All Quotes

Middle-aged women on telly is a bit of a hot topic - before, we were 27 to 37, and now we're 40 to 50. You do notice as you get older... you go past 35, and suddenly you're playing baddies.
‐‐ Sally Phillips

Middle America believes in fair play, an equal opportunity to succeed or to fail.
‐‐ Mark McKinnon

Middle and high school is a time of people telling you who you are before you know who you are. I was in advanced classes at Frick and Schenley, and people would say I was trying to be white because of the way I spoke. Or they'd say I was gay.
‐‐ Kyle Abraham

Middle class families are struggling to send their sons and daughters to school. For many Americans, a college education is essential to future success.
‐‐ Albio Sires

Middle-class families know education begins at birth.
‐‐ Geoffrey Canada

Middle class families should not be forced to scrape by with less while oil companies get away with more.
‐‐ Keith Ellison

Middle class jobs prevent crime and violence.
‐‐ Michael Moore

Middle-class mothers and fathers turned out to be a very well-defined consumer group, easily gulled into buying almost anything that might remedy their parental deficiencies.
‐‐ Jill Lepore

Middle-class Pakistani cultural life is what I've seen, what I know - they're not all screaming faceless mullahs. It's disturbing that in American films, the character on the other side is not even named.
‐‐ Mira Nair

Middle-class people are becoming desperate. It can cause a moral man to break bad.
‐‐ Giancarlo Esposito

Middle class people, I think they realize that Romney is not for them because of his narrowness, but they want to make sure that Barack Obama is focused on them with things that will make a difference. They know he tried, but they also know that it didn't do as well as they would have liked.
‐‐ Chuck Schumer

'Middle class' used to be synonymous with secure, with steady, with boring, because middle-class people were people who were pretty much safe from the time they first started work on through retirement and until their deaths. No longer.
‐‐ Elizabeth Warren

Middle-earth is a universe I know very well.
‐‐ Andy Serkis

Middle Eastern cuisine has the same depth of ingredients and processes as other cuisines. They just haven't had as much exposure.
‐‐ Yotam Ottolenghi

Middle Eastern wars rarely end with outright victory and permanent stability, so the word 'settlement' may promise too much. At best, for many years, it may simply mean stable ceasefire lines, reduced bloodshed, fewer refugees, and less terrorism.
‐‐ David Ignatius

Middle English is an exciting field - almost uncharted, I begin to think, because as soon as one turns detailed personal attention on to any little corner of it, the received notions and ideas seem to crumple up and fall to pieces - as far as language goes, at any rate.
‐‐ J. R. R. Tolkien

Middle grade fiction, to me, is really about emergence of self. It's about expressing the idea that the world is going to start affecting you more, and your parents' influence is going to wane. Middle grade is when a lot of kids discover their passions - art, music, sports, what have you.
‐‐ Greg van Eekhout

Middle-income countries are the biggest users of GMOs. Places like Brazil.
‐‐ Bill Gates

Middle-out economics rejects the old misconception that an economy is a perfectly efficient, mechanistic system and embraces the much more accurate idea of an economy as a complex ecosystem made up of real people who are dependent on one another.
‐‐ Nick Hanauer

'Middle school' is used as shorthand for a time when things change. It's a time a lot of kids feel like they don't even have one good friend.
‐‐ Rebecca Stead

Middle school was probably my hardest time. I was trying to fit in for so long, until about junior year of high school when I realized that trying to fit into this one image of perfection was never going to make me happy.
‐‐ Maiara Walsh

'Middlesex' by Jeffrey Eugenides left me both moved and, at times, laughing out loud in delight.
‐‐ Kim Edwards

Midi is my hobby.
‐‐ J. J. Johnson

MIDI made a natural transition to the PC. The MIDI messages that make up a musical composition can be saved as MIDI files, which are collections of MIDI messages with timing information.
‐‐ Charles Petzold

'Midnight Cowboy' is an exquisite piece of filmmaking. It's insane.
‐‐ Dito Montiel

'Midnight Nation' is really interesting.
‐‐ Megan Fox

'Midnight's Children' falls under the genre of post-colonial writing, and there is a range of writers like V.S. Naipaul and Salman who popularised it. 'Midnight's Children' was incredibly important in this canon.
‐‐ Satya Bhabha

Midori has been a steadfast supporter of the United Nations, as a Messenger of Peace and more recently by encouraging our efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals.
‐‐ Ban Ki-moon

Midterm elections can be dreadfully boring, unfortunately.
‐‐ Nate Silver

Midterm elections for first-term presidents are notoriously difficult.
‐‐ Tim Kaine

Midwest kids got to summer camp. There is something very special about being away from your parents for the first time, sleeping under the stars, hiking and canoeing.
‐‐ Jami Gertz

Midwestern people stick together. Gee willikers, they work hard. There's no glitz, no glamour. When I was a girl in Duluth, Minnesota, I used to get up early and milk cows, so I know what hard work is.
‐‐ Gena Lee Nolin

Midwives and doctors play a crucial role preventing unnecessary maternal deaths. They educate women about nutrition, health and family planning. And they step in when complications arise.
‐‐ Liya Kebede

'Miele' is a code name for a girl who has a double life.
‐‐ Valeria Golino

Mies van der Rohe's architecture and modern architecture in general suffered from not only being repetitive, but not explaining to the populous what the different rooms were for.
‐‐ Charles Jencks

Miffy has changed quite a lot since the early books, although I never realised it at the time.
‐‐ Dick Bruna

Might, could, would - they are contemptible auxiliaries.
‐‐ George Eliot

Might I be ridiculous? Might my career in music be laughable? Yeah, that's possible, but that's certainly not my intention.
‐‐ Joaquin Phoenix

Might was the measure of right.
‐‐ Marcus Annaeus Lucan

Mighty cultures never - are almost never conquered. They crumble from within. And frankly, I think that a lot of Americans are acting like spoiled brats because everything isn't working out perfectly every time.
‐‐ Frank Miller

'Mighty Ducks' was a great experience, and I don't shy away from that.
‐‐ Jussie Smollett

Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.
‐‐ Samuel Pepys

Migrants all over the world are pushed and pulled across borders by hunger, terror and climate change. It happened to my own family.
‐‐ Juan Felipe Herrera

Migrants don't come to the United States because, as Ambassador Aponte argued in her press conference, of 'lies' told by smugglers that, once here, you can't get deported. They come because their countries have been destroyed by U.S. policy.
‐‐ Greg Grandin

Migration gives a blank cheque to put anything you don't feel like addressing in the memory hold. No neighbours can go against the monster narrative of your family.
‐‐ Junot Diaz

Migration is as natural as breathing, as eating, as sleeping. It is part of life, part of nature. So we have to find a way of establishing a proper kind of scenario for modern migration to exist. And when I say 'we,' I mean the world. We need to find ways of making that migration not forced.
‐‐ Gael Garcia Bernal

Migration is the story of my life: my parents and grandparents journeyed across four continents to flee war and find jobs, eventually finding their way to the U.S.
‐‐ Leila Janah

Migration - whether emigration or return - at the micro level is an individual choice, and government both at the Centre and the states have role only to facilitate the decision of the individuals.
‐‐ Vayalar Ravi

Miguel has this Prince, Marvin Gaye, old-school feel that I love.
‐‐ Becky G