“The economy has definitely been improving, and things like the stock market are doing better, but the economy has to be good for working-class and middle-class families who work every day, send their kids to a school like is in front of my house, and they have to be able to enjoy their lives. That's why you don't pass a trade agreement that ships even more jobs overseas.” KidsAbleSchoolJobsHouseEnjoyClassEconomyMiddleFrontsTradeBe GoodShipsMiddle ClassAgreementWorking ClassImprovingTrade AgreementsMiddle Class Family Author:Russ Feingold
“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.” WholeStuffSidesLinesWhiteRoomsMiddleFlowerCoveredMy SisterLauraFreakyAshley Author:Melissa Joan Hart
“Essentially what my campaign is about, it`s about anything, this is saying we`ve got bring that money back into the middle class and working families. We have to create jobs, we have to raise, we have to make public colleges and universities tuition free so kids in that community who are studying hard understand that some day they will be able to go to college.” HardKidsAbleJobsCommunityClassStudyMiddleCollegeRaisesUniversityCampaignsMiddle ClassTuitionColleges And Universities Author:Bernie Sanders
“Many analysts compare Turkey with countries in the Middle East, but I think we need to compare it with Russia. Both countries come from a tradition of empire, and also from a tradition of the strong state.” ThinkingNeedsCountryStatesStrongMiddleTraditionEastRussiaCompareEmpiresMiddle EastTurkeysAnalysts Author:Elif Safak
“Turkey in general became too involved with what is happening in Egypt and in Syria. Some politicians with neo-Ottoman dreams developed this idea of being a major player in the Middle East, which hasn't gone as expected.” IdeasDreamGonePlayerMiddleInvolvedPoliticianMajorsHappeningsEastExpectedMiddle EastSyriaEgyptTurkeysOttomans Author:Elif Safak
“One cannot understand what's happening to women in the Middle East if they don't realize that the mothers are a strong, progressive force. The mothers push the daughters to get out of the harem, to get the education, to achieve what they could not even dream of.” IfsDreamMotherStrongForceRealizingMiddleAchieveHappeningsDaughterEastProgressiveMiddle EastHarem Author:Fatema Mernissi
“I hope we are able to shift debate over to the Middle East and change this debate to how we help the people in their home countries rather than believing we can be their relief valve for the poverty and the grief that`s in the world by bringing people here.” PeopleWorldBelieveCountryHelpingHomeAbleGriefPovertyMiddleEastDebateReliefMiddle EastValveHome Country Author:Steve King
“It`s difficult to judge people from 100 years ago by today`s standards. But I go back into the early middle part of the 19th century also. The know-nothings were a Protestant movement, and they rejected Catholics and didn`t want Catholics brought into America.” PeopleKnowsWantYearsTodayAmericaDifficultMiddleCenturyMovementJudgingStandardsYears AgoCatholicRejectedProtestants19th Century Author:Steve King
“We don't want anybody to come off half-cocked and make a decision about what we're only in the middle of doing, right? So if there's shots of me out there, then somebody's going to say, "Oh, that's not the right way. That's not this and that." It has to be seen in context.” IfsWayWantDecisionHalfMiddleShotsRight WayDoing Right Author:Colm Feore
“The problem is that affirmative action could never really get at the issue of corporate power in the workplace, and so you ended up with the downsizing; you ended up with de-industrializing. You ended up with the marginalizing of working people and working poor people even while affirmative action was taking place, and a new black middle class was expanding.” PeopleProblemActionBlackPoorClassIssuesMiddleCorporateMiddle ClassWorkplacePoor PeopleExpandingAffirmative ActionAffirmativeDownsizing Author:Cornel West
“You know, in America, Christian fundamentalism vs. science. You know, be it teaching Darwinian evolutionary theory or stem cell res- You know, the whole thing, and then the issue of women being educated in Middle Eastern - I mean, it just seems so contemporary. In terms of spirituality, it's interesting because I actually think (her character in Agora) Hypatia is very spiritual.” ThinkingKnowsMeanWholeCharacterSeemsChristianAmericaSpiritualSpiritualityTermInterestingIssuesTeachingMiddleTheoryContemporaryEducatedCellsStemFundamentalismEasternStem Cell Author:Rachel Weisz
“Only in Southern California do camping grounds actually have wifi, so I was sitting in my tent and I started reading it on my computer, and I couldn't put it down. More importantly, I kept getting up in the middle of the night going, "Oh, this is cool," so I pitched them an idea that they seemed to like.” IdeasNightReadingMiddleComputerSittingCaliforniaSouthernTentsMiddle Of The NightCampingSouthern California Author:Remi Aubuchon
“I feel confident that we will have a beginning, middle and end, in this season, and it was wise of NBC to then call it what it really is, which is a mini-series. "24" is a really good example, in that there was a definitive beginning, middle and end for the first season. They had a slightly different format than we have, but the second season just retained Jack Bauer and a few other players, with the same basic format and idea, but it was a completely different show.” FeelsFirstsIdeasDifferentEndsShowsWisePlayerMiddleExampleSeasonsSeriesFormatGood ExamplesNbcBeginning Middle And End Author:Remi Aubuchon
“I had invited 50 or 60 peers and friends, most of whom were parents, to see the film [Trust], and I asked about the last scene. It was interesting because it was split right down the middle, 50/50. About half the audience wanted it to end with the very emotional scene between Clive and Liana, and that feeling of realization and catharsis. And, the other half were adamant about keeping that last scene.” EndsFeelingsWantedLastsFilmParentInterestingHalfAudienceMiddleEmotionalSceneRealizationSplitsPeersInvitedOther HalfCatharsisAdamant Author:David Schwimmer
“When culture is created in boardrooms with a panel of six or seven strategists for the masses to follow, to me that is no different than an aristocracy. It's not created from the people in the middle of the streets, so to speak. It is created from a petri dish for the sake of making money, and it is undermining the longevity of the culture.” PeopleDifferentCultureSpeakStreetsMiddleSixMassSevenSakeMaking MoneyDishesLongevityAristocracyStrategistUndermining Author:Chuck D
“I have said many times that I wish there was no oil in the Middle East, and more water. People would have been much happier than they are right now.” PeopleHas BeensSaidWishWaterMiddleOilEastMiddle East Author:Shirin Ebadi
“There are three big things going for The Scorpio Races: first, it is set on a beautiful but wild island in the middle of the cold Atlantic Ocean. That would've seduced me as a teen reader. Second, It is full of beautiful but killer horses being trained for a dangerous race. Actually, that would've seduced me as a teen reader as well. At third it involves a very repressed love story with a very Mr. Darcy-like love interest.” FirstsWellsStoriesBigsBeautifulThreeInterestRaceMiddleDangerousColdReaderOceanThirdsHorseLove StoryIslandsKillersBig ThingsLike LoveRepressedDarcyAtlantic OceanScorpiosScorpio Races Author:Maggie Stiefvater
“The Great Recession is not imaginary, and the effects loom large. There was an article in the NYT about the galloping death rate among white men in middle age. Higher than among any other demographic, etc. Mostly death by drugs, alcohol, or suicide. Many of them rural. My feeling is that it's many people who haven't been able to get back into the work force. Reg Morse is an example of the problem.” PeopleMenFeelingsProblemAgeAbleForceWhiteMiddleEffectsHavensExampleHigherDrugSuicideRateAlcoholEtcGet BackArticlesImaginaryWhite ManMiddle AgesRecessionsDemographicsGallopingGreat Recession Author:Rick Moody
“I read a lot of 'The Canterbury Tales' on my phone last year, because I was cycling between three different editions, and I needed to have a middle-of-the-night edition for the insomniac reading.” DifferentNightThreeReadingMiddleNeededPhonesTalesCyclingMiddle Of The NightInsomniacCanterburyCanterbury Tales Author:Rick Moody
“You ever be having a really good dream, and then, uh- right in the middle of the dream you wake up, right in the best part of the dream? And there you are, back in your stinkin' life again? Man, that's rough, eh?” MenDreamMiddleWake UpRoughGood Dream Author:Norm MacDonald
“My roots, my background and the way I act is working class, but it would be hypsocritical to say I'm anything else than middle class now.” WayWould BeClassMiddleRootsBackgroundsMiddle ClassWorking Class Author:John Prescott
“The middle years - the eighteen-seventies, 'eighties, 'nineties - were a time of moral bankruptcy when men stole millions by a stroke of the pen or by the simple expedient of printing tons of worthless paper.” MenYearsSimpleMoralMillionsMiddlePaperPensStrokesSeventiesWorthlessEightyEighteenPrintingBankruptcy Author:Frank Yerby
“I was born in Galveston, Texas in 1957 in the middle of a hurricane. I guess because of the drop in the barometric pressure it affected my brain and I was destined to become a stand up comic, although at that age I wasn't aware of my destiny.” AgeBornBrainDestinyMiddlePressureComicAffectedTexasDestinedHurricanesMy Destiny Author:Bill Engvall
“I find that Americans are all in the middle somewhere, except for the extreme nuts, and extreme nuts on both sides are the loudest. And that's why it feels like we are polarized.” FeelsSidesMiddleExtremesNutsBoth Sides Author:Christopher Titus
“There's one in every family. When the police calls in the middle of the night and says "We've got a family members of yours under arrest" and you know directly who it is. In my family we have seven of those... And they are all my *Mom*!” KnowsNightMiddleMomMembersMy FamilyPoliceSevenMy MomFamily MembersMiddle Of The Night Author:Christopher Titus
“Like if you're Jewish you have to wear a hat, but only in the middle of your head. But it all becomes clear the second that you realize that God is a 12-year-old boy with Asperger's.” IfsYearsRealizingBoysClearMiddleHatsAspergers Author:Eugene Mirman
“In my photographic work I was always especially entranced... by the moment when the shadows of reality, so to speak, emerge out of nothing on the exposed paper, as memories do in the middle of the night, darkening again if you try to cling to them.” IfsTryingMomentsRealityNightSpeakMemoriesMiddlePaperShadowExposedMiddle Of The NightDarkening Book:Austerlitz Source: Austerlitz
“I had a happy childhood in a nice suburban area, pretty idyllic, upper middle class and very, very white. My dad is an attorney. My mother is a housewife. They had five kids in seven years: me, my brother, and three sisters. I'm the oldest. We were all very active. My mother was exhausted.” YearsKidsMotherThreeWhiteClassFiveNiceChildhoodMiddleBrotherDadAreasSevenMy DadActiveMy BrotherMiddle ClassExhaustedSeven YearsAttorneyHousewifeHappy ChildhoodIdyllicUpper Middle ClassThree Sisters Author:Anthony Jeselnik
“My girlfriend has the greatest story as to why she isn't religious anymore. When she was a kid, like 12 years old, her parents nailed a 25 pound crucifix to the wall right above her bed. About two weeks later, in the middle of the night, the crucifix falls off the wall and leaves a two inch gash in the back of her dad's head.” YearsTwoStoriesKidsNightFallParentReligiousWeekMiddleWallDadBedGirlfriendPoundsInchesTwo WeeksMy GirlfriendMiddle Of The NightOff The Wall Author:Anthony Jeselnik
“I love it when dogs yawn. Especially when it's in the middle of another dog's speech.” MiddleDogSpeech Author:Dana Gould
“I have 236 movies on my queue and I feel like I should always be watching movies. Like if I wake up in the middle of the night and don't fall directly back to sleep, I'm like, 'I've been up for an hour and a half I could have watched 'Toy Story 3' by now.' In this economy it is a sin not to be watching movies when you have Netflix.” IfsFeelsShouldStoriesNightFallHoursSleepSinHalfEconomyMiddleWake UpToysMiddle Of The NightNetflixQueuesSins NotToy Story 3 Author:Gary Gulman
“When I first got into this biz called show, I decided I was going to change my name, make it more Hollywood. And you know how you do that? You take your middle name and the first street that you ever lived on. So when I first started, I actually went by Sue Rural Route 2.” KnowsFirstsShowsNamesKnow HowStreetsMiddleDecidedHollywoodRoutes Author:Bonnie McFarlane
“When I was probably in middle school I saw the mini series Angels in America for the first time and I think Mary Louise Parker's performance in that first of all sparked a deep obsession with Mary Louise Parker, but I also really love Amy Adams because she gets to do comedy and drama so consistently.” ThinkingFirstsSchoolAmericaSawsComedyMiddleDramaAngelFirst TimePerformancesSeriesObsessionMaryConsistentlyAmyMiddle SchoolAngels In America Author:Grace Phipps
“It's a bit shocking when you show up in Africa or you're in the middle of Spain and there are people that know the words and the young kids singing along.” PeopleKnowsShowsKidsYoungBitsMiddleFameSingingShockingSpain Author:Michael Buble
“When I first put out music, people didn't know what I looked like. They called it a new type of something, they couldn't put a genre on it - it was where indie and urban kind of meet in the middle. I thought that was quite exciting.” PeopleKnowsFirstsKindMiddleTypeExcitingGenreUrban Author:FKA twigs
“It's bizarre. In middle school, I thought girls were running away from me, so when they ask for a picture now, I'm like, 'Really, what?!'” RunningSchoolGirlAsksMiddleRunning AwayBizarreMiddle School Author:Jacob Artist
“The TPP is another corporate-backed agreement that is the latest in a series of trade policies which have cost us millions of decent-paying jobs, pushed down wages for American workers and led to the decline of our middle class. We want American companies to create decent-paying jobs in America, not just low-wage countries like Vietnam, Malaysia or China. The TPP must be defeated.” WantCountryJobsAmericaCompanyClassMillionsMiddlePolicyCostLowsTradeSeriesWorkersChinaCorporateDecentMiddle ClassAgreementVietnamDeclineDefeatedWagesMalaysiaAmerican WorkersJobs In America Author:Bernie Sanders
“Do we substantially increase military spending and prepare for endless war in the middle-east, or do we make college affordable for all Americans, regardless of income. My answer: I will soon be introducing legislation that will make public colleges and universities tuition free.” WarAnswersMiddleMilitaryCollegeIncreaseUniversitySpendingEastEndlessIncomeMiddle EastIntroducingLegislationAffordableTuitionColleges And UniversitiesEndless WarMilitary Spending Author:Bernie Sanders
“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.” WorldBelieveMayMiddleMilitaryEastBudgetsMiddle EastPerpetualWarfareMilitary Budget Author:Bernie Sanders
“Mom did not want me to have anything to do with playing music. Being from a middle-class Black family in that particular era, everybody wanted you to have a profession -- a doctor, a lawyer, and so forth. So she sent me to school to study medicine.” WantWantedSchoolBlackClassGrowing UpStudyMiddleParticularMomMusic IsDoctorsMedicineProfessionLawyerErasMiddle ClassWant MePlaying MusicBlack Family Author:Don Alias
“Those type of people [in New Orleans] keep me happy and just smiling, you know? I just go hang out and talk with them and they tell me all types of old stories, and sometimes I might even pull my horn out in the middle of the block, and they're playing on beer bottles and different things, and we just do a little second line type thing, just us, four or five people, who are just having fun. That makes me day to be able to do that and go hang out with the people in the (Treme) neighborhood, and to do some shows around town, you know?” PeopleKnowsLittlesDifferentSometimesStoriesShowsMightAbleFunLinesFiveFourMiddleTypeTownsBlockBeerHaving FunDifferent ThingsNeighborhoodHanging OutBottlesNew OrleansHornsJust Have Fun Author:Troy Andrews
“What's always struck me is how different the sensory, especially auditory, experience is when you're in the middle of the music with the musicians playing off each other around you. I wanted to find a way to unlock the intensity of that, to recreate that unique perspective, first for the hundreds of people who attended the concert, and eventually for a much larger online audience.” PeopleWayFirstsDifferentWantedAudienceMiddlePerspectiveMusicianUniqueOnlineConcertsIntensitySensoryAuditoryUnique Perspective Author:Chris Milk
“As I've submerged myself in news of the revolutions sweeping North Africa and the Middle East, I wanted desperately to feel part of what was going on. And then it hit me: This is what white people were doing to me after Obama was elected!” PeopleFeelsWantedWhiteMiddleRevolutionNewsEastMiddle EastSweepingSubmergedNorth Africa Author:Baratunde Thurston
“Trivial details have been summoned, in part, to make a satirical point about upper-middle-class marriage-that the whole thing can slip away between the white wine and the arugula salad.” Has BeensWholeWhiteClassMiddleWineDetailsMiddle ClassSlipsSaladSatiricalUpper Middle ClassWhite WineArugula Author:David Denby
“I wanted to make pictures that contradicted themselves. I wanted to put one picture on top of another so that there were times when both pictures disappear and other times when they were both manifest. That vibration is basically what the work was about for me - that space in the middle where there is no picture, rather an emptiness, an oblivion.” WantedSpaceMiddleDisappearEmptinessManifestOblivionVibrations Author:Sherrie Levine
“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.” WayBigsHappensDifferencesSleepMiddleEatingPhotographyMaking LoveTaking Pictures Author:Anders Petersen
“People who stand in the "middle-of-the-road" get run over.” PeopleRunningMiddleMiddle Of The Road Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The man who knows God but does not know his own misery, becomes proud. The man who knows his own misery but does not know God, ends in despair...the knowledge of Jesus Christ constitutes the middle course because in him we find both God and our own misery. Jesus Christ is therefore a God whom we approach without pride, and before whom we humble ourselves without despair.” KnowsMenDoeEndsCoursesJesusChristMiddleHe ManPrideProudDespairApproachJesus ChristMiseryHumbleKnowing God Author:Blaise Pascal
“All I really want is a three-room house. The home I have designed at my new farm in Bedford, New York, is a three-room house: bedroom on top, living room in the middle, and kitchen on the ground.” WantHomeThreeHouseRoomsMiddleNew YorkKitchenFarmsBedroomLiving Room Author:Martha Stewart