100+ Middle Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

source: "From musical to memoir, actor Anthony Rapp comes up with dramatic making-of 'Rent' story and moving personal one" by David Wiegand, www.sfgate.com. February 21, 2006.

topic: Middle, Capable

The only thing you find in the middle of the road are dead animals and dumb Americans.

- Anton Newcombe

topic: Animal, Dumb, Middle, Middle Of The Road

I decided as usual that justice lay in the middle - that is to say nowhere.

- Antonia Fraser

source: Antonia Fraser (1977). “Quiet as a Nun”

topic: Justice, Usual, Middle

No state will be well administered unless the middle class holds sway.

- Aristotle

topic: Class, States, Middle

horses: dangerous on both ends and crafty in the middle

- Arthur Conan Doyle

topic: Horse, Ends, Middle, Crafty

When I was young, I used to have successes with women because I was young. Now I have successes with women because I am old. Middle age was the hardest part.

- Arthur Rubinstein

topic: Marriage, Used, Middle

It's so hard to find the place somewhere in the middle of the best and worst I've felt.

- Ashly Lorenzana

topic: Middle, Worst

Patriotism. I'm uncomfortable with any word that starts with a pat, ends in an ism and has a riot in the middle.

- Ashok K. Banker

topic: Isms, Ends, Middle

I feel like a fraud... My name is not even actually Ashton. Ashton is my middle name.

- Ashton Kutcher

topic: Names, Middle, Fraud

In the beginning, there was house. In the end, there was house, and in the middle, there is Axwell

- Axwell

topic: House, Ends, Middle

I'm a warrior for the middle class.

- Barack Obama

topic: Warrior, Class, Middle

One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse.

- Barry Lopez

source: "In 'Sliver Of Sky,' Barry Lopez Confronts Childhood Sexual Abuse". 'Fresh Air' with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. January 10, 2013.

topic: Inspirational Life, Contradiction, Middle

Syria is geographically and politically in the middle of the Middle East.

- Bashar al-Assad

topic: Middle East, East, Middle

I trained as a theatre 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.

- Benicio Del Toro

topic: Theatre, Actors, Middle, Theatre Actors

Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you.

- Bennett Cerf

topic: Birthday, Age, Middle, Middle Ages, Classmates

In the middle 1940s... I heard everyone live. Painting, the theater; everything was happening. It was an exciting time when New York was the place to be.

- Bill Dixon

topic: New York, Painting, Middle

We are just a speck, on a speck, orbiting a speck, in the corner of a speck, in the middle of nowhere.

- Bill Nye

topic: Motivational, Middle, Specks, Middle Of Nowhere

Most dictators were short, fat, middle-aged and hairless. Besides Danny Devito, there's only me to play them.

- Bob Hoskins

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Play, Dictator, Middle, Middle Aged

There is absolutely no one, apart from yourself, who can prevent you, in the middle of the night, from sneaking down to tidy up the edges of that hunk of cheese at the back of the fridge.

- Boris Johnson

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Night, Cheese, Middle, Fridges, Sneaking Up

I've never progressed very far from my days as a smart aleck in middle school.

- Carl Hiaasen

topic: Smart, School, Middle, Middle School, Smart Aleck

From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

- Carl Jung

topic: Time, Alive, Middle, Ready To Die

One is either packed or unpacked. There is no middle ground.

- Caroline Stevermer

topic: Middle, Middle Ground

I was voted funniest person in my middle-school yearbook. So I guess I was funny in middle school?

- Cecily Strong

topic: School, Yearbook, Middle

from the beginning, through the middle years and up to the end: too bad, too bad, too bad.

- Charles Bukowski

topic: Years, Ends, Middle

Democrats don't relate to middle-class people.

- Charles Schumer

topic: Class, People, Middle

I never even went to high school because I went straight from middle school into the music business. I don't really know what it is supposed to be like.

- Cheyenne Kimball

source: Source: www.nbcnews.com

topic: School, Middle, Music Business

The thing that I like about public-access is that I am often in the middle of chaos

- Chris Gethard

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: Chaos, Middle

Some people say we're (Coldplay) talented and some say we're the worst thing ever to happen to music, and it's a bit confusing being in the middle of that.

- Chris Martin

topic: People, Confusing, Middle

The change we are in the middle of isn't minor and it isn't optional.

- Clay Shirky

topic: Middle, Minors, Optional

The middle course is the best.

- Cleobulus

topic: Inspirational, Brighten Your Day, Middle

Comfort came in with the middle classes.

- Clive Bell

topic: Class, Comfort, Middle, Middle Class

We're in the middle of the transformation of a society that has handled its politics through repression to a society that will handle its politics through democratic institutions.

- Condoleezza Rice

topic: Transformation, Middle, Institutions

Never put a foot down in the middle of a foot rub.

- Craig Benzine

topic: Feet, Middle

what has been termed 'correct' English is nothing other than the blatant legitimation of the white middle-class code.

- Dale Spender

topic: Class, White, Middle

None of us are really dumb and none of us are really smart. We're in the middle.

- Daniel Johns

topic: Smart, Dumb, Middle, Really Dumb

Younger players in this music often turn out to be middle aged; it is not a young music.

- Derek Bailey

topic: Player, Middle, Young

I get involved in the beginning, less in the middle, and very much at the end.

- Diane Sawyer

topic: Ends, Middle, Get Involved

I kept having chills. This was in the middle of the summer and I was wearing a sheepskin jacket and I was chilling. I was shaking all over.

- Dick York

topic: Summer, Chill, Middle

God, middle age is an unending insult.

- Dorothea Benton Frank

topic: Age, Insult, Middle

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

- Dorothy Canfield Fisher

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Nice, Age, Middle, 40th Birthday, Middle Ages

Doc has been my name all my life, and John is my middle name. I'm proud of all my names - Malcolm John Michael Creaux Rebennack. I'm proud of them names.

- Dr. John

topic: Names, Proud, Middle

The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

topic: Gutters, Middle, Surface

I've been entrepreneurial since middle school. I was always arranging bake sales, dances and school trips to raise money for the Dalton School.

- Dylan Lauren

topic: School, Entrepreneurial, Middle, Bake Sale

I know everything about candy. Would you believe I even know where to find gumballs in the middle of Africa?

- Dylan Lauren

topic: Believe, Gumballs, Middle

The middle age of buggers is not to be contemplated without horror.

- E. M. Forster

topic: Age, Horror, Middle

Danger could be my middle name... But it's John.

- Eddie Izzard

topic: Names, Danger, Middle

After a bad opening, there is hope for the middle game. After a bad middle game, there is hope for the endgame. But once you are in the endgame, the moment of truth has arrived

- Edmar Mednis

topic: Games, Moments, Middle, Chess Game, Endgame

A middle class is so important to a society that its value cannot be overestimated.

- Eliot Engel

topic: Class, Important, Middle

I love the finality of film. When you make a movie, you know the beginning, middle, and end.

- Elizabeth Banks

source: "Q&A: Elizabeth Banks Is Every Woman You Know". Interview with Stephen Garrett, www.esquire.com. August 23, 2011.

topic: Film, Ends, Middle

Please. If you were mostly dead in the middle of the road I'd obviously stop. And then I'd watch you die." Kate to Will

- Elizabeth Scott

topic: Watches, Middle, Please

When you live alone, you can be sure that the person who squeezed the toothpaste tube in the middle wasn't committing a hostile act.

- Ellen Goodman

topic: Toothpaste, Middle, Persons

If you want to be safe, walk in the middle of the street.

- Emilie Autumn

topic: Safe, Want, Middle

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.

- Eoin Colfer

source: Eoin Colfer (2008). “Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony”, Miramax

topic: Lasts, Firsts, Middle

One of the things I most wanted to do in New York was to go to a performance by Martha Graham. For me, she's Miss Mattie T. Graham. I thought she needed something in the middle. If she's going to be an honorary Southerner, she's got to have something in the middle, so I just put an initial T and a period.

- Eugene Walter

topic: New York, Missing, Middle, Most Wanted, Southerner

You can't spell believe without a lie in the middle

- Fabolous

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Lying, Believe, Middle

Everything is about class in England, whether it's upper, lower or middle. Why should that be?

- Francesca Annis

topic: Class, England, Middle

The controversies between the proletariat and the middle class had to be smoothed out and bridged over by each getting to know and understand the other.

- Fritz Sauckel

topic: Class, Middle, Proletariat

Business friendly is the middle ground between being too cold and uncaring and the other extreme of being too familiar

- Garrison Wynn

topic: Friendly, Cold, Middle, Middle Ground, Uncaring

Arguments are often like melodramas - they have a predictable beginning, middle, and end.

- Gay Hendricks

topic: Argument, Ends, Middle, Melodrama

Let's stop teaching to the middle and start teaching to the student.

- Geoffrey Canada

topic: Teaching, Students, Middle

Middle-class families know education begins at birth.

- Geoffrey Canada

topic: Class, Birth, Middle, Middle Class Family

To be on Coast to Coast, you have to be willing to stay awake in the middle of the night. But in return you get a great audience of millions of listeners all across the nation.

- George Noory

topic: Night, Return, Middle, Middle Of The Night

The tendency of advanced capitalism has been to enlarge the middle class and not to wipe it out, as it once seemed likely to do.

- George Orwell

topic: Class, Wipe, Middle

He who walks in the middle of the road gets hit from both sides.

- George P. Shultz

topic: Travel, Sides, Middle, Middle Of The Road

Some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end.

- Gilda Radner

topic: Stories, Ends, Middle

I never liked the name Eldred. Since nobody knew me in New York, I just changed to my middle name.

- Gregory Peck

topic: New York, Names, Middle

They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class.

- H. Rap Brown

topic: Class, Lower Class, Middle

Jim played - he had a great stretch in the middle of the round there, and Chad made that long putt on 16. Almost got that match. We ended up losing, but we almost won it, too.

- Hal Sutton

topic: Long, Losing, Middle, Chad

I don't see pitches down the middle anymore - not even in batting practice.

- Hank Aaron

topic: Practice, Middle, Batting Practice, American Baseball

I'm at my best in a messy, middle-of-the-road muddle.

- Harold Wilson

topic: Middle, Messy, Middle Of The Road, Muddle

It is one of the consolations of middle aged reformers that the good that they inculcate must live after them if it is to live at all.

- Hector Hugh Munro

source: Willard Van Orman Quine, Patricia Smith Churchland, Dagfinn Follesdal (2013). “Word and Object”, p.173, MIT Press

topic: Optimism, Pessimism, Middle

Get it - get it better or get it worse. No middle ground of compromise.

- Henry Ossawa Tanner

source: Henry Ossawa Tanner, Anna O. Marley (2012). “Henry Ossawa Tanner: Modern Spirit”, p.19, Univ of California Press

topic: Compromise, Middle, Middle Ground

It is better to burn the candle at both ends, and in the middle, too, than to put it away in the closet and let the mice eat it.

- Henry Van Dyke

topic: Ends, Middle, Closets

Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

- Hervey Allen

source: Hervey Allen (1933). “Anthony Adverse”

topic: Age, Five Senses, Middle, Middle Aged, 20th Birthday

He died in the middle of our conversation. How rude...

- Hiromu Arakawa

topic: Rude, Middle, Conversation

Capitalism has always been a failure for the lower classes. It is now beginning to fail for the middle classes.

- Howard Zinn

source: "A People's History of the United States". Book by Howard Zinn (Chapter 24), 1980.

topic: Class, Failing, Middle, Lower Class

Anyone can be an idealist. Anyone can be a cynic. The hard part lies somewhere in the middle.

- Hugh Jackman

topic: Lying, Middle, Cynic

There's an idea of the Plains as the middle of nowhere, something to be contemptuous of. But it's really a heroic place.

- Ian Frazier

topic: Ideas, Heroic, Middle, Contemptuous, Middle Of Nowhere

No money, no family, 16 in the middle of Miami.

- Iggy Azalea

source: Song: Work, Album: The New Classic, 2014

topic: Miami, Middle, No Money

The middle class is so funny, it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny.

- J. K. Rowling

topic: Funny, Class, Middle, Pretension

Great rationalizations. All of which her adrenal gland middle-fingered and then carried right on.

- J.R. Ward

topic: Adrenal Glands, Middle, Glands

You can't do anything for a person who is stuck between being happy and being miserable. All you can do is get trapped in the middle, and anyone in the middle just gets squished.' -Grandma

- Jack Gantos

source: Jack Gantos (2002). “What Would Joey Do?”, p.65, Macmillan

topic: Grandma, Miserable, Middle

All stories have a beginning, a middle and an ending, and if they're any good, the ending is a beginning.

- James Clavell

source: Interview with Don Swaim of CBS Radio, 1986.

topic: Stories, Middle

I was a black center in the middle of all the nature. I was nothing, but I could do anything.

- James Franco

topic: Black, Middle

The only requisite to entry into the Middle Passage is to have discovered that one does not know who one is, that there are no rescuers, no Mommy or Daddy, and that one's fellow travelers will do well to survive themselves.

- James Hollis

topic: Daddy, Doe, Middle, Middle Passage, Fellow Travelers

it is in middle age that the interest of a life attains its highest point.

- Janet Erskine Stuart

topic: Age, Middle, Interest, Middle Ages

How could I possibly keep my cool while getting sweaty with him? What if I screamed out something horrifying, like "I love you?" What if I had an epileptic attack and started drooling or spitting right in the middle of things?

- Jeaniene Frost

topic: Love You, What If, Middle, Drooling, Epileptics

We're sticky at the ends and the middle is getting squeezed

- Jeb Bush

topic: Ends, Middle, Sticky

She slid out from under his arm, and picked up his shirt from the floor. When she put it on, it failed to meet in the middle over her chest. that always worked in the movies, she thought, disgusted, and dropped it on the floor.

- Jennifer Crusie

topic: Arms, Shirts, Middle

When I was in middle school, some of my so-called friends found a catalogue ad I did for Superman pajamas. They made as many copies as they could and pasted them up all over school.

- Jensen Ackles

topic: School, Pajamas, Middle, Catalogues

This was truly guerilla filmmaking. We shot out in the middle of nowhere in a place called Delta Flats, where basically every day was some new minor catastrophe.

- Jeri Ryan

source: Interview with Chris Neumer, www.stumpedmagazine.com.

topic: New Day, Middle, Shots, Delta, Middle Of Nowhere

They have more ability in the middle of the field in terms of ability

- Jimmy Armfield

topic: Soccer, Fields, Middle

Never get in the middle of someone else's quicksand.

- JoAnn Ross

source: JoAnn Ross (2007). “No Safe Place”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

topic: Middle, Quicksand

What did John Ashcroft say about moderates, he said, quote, there are two things you find in the middle of the road, a moderate and a dead skunk and I don't want to be either,

- John Ashcroft

topic: Two, Want, Middle, Middle Of The Road

For some reason I seem to be a massive hit with middle-aged women. I seriously don't know what it is.

- John Barrowman

source: "John Barrowman interview: Sometimes fans send me knickers, but I never send mine back". www.mirror.co.uk. August 8, 2011.

topic: Reason, Middle, Middle Aged

Certain kinds of clichÃ©s are the narcotics of the middle class.

- John Clellon Holmes

topic: Class, Kind, Middle

Real Democrats don't abandon the middle class.

- John F. Kerry

topic: Real, Class, Middle

The rules of capitalization are so unfair to words in the middle of a sentence.

- John Green

topic: Hipster, Unfair, Middle, Margo Roth Spiegelman, Capitalization

And on the Tree of Life, The middle tree and highest there that grew, Sat like a cormorant.

- John Milton

topic: Life, Tree, Middle, Paradise Lost Book 2, Paradise Lost Book 9

The old middle-class prerogative of being permanently in a most filthy temper.

- John Mortimer

topic: Class, Luck, Middle, Filthy

We are in the middle of the most transforming technological event since the capture of fire.

- John Perry Barlow

source: "alt.fans" by Gregory Benford, reason.com. January 1996.

topic: Fire, Events, Middle

I can tell you I'm pretty middle-class.

- John Prescott

source: BBC Radio 4 "Today" interview, April 12, 1996.

topic: Class, Middle, Middle Class

Country music historically has been sort of middle-aged people's music.

- John Shelton Reed

topic: Country, People, Middle

The catcher is in the middle of everything. He sees it best.

- Johnny Bench

topic: Catchers, Middle

The beauty of what I read in the gospel is the intimacy of what we're called to, that there's no middle man.

- Jon Foreman

topic: Men, Intimacy, Middle

The secret was a hole in the middle of me that every happy thing fell into.

- Jonathan Safran Foer

topic: Secret, Holes, Middle, Happy Things

Virtue lies in the middle ground.

- Jose Rizal

topic: Lying, Virtue, Middle, Middle Ground

People will say, 'Seventy isn't old, it's middle-aged,' and I think, middle of what - 140?

- Judith Martin

topic: Thinking, People, Middle

As a precocious teen I dreamed of being Graham Greene. Well, as it turned out, I never wrote a great novel, sadly, and I never converted to Catholicism, happily, but I did do one thing he did. That is, in middle age I moved to a seaside town and got into a right barney with the local powers-that-be.

- Julie Burchill

topic: Age, Towns, Middle, Great Novels, Precocious

Hunger justifies the middle classes.

- Julien Torma

topic: Class, Hunger, Middle

Clutter is stuck energy. The word "clutter" derives from the Middle English word "clotter," which means to coagulate - and that's about as stuck as you can get.

- Karen Kingston

source: Karen Kingston (2016). “Clear Your Clutter with Feng Shui (Revised and Updated): Free Yourself from Physical, Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual Clutter Forever”, p.11, Harmony

topic: Mean, Energy, Middle, Middle English, English Words

The beginning of the end can feel a lot like the middle when you are living in it.

- Karen Russell

topic: Ends, Middle, Feels

Just once, I would like there to be something special about being the kid stuck in the middle.

- Karen Tayleur

topic: Kids, Special, Middle, Stuck In The Middle, Something Special

But since the middle of the century in particular, the music has become very irregular in rhythm.

- Karlheinz Stockhausen

topic: Century, Middle, Rhythm

Middle-aged women have greater stability, they are more loyal, and their capacity for steady work is greater than that of younger women.

- Kate Smith

topic: Loyal, Middle, Capacity, Middle Aged

I was a competitive swimmer in middle school and high school.

- Katharine McPhee

topic: School, Swimmer, Middle

I'm not always in that good with middle-aged heterosexual men.

- Kathy Griffin

topic: Men, Middle, Middle Aged

It's an interesting thing when you discover something about yourself. To go: 'Wow, I'm not the person I thought I was. I'm in the middle of something and I can't actually deal with it.'

- Keira Knightley

topic: Interesting, Wow, Middle

I'd rather have huge success and huge failures than travel in the middle of the road.

- Kevyn Aucoin

topic: Travel, Funny Travel, Middle, Middle Of The Road

If I'm walking very, very fast down Madison Avenue in the middle of the day, I'll say I'm stopped 10 times.

- Kristin Davis

topic: Middle, Madison, Madison Avenue

Honestly, I grew up in pretty modest circumstances. We were a middle-class family.

- Larry Gagosian

source: Interview with Peter M. Brant, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 27, 2012.

topic: Class, Grew Up, Middle, Middle Class Family

Middle age is when anything new in the way you feel is most likely a symptom.

- Laurence J. Peter

topic: Age, Way, Middle, Middle Ages

Middle age is when it takes longer to rest than to get tired.

- Laurence J. Peter

topic: Tired, Age, Middle

Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.

- Laurence J. Peter

topic: Age, Generations, Middle, Older Generation

In case of a thunderstorm, stand in the middle of the fairway and hold up a one iron. Not even God can hit a one iron.

- Lee Trevino

topic: Iron, Thunderstorm, Middle

If God did not intend the cat to live happily with humankind, why is there a meow in the middle of the word 'hoMEOWner'?

- Leonore Fleischer

source: Leonore Fleischer (1982). “The Cat's Pajamas”, Harpercollins

topic: Cat, Middle, Homeowners

I toured the Middle Eastern countries with the ballet.

- Leslie Caron

topic: Country, Ballet, Middle, Eastern

Like bookends, we have learned to support each other when the stuff in the middle pushes us apart.

- Liane Holliday Willey

source: Liane Holliday Willey (2014). “Pretending to be Normal: Living with Asperger's Syndrome (Autism Spectrum Disorder) Expanded Edition”, p.96, Jessica Kingsley Publishers

topic: Support, Stuff, Middle, Bookends

She holds up a finger. "I'm getting to it. Don't rush a girl in the middle of her exposition.

- Libba Bray

topic: Girl, Middle, Fingers

Fear comes with middle age.

- Lillian Hellman

topic: Age, Middle, Middle Ages

Rampant eclecticism is my middle name.

- Linda Ronstadt

topic: Names, Middle

I never liked the middle ground-the most boring place in the world.

- Louise Berliawsky Nevelson