Middle famous quotes

Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places.
-- A.C. Grayling

#Mind #Age #Middle

All TV is, is really: 'Don't you want to be this, aren't you glad you're not that.' There's nothing really in the middle.
-- Adam Carolla

#Want #Tvs #Middle

Either you're growing or you're decaying; there's no middle ground. If you're standing still, you're decaying.
-- Alan Arkin

#Growing #Middle #Standing Still

The point about a great story is that it's got a beginning, a middle and end.
-- Alan Rickman

#Stories #Ends #Middle

Although it was the middle of winter, I finally realized that, within me, summer was inextinguishable.
-- Albert Camus

#Summer #Winter #Middle

We are just not made up to be middle distance runners.
-- Alberto Juantorena

#Distance #Middle #Made

When you think small and up the middle, good things happen.
-- Alex Rodriguez

#Thinking #Good Things #Middle

Placed on this isthmus of a middle state.
-- Alexander Pope

#Life #States #Middle

Oh, I'm sorry," Chubs said, 'apparently the middle of my sentence interrupted the beginning of yours. Do continue.
-- Alexandra Bracken

#Sorry #Said #Middle

The Jews always complained, kvetching about false gods, and erected the biggest false God, Jehovah, in middle of western civilization.
-- Allen Ginsberg

#Civilization #Jehovah #Middle

Whenever my mother talks to me, she begins the conversation as if we were already in the middle of an argument.
-- Amy Tan

#Mother #Argument #Middle

You can (be a middle-aged comic) if you work very hard at it, because comedy is really hard.
-- Andrew Denton

#Comedy #Comic #Middle

Anyway, I collapsed in France in the middle of a tour. I hadn't been eating properly, I was getting very phobic about audiences, and I collapsed in pure fright.
-- Andy Partridge

#France #Eating #Middle

Life is not so much about beginnings and endings as it is about going on and on and on. It is about muddling through the middle.
-- Anna Quindlen

#Literature #Life Is #Middle

Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.
-- Anne Bradstreet

#Age #Youth #Middle

After a while the middle-aged person who lives in her head begins to talk to her soul, the kid.
-- Anne Lamott

#Kids #Soul #Middle

As if it were our very birthright, which we could not come to grasp the meaning of until this time of middle life when we looked on only as many years ahead as already lay behind us.
-- Anne Rice

#Years #Middle #Behinds

Everyone tells us you really don't know what you're capable of till you're in the middle of it.
-- Anthony Rapp

#Middle #Capable

The only thing you find in the middle of the road are dead animals and dumb Americans.
-- Anton Newcombe

#Animal #Dumb #Middle

I decided as usual that justice lay in the middle - that is to say nowhere.
-- Antonia Fraser

#Justice #Usual #Middle

No state will be well administered unless the middle class holds sway.
-- Aristotle

#Class #States #Middle

horses: dangerous on both ends and crafty in the middle
-- Arthur Conan Doyle

#Horse #Ends #Middle

When I was young, I used to have successes with women because I was young. Now I have successes with women because I am old. Middle age was the hardest part.
-- Arthur Rubinstein

#Marriage #Used #Middle

It's so hard to find the place somewhere in the middle of the best and worst I've felt.
-- Ashly Lorenzana

#Middle #Worst

Patriotism. I'm uncomfortable with any word that starts with a pat, ends in an ism and has a riot in the middle.
-- Ashok K. Banker

#Isms #Ends #Middle

I feel like a fraud... My name is not even actually Ashton. Ashton is my middle name.
-- Ashton Kutcher

#Names #Middle #Fraud

In the beginning, there was house. In the end, there was house, and in the middle, there is Axwell
-- Axwell

#House #Ends #Middle

I'm a warrior for the middle class.
-- Barack Obama

#Warrior #Class #Middle

One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse.
-- Barry Lopez

#Inspirational Life #Contradiction #Middle

Syria is geographically and politically in the middle of the Middle East.
-- Bashar al-Assad

#Middle East #East #Middle

I trained as a theatre actor and you had a bare stage and you had to pretend, one prop and you are in the middle of 8th Ave. and traffic is just going by.
-- Benicio Del Toro

#Theatre #Actors #Middle

Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you.
-- Bennett Cerf

#Birthday #Age #Middle

In the middle 1940s... I heard everyone live. Painting, the theater; everything was happening. It was an exciting time when New York was the place to be.
-- Bill Dixon

#New York #Painting #Middle

We are just a speck, on a speck, orbiting a speck, in the corner of a speck, in the middle of nowhere.
-- Bill Nye

#Motivational #Middle #Specks

Most dictators were short, fat, middle-aged and hairless. Besides Danny Devito, there's only me to play them.
-- Bob Hoskins

#Play #Dictator #Middle

There is absolutely no one, apart from yourself, who can prevent you, in the middle of the night, from sneaking down to tidy up the edges of that hunk of cheese at the back of the fridge.
-- Boris Johnson

#Night #Cheese #Middle

I've never progressed very far from my days as a smart aleck in middle school.
-- Carl Hiaasen

#Smart #School #Middle

From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.
-- Carl Jung

#Time #Alive #Middle

One is either packed or unpacked. There is no middle ground.
-- Caroline Stevermer

#Middle

I was voted funniest person in my middle-school yearbook. So I guess I was funny in middle school?
-- Cecily Strong

#School #Yearbook #Middle

from the beginning, through the middle years and up to the end: too bad, too bad, too bad.
-- Charles Bukowski

#Years #Ends #Middle

Democrats don't relate to middle-class people.
-- Charles Schumer

#Class #People #Middle

I never even went to high school because I went straight from middle school into the music business. I don't really know what it is supposed to be like.
-- Cheyenne Kimball

#School #Middle #Music Business

When you’re at the beginning, don’t obsess about the middle, because the middle is going to look different once you get there.
-- Chip Heath

#Different #Looks #Middle

The thing that I like about public-access is that I am often in the middle of chaos
-- Chris Gethard

#Chaos #Middle

Some people say we're (Coldplay) talented and some say we're the worst thing ever to happen to music, and it's a bit confusing being in the middle of that.
-- Chris Martin

#People #Confusing #Middle

The change we are in the middle of isn't minor and it isn't optional.
-- Clay Shirky

#Middle #Minors

The middle course is the best.
-- Cleobulus

#Inspirational #Brighten Your Day #Middle

Comfort came in with the middle classes.
-- Clive Bell

#Class #Comfort #Middle

We're in the middle of the transformation of a society that has handled its politics through repression to a society that will handle its politics through democratic institutions.
-- Condoleezza Rice

#Transformation #Middle #Institutions

Never put a foot down in the middle of a foot rub.
-- Craig Benzine

#Feet #Middle

what has been termed 'correct' English is nothing other than the blatant legitimation of the white middle-class code.
-- Dale Spender

#Class #White #Middle

None of us are really dumb and none of us are really smart. We're in the middle.
-- Daniel Johns

#Smart #Dumb #Middle

Younger players in this music often turn out to be middle aged; it is not a young music.
-- Derek Bailey

#Player #Middle #Young

I get involved in the beginning, less in the middle, and very much at the end.
-- Diane Sawyer

#Ends #Middle #Get Involved

I kept having chills. This was in the middle of the summer and I was wearing a sheepskin jacket and I was chilling. I was shaking all over.
-- Dick York

#Summer #Chill #Middle

God, middle age is an unending insult.
-- Dorothea Benton Frank

#Age #Insult #Middle

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.
-- Dorothy Canfield Fisher

#Nice #Age #Middle

Doc has been my name all my life, and John is my middle name. I'm proud of all my names - Malcolm John Michael Creaux Rebennack. I'm proud of them names.
-- Dr. John

#Names #Proud #Middle

The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower

#Gutters #Middle #Surface

I've been entrepreneurial since middle school. I was always arranging bake sales, dances and school trips to raise money for the Dalton School.
-- Dylan Lauren

#School #Entrepreneurial #Middle

I know everything about candy. Would you believe I even know where to find gumballs in the middle of Africa?
-- Dylan Lauren

#Believe #Gumballs #Middle

The middle age of buggers is not to be contemplated without horror.
-- E. M. Forster

#Age #Horror #Middle

Danger could be my middle name... But it's John.
-- Eddie Izzard

#Names #Danger #Middle

After a bad opening, there is hope for the middle game. After a bad middle game, there is hope for the endgame. But once you are in the endgame, the moment of truth has arrived
-- Edmar Mednis

#Games #Moments #Middle

A middle class is so important to a society that its value cannot be overestimated.
-- Eliot Engel

#Class #Important #Middle

I love the finality of film. When you make a movie, you know the beginning, middle, and end.
-- Elizabeth Banks

#Film #Ends #Middle

Please. If you were mostly dead in the middle of the road I'd obviously stop. And then I'd watch you die." Kate to Will
-- Elizabeth Scott

#Watches #Middle #Please

When you live alone, you can be sure that the person who squeezed the toothpaste tube in the middle wasn't committing a hostile act.
-- Ellen Goodman

#Toothpaste #Middle #Persons

If you want to be safe, walk in the middle of the street.
-- Emilie Autumn

#Safe #Want #Middle

Well, I don't like the first bit and I don't know the last bit. So I'm really hoping the middle bit is exceptional.
-- Eoin Colfer

#Lasts #Firsts #Middle

One of the things I most wanted to do in New York was to go to a performance by Martha Graham. For me, she's Miss Mattie T. Graham. I thought she needed something in the middle. If she's going to be an honorary Southerner, she's got to have something in the middle, so I just put an initial T and a period.
-- Eugene Walter

#New York #Missing #Middle

You can't spell believe without a lie in the middle
-- Fabolous

#Lying #Believe #Middle

Everything is about class in England, whether it's upper, lower or middle. Why should that be?
-- Francesca Annis

#Class #England #Middle

The controversies between the proletariat and the middle class had to be smoothed out and bridged over by each getting to know and understand the other.
-- Fritz Sauckel

#Class #Middle #Proletariat

Business friendly is the middle ground between being too cold and uncaring and the other extreme of being too familiar
-- Garrison Wynn

#Friendly #Cold #Middle

Arguments are often like melodramas - they have a predictable beginning, middle, and end.
-- Gay Hendricks

#Argument #Ends #Middle

Let's stop teaching to the middle and start teaching to the student.
-- Geoffrey Canada

#Teaching #Students #Middle

Middle-class families know education begins at birth.
-- Geoffrey Canada

#Class #Birth #Middle

To be on Coast to Coast, you have to be willing to stay awake in the middle of the night. But in return you get a great audience of millions of listeners all across the nation.
-- George Noory

#Night #Return #Middle

The tendency of advanced capitalism has been to enlarge the middle class and not to wipe it out, as it once seemed likely to do.
-- George Orwell

#Class #Wipe #Middle

He who walks in the middle of the road gets hit from both sides.
-- George P. Shultz

#Travel #Sides #Middle

Some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end.
-- Gilda Radner

#Stories #Ends #Middle

I never liked the name Eldred. Since nobody knew me in New York, I just changed to my middle name.
-- Gregory Peck

#New York #Names #Middle

They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class.
-- H. Rap Brown

#Class #Lower Class #Middle

Jim played - he had a great stretch in the middle of the round there, and Chad made that long putt on 16. Almost got that match. We ended up losing, but we almost won it, too.
-- Hal Sutton

#Long #Losing #Middle

I don't see pitches down the middle anymore - not even in batting practice.
-- Hank Aaron

#Practice #Middle

I'm at my best in a messy, middle-of-the-road muddle.
-- Harold Wilson

#Middle #Messy

It is one of the consolations of middle aged reformers that the good that they inculcate must live after them if it is to live at all.
-- Hector Hugh Munro

#Optimism #Pessimism #Middle

Get it - get it better or get it worse. No middle ground of compromise.
-- Henry Ossawa Tanner

#Compromise #Middle

It is better to burn the candle at both ends, and in the middle, too, than to put it away in the closet and let the mice eat it.
-- Henry Van Dyke

#Ends #Middle #Closets

Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.
-- Hervey Allen

#Age #Five Senses #Middle

He died in the middle of our conversation. How rude...
-- Hiromu Arakawa

#Rude #Middle #Conversation

Capitalism has always been a failure for the lower classes. It is now beginning to fail for the middle classes.
-- Howard Zinn

#Class #Failing #Middle

Anyone can be an idealist. Anyone can be a cynic. The hard part lies somewhere in the middle.
-- Hugh Jackman

#Lying #Middle #Cynic

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 #Heroic #Middle

No money, no family, 16 in the middle of Miami.
-- Iggy Azalea

#Miami #Middle #No Money

The middle class is so funny, it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny.
-- J. K. Rowling

#Funny #Class #Middle

Great rationalizations. All of which her adrenal gland middle-fingered and then carried right on.
-- J.R. Ward

#Adrenal Glands #Middle #Glands

You can't do anything for a person who is stuck between being happy and being miserable. All you can do is get trapped in the middle, and anyone in the middle just gets squished.' -Grandma
-- Jack Gantos

#Grandma #Miserable #Middle