“Six months of looking for a job had made me an expert at picking out the people who, like me, were hurrying up to wait - in somebody's outer anything for a chance to make it through their inner doors to prove that you could type two words a minute, or not drool on your blouse while answering difficult questions about your middle initial and date of birth.” PeopleMadeTwoJobsWaitingDifficultWorkChanceDoorsMiddleMinutesTypeMonthsBirthProveSixLike MeExpertsSix MonthsInitialsHurryingDifficult QuestionsBlousesLooking For A Job Book:Mama Day: A Novel Source: Mama Day: A Novel
“There are two types of bands - there are the ones that are basically solo projects anyways, where there's clearly the one guy who's driving the ship and everyone else is just along for the ride. And then there was my band, where you have a few very disparate-taste, creative people who kind of meet in the middle somewhere.” PeopleKindTwoGuyCreativeMiddleTypeTasteBandProjectsDrivingShipsSoloCreative PeopleAlong For The Ride Author:Patrick Stump
“As a teenager, I was always this strange mixture of kind of vice-captain of the rugby team and sensitive artist type the rest of the time. I was sent away to this public school in the middle of nowhere, and I think we managed to completely miss out on normal youth culture.” ThinkingKindSchoolArtistCultureTeamMiddleMissingYouthStrangeTypeNormalVicesTeenagerSensitiveCaptainsMixturesPublic SchoolRugbyYouth CultureMiddle Of Nowhere Author:Mark Haddon
“Ressentiment is always to some degree a determinant of the romantic type of mind. At least this is so when the romantic nostalgia for some past era (Hellas, the Middle Ages, etc.) is not primarily based on the values of that period, but on the wish to escape from the present. Then all praise of the “past” has the implied purpose of downgrading present-day reality.” MindRealityAgePastPurposeValuesWishMiddleTypePeriodsDegreesPraiseNostalgiaErasEtcMiddle AgesPresent DayImpliedDowngrading Book:On Feeling, Knowing, and Valuing: Selected Writings Source: On Feeling, Knowing, and Valuing: Selected Writings
“So as I was growing up, my father was always in the middle of making a film or preparing a film. It was a full-time, all-consuming type of operation.” FilmFatherGrowing UpGrowingMiddleTypeOperationsPreparingConsuming Author:Barbara Broccoli
“When I first put out music, people didn't know what I looked like. They called it a new type of something, they couldn't put a genre on it - it was where indie and urban kind of meet in the middle. I thought that was quite exciting.” PeopleKnowsFirstsKindMiddleTypeExcitingGenreUrban Author:FKA twigs
“Those type of people [in New Orleans] keep me happy and just smiling, you know? I just go hang out and talk with them and they tell me all types of old stories, and sometimes I might even pull my horn out in the middle of the block, and they're playing on beer bottles and different things, and we just do a little second line type thing, just us, four or five people, who are just having fun. That makes me day to be able to do that and go hang out with the people in the (Treme) neighborhood, and to do some shows around town, you know?” PeopleKnowsLittlesDifferentSometimesStoriesShowsMightAbleFunLinesFiveFourMiddleTypeTownsBlockBeerHaving FunDifferent ThingsNeighborhoodHanging OutBottlesNew OrleansHornsJust Have Fun Author:Troy Andrews
“A lot of girls will do regular crunches, when that is building muscle in the middle of your stomach on top of - right in the middle area, where you might not want it to be. There's certain types of sit-ups and crunches and moves that kind of build the core set of your muscles inside. There's a different way of looking at exercise and optimizing it for the female body, if that makes sense.” IfsWayWantKindDifferentBodyMightMovingCertainGirlMiddleBuildingTypeExerciseAreasFemaleCoreMake SenseDifferent WaysMusclesStomachFemale BodyCrunch Author:April Rose
“It was a testament to the resilience of humanity. Give a man a tree and he will make it into a boat; give him a leaf and he will curve it into a cup and drink water from it; give him a rock and he will make a weapon to protect himself and his family. Give a man a small box and a limit of 140 characters to type into it, and he will adapt it to fight an oppressive dictatorship in the Middle East.” MenGivingCharacterHumanityFightingWaterTreeMiddleRocksTypeDrinkProtectLimitsWeaponsBoxesEastResilienceBoatCupsMiddle EastDictatorshipTestamentLeafsCurvesDrink Water140 Character Book:Hatching Twitter Source: Hatching Twitter