“Any actress will tell you - it's really hard. If you're not an A-list Hollywood movie star, if you're in the middle, there are people who assume you wouldn't do certain things without even asking you, when actually you probably would. And there are people who always think you are busy doing something else.” PeopleIfsThinkingHardCertainStarsMiddleHollywoodAskingAssumingBusyActressesListsMovie StarHollywood Movies Author:Martine McCutcheon
“As for Aliki - if you were to stand in the middle of Rome and say the name Sophia Loren, or Paris and say the name Catherine Deneuve or Brigitte Bardot, or L.A. and the name Marilyn Monroe, it's like standing in Athens, or anywhere in wide-flung Greece, and saying Aliki Vougiouklaki. A huge star - and so little known elsewhere in the world.” IfsWorldLittlesNamesStarsKnownMiddleHugeStandingWideParisRomeElsewhereGreeceAthensSophia Author:Ali Smith
“And just as music is the space between notes, just as the stars are beautiful because of the space between them, just as the sun strikes raindrops at a certain angle and throws a prism of color across the sky—so the space where I exist, and want to keep existing, and to be quite frank I hope I die in, is exactly this middle distance: where despair struck pure otherness and created something sublime.” WantBeautifulCertainDiesStarsSpaceSunSkyMiddleColorPureDespairMusic IsDistanceNotesStrikesFrankSublimeAngleSpace BetweenRaindropsOthernessPrisms Author:Donna Tartt
“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.” PeopleWayTryingLongFeelingsAbleYoungValuesOrderOpportunityStarsDealsClassMiddleSafeChaosInternationalTerrorismFocusedAccessPartnersSecureConsistentMiddle ClassStay FocusedMiddle Class FamilyNorth Star Author:Barack Obama
“We will create life from inanimate compounds, and we will find life in space. But the life that should more immediately interest us lies between these extremes, in the middle range we all inhabit between our genes and our stars.” ShouldLyingStarsInterestSpaceMiddleExtremesRangeGenesCompounds Author:Nicholas A. Christakis
“I love individuals. I think people are terrific as I meet and get to know them. I like imagination. I like the freedom that this society manages to parcel out to us in the midst of the rest of what they do to you. I also like thinking about the fact that the atoms in me are the same atoms that are in all the rest of the universe, and that every one of those atoms came from the middle of a star. In other words, it's only me out there.” PeopleThinkingKnowsFactsUniverseIndividualStarsImaginationMiddleManageMidstAtomsTerrificThis SocietyParcel Author:George Carlin
“There was a lot of maneuvering on the part of the Roosevelt administration to get the stars aligned so that that attack would happen. There's just no question about that; you don't even have to look at the decoding of diplomatic cables or anything else. FDR's own admiral thought it was a bad idea to have the fleet confined in one place way out in the middle of the Pacific.” WayLooksIdeasHappensStarsMiddleAdministrationConfinedCablesPacificBad IdeasDiplomaticAdmiral Author:Nicholson Baker
“The heaven is spherical in shape, and moves as a sphere; the earth too is sensibly spherical in shape, when taken as a whole; in position it lies in the middle of the heavens very much like its center; in size and distance it has the ratio of a point to the sphere of the fixed stars; and it has no motion from place to place.” WholeEarthMovingLyingHeavenStarsTakenMiddlePositionShapesDistanceSizeAstronomyFixedSpheresCosmologyRatios Book:Ptolemy's Almagest Source: Ptolemy's Almagest
“I grew up as a fan of the original Star Trek series. When I was in middle school, I think in the 6th grade, I remember going to a book fair and finding a book called The Making of Star Trek, by Stephen Whitfield, and I grabbed it and took and home and just devoured it, over and over again. It was a really influential book. It was very nuts and bolts.” ThinkingBookHomeSchoolRememberStarsFansMiddleGrewFindingsGrew UpFairsOriginalsSeriesGradesNutsInfluentialBoltsMiddle SchoolNuts And BoltsOriginal Star Trek Author:Ronald D. Moore
“I'm a rock 'n' roll baby. I was one of the last actually born into rock, in the middle of it. My mother was a promoter, so I grew up with rock stars. When I was little, people like Jimi Hendrix were walking around in the living room.” PeopleLittlesLastsMotherStarsBornRoomsMiddleRocksBabyGrewWalkingGrew UpRock N RollRock StarLiving RoomHendrixPromoters Author:Ari Up