“If you feel tired midway through, give Neil Patrick Harris a Red Bull and throw some sheet music at him.” IfsGivingFeelsRedTiredSheetsBullsMidwayRed BullSheet Music Author:Steve Martin
“It makes us a thread in a tapestry that has unrolled for centuries before us, and will unroll for centuries after us. We're midway through the loom, that's the present, and what we do casts the thread in a particular direction, and the picture of the tapestry changes accordingly. When we begin to to try to make a picture pleasing to us and to those who come after, then perhaps you can say that we have seized history.” TryingCenturyParticularCastsThreadTapestryMidway Author:Kim Stanley
“HOMOEOPATHY, n. A school of medicine midway between Allopathy and Christian Science. To the last both the others are distinctly inferior, for Christian Science will cure imaginary diseases, and they can not.” SchoolChristianLastsScienceDiseaseMedicineCuresImaginaryInferiorsCan NotMidwayChristian Science Book:The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
“Battles that involve oatmeal are just never going to end up being historic, you know?" Jake went on. "Gettysburg? No major oatmeal involvement. The Battle of Midway? Neither side used oatmeal. Desert Storm? No oatmeal.” KnowsEndsUsedSidesBattleMajorsStormDesertHistoricInvolvementJakeGettysburgOatmealMidwayDesert Storm Author:Katherine Applegate
“There is a story, no doubt apocryphal, that gamers at the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island, have many times replayed the 1942 Battle of Midway - but have never been able to produce an American victory.” WarStoriesAblePeaceDoubtProduceCollegeVictoryBattleIslandsNo DoubtGamerNavalMidwayRhode Island Author:Robert Cowley
“I'm very surprised - midway through my second glass of red wine last night, I really didn't think I'd be standing here with a trophy in my hands.” ThinkingHandsLastsNightRedStandingWineGolfGlassesLast NightTrophiesRed WineMidway Author:Graeme McDowell
“Common sense is not something rigid and stationary, but is in continuous transformation, becoming enriched with scientific notions and philosophical opinions that have entered into common circulation. 'Common sense' is the folklore of philosophy and always stands midway between folklore proper (folklore as it is normally understood) and the philosophy, science, and economics of the scientists. Common sense creates the folklore of the future, a relatively rigidified phase of popular knowledge in a given time and place.” PhilosophyCultureGivenCommonOpinionBecomingUnderstoodEconomicsScientistTransformationPhilosophicalNotionCommon SensePhasesFolkloreCirculationStationaryMidway Author:Antonio Gramsci