Coming from New Zealand, all the music I listen to is not made by New Zealanders. People never come to New Zealand to play a show because it's in the middle of nowhere.
In China, you've got six people buying for one child. But the thing is, you've got the largest rising upper-middle class in the world.
A good plot should have a strong middle and a spectacular end. But under no circumstances should it have a beginning.
Many of the greatest books are like a forest. “The best way to get to know them is to wander right into the middle and get lost.
There are very few record companies who will entertain a middle-aged woman coming to them with original material.
I'm actually half Brit and half American. I have a British father and an American mother, but as far as I'm aware, no Middle Eastern blood.
I like the way you secretly send me a direct message when we're in the middle of a conversation.
I'm from the middle of nowhere in Somerset, and if I have too much stimulus or chaos, then I tend to not be as creative.
Because we believe that you got to build the economy from middle out and not from the top down.
Set politics and party aside: If it's not right for Michigan's small businesses and middle class, it's never been right with me.
Life is like a song; there's a chorus you always come back to with a thrilling solo somewhere in the middle.
Now students all seem to be converging on the same self, the successful upper-middle-class professional, impersonating the adult they've already decided they want to become.
There is this notion that the lives of the comfortable-off middle class don't merit being treated seriously and with compassion.
I often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle, so I can work between the two.
A psychologist once told me that for a boy being in the middle of a conflict between two women is the worst possible situation. There's always a desire to please each one.
Middle-aged women have greater stability, they are more loyal, and their capacity for steady work is greater than that of younger women.
I'm tired. I'm tired of feeling rejected by the American people. I'm tired of waking up in the middle of the night worrying about the war.
For a billion years the patient earth amassed documents and inscribed them with signs and pictures which lay unnoticed and unused. Today, at last, they are waking up, because man has come to rouse them. Stones have begun to speak, because an ear is t...
On our earth we can only love sincerely with suffering and through suffering. We do not know how to love any other way and know no other love. I want to suffer so that I can love. I desire, I thirst in this moment to kiss, weeping tears, that very ea...
The struggle is lost. I believe we have to live, as long as we live, in the expectation and hope of changing the world for the better. That may sound naive. It may even sound sentimental. Never mind: I believe it. What are we to live for, except life...
I heard the water-fall rejoice Singing like a choir, I saw the sun flash out of it Azure and amber fire. The earth was like an open flower Enamelled and arrayed, The path I took to find its heart Fluttered with sun and shade. And while earth lured me...
