Middle Quotes

• I don't always see humor in things. Especially when I smash my pinky toe into a coffee table leg in the middle of the night. But sometimes I'll see things, or experience things, that make me go, "Huh, maybe that's a bit."

  

  Brian Regan
  • Night
  • Sometimes
  • Coffee

• There is not a big difference between life and taking pictures... You're in the middle of life, you're living, making love, eating, sleeping - and photography is part of it. And I don't say this because I'm being romantic. I say this because that's just the way it happens to be.

  

  Anders Petersen
  • Life
  • Difference
  • Pictures

• I think punk rock, especially for me, was a big middle finger to this whole talent thing.

  

  Mike Watt
  • Thinking
  • Talent
  • Finger

• It's strange, isn't it. You stand in the middle of a library and go aaaaagghhhh' and everyone just stares at you. But you do the same thing on an aeroplane, and everyone joins in.

  

  Tommy Cooper
  • Library
  • Strange
  • Staring

• The depth of the middle class is waning as the polarization of society is in progress.

  

  Katsuya Okada
  • Progress
  • Middle
  • Polarization

• It was like I was inside a fishbowl in the middle of a typhoon, and everyone else was on the outside cluelessly enjoying lovely weather.

  

  P. C. Cast
  • Weather
  • Middle
  • Lovely

• Composing means you have a beginning, middle and end and a fluidity to what you're doing.

  

  Sandra Bullock
  • Mean
  • Ends
  • Composing

• World In Flames' is pretty powerful to me, it's about waking up in the middle of the night, the whole world has ignited into flames, and I'm there alone. And it's kind of like a fear of dying alone and the whole world is burning.

  

  Maria Brink
  • World
  • Night
  • Powerful

• There was a species of middle pretty who smiled at everything: happy smile, disappointed smile, you're-in-trouble smile.

  

  Scott Westerfeld
  • Happy
  • Trouble
  • Disappointed

• The Middle East is gorgeous, but again, politically, I would not want to go there.

  

  Baron Vaughn
  • Middle
  • East
  • Gorgeous

• The rich did not care who ruled, as long as they were allowed to be rich. The poor could not afford to care and nobody asked their opinion in any case. Only the middle class mattered and any half-witted ruler knows how to pamper them.

  

  Anand Neelakantan
  • Rich
  • Poor
  • Class

• Yes, it is hard out there. But hard is relative. I come from a middle-class family, my parents are academics. I was born after the Civil Rights movement, I was a toddler during the women's movement, I live in the United States of America, all of which means I am allowed to own my freedom, my rights, my voice and my uterus.

  

  Shonda Rhimes
  • Born
  • Parent
  • Movement

• Many Americans would die naked in the middle of the road before they'd tell you what's hurt them most. But a born Southerner will show you the cell in their heart that burns the hardest. They'll hold it out to you in their bare right hand.

  

  Reynolds Price
  • Middle
  • Hardest
  • Southerner

• They're in the middle of a very solid time period right now. It's all good.

  

  David Haas
  • Good
  • Period
  • Middle

• When I set out to write a screenplay, I have in my mind a beginning and an end but that end part continually changes as I start to write the middle. That way by the time the screenplay is finished I have taken myself and my audience from a familiar beginning point through the story to an unfamiliar ending point.

  

  Christian Keiber
  • Mind
  • Beginning
  • End

• We think we're near energy independence - nothing could be further from the truth. We're in much better shape now, but the price of a barrel of oil is going to be controlled by the Middle East for the next 10, 20, 30 years for sure.

  

  Michael Mullen
  • Energy
  • Independence
  • Shapes

• Doubt is a central factor all the time. There's always the doubt: What the hell am I doing out here in the middle of the woods, all alone, painting?

  

  Neil Welliver
  • Painting
  • Woods
  • Factors

• Once we turn, it’s new pretty, middle pretty, late pretty.” Shay dropped her arms, and her board stopped drifting. “Then dead pretty.

  

  Scott Westerfeld
  • Arms
  • Boards
  • Drifting

• The only thing you find in the middle of the road are dead animals and dumb Americans.

  

  Anton Newcombe
  • Road
  • Animals
  • Dumb

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

  

  Ray Winstone
  • Silence
  • Attractive
  • Nowhere

• There are strengths in Islamic tradition. Islam actually, as a monotheistic religion, which defined man as a responsible agent by itself, created the idea of the individual in the Middle East and saved it from the communitarianism, the collectivism of the tribe.

  

  Mustafa Akyol
  • Tradition
  • Responsible
  • Islam

• She says that beginnings are scary, endings are usually sad, but it's the middle that counts the most.

  

  Sandra Bullock
  • Life
  • Scary
  • Floats

• All I have is me. Over-worked, under-appreciated, middle-aged, and shriveled up.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Middle
  • Appreciated

• When I shared a room with my sister Trisha, we drew a line down the middle. She had Laura Ashley stuff with flowers everywhere, and her whole side of the room was white, while my side of the room was painted, freaky and covered with stuff.

  

  Melissa Joan Hart
  • Stuff
  • White
  • Rooms

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