“The number of African Americans in my profession is woefully small; about two percent of architects in the country are black. I'd like to see more diversity. That's why whenever I'm asked to speak at middle and high schools I always say yes.” TwoCountrySchoolSpeakBlackNumbersMiddleDiversityPercentHigh SchoolProfessionAfrican AmericanArchitect Author:Philip Freelon
“Life will be simpler when I don't spend two-thirds of the year in the middle of the Pacific.” YearsTwoMiddleThirdsPacific Author:Michael Emerson
“I haven't had sex in two and a half years. A guy I met in San Francisco gave me a sympathy blow job. It didn't really work. I said, "You're just doing this 'cause you feel sorry for me." We stopped in the middle.” FeelsYearsSaidTwoJobsGuySexCausesHalfMiddleHavensMetsSorryBlowSan FranciscoHalf A YearBlow Job Author:Kevin Sessums
“Being a venture capitalist to me is like being more of a psychologist. So if you come to my office we have two chairs with a table in the middle. And we sit down and it's like, Tell me your problems.” IfsTwoProblemMiddleOfficeDown AndTablesChairsCapitalistVenturePsychologistVenture Capitalists Author:Keith Rabois
“I managed to slip two children out in the middle of my career and have been lucky with all the work.” ChildrenHas BeensTwoCareersMiddleLuckySlips Author:Samantha Bond
“A few years ago, they [Neandertals] were thought to be ancestral to anatomically modern humans, but now we know that modern humans appeared at least 100,000 years ago, much before the disappearance of the Neandertals. Moreover, in caves in the Middle East, fossils of modern humans have been found dated 120,000-100,000 years ago, as well as Neandertals dated at 60,000 and 70,000 years ago, followed again by modern humans dated at 40,000 years ago. It is unclear whether the two forms repeatedly replaced one another by migration from other regions, or whether they coexisted in some areas” KnowsYearsHumansWellsHas BeensTwoFormFoundModernMiddleAreasYears AgoEastRegionsMiddle EastReplacedCavesFossilsMigrationDisappearanceUnclear Author:Francisco J. Ayala
“If I'm shifted two steps toward third base and the ball goes up the middle, people say I have no range to my left. That's why those statistics aren't accurate. You're changing for every batter, sometimes with every pitch. You really can't make one statistic for every shortstop. You have to go by what you see.” PeopleIfsTwoSometimesLeftStepsMiddleThirdsBallsRangeStatisticsAccurateShortstops Author:Derek Jeter
“I'm not a political person. I don't understand politics, I don't understand the concept of two sides and I think that probably there's good on both sides, bad on both sides, and there's a middle ground, but it never seems to come to the middle ground and it's very frustrating watching it and seemingly we're not moving forward.” ThinkingPersonsTwoSeemsMovingPoliticalSidesMiddleConceptsMoving ForwardBoth SidesFrustratingTwo SidesMiddle Ground Author:David Lynch
“I like Pixie Sticks. Yeah, screw the middle man. Just a tube of sugar... I'd pour two of those in a big 12 ounce coke. And I'd go out to catechism class and try to concentrate on the priest. I saw Jesus several times. I swear I did.” MenTryingTwoBigsJesusClassSawsMiddleYeahSticksPriestsSugarSwearScrewsTubesCokePixiesCatechism Author:Tim Allen
“In the Middle East there are two kinds of regimes - those that could be worse, and those that couldn't be worse.” KindTwoMiddleEastRegimesMiddle East Author:Bret Stephens
“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 go to the theater two or three times a week when I'm in London. Whereas I feel guilty going to the cinema in the middle of the afternoon.” FeelsTwoThreeWeekMiddleTheaterLondonGuiltyCinemaAfternoonThree Times Author:Eddie Redmayne
“The war against ISIS will pose many new challenges for the next commander-in-chief. The last two presidents [George W. Bush and Barack Obama] pursued a Middle East policy that supported toppling dictators to try to promote democracy.” TryingTwoWarLastsNextPresidentChallengesDemocracyMiddlePolicyEastChiefsBarackMiddle EastDictatorPursuedIsisCommandersCommander In ChiefNew ChallengesPresident George W Bush Author:Wolf Blitzer
“If everybody that had two cars had a Prius instead of an SUV, we wouldn't be in the Middle East right now.” IfsTwoMiddleCarRight NowEastMiddle EastSuvsPrius Author:Meryl Streep
“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.” LongTwoCountryFoundGrowsCasesFourGenerationsMiddleHairLowsSeasonsHorseHotEastMiddle EastLong HairFour Generations Author:L. Ron Hubbard
“Austin - it's a stimulating center. In this conversation, the very first two questions were talking about my kind of wanderlust and my adventures. Some people at my time in life travel forever. I don't know whether it's the British or the Australians - whoever it is, you can kind of stagger into some sort of far-off bastion in the middle of nowhere, and you'll find someone from Britain or someone from Australia or maybe an American.” PeopleKnowsFirstsKindTwoTalkingForeverMiddleAdventureConversationBritishMy TimeBritainAustraliaAustinMiddle Of Nowhere Author:Robert Plant
“One day, I was running to the river. Along the way there was the most exquisite butterfly, a tiny little thing, on the pavement. I kind of jumped over it. And then two days later I woke up in the middle of the night with a character running, jumping over butterflies on the streets of Nairobi. After that, I followed the story. The story wrote itself.” WayKindLittlesTwoCharacterStoriesRunningNightStreetsMiddleOne DayRiversTinyOver ItLittle ThingsButterflyJumpingExquisiteTwo DaysMiddle Of The NightPavementNairobi Author:Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
“The Middle East is the only region in the world outside of sub-Saharan Africa where rates of malnutrition actually rose over the past decade or two, instead of falling.” WorldTwoPastFallMiddleRoseRateEastDecadesRegionsMiddle EastOver The PastMalnutritionSub Saharan Africa Author:Annia Ciezadlo
“The most basic organizing principle was pretty straightforward, and is frankly pretty common: the shorter of what are by my lights the two most engaging stories goes first, the longer of the two goes at the end, and everything else goes in the middle.” FirstsTwoEndsStoriesLightCommonPrinciplesMiddleEngagingStraightforward Author:Roy Kesey