Best middle & long Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I'd love to be in the '70s. I'd love to have a big, long wig parted down the middle with flat-ironed hair and bell-bottoms. They're actually very flattering for my figure. The wider the leg, the better for a person with a booty.”

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Author:Sarah Paulson

“If you think about it, candidate Obama, Sen. Obama, was running on sort of long-run economic issues, like restoring prosperity to the middle class, dealing with the perennial problem of health care in the United States. He talked a lot about the budget deficit, about the need to transition to clean energy.”

“There was a period which I refer to as the 'Golden Age of Jazz,' which sort of encompasses the middle Thirties through the Sixties, we had a lot of great innovators, all creating things which will last the world for a long, long time.”

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Author:Sonny Rollins

“Probably my mother's life was prolonged beyond that of a long-lived family by her coming to Australia in middle life; and if I ever had any tendency to consumption, the climate must have helped me.”

Ifs Long Mother Middle Climate Tendencies Australia Consumption

Book:An autobiography

Source: An autobiography

“Who wouldn't want to vote for a guy who was a peaceful, radical, non-violent revolutionary; who hung around with lepers, hookers, and crooks; who never spoke English; was not an American citizen; anti-capitalism; totally anti-death penalty; anti-public prayer (Matthew 6:5); but never once anti-gay; didn't mention abortion; and was a long-haired, brown-skinned, homeless, middle-eastern, Jew?”

“As long as we relate with our underlying primordial intelligence and as long as we push ourselves a little, by jumping into the middle of situations, then intelligence arises automatically.”

Littles Long Situation Middle Intellect Arise Relate Jumping

Book:Work, Sex, Money: Real Life on the Path of Mindfulness

Source: Work, Sex, Money: Real Life on the Path of Mindfulness

“A lot of American shows don't last for as long as 12 episodes. They get cut after one. But certainly one of the great things about The Office in particular was that there was a beginning, a middle and an end.”

Long Ends Shows Lasts Cutting Middle Particular Office Great Things Episodes

Author:Matt Groening

“What can I do to make sure that middle-class families are feeling more secure, that more young people are able to access opportunity, that we are safe, that we are working with our international partners to try to create more order at a time when there's a lot of chaos? How do we deal with terrorism in a way that's consistent with our values? As long as I stay focused on those north stars, then I tend not to get too rattled.”

“Making information free is survivable so long as only limited numbers of people are disenfranchised. As much as it pains me to say so, we can survive if we only destroy the middle classes of musicians, journalists, and photographers. What is not survivable is the additional destruction of the middle classes in transportation, manufacturing, energy, office work, education, and health care. And all that destruction will come surely enough if the dominant idea of an information economy isn't improved.”

Source: Who Owns the Future?

“Doing the same thing in the same way year after year is like eating a quail a day for thirty days. Along toward the middle of the month a fellow begins to long for a broiled crow or a slice of cold dog.”

Way Years Long Middle Dog Months Cold Eating Fellows Thirty Crow Old Dog Quails

Book:Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son

Source: Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son

“I think stories do have an ending. I think they need to have an ending eventually because that is a story: a beginning, middle and end. If you draw out the end too long, I think storytelling can get tired.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Long Ends Stories Middle Draws Tired Storytelling Beginning Middle And End

Author:Melissa Rosenberg

“The idea of a hypnotic riff as the prime mover of a piece of music has been around for a long time, whether you're talking about the Delta blues or music from Middle Eastern and African cultures.”

Long Has Beens Ideas Culture Talking Pieces Middle Long Time Prime Eastern Delta Hypnotic African Culture Delta Blues

Author:Jimmy Page

“For too long, many nations, including my own, tolerated, even excused, oppression in the Middle East in the name of stability. Oppression became common, but stability never arrived. We must take a different approach. We must help the reformers of the Middle East as they work for freedom, and strive to build a community of peaceful, democratic nations.”

Long Different Helping Names Nations Community My Own Common Middle Approach Democratic Strive Including East Oppression Peaceful Stability Middle East Reformers Different Approach

Author:George W. Bush

“it is better in the long run to be cheated than to cheat. I have learned that there is no middle way.”

Way Long Running Middle Long Runs I Have Learned Cheat Dishonesty Cheated Middle Way

Book:Old Wine: A Novel

Source: Old Wine: A Novel

“A film has a beginning, middle, and an end. There is a certain amount of time that you have to embody these people. You know the entire story arch. But on TV, you have to let your guard down. You don't know how long the show is going to last. There is this excitement that comes with developing a character long-term.”

People Knows Long Ends Character Stories Shows Lasts Film Certain Term Know How Middle Tvs Amount Developing Excitement Long Term Arches

Author:DJ Qualls

“We're now in one of those periods when the reality of intense pressure on the middle class diverges from long-held assumptions of how the American bargain should work”

Should Long Reality Class Middle Periods Pressure Intense Assumption Middle Class Bargains

Author:James Fallows

“All my books take a long time to research. I spend several months researching before I start writing, and in the middle of writing I often have to stop and look up stuff. At my local library, I am one of the best customers! The research takes several months.”

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Author:Linda Sue Park

“Iraq will drive American agenda for a long time because Iraq policy has so damaged America in the Middle East region, left us isolated. We are there now by brute strength, we are not there because we are desired.”

Long America Left Middle Policy Long Time Iraq East Regions Agendas Isolated Middle East Brutes

Author:Jesse Jackson

“Regardless of the criticisms I receive from the left, the right and the middle, I think it's important to maintain a prolific writing jab, as long as my literary legs hold up.”

Thinking Writing Long Important Left Middle Criticism Legs

Book:Writin' is fightin': thirty-seven years of boxing on paper

Source: Writin' is fightin': thirty-seven years of boxing on paper

“We urgently need a debate about the best ways of supporting families in modern America, without blinders that prevent us from seeing the full extent of dependence and interdependence in American life. As long as we pretend that only poor or abnormal families need outside assistance, we will shortchange poor families, overcompensate rich ones, and fail to come up with effective policies for helping families in the middle.”

Source: The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap

“Now, I know Obama was trying to take the long view, but talking about solar energy in the middle of the oil spill is like watching your house engulfed in flames and saying, 'We really should change the curtains.'”

Knows Should Trying Long House Energy Views Talking Middle Oil Flames Curtains Spills Solar Energy Oil Spill

Author:Craig Ferguson

“Which class is happiest, the rich, the middle class or the poor? A very successful executive of a large organization touches upon this vital subject in a long letter to all his salesmen. He uses as his text a passage from Robinson Crusoe which included this: ""My Father bid me observe it, and I should always find that the calamities of life were shared among the upper and lower part of mankind; but that the middle station had the fewest disasters, and were not exposed to so many vicissitudes as the higher or lower part of mankind.”

“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.”

People Long Enough Shows Force Term Middle Healthy Commitment Essence Forgiving Long Term Get Back Combat Wounded Screws Good Day Bad Day Screw Ups Have A Good Day Good Days And Bad Days

Author:Judd Apatow

“Sometimes I go outside after a long stretch of writing and I'm surprised it's not raining. Or that it's daylight. Or that it's not the middle of winter. I don't know if that level of immersion is normal, but it's now I do things. I like it. It works well for me.”

Ifs Knows Writing Wells Long Sometimes Levels Middle Normal Rain Winter Daylight Immersion

Author:Patrick Rothfuss

“Fantastic! Right in the middle of that long stretch between Christmas and Spring Break, your coats are getting dirty, everything's dark, dingy - what a great time for a movie!”

Long Dark Break Middle Spring Christmas Fantastic Dirty Nasty Coats Naughty Great Times Spring Break

Author:John Hughes

“If we wait for the U.S. to do something, we will be waiting for a very long time. It's Europe, it's Australia, it's the other developed and middle developing countries that have got to do the job.”

Ifs Long Country Jobs Waiting Middle Long Time Europe Developing Australia Developing Countries

Author:Susan George

“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

“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

“We can talk about corporations all day long but my goal is to help the middle class, somebody who makes too much to be on government assistance but still lives paycheck to paycheck.”

Long Stills Helping Government Goal Class Too Much Middle Corporations Middle Class Assistance Paychecks Still Life Government Assistance

Author:Lindsey Graham

“The world has paid a heavy price for the lack of democracy in most of the Middle East. Operation Ajax [CIA code for the August 1953 coup] taught tyrants and aspiring tyrants there that the world's most powerful governments were willing to tolerate limitless oppression as long as oppressive regimes were friendly to the West and to Western oil companies. That helped tilt the political balance in a vast region away from freedom and toward dictatorship.”

“The rich did not care who ruled, as long as they were allowed to be rich. The poor could not afford to care and nobody asked their opinion in any case. Only the middle class mattered and any half-witted ruler knows how to pamper them.”

Knows Long Care Poor Half Opinion Class Cases Know How Rich Middle Middle Class Rulers

Book:ASURA: Tale of the Vanquished

Source: ASURA: Tale of the Vanquished

“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 think I've been fortunate enough to have a fairly long career and hopefully I'm at the middle of it now. And I think I'm starting to develop a certain amount of experience and a certain amount of wisdom about kind of what really matters and what doesn't matter.”

Thinking Kind Long Matter Enough Certain Careers Middle Amount Starting Hopefully Fortunate Long Careers

Author:Peter Berg

“Sixty years of Western nations excusing and accommodating the lack of freedom in the Middle East did nothing to make us safe because in the long run stability cannot be purchased at the expense of liberty. ... The global wave of democracy has barely reached the Arab states. For too long, many people in that region have been victims and subjects. They deserve to be active citizens.”

“A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.”

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Book:Complete Essays: 1920-1925

Source: Complete Essays: 1920-1925

“I wonder how long this word will last, governed exclusively by the merciless, inhuman and immoral criteria of global economy. Seeing the shadow of distant islands, I imagined one still inhabited by a tribe of poets set aside for when, after the middle age of materialism, humanity will have to start to put other values into his existence.”

Long Stills Age Lasts Values Humanity Existence Wonder Economy Seeing Middle Poet Shadow Islands Materialism Tribes Immoral Middle Ages Criteria Inhuman Global Economy

Author:Tiziano Terzani

“At the moment, the extremists have significant financial popular and theological backing in the Middle East. And that is an enduring phenomenon. And it's one that is going to require a long, ideological war to win.”

Long War Moments Winning Middle Endure Financial East Significant Phenomenon Middle East Ideological Extremist Theological

Author:Chuck Todd

“There are a lot of people walking around with long hair now and some trendy middle class kids in pretty clothes. But nothing changed except that we all dressed up a bit, leaving the same bastards running everything.”

People Long Running Kids Bits Class Middle Changed Hair Walking Clothes Leaving Middle Class Dressed Up Long Hair Trendy

Author:John Lennon

“I've been acting since I was young because I wanted to, not because my parents wanted me to. My dad is a principal and mom is a middle school counselor, so acting was like, "Eh, whatever. As long as you get good grades." It's really fun, and nothing more.”

Long Wanted School Young Fun Parent Acting Middle Mom Dad My Dad Grades Principal Middle School Counselor Good Grades

Author:Shailene Woodley

“On the other hand, although I have a regular work schedule, I take time to go for long walks on the beach so that I can listen to what is going on inside my head. If my work isn't going well, I lie down in the middle of a workday and gaze at the ceiling while I listen and visualize what goes on in my imagination.”

Ifs Wells Long I Can Hands Lying Imagination Walks Middle Goes On Beach Take Time Schedules My Imagination Ceilings Long Walks

Author:Albert Einstein

“As long as I'm dealing in honesty, I may as well admit that I have been more influenced (as a person) by my childhood readings of Tolkien and Lewis than I have been by any philosophers I read in college and grad school. The events and characters in Narnia and Middle Earth shaped my ideals, my dreams, my goals. Kant just annoyed me.”

Wells May Persons Long Has Beens Character Dream School Earth Reading Goal Childhood Middle Events Honesty College Ideals Philosopher Annoyed Narnia Grad Middle Earth Grad School

Author:N.D. Wilson

“Vietnam is a jungle. You had jungle warfare. Kuwait, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, you have sand. [There is no need to worry about a protracted war because] from a historical basis, Middle East conflicts do not last a long time.”

Needs Long War Lasts Worry Middle Conflict Long Time Bases Historical Iraq East Sand Vietnam Middle East Warfare Jungle Arabia Saudi Arabia Saudis Kuwait Middle East Conflict

Author:Dan Quayle

“Middle age is when you realize that you'll never live long enough to try all the recipes you spent thirty years clipping out of newspapers and magazines.”

Trying Years Long Enough Age Realizing Middle Newspapers Magazines Thirty Recipes Middle Ages Thirty Years

Author:Bill Vaughan

“In order to make a success of old age, one must begin it earlier, and not try to postpone it as long as possible. In the middle of life we must stop to think, to organize our existence with an eye to a still distant future, instead of allowing ourselves to be entirely sucked into the professional and social whirl. It is then that it is important to give place little by little to less external activities, less technical and more cultural, which will survive the moment of retirement.”

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Book:Learn to Grow Old

Source: Learn to Grow Old

“A military audience is kind of weird. Pretty much how you would imagine a troop of males that haven't seen a female in a long time and have been stuck in a base camp in the middle of nowhere for too long without any alcohol.”

Kind Long Has Beens Audience Imagine Middle Military Havens Long Time Female Males Alcohol Stuck Camps Middle Of Nowhere

Author:Missy Higgins

“Darwin found out that when you took horses up to the high country in the Middle East, they would then grow long hair after a season or two. But when you took them - these long-haired horses - back into the low, hot country, they wouldn't get rid of the long hair, just in case, for about four generations.”

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Author:L. Ron Hubbard

“Because I work quite slowly, I have to keep myself interested over a long research and writing period. So I can't see myself writing about modern middle-class Londoners anytime soon.”

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Author:Stef Penney

“There's a long history in the Middle East of "bread intifadas," starting with 1977 in Egypt, when Anwar Sadat tried to lift bread subsidies. People rebelled and poured into Tahrir Square, shouting slogans against the government just like they did earlier this year. Sadat learned his lesson and kept bread subsidies in place, and so did a host of other Middle Eastern dictators - many of whom were propped up for years by the West, partly through subsidized American wheat.”

People Years Long Government Middle Lessons West Starting East Bread Lifts Squares Host Middle East Dictator Egypt Eastern Slogans Shouting Wheat Subsidies Sadat Tahrir Square

Author:Annia Ciezadlo

“I'd love to go and camp out and live in a tent in the middle of nowhere and see how long I could live and survive.”

Long Middle Camps Tents Middle Of Nowhere

Author:Rita Ora

“I'm finding myself really angry over spending and the deficit. I'm finding myself really angry over what's happening in the Middle East, the decision to stay in Afghanistan indefinitely. I'm angry about cap and trade. And I've been on record for a long time on the failed war on drugs.”

Long War Decision Records Middle Drug Findings Long Time Happenings Angry Trade Spending East Afghanistan Middle East Deficit Caps War On Drugs Finding Myself

Author:Gary Johnson

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