“One day, about the middle of July 1838, one of the carriages, lately introduced to Paris cabstands, and known as Milords, was driving down the Rue de l'Universite, conveying a stout man of middle height in the uniform of a captain of the National Guard.” MenBookKnownMiddleOne DayDrivingParisHeightUniformsCaptainsJulyCarriagesStoutConveyingRueNational Guard Book:Cousin Betty Source: Cousin Betty
“New York is where it is going to begin, I think. You can see it coming. The insect experts have learned how it works with locusts. Until locust population reaches a certain density, they all act like any grasshoppers. When the critical point is reached, they turn savage and swarm, and try to eat the world. We're nearing a critical point. One day soon two strangers will bump into each other at high noon in the middle of New York. But this time they won't snarl and go on. They will stop and stare and then leap at each others” ThinkingWorldTryingTwoCertainTurnsMiddleNew YorkGoes OnOne DayPopulationStrangerCriticalStaringExpertsLeapSavagesInsectsNoonBumpsDensitySwarmsGrasshoppers Author:John D. MacDonald
“One day, when I came home from work, I accidentally put my car key in the door of my apartment building. I turned it, and the whole building started up. So I drove it around. A policeman stopped me for going too fast. He said, "Where do you live?" I said, "Right here!" Then I drove my building onto the middle of a highway, and I ran outside, and told all of the cars to get the hell out of my driveway.” SaidWholeHomeHumorFunnyHellDoorsMiddleCarBuildingKeysOne DayRanApartmentHighwaysPolicemenDrivewayCar Keys Author:Steven Wright
“I've never planned ahead.I just sort of go through life checking the menu of three meals that day. I never worry about tomorrow. It's only since I've gotten older that I've begun to wonder about time running out. Is it sufficient unto itself that I don't plan? Because maybe next Thursday won't come one day. And then, I'm concerned about that. But that's not uniquely the writer's concern, that's the concern of every middle-aged man who looks in the mirror.” MenLooksRunningThreeNextWonderWorryPlansMiddleTomorrowOne DayConcernConcernedMirrorsSufficientMealsMiddle AgedMenusThursdayTime Running Out Author:Rod Serling
“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
“I used to hate swimming at school so much that I would always sneak downstairs in the middle of the night and take my swimming costume out of my gym bag and hide it in the house somewhere. Then I'd never have to go swimming at school. This went on for months and I never got caught and my Mum turned into a nervous wreck because the thought she was losing her memory... and then one day she caught me and got super angry. That was kind of bad.” KindSchoolUsedNightHateHouseMemoriesMiddleMonthsOne DayLosingAngryCaughtNervousBagsGymSwimmingMumCostumesWrecksSneakMiddle Of The NightLosing Her Author:Charli XCX
“In this case, I don't know why they [Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg] thought I would be a good lavash wrap or I would do a good Middle Eastern accent. They just assumed I would. They called one day, and they're like, "They're doing this read-through for Sausage Party, and you're going to play a lavash wrap in it." After I looked up what a lavash wrap was, I was like, "Oh, cool."” KnowsPlayWould BePartyCasesMiddleOne DayAccentsEasternWrapsSausage Author:David Krumholtz
“I went into the Army, and one day, in the middle of a bull session, somebody called me an atheist. Believe it or not, it was the first time I'd ever heard the word. It goes to show you how a person can grow up in America and have a college education and still not know a goddamned thing.” KnowsFirstsBelievePersonsStillsShowsAmericaGrowsGrowing UpHeardMiddleCollegeOne DayFirst TimeArmyAtheistSessionBullsCollege Education Author:Madalyn Murray O'Hair
“We woke up one day, and all the sudden Starbucks was in the middle of this political crossfire between the people who want to bring a gun into Starbucks and the people who want to prevent it. It is a very difficult, fragile situation.” PeopleWantPoliticalDifficultSituationMiddleOne DayGunFragileStarbucksCrossfire Author:Howard Schultz
“I'll be famous one day, but for now I'm stuck in middle school with a bunch of morons." - Greg Heffley.” SchoolMiddleOne DayStuckBunchMoronMiddle School Author:Jeff Kinney
“If she had been left alone she would have gone on, in her own way, enjoying herself thoroughly, until people found one day that she had turned imperceptibly into one of those women who have become old without ever having been middle aged: a little withered, a little acid, hard as nails, sentimentally kindhearted, and addicted to religion or small dogs.” PeopleIfsWayLittlesHardFoundLeftEnjoyGoneMiddleDogOne DayNailsAcidLeft AloneMiddle AgedWitheredSmall Dogs Book:The Grass is Singing Source: The Grass is Singing