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“We are become Middle Men, of the Twilight, but with memory of other things. For as the Rohirrim do, we now love war and valour as things good in themselves, both a sport and an end; and though we still hold that a warrior should have more skills and knowledge than only the craft of weapons and slaying, we esteem a warrior, nonetheless, above men of other crafts. Such is the need of our days.”

Men Needs Should Stills War Ends Sports Memories Middle Skills Weapons Should Have Esteem Crafts Warrior Twilight Valour Slaying Skills And Knowledge

Author:Faramir

“There are many things worth telling that are not quite narrative. And eternity itself possesses no beginning, middle or end. Fossils, arrowheads, castle ruins, empty crosses: from the Parthenon to the Bo Tree to a grown man's or woman's old stuffed bear, what moves us about many objects is not what remains but what has vanished. There comes a time, thanks to rivers, when a few beautiful old teeth are all that remain of the two-hundred-foot spires of life we call trees. There comes a river, whose current is time, that does a similar sculpting in the mind.”

“Wherever we turn in the church of God, there is Jesus. He is the beginning, middle and end of everything to us.”

Ends Turns Jesus Church Middle Beginning Middle And End

Book:The Pursuit of God

Source: The Pursuit of God

“I think, often times, it's the audience that suffers when a show isn't given the opportunity to have a beginning, middle and end.”

Thinking Ends Shows Suffering Opportunity Given Audience Middle Beginning Middle And End

Author:Khandi Alexander

“The process of grief has a beginning a middle and an end. The hard part is holding on in the middle. You can hold on. There's transformation happening in these times bringing you to a new place. It's a place you can only get to through the pain.”

Ends Hard Pain Process Grief Middle Happenings Transformation Holding On New Places

Author:Mary Gauthier

“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

“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)

“Now there cannot be first principles for men, unless the Divinity has revealed them; all the rest--beginning, middle, and end--isnothing but dreams and smoke.”

Men Firsts Ends God Dream Principles Knowledge Middle Smoke Divinity Beginning Middle And End

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“If we have more people on the receiving end of government - more people as the middle class becomes sucked in more and more to these entitlement programs, for example - then we're going to be in a place where it's going to be hard to go back. It's going to be hard to go back again. It's going to be hard to take away stuff. It's not impossible.”

People Ifs Ends Hard Government Stuff Class Impossible Middle Example Program Middle Class Receiving Entitlement Back Again Entitlement Programs

Author:Fred Thompson

“Broadly speaking, we are in the middle of a race between human skill as a means and human folly as an end.”

Humans Mean Ends Race Middle Skills Folly Human Folly

Book:The Impact of Science On Society

Source: The Impact of Science On Society

“Until the end of the Middle Ages, and in many cases afterwards too, in order to obtain initiation in a trade of any sort whatever--whether that of courtier, soldier, administrator, merchant or workman--a boy did not amass the knowledge necessary to ply that trade before entering it, but threw himself into it; he then acquired the necessary knowledge.”

Ends Age Order Boys Cases Middle Trade Soldier Entering Middle Ages Merchants Initiation Workmen Administrators Courtiers Plies

Book:Centuries of childhood: a social history of family life

Source: Centuries of childhood: a social history of family life

“The beginning, middle, and end are parodied, reversed, and hidden by modernism, but not abandoned.”

Ends Middle Abandoned Modernism Beginning Middle And End

Author:Mason Cooley

“The Spy Who Came in from the Cold was the work of a wayward imagination brought to the end of its tether by political disgust and personal confusion. Fifty years on, I don't associate the book with anything that ever happened to me, save for one wordless encounter at London airport when a worn-out, middle-aged military kind of man in a stained raincoat slammed a handful of mixed foreign change on to the bar and in gritty Irish accents ordered himself as much Scotch as it would buy. In that moment, Alec Leamas was born. Or so my memory, not always a reliable informant, tells me.”

“The time passes so quickly during these full and active middle years that most people arrive at the end of middle age and the beginning of later maturity with surprise and a sense of having finished the journey while they were still preparing to commence it.”

People Years Stills Ends Age Journey Middle Surprise Active Finished Maturity Preparing Middle Ages Time Passes

Author:Robert J. Havighurst

“Songwriters are expanding time rather than compressing time. My short stories tend to be old fashioned, with a beginning, middle and end.”

Ends Stories Middle Short Story Songwriters Old Fashioned Expanding Beginning Middle And End

Author:Steve Earle

“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.”

People Want Should Different Ends Film Night Middle Television Paid Theater Every Night Film And Television

Author:Richard Dreyfuss

“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.”

Knows Ideas Ends Character Shows Film Middle Tvs No Idea Tv Shows Arcs Beginning Middle And End

Author:Michael Eklund

“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.”

Trying Ends Courses Waiting Middle Tired Wave Hungry Relax Aviation Jerk Great Aviation Vulture Tired Of Trying

Book:Sky Roads of the World

Source: Sky Roads of the World

“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.”

Needs I Can Ends Together Walks Rooms Cutting Middle Scene Shoes Chairs Remove Jackets Leather Edits Beginning Middle And End

Author:Judd Apatow

“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.”

Ifs Ends Hands Turns Left Sides Middle Fronts Serious And Off Left Hand Overdrive

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.”

Two Ends Film Three Hours Half Middle Adventure Beginning Middle And End Going On An Adventure

Author:Chris Pratt

“When you do see me, you'll get the idea from when you see me that it's all off the top of my head. A lot of it is a beginning, middle and the end. But it's different every night. I have a lot of jokes in my back pocket I've said over the years.”

Years Said Ideas Different Ends Night Middle Jokes Pockets Every Night

Author:Don Rickles

“The myth of objectivity made nonfiction increasingly unread. In feature articles, we could be playful in the opening and clever in the end but in the middle it was back to the boring basics.”

Made Ends Middle Boring Myth Clever Opening Features Articles Nonfiction Objectivity Basics

Author:Lee Gutkind

“All my shows is about a party. We party from the door then we get into the gig, get back to the middle then we gonna party at the end. It's all a good time.”

Ends Shows Party Doors Middle Good Times Get Back Gigs

Author:Kurupt

“Many people spend the ends of their lives alone, and probably a lot of years in the middle of their lives, and I'm glad I had the opportunity to experience the rewards of solitude.”

People Years Ends Opportunity Middle Solitude Rewards Glad

Author:Alix Kates Shulman

“I think as a filmmaker you try not to have any expectations other than that the film have a fairly substantial beginning, middle and end.”

Thinking Trying Ends Film Middle Expectations Filmmaker Beginning Middle And End

Author:Mark Boal

“Nobody reads a mystery to get to the middle. They read it to get to the end. If it's a letdown, they won't buy anymore. The first page sells that book. The last page sells your next book.”

Ifs Writing Firsts Book Ends Lasts Next Literature Mystery Middle Pages Sells Detective Fiction Letdowns

Author:Mickey Spillane

“Largely this is a class thing - writers tend to be cosseted little middle-class kiddies who think that the world owes them a royalty cheque. But just doing it - being in your room for years on end, locked in your head, alone with invented ghosts - it weakens and softens the body. And I know I can't just live in my head.”

Thinking Knows World Years Littles I Can Ends Body Rooms Class Middle Ghost Middle Class Locked Royalty Just Live Your Room Cheques

Author:Tony Parsons

“O grant me, Heaven, a middle state, Neither too humble nor too great; More than enough, for nature's ends, With something left to treat my friends.”

Ends States Enough Left Heaven Middle My Friends Treats Humble Grants

Author:David Mallet

“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

“I want every scene to feel electric and I try to finish the filming period with a clear trajectory: a beginning, a middle, and hopefully an end.I hate "fly on the wall." It infers that I don't relate to the people we're with and that I don't get affected by events. I like it when people talk to me. I never say things like "Don't look at the camera" - how bossy!”

People Want Feels Trying Looks Ends Hate Clear Middle Events Wall Periods Scene I Hate Cameras Hopefully Relate Affected Electric Talk To Me Trajectory Bossy

Author:Kim Longinotto

“When I visit schools and talk to students about writing, I give them one word of advice and I give it to them quickly and loudly-FINISH! Starting something is easier than finishing it. You must have discipline to go from a few sentences, to a few paragraphs, to a piece of writing that has a beginning, a middle, and an end. Finishing something bridges the difference between someone who has talent and one who does not. My best advice? Apply the seat of your pants to the seat of your chair-and finish. FINISH!”

“Really unreflective people are now inwardly without Christianity, and the more moderate and reflective people of the intellectual middle class now possess only an adapted, that is to say marvelously simplified Christianity. A god who in his love arranges everything in a manner that in the end will be best for us; a god who gives to us and takes from us our virtue and our happiness, so that as a whole all is meet and fit and there is no reason for us to take life sadly, let alone exclaim against it; in short, resignation and modest demands elevated to godhead”

People Giving Ends Reason Whole Christianity Class Virtue Middle Fit Demand Intellectual Middle Class No Reason Modest His Love Moderates Resignation Adapted

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“At the heart of any successful film is a powerful story. And a story should be just that: a narrative with a beginning, middle, and end, powerful protagonists that audiences can identify with, and a dramatic arc that is able to capture and hold viewers' intellectual and emotional attention.”

Should Heart Ends Stories Able Film Powerful Attention Audience Successful Middle Emotional Intellectual Narrative Dramatic Capture Viewers Arcs Protagonists Beginning Middle And End

Author:Julia Bacha

“It's impossible to get to the end if you quit in the middle.”

Ifs Ends Impossible Middle Quitting

Author:Christine Caine

“Grief doesn't have a plot. It isn't smooth. There is no beginning and middle and end.”

Ends Grief Middle Plot Smooth

Book:Comfort: A Journey Through Grief

Source: Comfort: A Journey Through Grief

“The average student emerges at the end of the Ph.D. program, already middle-aged, overspecialized, poorly prepared for the world outside, and almost unemployable except in a narrow area of specialization. Large numbers of students for whom the program is inappropriate are trapped in it, because the Ph.D. has become a union card required for entry into the scientific job market.”

World Ends Jobs Numbers Middle Students Areas Program Unions Prepared Average Cards Trapped Entry Large Numbers Inappropriate Middle Aged Specialization

Author:Freeman Dyson

“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.”

Way Writing Mind Ends Stories Audience Taken Middle Finished Familiar Screenplays Unfamiliar

Author:Christian Keiber

“Everything looks like a failure in the middle. In neary every change project, doubt is cast on the original vision because problems are mounting and the end is nowhere in sight.”

Looks Ends Problem Vision Doubt Middle Projects Sight Originals Casts

Book:Challenge of Organizational Change: How Companies Experience It And Leaders Guide It

Source: Challenge of Organizational Change: How Companies Experience It And Leaders Guide It

“I let myself go at the beginning and write with an easy mind, but by the time I get to the middle I begin to grow timid and to fear my story will be too long. . .That is why the beginning of my stories is always very promising and looks as though I were starting on a novel, and the middle is huddled and timid, and the end is...like fireworks.”

Writing Mind Looks Long Ends Stories Grows Easy Novel Middle Starting Fireworks

Author:Anton Chekhov

“I used my daughter's crayons for each main character. One end of the wallpaper was the beginning of the story, and the other end was the end, and then there was all that middle part, which was the middle.”

Ends Character Stories Used Middle Daughter My Daughter Main Characters Crayon

Book:Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five

Source: Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five

“Stories work, if they have a beginning, middle and end.”

Ifs Ends Stories Middle Beginning Middle And End

Author:Wendell Pierce

“I think that we're moving into this new phase of television where audiences are really embracing stories with a beginning, middle, and end.”

Thinking Ends Stories Moving Audience Middle Television Phases Beginning Middle And End

Author:Carlton Cuse

“I was beating Amanda Lim to death with the tire iron, I accidently hit her in the finger. It was a fake tire iron, but it was run through with metal in the middle and when she looked up after the take, she was crying and it really hurt her and so I felt pretty terrible about that, but they got back at me when I had my big fight with Casey at the end and she just beat the bejesus out of me, being the amazing stuntwoman that she is.”

Ends Bigs Running Fighting Felt Hurt Middle Cry Terrible Beats Fingers Fake Iron Metals Tire Amanda It Really Hurts

Author:David Hayter

“Improve writing skills: 1. Keep paragraphs short. 2. Use bold and CAPS to make points. 3. Start with a question or short statement. 4. Give me meat in the middle. All meat. 5. Make me smile, think, or act at the end.”

Thinking Giving Writing Ends Use Middle Skills Give Me Statements Meat Caps Paragraph Make Me Smile Writing Skills

Author:Jeffrey Gitomer

“The Bible teaches that history began in the Middle East, and someday history will end in the Middle East.”

Ends Teach Middle East Someday Middle East

Author:Billy Graham

“I think our goal and intention is to make sure that, when you watch each episode, you don't have to make that choice, but also that you can have stand-alone episodes, where a story can have a beginning, middle and end.”

Thinking Ends Stories Choices Goal Watches Middle Intention Episodes Stand Alone Beginning Middle And End

Author:Alex Kurtzman

“For the sake of our economy, our security, and the future of our planet, I will set a clear goal as President: in ten years, we will finally end our dependence on oil from the Middle East.”

Years Ends Goal President Economy Clear Middle Security Planets Ten Sake Oil East Middle East Dependence Our Planet Clear Goals

Author:Barack Obama

“It's about how whenever I fall in love, I have these expectations of the experience being a perfect dream, which, of course, ruins it. I imagine cradling my lover's head in my lap in a cab in the middle of the night, and drinking champagne in an elegant hotel suite. But life's rarely like that, and I usually end up walking home by myself in the rain.”

“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.”

Feels Firsts Ideas Different Ends Shows Wise Player Middle Example Seasons Series Format Good Examples Nbc Beginning Middle And End

Author:Remi Aubuchon

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