I don't want to push the envelope. Let the envelope stay in the middle of the table. I'll just make you laugh.
Some people can find peace in the middle of a hurricane; that’s the person I’m striving to be.
I think punk rock, especially for me, was a big middle finger to this whole talent thing.
There was a ton of fighting between my mother and father. The kids would be thrown into the middle, to choose sides.
The people of the Middle East share the desire for freedom. We have an opportunity - and an obligation - to help them turn this desire into reality.
I'm just a public-schoolboy. I've got a degree. I'm from a middle-class family in Devon. I've got no story.
There's no traditional three act structure - or beginning, middle and end - to a family tree. By its nature, it has almost infinite different branches, or episodes, to explore in every direction.
Man, I grew up like everybody else. Middle-low income family. My parents got divorced like most of the rest of the country.
Dad almost died of a heart attack in the middle of making Apocalypse Now, the biggest movie of his life. It doesn't make you want to jump into that business.
In fact, it works the other way: A government as big and bossy as this one is maintained on the backs of the middle class and those who hope to join it.
I've seen it with my own eyes: When government takes money from the poor and the middle class, everyone suffers.
We're facing a natural disaster in the middle of an economic disaster. The federal government has to balance its budget the way our families do.
I want to show another side of Middle Easterners. My hope is that I would be able to play a variety of parts, and not always be the guy with the accent.
My name is Zach Galifianakis and I hope I'm pronouncing that right. I'm named after my granddad, my middle name. My name is Zach Granddad Galifianakis.
You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.
Musicians and journalists are the canaries in the coalmine, but, eventually, as computers get more and more powerful, it will kill off all middle-class professions.
I'm a middle-aged dad, which means I have no social time or life to speak of, and so I connect with my buddies with my Xbox.
I began to be impressed by what made a good book-how you needed to have a sensible story, a plot that developed, with a beginning, a middle, and an end that would tie everything together.
Modern as the style of Pascal's writing is, his thought is deeply impregnated with the spirit of the Middle Ages. He belonged, almost equally, to the future and to the past.
My Plan A was to be a psychologist. I thought I would be a receptionist. I'm always middle of the road and very normal. I've always wanted a normal life, and this is what I got.
There's no conscious plan here; my whole life in politics as a state legislator and in Congress has been about strengthening the middle class.
