Middle Quotes

I often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle, so I can work between the two.

My job is not done. I address my songs now to the third world. I am popular all over Asia and Africa and the Middle East, not to speak of South Africa, where I'm trying to go to see Nelson Mandela.

Exploration of the natural world begins in early childhood, flourishes in middle childhood, and continues in adolescence as a pleasure and a source of strength for social action.

I regard affirmative action as pernicious - a system that had wonderful ideals when it started but was almost immediately abused for the benefit of white middle-class women.

I am afraid that there are more people than I can imagine who can go no further than appreciating a picture that is a rectangle with an object in the middle of it, which they can identify.

The number one job facing the middle class. And it happens to be, as Barack says, a three-letter word: Jobs. J-O-B-S.

I'm either shooting nine grams of coke a day or spending two hours at the gym. There's no middle ground.

They took a survey: Why do men get up in the middle of the night? Ten percent get up to go to the bathroom and 90 percent get up to go home.

Rich people acquire assets. The poor and middle class acquire liabilities that they think are assets.

In the Middle Ages, everything bad was the work of the devil, everything good, the work of God. Today, the French see everything in reverse and blame the Germans for it.

Does such a thing as "the fatal flaw," that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature?

Faith thanks God in the middle of the story.

Human development, not secularization, is what's key to women's empowerment in the transforming Middle East.

I was a middle-of-the-road Democrat more than anything else. I know I voted for Carter. Watergate taught me how bad the Republicans were.

I knew I wanted to play around with genre-esque imagery, and the identity theft stuff came in the middle, when I was figuring out how the characters were connected to those images.

It is in the middle that human choices are made; the beginning and the end remain with God. The decrees of God are birth and death, and in between those limits man makes his own distress or joy.

I do not believe that we must maintain a bloated military budget which spends almost as much as the rest of the world combined and may lead us to perpetual warfare in the Middle East.

I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.

I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge I made great efforts to lose the last remnants of my cockney accent.

Educational romanticism asks too much from students at the bottom of the intellectual pile, asks the wrong things from those in the middle, and asks too little from those at the top.

Men generally decide upon a middle course, which is most hazardous, for they know neither how to be entirely good nor entirely bad.

What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.

The change we are in the middle of isn't minor and it isn't optional.

Although it was the middle of winter, I finally realized that, within me, summer was inextinguishable.

Wednesdays were the best thing about Atlantis. The middle of the week was a traditional holiday there. Everyone stopped work and celebrated the fact that half the week was over.

Man, coaching is a hard job, and it requires a lot of time... I hear stories from coaches who tell me that players call them in the middle of the night not knowing where they parked their car.

All TV is, is really: 'Don't you want to be this, aren't you glad you're not that.' There's nothing really in the middle.

The formula for achieving middle-class success is simple: Finish high school; don't have a child before the age of 20; and get married before having the child.

The global importance of the Middle East is that it keeps the Far East and the Near East from encroaching on each other.

Almost all my middle-aged and elderly acquaintances, including me, feel about 25, unless we haven't had our coffee, in which case we feel 107.

A Klaner KKK is a cat who gets out of bed in the middle of the night and takes his sheet with him.

It was difficult in the beginning, in the middle and at the end.

I'm officially middle-aged. I don't need drugs anymore, thank God. I can get the same effect just by standing up real fast.

Every woman dreams of love. When she is young she prays she will find it. When she is middle aged she hopes for it and when she is old she remembers it.

Laws are generally found to be nets of such a texture, as the little creep through, the great break through, and the middle-sized are alone entangled in it.

Now begin in the middle, and later learn the beginning; the end will take care of itself.

We should think about whether canonizations, which are an invention of the Middle Ages, still make sense today.

I'm from a middle class family but my father squandered all the money, so I didn't really run around with rich people. I was very judgmental towards a lot of them.

Voidness is that which stands right in the middle between this and that.

There is something about silence and being in the middle of nowhere that is really very attractive.

Free enterprise has done more to lift people out of poverty, to help build a strong middle class, to help educate our kids, and to make our lives better than all the programs of government combined.

Some people say we're (Coldplay) talented and some say we're the worst thing ever to happen to music, and it's a bit confusing being in the middle of that.

Middle-class-led reform movements, from the Progressive Era to the War on Poverty, have been marred by an elitist distance from the would-be beneficiaries of reform.

Middle-class families know education begins at birth.

In the hierarchy of colors, green represents the social middle class, self-satisfied, immovable, narrow.

Turkey is a European country, an Asian country, a Middle Eastern country, Balkan country, Caucasian country, neighbor to Africa, Black Sea country, Caspian Sea, all these.

Strange how blind people are! They are horrified by the torture chambers of the Middle Ages, but their arsenals fill them with pride!

Doubt is the middle position between knowledge and ignorance. It encompasses cynicism but also genuine questioning.

Herpes, AIDS, the Middle East at full throttle. Better check that sausage before you put it in the waffle.

Don't be defeatist, dear, it's very middle class.