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“The middle part of the country - the great red zone that voted for Bush - is clearly ready for war. The decadent Left in its enclaves on the coasts is not dead - and may well mount what amounts to a fifth column.”

Wells May War Country Left Middle Ready Red Zone Coast Fifth Columns

Author:Andrew Sullivan

“I don't think I am that materialistic, actually. Obviously at home in the country the art collection is important, but we have one big room in the middle of the house where we do everything - the television, the kitchen, everything.”

Thinking Art Important Country Home Bigs House Rooms Middle Television Kitchen Collections Materialistic

Author:Andrew Lloyd Webber

“I love the 6 Nations rugby. I feel very Scottish then. I feel very Scottish now, sitting in the middle of Chelsea. But thats part of our heritage - being part of Britain, part of Europe. I love being European.”

Feels Nations Love Is Middle Sitting Europe Britain Heritage Rugby Scottish Chelsea

Author:Rory Bremner

“The most improbable tales can be made believable, if your reader, through his sense, feels certain that he stands at the middle of events.”

Ifs Feels Made Certain Middle Events Reader Tales Improbable Believable

Author:Ray Bradbury

“When I see three balls, I just swing at the middle one.”

Three Middle Balls Swings

Author:Hack Wilson

“The trend of offering individualized education plans, curricula, and lessons is going to help students tremendously. “Teaching to the middle” is one of the saddest concepts I've ever heard about.”

Helping Plans Heard Teaching Middle Students Lessons Concepts Trends Offering Saddest

Author:Mike Lee

“It's not easy to see things from the middle, rather than looking down on them from above or up at them from below, or from left to right or right to left: try it, you'll see that everything changes.”

Trying Left Easy Middle Things Change Looking Down

Book:EPZ Thousand Plateaus

Source: EPZ Thousand Plateaus

“When I was growing up, I always felt there was an expectation that I would do one of two things: be great at something, or go crazy and become a total failure. There is no middle ground where I come from, and I am only now beginning to get a sense that there is a middle ground at all.”

Two Felt Growing Up Growing Crazy Middle Expectations Two Things Middle Ground

Author:Marya Hornbacher

“I was with the 101st Airborne Division in Iraq, really in the middle of nowhere, about 80 miles south of Baghdad. And it was almost midnight, and I got a computer message from the home office of the Washington Post asking me to call them. I did call them and was told that I'd won the Pulitzer Prize.”

Home Middle Office Computer Messages Asking South Iraq Miles Posts Prize Division Midnight Baghdad Middle Of Nowhere Airborne Home Office

Author:Rick Atkinson

“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.'”

Thinking Firsts Bigs Stuff Middle Strikes League

Author:Joe Torre

“When I was 11 or 12, I was really bored with everything on my summer reading list. It was all happy, middle-grade kinds of books. I was getting frustrated, because I liked to read. My mother went to the library and got me a copy of 'The Other Side of Midnight' by Sidney Sheldon. It was my first adult book.”

Firsts Kind Book Mother Reading Sides Middle Summer Adults Library Lists Bored Grades Copies Frustrated Midnight Summer Reading

Author:Lauren DeStefano

“The privilege of a middle-class, stable, bourgeois life is that you can pretend that you are not complicated and project yourself as a solid, uncomplicated person, with refined life goals and achievements.”

Persons Life Is Goal Class Middle Achievement Projects Privilege Complicated Middle Class Stable Bourgeois Refined Life Goal Uncomplicated Goals And Achievement

Author:Aleksandar Hemon

“I'm going to sound a little weird here, but I like to spend a lot of time on my own in the woods. I don't exactly sneak off in the middle of the night, but I like to be in a place where no one can reach me by phone or e-mail.”

Littles Night Sound My Own Middle Phones Woods Mail Sneak Middle Of The Night

Author:Joaquin Phoenix

“...in your living room, you're scared shitless. And that's just where the power structure wants you. In the middle of a riot, I've never found anybody who's chickenshit. The way to eliminate fear is to do what you're most afraid of.”

Way Want Found Rooms Middle Structure Scared Riot Living Room

Book:Do it; scenarios of the revolution

Source: Do it; scenarios of the revolution

“The middle class has just fallen further and further behind the rich.”

Behinds Class Rich Middle Fallen Middle Class

Author:William Julius Wilson

“Prior to 1940, the affluent and the middle class began to converge, but after 1979, the economic gap between the middle class and affluent widened significantly.”

Class Economic Middle Middle Class Gaps Affluent

Author:William Julius Wilson

“I dont accept the idea that there are two sides to any issue. I think that the middle ground is to be found within most of us.”

Thinking Two Ideas Found Sides Accepting Issues Middle Two Sides Middle Ground

Author:Krista Tippett

“There are lots of examples of routine, middle-skilled jobs that involve relatively structured tasks, and those are the jobs that are being eliminated the fastest. Those kinds of jobs are easier for our friends in the artificial intelligence community to design robots to handle them. They could be software robots; they could be physical robots.”

Kind Jobs Community Middle Example Design Easier Tasks Handle Routine Artificial Intelligence Software Artificial Robots Intelligence Community

Author:Erik Brynjolfsson

“I was kicked out of middle school a few times. This guy who was kind of a d*** and a bully got hit by a car. I jumped up and went, YEAH Apparently that wasnt cool with some people cause I got kicked out.”

People Kind School Guy Causes Middle Car Yeah Bully This Guy Middle School

Author:Tom DeLonge

“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.”

Age Language Natural Principles Middle Philosopher Logical Flaws Middle Ages Orderly Idiom

Author:Joshua Foer

“We have broken the shackles of conservative socialism. The growing middle classes want the kind of standard of living you enjoy in the West. So what I'm selling is a lifestyle.”

Want Kind Enjoy Class Growing Middle Broken Standards West Conservative Lifestyle Socialism Selling Middle Class Standards Of Living Shackles

Author:Vijay Mallya

“Any middle-aged woman knows that our feet are not for the faint of heart, especially in midwinter. I wear clogs, so it's actually like my feet are wooden now.”

Knows Heart Feet Middle Middle Aged Faint Of Heart Midwinter

Author:Lisa Scottoline

“Because of my New Line upbringing, half my heart goes to scrappy independents, and half goes to mainstream, down-the-middle pop culture events. And even with those, to try to keep something fresh and original with them and try to do things that the majors miss.”

Trying Heart Culture Lines Half Middle Missing Events My Heart Majors Originals Pops Mainstream Pop Culture Upbringing

Author:Michael De Luca

“I played trumpet in middle school, and then I had to get braces, so I had to stop playing trumpet and start playing drums.”

School Middle Trumpets Middle School Braces Playing Drums

Author:Brendon Urie

“Our approach to education has remained largely unchanged since the Renaissance: From middle school through college, most teaching is done by an instructor lecturing to a room full of students, only some of them paying attention.”

Done School Rooms Attention Teaching Middle Students College Approach Pay Attention Renaissance Middle School Instructors Lecturing

Author:Daphne Koller

“Stop in the middle of a sentence, leaving a rough edge for you to start from the nest day - that way, you can write three or five words without being “creative” and before you know it, you're writing.”

Knows Way Writing Three Creative Five Middle Leaving Edges Sentences Rough Be Creative Nests Rough Edges

Author:Cory Doctorow

“The young person isn't certain that love can be real; the middle-aged man is only discovering that it is; and the older person seems so sure of it. I was interested in the way that many of us go through the whole of our lives staying with someone just out of complacency, because leaving isn't easy.”

Men Way Persons Real Whole Seems Young Certain Easy Our Lives Middle Leaving Staying Being Real Discovering Complacency Middle Aged

Author:Conor McPherson

“I double-knot my shoe laces. It's a pain untying your shoes afterward-particularly if you get them wet-but so is stopping in the middle of a race to tie them.”

Ifs Pain Race Middle Shoes Ties Wet Stopping Knots Lace

Author:Hal Higdon

“Being a reporter is one of the noblest things you can do in life. Letting the people know. It's really a holy cause. Time after time after time, in the middle of corruption and disgrace and bad politics, I've seen people come through and do for people. I write about someone in trouble and someone else rallies to help them. Through reporting, things can change.”

People Knows Writing Helping Causes Can Do Trouble Middle Holy Corruption Reporters Disgrace Bad Politics

Author:Celestine Sibley

“Im the middle man. I try to keep people happy. I go out of my way to get a smile. Thats the way my mother raised me.”

People Men Way Trying Mother Middle Raised My Way

Author:Donald Dunn

“Most American Jews came from the lower middle classes, and therefore they brought with them not a lot of Jewish culture. The American Jewish story starts with Ellis Island, and the candy store in the Bronx.”

Stories Culture Class Middle Jew Stores Islands Middle Class Candy Bronx Candy Stores Jewish Culture Ellis Island

Author:Arthur Hertzberg

“We may say, in a broad way, that Greek philosophy down to Aristotle expresses the mentality appropriate to the City State; that Stoicism is appropriate to a cosmopolitan despotism; that stochastic philosophy is an intellectual expression of the Church as an organization; that philosophy since Descartes, or at any rate since Locke, tends to embody the prejudices of the commercial middle class; and that Marxism and Fascism are the philosophies appropriate to the modern industrial state.”

“The mobile middle class gravitates to the cities where housing is affordable.”

Cities Class Middle Middle Class Housing Mobile Affordable

Author:Virginia Postrel

“So as I was growing up, my father was always in the middle of making a film or preparing a film. It was a full-time, all-consuming type of operation.”

Film Father Growing Up Growing Middle Type Operations Preparing Consuming

Author:Barbara Broccoli

“A history of perceived humiliation, after all, lurks behind many acts of terror. And competing narratives of victimhood and insults sustain conflicts in the Balkans, the Caucasus, the Middle East and many other regions.”

Behinds Middle Conflict Terror East Narrative Insult Regions Middle East Competing Humiliation Victimhood Balkans Acts Of Terror Caucasus

Author:Serge Schmemann

“The Egyptians had the locusts and in the Middle Ages there was the Black Death with the rats, but tourists are the plague of our century and we'll not survive this one.”

Age Black Modern Middle Century Rats Plague Middle Ages Modern Life Tourists Black Death

Author:Richard Conniff

“I do not see the E.E.C. [European Economic Community] as a great love affair. It's more like nine middle aged couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope.”

Home Community Failing Groups Economic Middle Couple Travel Meetings Affair Nine Hotel Middle Ages Great Love Love Affair Middle Aged Brussels

Author:Kenneth Tynan

“An unfinished coffin on black tressels, which stood in the middle of the shop, looked so gloomy and death-like that a cold tremble came over him, every time his eyes wandered in the direction of the dismal object: from which he almost expected to see some frightful form slowly rear its head, to drive him mad with terror.”

Eye Form Black Middle Objects Cold Mad Terror Expected His Eyes Shops Gloomy Unfinished Coffins Spooky

Book:Oliver Twist

Source: Oliver Twist

“A brisk, bright, blue-eyed fellow, a very neat figure and rather under the middle size, never out of the way and never in it.”

Way Character Interesting Middle Figures Blue Fellows Size Neat Interesting Characters Blue Eyed

Book:Christmas Stories from

Source: Christmas Stories from

“Most people perceive moderates as timid, middle-of-the-roaders, who can't take a stand.”

People Middle Perceive Moderates

Author:Rick Bayan

“The beard, being a half-mask, should be forbidden by the police - It is, moreover, as a sexual symbol in the middle of the face, obscene: that is why it pleases women.”

Should Faces Half Middle Please Police Symbols Mask Forbidden Beard Obscene

Author:Arthur Schopenhauer

“We will create life from inanimate compounds, and we will find life in space. But the life that should more immediately interest us lies between these extremes, in the middle range we all inhabit between our genes and our stars.”

Should Lying Stars Interest Space Middle Extremes Range Genes Compounds

Author:Nicholas A. Christakis

“Musically, there's a movement called the flatted fifth that's really evil-sounding. It was outlawed by the Catholic Church during the Middle Ages. That movement is what gives you a real evil sound that conjures up dark, fantastic images. It's like an audio horror movie. It personifies what a horror movie is about.”

Giving Real Age Evil Sound Church Dark Middle Movement Horror Catholic Fantastic Fifth Middle Ages Catholic Church Audio

Author:Kirk Hammett

“In a story, you have to have a theme and an angle, you have to have a beginning, middle and an end. You have to have a defining moment and kick it to death. You gotta be able to recognize that, by the way. It probably takes experience.”

Way Ends Moments Stories Able Middle Kicks Theme Angle Defining Defining Moments

Author:Dan Jenkins

“It is almost impossible to overemphasize the importance with which ancestry is held in the Middle East and North Africa.”

Impossible Middle Importance East Middle East Ancestry North Africa

Author:Tahir Shah

“I grew up on the Southside of Chicago. What people don't realize is that my father was a multimillionaire who owned 12 hotels, motels, a steel mill, a radio station, a club, nursing home, and a law office. So I think it's safe to say I'm a little above middle class and I'm a daddy's girl.”

“Listen to the women. Women say exactly what they want. Who has concrete plans - not macroeconomics but kitchen table economics. Who will change the situation for their families, and help restore the middle class. Women are also sick to death of having their bodies and their lives treated as a political football.”

Want Helping Body Political Situation Class Plans Middle Football Economics Sick Tables Treated Kitchen Middle Class Concrete Men Women Kitchen Table So Sick Macroeconomics

Author:Celinda Lake

“In the agreement to rescue Rome [i.e., the Roman Catholic Church's hierarchy] from the predicament of losing its world control to Protestantism, and to preserve the spiritual and temporal supremacy which the popes [had] 'usurped' during the Middle Ages, Rome now 'sold' the [Roman Catholic] Church to the Society of Jesus [i.e., the Jesuits]; in essence the popes surrendered themselves into their hands.”

“Middle School is about as bad as it gets, and then it gets better.”

School Middle Get Better Middle School It Gets Better

Book:The Wonder eOmni Collection: Wonder, Auggie & Me, 365 Days of Wonder

Source: The Wonder eOmni Collection: Wonder, Auggie & Me, 365 Days of Wonder

“When I married Humphrey I made up my mind to like sermons, and I set out by liking the end very much. That soon spread to the middle and the beginning, because I couldn't have the end without them.”

Mind Made Ends Religion Church Marriage Middle Married Spread Sermons

Book:Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Source: Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

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