At the beginning of the cask and the end take thy fill but be saving in the middle; for at the bottom the savings comes too late.
There's an idea of the Plains as the middle of nowhere, something to be contemptuous of. But it's really a heroic place.
All bad things are exaggerated in the middle of the night. When you lie awake, you only think of bad things.
Democracy is the menopause of Western society, the Grand Climacteric of the body social. Fascism is its middle-aged lust.
I have been to Graceland a hundred times. Every kid in middle Tennessee has this night where it hits midnight, and they are like, 'Let's go to Graceland!' It's a rite of passage. I did it.
I think that, given a real choice, people would like to hear something interesting, not something bland and right down the middle.
We took dancehall and hip-hop and mixed it in the middle. I knew we had something. I thought, 'This sound is Puerto Rican sound.'
It's true that when you read YA you rarely have to read about middle-aged men having affairs. Personally I consider that a plus.
I remember thinking, in Kansas my name will be Evett - which is my middle name. I didn't want to explain to anyone how to say Em-a-yat-zee.
A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech.
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.
The vast majority of Americans, at all coordinates of the economic spectrum, consider themselves middle class; this is a deeply ingrained, distinctly American cognitive dissonance.
With shorter clubs, your ball position should be just back of middle, to really promote hitting the ball first on a downward strike.
In middle school, I was boy crazy and it was the worst! I would always lose, too. I was more into the competition than the boy by the end of it! I just wanted to win!
By 2035, there will be almost no poor countries left in the world. Almost all countries will be what we now call lower-middle income or richer.
Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.
The Fed has got to become a more democratic institution that is responsive to the needs of the middle class, not just Wall Street CEOs.
My position has been consistent that middle class families should not pay more taxes. That hasn't changed.
I trained as a theater 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.
When you have both parties who will not find ways to compromise, who won't meet in the middle, you have paralysis. It's the perversion of idealism.
I'm not politically motivated. I used to be - passionately. I used to be very Left wing. Then I went very Right wing, and now I rest somewhere in the middle.
