"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."
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"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."
"I'm at my best in a messy, middle-of-the-road muddle."
"Drumming is my middle name."
"After a while the middle-aged person who lives in her head begins to talk to her soul, the kid."
"All great men come out of the middle classes."
"The most improbable tales can be made believable, if your reader, through his sense, feels certain that he stands at the middle of events."
"I love this cornbread so much, I wanna take it behind a middle school and get it pregnant."
"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.'"
"Let's take a drive into the middle of nowhere with a packet of Marlboro lights and talk about our lives."
"Middle Age - later than you think and sooner than you expect."
"Lampard fired straight through the middle of a non-existent wall."
"It's no longer an exaggeration to say that middle-class Americans are an endangered species."
"Froth at the top, dregs at bottom, but the middle excellent."
"Realise when you are 'middle aged' you have a chance for a whole second career, another love, another life."
"Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age."
"Don't swap horses in the middle of the stream."