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“At the beginning, I thought the best Islamic work was in Spain - the mosque in Cordoba, the Alhambra in Granada. But as I learned more, my ideas shifted. I traveled to Egypt, and to the Middle East many times.I found the most wonderful examples of Islamic work in Cairo, it turns out. I'd visited mosques there before, but I didn't see them with the same eye as I did this time. They truly said something to me about Islamic architecture.”

Said Ideas Eye Turns Found Wonderful Middle Example East Architecture Islamic Middle East Traveled Egypt Spain Mosques Cairo Granada

Author:I. M. Pei

“Given the fact that poverty is growing, more and more Americans are losing health insurance, health care costs are going up, the middle class is shrinking, the gap between the rich and the poor is growing wider. That speaks to the weakness of the opposition. People do not like George W. Bush. But I think it's fair to say that they are not flocking to the Democratic Party, or see the Democrats as a real alternative.”

“I've played drums since I was 15. My sisters and I all played instruments. I kind of started with piano and then I actually played saxophone with a jazz band in middle school. So, any knowledge I had of jazz music was from playing alto-sax back then.”

Kind School Middle Band Instruments Jazz Piano My Sister Jazz Music Middle School Saxophone Jazz Band

Author:Miles Teller

“Being an American, what I've noticed is that we're in such a race. You wake up and you realize you're in the middle of a race, and some people are running right by you.”

People Running Realizing Race Middle Wake Up

Author:Steven Conrad

“My mission is to raise incomes for hard working middle class families. If you work hard and do your part you should be able to get ahead and stay ahead.”

Ifs Should Hard Able Class Middle Hard Work Raises Missions Income Middle Class Get Ahead Middle Class Family

Author:Bernie Sanders

“Life will be simpler when I don't spend two-thirds of the year in the middle of the Pacific.”

Years Two Middle Thirds Pacific

Author:Michael Emerson

“Knowing about comedy has helped me with the drama. To see people laugh, it's like there are moments of catharsis in the middle of sadness.”

People Moments Laughing Knowing Comedy Sadness Middle Drama Catharsis

Author:Steve Coogan

“A problem that I have with everything fictional is that writers are always having to come up with sudden artillery explosions in the middle of whatever is going on. The characters are having interesting, subtle interactions, or jealousies, or whatever it is, and suddenly some gigantic angry eruption has to happen, a giant gasp where everyone has to scramble around. That's the point where I'm turned off. I want the dynamic range to be a little smaller. I don't like the big false bangs.”

Want Littles Character Problem Bigs Happens Interesting Middle Angry Come Up Range Giants Subtle Interaction Bangs Explosions Artillery Turned Off Eruption

Author:Nicholson Baker

“When you're dressed up as David Bowie, with your eyebrows completely bleached, and you're doing this kind of strange dance with Paul McCartney while singing "Rebel Rebel" in the middle of the Met ball, and Madonna's looking at you . . . I was just thinking, It's become a bit weird.”

Thinking Kind Bits Middle Strange Mets Singing Balls Rebel Eyebrows Dressed Up Bowie

Author:Florence Welch

“All the best movies are the ones that are cut from a more middle ground.”

Cutting Middle All The Best Middle Ground

Author:Kristen Schaal

“I guess my voice kind of changed in middle school. It was what it is now. I remember there was this boy who used to walk behind me and sing that song that goes, "Walk like a man, talk like a man" and I was devastated. So I learned that I can pick up my voice if I want to.”

Ifs Men Want Kind I Can School Remember Used Song Voice Walks Behinds Boys Middle Changed Picks Devastated Middle School

Author:Dianna Agron

“You can't change your life. This mode in literature goes against the more middle-brown mode, which is about shaping your destiny, changing it. You can't change it, you just become passive in front of it. Even if we live in a godless universe, there are paths set, there are trajectories, like bumper cars just pulling those trajectories, colliding.”

Ifs Universe Literature Destiny Path Middle Car Fronts Brown Passive Pulling Our Destiny Changing Your Life Your Destiny Can't Change Trajectory Bumper

Author:Tommy McCarthy

“The torches ran off, and I found myself in a forest, at night, without any light, on skis, and that was not fun - particularly because I was drunk. Luckily at some point I started to see the light of the ski lift. To be in the forest in the middle of the night, it's terrible.”

Light Night Found Fun Middle Terrible Forests Drunk Lifts Ran Torches Middle Of The Night Skis

Author:Roman Polanski

“Most established novelists are writing books informed by experiences gained in their youth. Middle age is not the best time to be changing smartphones every six months or adopting new technology platforms - because we tend to get slower and less accommodating to change as we age.”

Writing Book Age Technology Middle Youth Months Six Novelists Platforms Six Months Middle Ages Writing A Book New Technology Best Times Adopting Smartphones

Author:Charles Stross

“On the downside, to paraphrase Thom Yorke talking about the music business, we're still having to deal with the stench of the last fart of the dying corpse of this regressive vision that America is a white, middle-aged, male, conservative country.”

Stills Country Lasts America White Deals Talking Vision Middle Dying Males Conservative Corpses Music Business Middle Aged Fart Paraphrase

Author:Edward Norton

“I definitely have a kind of Stockholm Syndrome for superhero movies because it's very clear that's the era we're in. It's like Christianity in the Middle Ages.”

Kind Age Christianity Clear Middle Eras Superhero Middle Ages Syndromes Stockholm Stockholm Syndrome

Author:Wesley Morris

“You can't plan your character arc - you have a vague idea, maybe, but I'm constantly surprised. Sometimes actors in films will play the ending of the movie, or even the middle, and you know where it's going - as an audience member you can read the actor.”

Knows Ideas Sometimes Play Character Film Actors Audience Plans Middle Members Vague Arcs Vague Ideas

Author:Evan Peters

“There's so many modern films where the fans take one side or the other. I'm hoping this isn't going to be like that; I'm hoping it isn't that kind of film at all. What I would love for the audience to take from it is to understand why she was so stuck in the middle and confused.”

Kind Film Sides Audience Fans Modern Middle Stuck Confused Stuck In The Middle

Author:Saoirse Ronan

“I see a film as a puzzle, with a beginning, middle, and end, but I like to start at the end sometimes.”

Ends Sometimes Film Middle Puzzles Beginning Middle And End

Author:Claude Lelouch

“One thing I definitely experienced up here (New York), that maybe I have to sort of cop to feeling defensive about, is since the election, people in my cohort, who are sensitive to portrayals of people in the movie as classist, have had no problem coming up with those sorts of [middle-American] stereotypes about a phantom real person they can blame for re-electing George Bush.”

People Persons Real Feelings Problem One Thing Middle New York Election Blame Sensitive Cop Stereotype No Problem Phantoms Real Person Portrayal

Author:Philip Morrison

“The overtime threshold is to the middle class as the minimum wage is to low-wage workers.”

Class Middle Lows Workers Middle Class Minimum Threshold Minimum Wage

Author:Nick Hanauer

“I remember going foraging for breakfast in St. Louis once. I saw this one girl sitting in front of the venue, and she made this pink T-shirt with a big heart in the middle of it and a misty picture of our guitarist Mark [Potter]. She was so embarrassed when she saw me. And I was trying desperately not to laugh.”

Trying Heart Made Bigs Remember Girl Laughing Saws Middle Fronts Sitting Mark Shirts Breakfast Embarrassed T Shirt Potters Guitarist Venues Misty Big Heart Foraging

Author:Guy Garvey

“That isn't to say that Hawaii's better. On the mainland, everyone seems to be trying to get somewhere. Kids are taught to shoot for the moon, to believe in their ability to do anything, to follow their passions. In Hawaii, you're stuck in the middle of the Pacific, and it can be difficult to see how you're going to follow your passion from there.”

Trying Believe Seems Kids Passion Difficult Ability Middle Taught Moon Stuck Hawaii Pacific Follow Your Passion Stuck In The Middle Shoot For The Moon

Author:Gabrielle Reece

“I think traditional is trying to go more digital and digital is trying to go more traditional. We're meeting in the middle.”

Thinking Trying Middle Meetings Traditional Digital

Author:Tyler Oakley

“I'd say that the middle stanza is closer: that's the place where the poem ranges unexpectedly into a different realm.”

Different Middle Range Realms

Author:Jane Hirshfield

“I used to watch 'Top of the Pops' when I was a kid and say 'Yeah!' or 'Boo!' at every single song. So there was nothing in the middle. You brutally put it on one side or another.”

Kids Used Song Sides Watches Middle Yeah Pops

Author:Damien Hirst

“I was never either pro-culture or counter-culture. I was in a kind of middle state.”

Kind States Culture Middle Counter Culture

Author:Don DeLillo

“Everything that happens to us can be looked at as a gift. Although it's quite difficult when you're in the middle of a hard struggle with something, it's hard to see it as a gift, but in retrospect, we can almost always look back and say, "Oh, I see why I had to go through that."”

Looks Hard Happens Difficult Struggle Middle Retrospect

Author:Shakti Gawain

“I spend a lot of time just listening to the ospreys. I watch them go through their life cycle. They spend the winter in South America. The mother and father osprey stay together. It's a monogamous relationship. And every summer they raise a new brood of children. They came back to the nest in the middle of April. They take separate vacations in the winter - the mother and father.”

“Always keep a big bottle of booze at your side. If a bird starts talking nonsense to you in the middle of the night pour yourself a stiff drink.”

Ifs Bigs Night Sides Talking Middle Drink Bird Nonsense Bottles Your Side Middle Of The Night Booze Talking Nonsense

Author:Edgar Allan Poe

“In some cases, some people do get depressed in the middle of their grief and they really need to be treated for depression.”

People Needs Grief Cases Middle Treated

Author:Kay Redfield Jamison

“While I have historically been a late worker, you know, sometimes I even like to get up early and see what's happened in the few hours of the night and then I often take a nap in the middle of the day just to sort of make up for stretching my day out.”

Knows Sometimes Night Hours Happened Middle Late Workers Get Up Stretching Naps Up Early

Author:Larry Wall

“Once you've got a big feminist and political justification for talking about how you went round to Benedict Cumberbatch's house and did period all over his sofa, then there's no reason not to tell that anecdote in the middle of a dinner party.”

Reason Bigs Political House Party Talking Middle Periods Rounds Feminist Dinner No Reason Justification Dinner Party Anecdotes Sofas

Author:Caitlin Moran

“I travel up and down the country and I've been all around the middle of America for many years. Middle America is not one big mass of people with a proverbial beer in its hand, keeping the country down. That is not my experience of it and I don't labor under that misconception. And we have a long tradition of coming together through music in our country.”

People Years Long Country Hands Bigs Together America Middle Mass Tradition Labor Our Country Beer Up And Down Misconception Coming Together Proverbial Middle America

Author:Wynton Marsalis

“I think we all felt it on this movie - crew and cast. You never know when you're making a movie... no one is saying in the middle of Casablanca that this is going to be a classic. The lead actors had turned it down and I think they wound up with B-list actors at the time.”

Thinking Knows Actors Felt Middle Down And Casts Lists Wounds Classic Crew

Author:Dustin Hoffman

“Poor people in America today (people who are officially in poverty) have a higher standard of living - in terms of medical standards, in terms of going to college, in terms of the way people live - than middle class people did thirty years ago.”

“A faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo in the Middle East can be described as many things, but not as conservative.”

War Risk Middle Willing Conservative East Middle East Status Quo Factions Challenging Status Quo Challenging The Status Quo

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“Don't swap horses in the middle of the stream.”

Middle Horse Streams

Author:Abraham Lincoln

“Why is it that all battles are fought in the middle of the night, in downpouring rain, and at the corners of four different maps?”

Different Night Four Middle Battle Rain Corners Maps Middle Of The Night

Author:George S. Patton

“The main discomfort in being a middle-of-the-roader is that you get sideswiped by partisans going in both directions.”

Middle Discomfort Partisans

Book:For the Time Being

Source: For the Time Being

“Golf is the only opportunity that middle-aged WASPs have to dress up like a pimp.”

Opportunity Middle Dresses Golf Middle Aged Pimp Wasps

Author:Kinky Friedman

“I don't know what falling in love for me is. The concept of romantic love arose in the Middle Ages. Now remember, the Arabs don't even have a word for love-that is, a word for love apart from physical attraction or sex. And this separation of love and sex is a western concept, a Christian concept. As to what falling in love means, I'm uncertain. Love, well, it means simply physical attraction and liking a person at the same time.”

“It is our generation's task, then, to reignite the true engine of America's economic growth - a rising, thriving middle class.”

America Growth Class Generations Economic Middle Tasks Rising Middle Class Engines Economic Growth Our Generation

Author:Barack Obama

“There is a dilemma, to reconcile three time scales: in the short term, the economy; in the middle range, global well-being generally; and, in the long range, the environment.”

Wells Long Three Term Economy Environment Middle Scales Well Being Range Three Times Short Term Dilemma Reconcile

Author:Matthieu Ricard

“On the evening bus, the tense, pinched faces of young file clerks and elderly secretaries tell us more than we care to know. On the expressways, middle management men pose without grace behind their wheels as they flee city and job.”

Knows Men Care Jobs Faces Young Cities Behinds Grace Middle Management Evening Wheels Bus Secretary Elderly Files Tense Clerks Middle Management

Book:The Studs Terkel Reader: My American Century

Source: The Studs Terkel Reader: My American Century

“I'm one of the undeserving poor: that's what I am. Think of what that means to a man. It means that he's up agen middle class morality all the time.... What is middle class morality? Just an excuse for never giving me anything.”

Thinking Men Giving Mean Poor Class Middle Morality Excuse Middle Class Undeserving

Book:The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

“And it occurs to me that if I were aboard a rowboat floating in the middle of all the beer I've drunk in a lifetime, I'd never be able to see the shore.”

Ifs Able Middle Lifetime Drunk Beer Shore Floating

Book:The more easily kept illusions: the poetry of Al Purdy

Source: The more easily kept illusions: the poetry of Al Purdy

“Iran is the greatest threat to stability in the Middle East. Iran remains the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism, continues its efforts to develop nuclear weapons and has directly threatened the existence of Israel and the United States.”

World States United Effort Existence United States Middle Weapons Remains Threat Israel Terrorism East Nuclear Iran Stability Middle East Nuclear Weapons Threatened Sponsors

Author:James Inhofe

“If you want milk, don't sit on a stool in the middle of a field in the hope that a cow will back up to you.”

Ifs Want Middle Fields Milk Cows Up To You Stools

Book:Screw It, Let's Do It: Lessons in Life and Business

Source: Screw It, Let's Do It: Lessons in Life and Business

“True courage lies in the middle, between cowardice and recklessness.”

Lying Middle Cowardice Recklessness True Courage

Author:Miguel de Cervantes