Middle Quotes - Page 29

• There's an idea of the Plains as the middle of nowhere, something to be contemptuous of. But it's really a heroic place.

  Ian Frazier

  Ideas, Middle Of Nowhere, Heroic

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• Young love is so ridiculous, as is middle-aged and old love. And it's also hilarious. When have you ever felt so vulnerable and wonderful and terrible at the same time?

  Grace Helbig

  Love Is, Young Love, Ridiculous

  Grace Helbig (2014). “Grace's Guide: The Art of Pretending to Be a Grown-up”, p.123, Simon and Schuster

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• I grew up sort of middle class, safe and suburban.

  Colum McCann

  Class, Safe, Grew Up

  "Colum McCann Links Communities With Storytelling". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. June 26, 2012.

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• The most improbable tales can be made believable, if your reader, through his sense, feels certain that he stands at the middle of events.

  Ray Bradbury

  Events, Certain, Made

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• When I see three balls, I just swing at the middle one.

  Hack Wilson

  Swings, Three, Balls

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• It's not easy to see things from the middle, rather than looking down on them from above or up at them from below, or from left to right or right to left: try it, you'll see that everything changes.

  Gilles Deleuze

  Trying, Things Change, Easy

  Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari (2004). “EPZ Thousand Plateaus”, p.25, A&C Black

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• When I was growing up, I always felt there was an expectation that I would do one of two things: be great at something, or go crazy and become a total failure. There is no middle ground where I come from, and I am only now beginning to get a sense that there is a middle ground at all.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Growing Up, Crazy, Two

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• When I was 11 or 12, I was really bored with everything on my summer reading list. It was all happy, middle-grade kinds of books. I was getting frustrated, because I liked to read. My mother went to the library and got me a copy of 'The Other Side of Midnight' by Sidney Sheldon. It was my first adult book.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Summer, Mother, Book

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• The privilege of a middle-class, stable, bourgeois life is that you can pretend that you are not complicated and project yourself as a solid, uncomplicated person, with refined life goals and achievements.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Class, Goal, Achievement

  "Aleksandar Hemon: A personal history of Sarajevo". Interview with John Freeman, www.theguardian.com. February 23, 2013.

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• ...in your living room, you're scared shitless. And that's just where the power structure wants you. In the middle of a riot, I've never found anybody who's chickenshit. The way to eliminate fear is to do what you're most afraid of.

  Jerry Rubin

  Want, Way, Rooms

  Jerry Rubin (1970). “Do it; scenarios of the revolution”, Touchstone

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• The middle class has just fallen further and further behind the rich.

  William Julius Wilson

  Class, Rich, Fallen

  "William Julius Wilson: Ending Poverty Is Possible". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. September 13, 2012.

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• I was kicked out of middle school a few times. This guy who was kind of a d*** and a bully got hit by a car. I jumped up and went, YEAH Apparently that wasnt cool with some people cause I got kicked out.

  Tom DeLonge

  School, Car, People

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• Since at least the Middle Ages, philosophers and philologists have dreamed of curing natural languages of their flaws by constructing entirely new idioms according to orderly, logical principles.

  Joshua Foer

  Age, Principles, Philosopher

  «Utopian for Beginners» by Joshua Foer, www.newyorker.com. December 24 & 31, 2012.

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• Any middle-aged woman knows that our feet are not for the faint of heart, especially in midwinter. I wear clogs, so it's actually like my feet are wooden now.

  Lisa Scottoline

  Heart, Feet, Midwinter

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• Because of my New Line upbringing, half my heart goes to scrappy independents, and half goes to mainstream, down-the-middle pop culture events. And even with those, to try to keep something fresh and original with them and try to do things that the majors miss.

  Michael De Luca

  Heart, Missing, Trying

  "Producer Michael De Luca Says His Heart Is With the Scrappy Independents". Interview with Scott Timberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 15, 2011.

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• Our approach to education has remained largely unchanged since the Renaissance: From middle school through college, most teaching is done by an instructor lecturing to a room full of students, only some of them paying attention.

  Daphne Koller

  Teaching, School, College

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• The young person isn't certain that love can be real; the middle-aged man is only discovering that it is; and the older person seems so sure of it. I was interested in the way that many of us go through the whole of our lives staying with someone just out of complacency, because leaving isn't easy.

  Conor McPherson

  Real, Men, Leaving

  "So there's these three Irishmen". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. February 4, 2001.

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• Im the middle man. I try to keep people happy. I go out of my way to get a smile. Thats the way my mother raised me.

  Donald Dunn

  Mother, Men, People

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• Most American Jews came from the lower middle classes, and therefore they brought with them not a lot of Jewish culture. The American Jewish story starts with Ellis Island, and the candy store in the Bronx.

  Arthur Hertzberg

  Islands, Class, Culture

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• The Egyptians had the locusts and in the Middle Ages there was the Black Death with the rats, but tourists are the plague of our century and we'll not survive this one.

  Richard Conniff

  Black, Age, Tourists

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• I do not see the E.E.C. [European Economic Community] as a great love affair. It's more like nine middle aged couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope.

  Kenneth Tynan

  Travel, Couple, Home

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• A brisk, bright, blue-eyed fellow, a very neat figure and rather under the middle size, never out of the way and never in it.

  Charles Dickens

  Character, Blue, Interesting

  Charles Dickens (1868). “Christmas Stories from "Household Words" and "All the Year Round"”, p.120

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• Most people perceive moderates as timid, middle-of-the-roaders, who can't take a stand.

  Rick Bayan

  People, Perceive, Moderates

  "The Sweep: Vikings, voters and the charge of the Militant Middle" by Tom Foreman, www.cnn.com. September 29, 2010.

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• In a story, you have to have a theme and an angle, you have to have a beginning, middle and an end. You have to have a defining moment and kick it to death. You gotta be able to recognize that, by the way. It probably takes experience.

  Dan Jenkins

  Stories, Able, Way

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• It is almost impossible to overemphasize the importance with which ancestry is held in the Middle East and North Africa.

  Tahir Shah

  Ancestry, Middle East, Impossible

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