“I've got three sons, and two of them would absolutely hate being on the stage and never liked appearing in their school plays or musicals, but the middle one absolutely loves it and never shows any sign of nerves or pressure and really gets a kick out of performing. I think it depends entirely on the child. And that applies to anything whether it's sport or entertainment or music or film.” ThinkingChildrenTwoPlayShowsSchoolFilmHateThreeSportsMiddleStageSonDependsPressureEntertainmentPerformingKicksNervesAppearingSchool PlaysThree Sons Author:Piers Morgan
“Songwriters are expanding time rather than compressing time. My short stories tend to be old fashioned, with a beginning, middle and end.” EndsStoriesMiddleShort StorySongwritersOld FashionedExpandingBeginning Middle And End Author:Steve Earle
“I think young children in the Western middle classes are objects of incredible anxiety.” ThinkingChildrenYoungClassMiddleObjectsAnxietyWesternIncrediblesMiddle ClassYoung Children Author:Anne Enright
“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.” KindCountryGovernmentDesireChallengesCommonDemocracyMiddleUniqueFundamentalsEastMiddle EastThreadCommon Threads Author:John McCain
“Sometimes in the middle of a presidential campaign, there's a political movie, and people are sick of hearing about politics, and they don't want to see that movie. They'd rather see "Godzilla."” PeopleWantSometimesPoliticalMiddleSickHearingCampaignsPresidentialPresidential CampaignGodzilla Author:Casey Affleck
“We were a really crazy band. This was in '73. I had my hair real short with a white stripe down the middle of my head. The guitarists had pink hair. We weren't playing CBGB's either, we were playing Statesborough, Georgia, for cowboys on penny beer night. We used to keep crowbars onstage when fights would break out. Those were really wild times.” RealUsedNightFightingWhiteBreakCrazyMiddleHairBandBeerCowboyPenniesGeorgiaGuitaristBreak OutStripesWhite StripesPink HairCbgb Author:Rex Smith
“Theater is completely different from film or television. It has a beginning and a middle and an end and it's different every night. And it's far preferable to any other except in the sense of not getting paid, people who want to eat should do film and television.” PeopleWantShouldDifferentEndsFilmNightMiddleTelevisionPaidTheaterEvery NightFilm And Television Author:Richard Dreyfuss
“From the age of 1 to 6 there is a small percentage that is exclusively homosexual, a small percentage heterosexual and there's a wide band in the middle of people who respond to various stimuli. A little bit here, a little more there.” PeopleLittlesAgeBitsMiddleBandLittle BitVariousWideHomosexualPercentagesStimulus Author:Gore Vidal
“America cannot do most of what needs to be done alone. You need friends. And we have good friends around the world. We have friends with whom we share values in Europe and Asia - thanks to the forward march of democracy - in Latin America, in Africa, and increasingly in the Middle East.” WorldNeedsDoneAmericaValuesDemocracyShareMiddleEuropeEastThanksAround The WorldMarchLatinMiddle EastGood FriendAsiaLatin AmericaFriend In Need Author:Condoleezza Rice
“I suppose that anyone who does any kind of creative work some time in their life - especially as you grow into middle age! - you come to a time where you really question more and more frequently, whether you have anything else to offer. And at its worst, you feel utterly bereft of whatever creative force it takes to do that work.” FeelsKindDoeAgeForceGrowsCreativeMiddleWorstOffersMiddle AgesCreative WorkBereft Author:Daniel Day-Lewis
“Go to the east shore of any of the Hawaiian Islands, and that's a pretty big lesson on how much plastic is ending up in the ocean. Basically, the Hawaiian Islands act as a filter out in the middle of the Pacific.” BigsMiddleLessonsOceanEastIslandsShorePlasticPacificFiltersHawaiians Author:Jack Johnson
“I play on my phone in public quite a lot. I pretend that I'm getting a very important message that I must attend to immediately. You will often see me in the middle of a huge crowd just staring intently at my phone because I just don't even know how I should interact with other humans.” KnowsShouldHumansImportantPlayKnow HowMiddleHugeMessagesPhonesCrowdsStaring Author:Roxane Gay
“People don't just show up and lie down in the middle of the street some place out of nothing. Somebody said meet me there, let's get together, and let's do this thing. The interesting thing is that we don't know who all of the leaders of these groups are, but we know that they're out there, and we know a new group of leadership is being created. It shows you that leadership can come from anywhere.” PeopleKnowsSaidShowsTogetherLyingInterestingLeaderGroupsStreetsMiddleInteresting ThingsGet Together Author:Julian Bond
“Get out of debt. In a world of stagnant incomes and rising core expenses like mortgage and health care costs, that's a lot easier said than done. The middle class is under enormous pressure. But families can stop the bleeding by reducing their reliance on debt wherever they can. They can also start fighting back by taking a hard look at whom they do business with and rethinking whether they want tricks-and-traps banks to hold their money. They can also demand that public officials take the side of families over the side of banks.” WorldWantLooksSaidHardDoneCareFightingSidesClassMiddleEasierCostDemandPressureDebtCoreTricksEnormousIncomeHealth CareOfficialsRisingMiddle ClassExpensesTrapsRelianceReducingBleedingMortgageStagnantPublic OfficialsRethinkingHealth Care CostsFighting BackEasier Said Than Done Author:Elizabeth Warren
“When you approach middle age, lots of stuff happens. Your body is aging, you're watching people around you get sick, you're watching people die, your mortality becomes very present at that point in your life.” PeopleBodyHappensAgeDiesStuffMiddleApproachSickAgingYour BodyMortalityMiddle AgesStuff Happens Author:Charlie Kaufman
“Actually I think 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' could sit very very perfectly in the middle of a Disney world I think.” ThinkingWorldDreamNightMiddleMidsummerMidsummer Night's Dream Author:Kenneth Branagh
“I think one of the things that I carry, and just my goals in life, is just encourage people and make them feel joy and celebrated and they leave feeling like maybe there was stuff talked about that was difficult, but then there was a voice of redemption and grace in the middle of that.” PeopleThinkingFeelsFeelingsLife IsJoyStuffDifficultGoalVoiceGraceMiddleRedemptionLife Goal Author:Mat Kearney
“Up until the middle of the nineteenth century, men of science were all believers. Most of the great early English naturalists were also ministers; they were the only ones who had education and leisure for such pursuits. Darwin himself almost became a minister. God's power was always thought to be most easily and obviously revealed in the majestic works of nature.” MenMiddleCenturyBelieverPursuitMinistersLeisureNineteenth CenturyMajesticNaturalist Author:Elizabeth Gilbert
“Subjectivity is my middle name, a trick memory is my pack mule, and self-contradiction is my trusty old jackknife.” SelfNamesMemoriesMiddleTricksContradictionPacksSubjectivityMules Author:Luc Sante
“It's amazing how the world does actually go on in the middle of things that should stop it for us.” WorldShouldDoeMiddleGoes On Author:Sarah Polley
“I went to art school for about a year. I was born and raised in the Willamette Valley in Oregon into a middle-class family who didn't have the funds to say, "Here, kid. Here's your money for school." So I worked real hard during the summer and saved money and was able to go to school for a year and borrowed a little money which I paid back after that first year.” YearsFirstsLittlesArtRealHardKidsAbleSchoolBornClassMiddleSummerPaidRaisedSavedMiddle ClassFundValleysBorrowedArt SchoolOregonBorn And RaisedLittle MoneyMiddle Class Family Author:Mike Royer
“With a film, you know the beginning, middle and end of your character's arc. But on a TV show, you have no idea where they're going to end up.” KnowsIdeasEndsCharacterShowsFilmMiddleTvsNo IdeaTv ShowsArcsBeginning Middle And End Author:Michael Eklund
“I don't know if we ever have enough distance to "see" our own trajectory. We're in the muddled middle of it. Who knows what will last, what poems will take hold of the imaginations of the future.” IfsKnowsEnoughLastsImaginationMiddleDistanceTrajectory Author:Dorianne Laux
“Tired of trying to sort them out, you relax for a second, then your head drops and you sit up with a jerk, Where are you? What are you doing here? Oh yes, of course, you are somewhere in the middle of the North Atlantic, with hungry waves below you like vultures impatiently waiting for the end.” TryingEndsCoursesWaitingMiddleTiredWaveHungryRelaxAviationJerkGreat AviationVultureTired Of Trying Book:Sky Roads of the World Source: Sky Roads of the World
“There is something about silence and being in the middle of nowhere that is really very attractive.” SilenceMiddleAttractiveMiddle Of Nowhere Author:Ray Winstone
“I was playing in the juniors at Wimbledon I forgot to turn my mobile phone off. It was lying there in my bag and it rang in the middle of a match, and it was one of my friends from school saying, 'Murray, you're on the telly!' I learnt from that. I now put my phone on silent.” SchoolLyingTurnsMiddleMy FriendsSilentPhonesBagsMobileJuniorsMobile PhonesWimbledon Author:Andy Murray
“I was born in the middle of the Second World War when the United States dropped their atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, when millions of people were dying in concentration camps, when half the planet were colonies that belonged to empires. The word feminism didn't exist. And in my lifetime I have seen all these things improved, changed. We are more connected, more informed. We can fight against stuff together in ways we couldn't before.” PeopleWorldWayWarStatesTogetherFightingStuffBornUnitedHalfMillionsUnited StatesFeminismMiddleDyingChangedPlanetsLifetimeConnectedWar Of The WorldsBombsEmpiresConcentrationCampsColonySecond World WarAtomic BombHiroshimaConcentration CampHiroshima And Nagasaki Author:Isabel Allende
“When I was a child, my mother always told me that you could wake up in the middle of the night and be deathly sick, so you always have to be impeccable. I laugh about it now, but I think everyone should go to bed like they have a date at the door.” ThinkingShouldChildrenMotherNightLaughingDoorsMiddleBedSickWake UpMiddle Of The NightImpeccable Author:Karl Lagerfeld
“I think the president can set a tone and say we're not divided by gender, age, race. We're all Americans and want the same things. We want the best things for our kids. We want the rules to be fair. If they work hard, get a great education, they should be able to join the middle class.” IfsThinkingWantShouldHardKidsAgeAblePresidentRaceClassMiddleHard WorkFairsGenderBest ThingsToneMiddle ClassDividedGreat Education Author:Bobby Jindal
“I grew up in a very loving middle class family. My parents were educators. I'm not even the first PhD in my family. They tried to shield me, just as other parents in my neighborhood tried to shield their children. But you knew there was a reason that you couldn't go to that theme park or to a movie theater or to a hamburger stand. They couldn't shield you completely. What they did though was they never let it be an excuse for not achieving, and they always said racism is somebody else's problem, not yours. They tried in that way not to make us bitter about Birmingham.” WayFirstsChildrenSaidReasonProblemParentClassMiddleAchieveGrewGrew UpRacismMy FamilyTheaterExcuseBitterParksThemeMiddle ClassNeighborhoodShieldsEducatorHamburgersMovie TheaterBirminghamPhdsMiddle Class FamilyTheme Parks Author:Condoleezza Rice
“People who are close to me know, they so know that there were days when I was so tired that I would fall asleep anywhere. The onset photographer has pictures of me falling asleep everywhere. Like on chairs, on the floor, in the middle of a set, all curled up. There were times when crew members didn't know where to find me, but they knew I'd be curled up in a ball somewhere.” PeopleKnowsFallMiddleMembersBallsTiredPhotographerChairsCrewFind MeFalling Asleep Author:Emma Watson
“Everyone is wounded. No one is healthy enough to never screw up, when you're in combat. But, I like to show that, and I like to show how people get back from that. You have to forgive each other. When you're in the middle of a long-term commitment, the essence of it is that everyone is going to have good days and bad days, and it's about how you continue to rejoin forces.” PeopleLongEnoughShowsForceTermMiddleHealthyCommitmentEssenceForgivingLong TermGet BackCombatWoundedScrewsGood DayBad DayScrew UpsHave A Good DayGood Days And Bad Days Author:Judd Apatow
“I like to shoot scenes where I can see the beginning, middle and end of the entire scene. But, when you edit a movie together, you can just cut right into the middle. You don't need to see them walk into the room and put their jacket on the chair. There's always a lot of shoe leather that you can remove.” NeedsI CanEndsTogetherWalksRoomsCuttingMiddleSceneShoesChairsRemoveJacketsLeatherEditsBeginning Middle And End Author:Judd Apatow
“I love individuals. I think people are terrific as I meet and get to know them. I like imagination. I like the freedom that this society manages to parcel out to us in the midst of the rest of what they do to you. I also like thinking about the fact that the atoms in me are the same atoms that are in all the rest of the universe, and that every one of those atoms came from the middle of a star. In other words, it's only me out there.” PeopleThinkingKnowsFactsUniverseIndividualStarsImaginationMiddleManageMidstAtomsTerrificThis SocietyParcel Author:George Carlin
“Being the middle child, I couldn't figure out where I fit in the home. I couldn't figure out whether I was the youngest of the older three or the oldest of the younger three.” ChildrenHomeThreeMiddleFiguresFitMiddle Child Author:Tullian Tchividjian
“All Christian religions are outer-directed. "Who can I convert?" "Let's go to this country and make them Christians." "Wear this." "Do that." "No, don't worship that way. Worship this way or I'll kill you - for the good of your soul, of course." Meanwhile, followers of Eastern religions are sitting in the middle of their minds, experiencing a bliss and a level of consciousness that Western man can't begin to approach.” MenWayMindSoulCountryChristianCoursesLevelsConsciousnessMiddleApproachWorshipSittingWesternYour SoulBlissFollowersEastern Author:George Carlin
“I think every writer struggles in some way with writers block. The trick is to plan out what you are going to say beforehand. I found out that if you make an outline you're much less likely to get blocked when you get into the middle of the story.” IfsThinkingWayStoriesFoundStrugglePlansMiddleTricksBlockOutlinesBlockedWriter's Block Author:Rick Riordan
“The place that I found where European musicians and American musicians come together is that odd middle world which is called uncertainty.” WorldTogetherFoundMiddleMusicianUncertaintyOdd Author:Hamid Drake
“The issue is: $1 trillion or $2 trillion is a lot of money. If our objective is to have stability in the Middle East, secure oil, or extend democracy, you can do a lot of democracy buying for this sum. To put it in context: The whole world spends $50 billion a year on foreign aid.” IfsWorldYearsWholeCan DoDemocracyIssuesMiddleOilEastAidsBillionsWhole WorldObjectivesSecureBuyingStabilityMiddle EastLots Of MoneyForeign Aid Author:Joseph Stiglitz
“When you're a kid, you always feel you have this weird kindred-spirit thing with other Jews, until you get older and you realize it's just middle-class bourgeois Jews that sort of fit a template that your family fits into one way or another.” WayFeelsKidsSpiritRealizingClassMiddleFitJewOne WayOur FamilyMiddle ClassBourgeoisKindredKindred Spirit Author:Marc Maron
“That's a huge fear for middle-class women. It's not so much a fear for poor women, because poor women have always assumed that they are going to have to support themselves. It's middle-class women who have this fantasy that somebody else is going to support them.” PoorClassSupportFantasyMiddleHugeMiddle Class Author:Gloria Steinem
“The notion of a healthy society, of capable people who are able to enjoy life, arose in the liberal, middle-class, leftist and non-religious segments of society. The euthanasia idea came from neither the radical right-wing nor the conservative corner. It was and remains part of the modern age and progressive thought.” PeopleIdeasAgeAbleEnjoyReligiousClassModernMiddleHealthyCapableRemainsWingsNotionConservativeCornersRadicalMiddle ClassProgressiveEnjoy LifeRight WingLeftistsEuthanasiaModern AgeNon ReligiousHealthy Society Author:Gotz Aly
“Switzerland has no competition. It sits in the middle of Europe, it has the highest technological development, it's legally safe and the political circumstances are never going to change.” PoliticalMiddleDevelopmentCircumstancesSafeHighestEuropeCompetitionTechnologicalSwitzerlandTechnological Development Author:Jean Ziegler
“Jay-Z's a guy that wears the Che Guevara t-shirt and he doesn't realize Che Guevara was a racist. Che Guevara was a murderer and a killer. So look, he's an entertainer, obviously. He's not in the middle of any public discourse here. But I think it's important to point out when people take stances like this that are absurd.” PeopleThinkingLooksImportantGuyRealizingMiddleAbsurdShirtsRacistKillersDiscourseMurdererT ShirtEntertainersStancePublic Discourse Author:Marco Rubio
“I feel so lucky that my high school was right in the middle of Denver, which is one of those sort of segregated towns, with black and white and Hispanic neighborhoods. But the school I went to was right in the middle of the whole thing.” FeelsWholeSchoolBlackWhiteMiddleLuckyHigh SchoolTownsNeighborhoodBlack And WhiteHispanicSo LuckyDenver Author:Bill Frisell
“The sense that materialism has gotten out of hand is magnified by the pressures facing middle-class American families.” HandsClassMiddlePressureMiddle ClassMaterialismConsumerismOverconsumptionAmerican Family Author:Robert Wuthnow
“I rather be divisive than boring. The last thing I want to be is a bowl of sugar free vanilla pudding, it's not something you necessarily hate but it's not something you ask for. I'd rather be something people passionately care about one way or another than be kind of in the middle.” PeopleWayWantKindCareLastsHateAsksMiddleBoringOne WayBe KindSugarBowlsPuddingVanilla Author:Andy Biersack
“There are many directors in the middle range who've made mostly successful pictures, and then there are a few great directors who've had some successes and some failures. I suppose my life would be smoother if I wasn't almost totally enamored of the latter category.” IfsMadeWould BeSuccessfulMiddleDirectorsRangeLatterCategoriesEnamored Author:Jack Nicholson
“If you hit the front end on the right-hand side you could turn that one on by itself and if you hit on the left-hand side you could turn it on and off. And in the middle it was like serious overdrive.” IfsEndsHandsTurnsLeftSidesMiddleFrontsSeriousAnd OffLeft HandOverdrive Author:Stevie Ray Vaughan
“Film is cool because it's an hour and a half to two hours. It's a great ride. It's typically three acts - beginning, middle and end. It's going on an adventure and by the end it's all cleaned up.” TwoEndsFilmThreeHoursHalfMiddleAdventureBeginning Middle And EndGoing On An Adventure Author:Chris Pratt