Since at least the Middle Ages, philosophers and philologists have dreamed of curing natural languages of their flaws by constructing entirely new idioms according to orderly, logical principles. – Joshua Foer
The Iranian regime, in my mind, is the single most enduring threat to stability and peace in the Middle East. – James Mattis
The Fed has got to become a more democratic institution that is responsive to the needs of the middle class, not just Wall Street CEOs. – Bernie Sanders
If I’m played out of position, I’ll always give 100%, but everyone knows I would rather play down the middle. – Jamie Vardy
My mom had early rap records, like Jimmy Spicer. In the middle of the records was a turntable and a receiver – I used to scratch records on it – and on top was a reel-to-reel. In front of that wall were more stacks of records. It was either Mom’s record or Pop’s record, and they had their names on each and every one. – Jay-Z
Pneumococcal disease is a real threat. Pneumococcal disease is a bacterial infection that causes anything from middle ear infection to pneumonia to meningitis. Children are particularly vulnerable to it, but adults can get pneumococcal disease themselves. – Anthony Fauci
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, like other countries in the region, rejects the acquisition of nuclear weapons by anyone, especially nuclear weapons in the Middle East region. We hope that such weapons will be banned or eliminated from the region by every country in the region. – Abdullah of Saudi Arabia
When the U.K. or U.S. government issues bonds to fund a deficit, the buyers are not solely in the U.K. or the U.S. – they’re in Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Middle East. Investment banks provide direct access to these buyers. – Bob Diamond
I have been using delay and reverberation since the middle 1960s. I use them to make what is almost inaudible to the ear, audible. I do not use them to play loudly but to make the higher harmonics heard. – Bill Dixon
Life is not so much about beginnings and endings as it is about going on and on and on. It is about muddling through the middle. – Anna Quindlen
I have to go with the approach I had in Triple-A. I need to take a lot of those fastballs I am seeing to left field. Also must gear up for the changeup and take them up the middle. – Anthony Rizzo
When ‘Goodfellas’ is on TNT, and they’ve taken out all the curse words and put Tide commercials in the middle of it, I’ll still watch ‘Goodfellas’ because it’s that great of a movie. – Ato Essandoh
In Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids. – Bill Condon
The expected vertical line of Ikiru’s narrative breaks when Kurosawa does a flash-forward in the middle of the film. – Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Broadway! Broad-way! I don’t aspire to the middle. I aspire to the tip-tip-top of it all. – Billy Porter
When you get moved around, it can be jarring, but it helps to fine-tune your focus in the middle of the season, when other guys are getting a little lackadaisical. – Ben Zobrist
There are a lot of people in Beverly Hills who come from the Middle East, who are very much a part of the Beverly Hills fabric, and their kids grew up with the privileges of Beverly Hills. And yet they still have to deal with a lot of the prejudice against them for being foreign-born. – Amy Heckerling
Peace in the Middle East is of prime importance to the Philippines, due to the presence of around 2 million of our countrymen working in that region. – Benigno Aquino III