got into politics, I wanted to be a missionary to people in the Middle East. I thought it would be better to speak with them in their own language.

I woke up once in the middle of the night, and Buckminster's paws were on my eyelids. He must have been feeling my nightmares.

The secret was a hole in the middle of me that every happy thing fell into.

Books may be written in all sorts of places. Verbal inspiration may enter the berth of a mariner on board a ship frozen fast in a river in the middle of a town.

Since at least the Middle Ages, philosophers and philologists have dreamed of curing natural languages of their flaws by constructing entirely new idioms according to orderly, logical principles.

Colombia has a big market that is growing because we are elevating people out of poverty and into the middle class.

People will say, 'Seventy isn't old, it's middle-aged,' and I think, middle of what - 140?

When I was 17, I came to the U.S. to study Middle Eastern history and politics at Columbia University.

I was kind of an innocent hayseed from a middle-class, utterly nonintellectual background.

At the same time, it's people that are employed - many folks - but they're still not earning enough to get into the middle class.

I believe I'm a middle-of-the-order hitter capable of driving in runs. If I stay healthy, I'll get back to that level.

Breaking is when someone starts to laugh in the middle of a scene, which is so fun to watch.

Jamming a coin into a monopoly newspaper box or liberating a billboard in the middle of the night can be a rather honest and joyful thing to do.

I started off dancing and playing sports, and I joined the drama stuff, the theatre stuff in middle school because my friends were involved, and it was kind of the cool thing to do.

For centuries, the Muslims were able to co-exist perfectly well with Jews and Christians in the Middle East.

Even before 9/11 I was gripped by a sense of dread: our lack of criticism about what we were doing in the Middle East - the slagging off of a whole religious tradition.

It is hard work to give life to new characters every single day. It is not as if I am God. I am just a tired, middle-aged woman trying to keep going.