It is the tendency of the social burdens to crush out the middle class, and to force society into an organization of only two classes, one at each social extreme.
I really love the process, with stage, of rehearsal, you get to create a character, and you have a beginning, a middle, and an end of story. And in television, you don't.
Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.
I hate most of what constitutes rock music, which is basically middle-aged crap.
Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
My mom wouldn't let me buy clothes she didn't like, so I dressed like a middle-aged woman in high school.
What took time for my mom was getting the pronouns right and calling me by a different name. Laverne was my middle name before I transitioned.
We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run down.
Oh, honey, I'm from Oklahoma! This is who I am - middle-class all the way!
The expected vertical line of Ikiru's narrative breaks when Kurosawa does a flash-forward in the middle of the film.
Equanimity is the hallmark of spirituality. It is neither chasing nor avoiding but just being in the middle.
It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.
Don't scale your perfection in the middle sometimes your last card decides the winner.
Walking with Jesus is many times like walking in the eye of the storm--inner peace in the middle of chaos.
Nothing ever stays in the middle. You always go from one extreme to the other, and politics is certainly that way.
In my work in Haiti, I've seen the hugely positive effects that happen when people come together to build something in the middle of the most desperate situations.
We are in the middle of the biggest revolution in reading and writing since the advent of the Gutenberg press.
If we told every story from the middle, we would never appreciate happy endings.
People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
Actually, I was born Adam Zachary Orth. Zak is short for my middle name. I was never called Adam.
You can (be a middle-aged comic) if you work very hard at it, because comedy is really hard.