The thing should have plot and character, beginning, middle and end. Arouse pity and then have a catharsis. Those were the best principles I was ever taught.
I like tuna when there's a definite streak of deep pink in the middle, medium rare so to speak, and it comes out best when it's not cut too thick.
Whoever rises to deliver the inaugural Address of 2013 will speak to a nation in which the American Dream is under profound economic and cultural pressure. This is perhaps best measured by the state of the middle class.
We always had chocolates and my mother was careful to make sure they were unwrapped in advance so the paper wouldn't rustle in the middle of a performance.
I favor the extension of the middle-class tax cuts because in a recession they're stimulative and they help with demand.
It's almost a rite of passage for the middle-aged, it seems, to invent generational stereotypes for dumping on the young.
The rich are those who play to win. The middle class plays not to lose.
You can only choose between rich and poor. The middle class is gone.
I slept just floating in the middle of the flight deck, the upper deck of the space shuttle.
The library helps lower- and middle-income people - immigrants - get their shot at the American dream.
People have forgotten how to tell a story. Stories don't have a middle or an end any more. They usually have a beginning that never stops beginning.
Because of the need to remove all modernism, we stayed in the middle of nowhere all day long, living out of tents. It was cold. It definitely set the scene.
When I'm not at the keyboard, I'm generally reading, practicing tai chi or middle eastern dance, or cooking.
Anyone who's a parent dreads that call in the middle of the night. I have four grown children and I still dread it.
Having a decent share of the national wealth for the middle class is not bad for growth. It is actually useful both for equity and efficiency reasons.
Sometimes we would be staked out in the middle of the river, several barges tied together. So we could party.
A novel with a bad middle is a bad book. A bad ending is something I've just gotten in the habit of forgiving.
A middle finger is more New York than a corporate ambush. I bleed for my hometown, and I'd die for my fans.
With a modem, anyone can follow the world and report on the world-no middle man, no big brother. I guess this changes everything.
When your parents are Middle Eastern immigrants, you have three choices. You can become a doctor, a lawyer or an engineer.
A smaller government reflecting the needs of the middle class and poor is superior to a big government reflecting the needs of the privileged and powerful.
