#mid

The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement ensures that we lack the means or the will to enforce significant change. ↗

— J. G. Ballard

#age #change #chief #early #enforce

My biggest kick comes from the individual fans I run into. Middle-aged men ask me when we're going to do more Johnny Quest cartoons. ↗

— Joseph Barbera

#biggest #cartoons #comes #fans #going

Jewish intellectuals contributed a great deal to insure that Europe became a continent of humanism, and it is with these humanist ideals that Europe must now intervene in the Middle East conflict. ↗

— Daniel Barenboim

#conflict #continent #contributed #deal #east

There are many types of silence. There is a silence before the note, there is a silence at the end and there is a silence in the middle. ↗

— Daniel Barenboim

#end #many #middle #note #silence

But my middle daughter, Kate, is very involved in martial arts, and I was just at one of her competitions. ↗

— Meredith Baxter

#competitions #daughter #her #i #involved

All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead. ↗

— Samuel Beckett

#dead #end #handsome #i #know

Iran is central to our foreign policy in the Middle East, a major player in global energy markets, and a key country in terms of our interaction with the Muslim world. ↗

— Howard Berman

#country #east #energy #foreign #foreign policy

Comfort came in with the middle classes. ↗

— Clive Bell

#classes #comfort #middle

Self-acceptance has been a blessed by-product of middle age. ↗

— Candice Bergen

#been #blessed #by-product #middle #middle age

We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run down. ↗

— Aneurin Bevan

#get #happens #know #middle #people