"In order to see, you have to stop being in the middle of the picture"
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"You can sit right on my middle finger for the night"
"No state will be well administered unless the middle class holds sway."
"Remember that the worst accidents occur in the middle of the road."
"I'm a warrior for the middle class."
"We all like to think of ourselves as a standard, and I can see that it is genuinely difficult for the English middle class to suppose that the working class is not desperately anxious to become just like itself. I am afraid this must be unlearned."
"If I'm walking very, very fast down Madison Avenue in the middle of the day, I'll say I'm stopped 10 times."
"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."
"I'm currently in the middle of a depression. I couldn't really tell you what set it off, but I think it stems from my cowardice, which confronts me at every turn."
"Time [is] flowing in the middle of the night."
"Although it was the middle of winter, I finally realized that, within me, summer was inextinguishable."
"Men generally decide upon a middle course, which is most hazardous, for they know neither how to be entirely good nor entirely bad."
"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."
"Voidness is that which stands right in the middle between this and that."
"Don't be defeatist, dear, it's very middle class."
"Marriage is like the Middle East, isn't it? There's no solution."
"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."
"It's a terrible thing to be lonesome, especially in the middle of a crowd."
"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."
"You will go most safely in the middle."
"Middle class was defined by having certain values and only a certain amount of money. But this new middle class seems to have absolutely no values and an unlimited amount of money."