Of every ten who tread the Middle Way to Knowledge there are nine who turn aside through avarice, though not all avarice is born of belly-hunger or the greed for gold. Some seek preeminence, such eminence as they have won corroded by insane pride. So...
Simon blinked himself awake, confused, for a moment, why he was in a dungeon that smelled of dung rather than his Brooklyn bedroom - then, once he got his bearings, confused all over again about why he was being awoken in the middle of the night by a...
One day, an unusually exciting event interrupted the rhythm of our regular middle-class teenage lives. A Russian woman, the mother of a girl in our class, was run over by a New York City bound train right in the center of town. Our classmate left sch...
THE PLAQUE read HARVEY GOULD, P I. It was the middle of the day, but the blinds were closed. Inside a desktop sat flanked by three non-matching chairs, a creased, leather sofa and a bookcase full of fiction. A middle-aged man lay back with a pair of ...
Oh, here we are at the bridge. I'm going to shut my eyes tight. I'm always afraid going over bridges. I can't help imagining that perhaps, just as we get to the middle, they'll crumple up like a jackknife and nip us. So I shut my eyes. But I always h...
I guess, as a conductor, one goes in and out of fashion. Your career starts with a bang, everyone thinks you're wonderful, and then with middle age, something happens and you go into the wilderness.
Progressive policies implemented since the early 1900s launched America into the modern age and created a vibrant middle class.
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
The thing about women playing boys is that we're not going to age, and we're not going to go through puberty in the middle of a long-running series.
I want to stand on a platform in the middle of Times Square and shout, 'You do not have to battle your Crohn's disease alone.'
Directing is a really kind of amazing thing, because you're helping others and, in the middle of that, you have to worry about yourself.
...don't be afraid to fall. Your wings will catch you.
I was just stock in the middle, vague and undefined.
It was only in the middle—between the immense and the minute—that sadness seemed to exist.
My name is Awesome Amazing. My middle name is Lee.
Public and employer opinion often defeat society's best interests with a prejudice against middle-aged women.
Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.
I dress up as a middle-aged prostitute and do a game show.
Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
Most people perceive moderates as timid middle-of-the-roaders who can't take a stand.
I would rather wake up in the middle of nowhere than in any city on earth.
