Midway Quotes - Page 2

• This boy turkied my Thanksgiving, but I won't let him Grinch my Christmas. -Dean Hughes (Midway to Heaven)

  Dean Hughes

  Boys, Heaven, Dean

  45 Copy quote

• Everybody has some one thing they do not want to lose," began the man. "You included. And we are professionals at finding out that very thing. Humans by necessity must have a midway point between their desires and their pride. Just as all objects must have a center of gravity. This is something we can pinpoint. Only when it is gone do people realize it even existed.

  Haruki Murakami

  Pride, Men, People

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Nov 24, 2015

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• We are only midway through the central verse of our youth when we see ourselves begin to blacken. ... We had been seduced into thinking that we were immortal and suddenly the affair is over.

  Anne Carson

  Thinking, Youth, Affair

  Anne Carson (2015). “Plainwater: Essays and Poetry”, p.16, Vintage

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.

  Albert Camus

  Artist, Judging, Community

  ALBERT CAMUS (1971). “NOBEL PRIZE LIBRARY”

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• When I'm the speaker, I know that special moment [just before speaking] is the only time I will have the entire audience's full attention. Unless an alien spaceship crash-lands on stage midway through the talk, the silence before I begin is the most powerful moment I have. What defines how well I'll do starts with how I use the power of that moment.

  Scott Berkun

  Powerful, Land, Silence

  4 Copy quote

• 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.

  Kim Stanley

  Trying, Century, Thread

  5 Copy quote

• The system that would stand midway between capitalism and socialism.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Socialism, Capitalism And Socialism, Capitalism

  Ludwig Von Mises (1978). “Anti-Capitalistic Mentality, The”, p.65, Ludwig von Mises Institute

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm,- Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Sunshine, Clouds, Storm

  Oliver Goldsmith (1871). “The works of Oliver Goldsmith: Vicar of Wakefield, select poems and comedies, with intr., notes and a life by J.F. Waller”, p.199

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Man is at the bottom an animal, midway a citizen, and at the top divine. But the climate of this world is such that few ripen at the top.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Animal, Men, Climate

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• In this world we are in precarious position, balanced midway between material and spiritual hungers. We find heaven to be a delicate state of consciousness that can be lost in a single moment of forgetfulness.

  Harold Klemp

  Life, Spiritual, Single Mom

  4 Copy quote

• Johnny sort of popped into my head midway through the first draft, and he wouldn't leave. But the more I thought about it, the more it made sense. In the first half of the movie, this guy is in the house not doing anything. I really needed an actor who's inventive and who will make enough idiosyncratic choices to make it entertaining to watch. And let's face it, Johnny Depp could make a nap interesting to watch.

  David Koepp

  Naps, Interesting, Choices

  7 Copy quote

• Astrology is the sheerest hokum. This pseudoscience has been around since the day of the Chaldeans and Babylonians. It is as phony as numerology, phrenology, palmistry, alchemy, the reading of tea leaves, and the practice of divination by the entrails of a goat. No serious person will buy the notion that our lives are influenced individually by the movement of distant planets. This is the sawdust blarney of the carnival midway.

  James J. Kilpatrick

  Reading, Serious Person, Practice

  7 Copy quote

• A lot of our fellow liberals ... seem to me rather to doom themselves to futility in public affairs because the won't recognize that there's a zone of natural affection midway between the inner, or family one, and the outer, or all-humanity one. I suppose they are somehow short of a zone themselves and they seem to get vexed... The common man knows better, just as he'd know better if some philosopher told him he ought not to make invidious distinctions by feeding his own children in preference to others. But of course he can't explain; he just ... goes on feeding the kids.

  Charles Edward Montague

  Children, Kids, Men

  7 Copy quote

• We've come under the influence of television, where in all honesty we can follow a show that could just get cancelled midway through the season and the entire plotline never resolves itself.

  Christopher Bollen

  Honesty, Television, Influence

  "The Brilliant Complications of Heidi Julavits". Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 28, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• A child, not knowing what is extraordinary and what is commonplace, usually lights midway between the two, finds interest in incidents adults consider beneath notice, and calmly accepts the most improbable occurrences.

  Gene Wolfe

  Children, Light, Two

  Gene Wolfe (1972). “The fifth head of Cerberus: three novellas”, Ultramarine Pub Co

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• What troops Of generous boys in happiness thus bred Saturnians through life's Tempe led, Went from the North and came from the South, With golden mottoes in the mouth, To lie down midway on a bloody bed.

  Herman Melville

  Lying, Boys, Bed

  Herman Melville, Douglas Robillard (2000). “The Poems of Herman Melville”, p.131, Kent State University Press

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I grew up in central Illinois midway between Chicago and St. Louis and I made an historic blunder. All my friends became Cardinals fans and grew up happy and liberal and I became a Cubs fan and grew up embittered and conservative.

  George Will

  Illinois, Chicago, Fans

  "Baseball". Documentary, History, Sport, 1994–2010.

  21 Copy quote

  Show source

• A carnival in daylight is an unfinished beast, anyway. Rain makes it a ghost. The wheezing music from the empty, motionless rides in a soggy, rained-out afternoon midway always hit my chest with a sweet ache. The colored dance of lights in the seeping air flashed the puddles in the sawdust with an oily glamour.

  Katherine Dunn

  Sweet, Rain, Light

  FaceBook post by Katherine Dunn from Oct 18, 2012

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Here's my answer to the very real existential crisis that grips me midway through everything I've ever tried to do: I think stories help us fight the nihilistic urges that constantly threaten to consume us.

  John Green

  Real, Writing, Fighting

  4 Copy quote

• The Cheney team had, for example, technological supremacy over the National Security Council staff. That is to say, they could read their e-mails. I remember one particular member of the N.S.C. staff wouldn't use e-mail because he knew they were reading it. He did a test case, kind of like the Midway battle, when we'd broken the Japanese code. He thought he'' broken the code, so he sent a test e-mail out that he knew would rile Scooter [Libby], and within an hour Scooter was in his office.

  Lawrence Wilkerson

  Team, Reading, Broken

  4 Copy quote

• We have no participation in Being, because all human nature is ever midway between being born and dying, giving off only a vague image and shadow of itself, and a weak and uncertain opinion. And if you chance to fix your thoughts on trying to grasp its essence, it would be neither more nor less than if your tried to clutch water.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Thinking, Thoughtful, Essence

  Michel de Montaigne (1946). “The essays”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• When you write, you can hide behind your words. When you talk, you are up front, like the clown in the midway booth; and passersby can bean you with a ball.

  Willard R. Espy

  Writing, Balls, Clown

  4 Copy quote

• How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, how complicate, how wonderful is man! Distinguished link in being's endless chain! Midway from nothing to the Deity! Dim miniature of greatness absolute! An heir of glory! A frail child of dust! Helpless immortal! Insect infinite! A worm! A God!

  Edward Young

  Children, Greatness, Men

  John Milton, Edward Young, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, William Collins (1836). “The Poetical Works of Milton, Young, Gray, Beattie, and Collins”

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Distinguisht Link in Being's endless Chain!
  Midway from Nothing to the Deity!

  Edward Young

  Science, Links, Deities

  Edward Young (1743). “The complaint, or, Night-thoughts on life, death, & immortality”, p.15

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  Graeme McDowell

  Wine, Golf, Thinking

  7 Copy quote