#middle

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. ↗

— Penelope Keith

#always #careful #chocolates #had #make

By 2010, Africa could be providing the United States with as many oil imports as the Middle East. ↗

— Anthony Lake

#could #east #imports #many #middle

Even as we pour hundreds of billions of dollars into our efforts in the Middle East, there is much that needs to be done to win the war of ideas in the Muslim world and beyond. ↗

— Herb Kohl

#billions #dollars #done #east #efforts

When we're young, everyone over the age of thirty looks middle-aged, everyone over fifty antique. And time, as it goes by, confirms that we weren't that wrong. Those little age differentials, so crucial and so gross when we are young erode. We end up all belonging to the same category, that of the non-young. I've never much minded this myself. ↗

— Julian Barnes

#middle-age #age

The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century. ↗

— Sinclair Lewis

#barbarian #century #class #middle #middle class

Now, I do come from a part of the country where the people say that the only thing in the middle of the road is a yellow line or roadkill. ↗

— Blanche Lincoln

#country #i #i do #line #middle

A well-rounded performer will listen to all kinds of music. I like classical, Middle Eastern, and rock a lot. ↗

— Patti LuPone

#eastern #i #kinds #like #listen

I was quite moved to see this huge crowd which attended the ceremony in the middle of the town. ↗

— Hermann Maier

#ceremony #crowd #huge #i #middle

Losing streaks are funny. If you lose at the beginning you got off to a bad start. If you lose in the middle of the season, you're in a slump. If you lose at the end, you're choking. ↗

— Gene Mauch

#beginning #choking #end #funny #got

Even when I begin with a situation that's basically funny or sad, I like to keep poking around in it. I like to get into the middle of a relationship, to explore the subtle places. ↗

— Paul Mazursky

#basically #begin #even #explore #funny