Middle Quotes - Page 10

The French painter Rousseau was once asked why he put a naked woman on a red sofa in the middle of his jungle pictures. He answered, 'I needed a bit of red there.'

We set out to save the Shire, Sam and it has been saved - but not for me.

Souls have complexions too: what will suit one will not suit another

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

So they caught Gadhafi in a storm sewer and shot him. Or as they call it in the Middle East, an orderly transfer of power.

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

I found that whatever interested me in life, I could pretty much pick up the phone, call somebody, and all of a sudden be in the middle of it.

This is the Middle East, where every week you have something new; so whatever you talk about this week will not be valuable next week.

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

The whole point of anti-Semitism has been to create a vulnerable buffer group that can be bribed with some privileges into managing the exploitation of others, and then, when social pressure builds, be blamed and scapegoated, distracting those at the bottom from the crimes of those at the top. Peasants who go on pogrom against their Jewish neighbors won't make it to the nobleman's palace to burn him out and seize the fields. This was the role of Jews in Europe. This has been the role of Jews in the United States, and this is the role of Jews in the Middle East.

I love shopping, but I can find something to buy wherever I go! London is great for shopping, as is Los Angeles and New York - but I can find a good shop in the middle of nowhere!

After a while the middle-aged person who lives in her head begins to talk to her soul, the kid.

The point about a great story is that it's got a beginning, a middle and end.

One of my biggest personal holdings is Rotana. That company has a very dominant force in the Middle East. It has around 45% of all the movie industry and around 75% of all the music.

I was a very awkward high schooler, especially in early high school. I had the middle part with a swoop, all that. It was the late ’90s!

Froth at the top, dregs at bottom, but the middle excellent.

I've been promoted to middle management. I never thought I'd sink so low.

District 12. Where you can starve to death in safety," I mutter. Then I glance quickly over my shoulder. Even here, in the middle of nowhere, you worry someone might overhear you.

Realise when you are 'middle aged' you have a chance for a whole second career, another love, another life.

Unfortunately, at present, practically no one under thirty goes to workshops. It's a system of education entirely for the middle aged.

Ends and beginnings—there are no such things. There are only middles.

There is no question that al-Qaida operatives are currently active in Iraq. A premature exit before the threat they represent has been dealt with would endanger America and the prospects of eventual peace in the Middle East.

Today's global landscape is increasingly interconnected. China and the Middle East play critical roles towards international peace and security.

Once you get into this great stream of history you can't get out. You can drown. Or you can be pulled ashore by the tide. But it is awfully hard to get out when you are in the middle of the stream -- if it is intended that you stay there.

If you find yourself stuck in the middle there is only one way to go, forward.