Middle class families should not be forced to scrape by with less while oil companies get away with more. – Keith Ellison
In the Middle Ages and beyond, the target was the Court Jew who had the ear of the ruler; during the Inquisition it was the Spanish Jews who thrived after their conversion to Christianity. – Jack Schwartz
I was doing a Broadway musical called ‘Smile’ with Howard Ashman and Marvin Hamlisch in 1984/5 when it abruptly closed. Howard was in the middle of pre-production for ‘The Little Mermaid,’ so he kindly invited all the girls in our cast to audition for the film. – Jodi Benson
But since the middle of the century in particular, the music has become very irregular in rhythm. – Karlheinz Stockhausen
Various Turkish people invaded southwest Asia during the Middle Ages and carved an empire for themselves from lands occupied by the indigenous Semitic and Indo-European inhabitants. – John Shimkus
Like many modern poets, I tend to conceal rhymes by placing them in the middle of lines, and to avoid immediate alliteration and assonance in favor of echoes placed later in the poems. – Margaret Atwood
I’ve done auditions where the casting director is taking the paper out of my hand in the middle of reading. – Kevin Hart
I don’t have the ability to find a middle ground with my audiences, and I know this too well. – Kim Ki-duk
Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons. – Lillian Gordy Carter
My brother sings. My brother is a singer-songwriter. His name is Parker Ainsworth. He changed his last name to his middle name. – Lauren Worsham
My books fall in the wobbly middle between historical fiction and historical romance. – Lauren Willig
The rise of ISIS in Iraq is a wider threat to the stability of the Middle East and the West than many realise. – Maajid Nawaz
As long as we’re dependent on those fossil fuels, we’re dependent on the Middle East. If we are not victims, we’re certainly captives. – John M. McHugh
Egypt has always been critical to the stability of the Middle East pertaining to Israel. We need them with us for continued efforts to maintain peace in the region. – Keith Kellogg
Dweezil and I are going on tour with the band probably starting in the middle of February for a month probably playing a few songs from my new record and then I’ll continue on after that tour. – Lisa Loeb
I feel like I just grabbed a big juicy worm with a right sharp hook in the middle of it. – Lyndon B. Johnson
Shifting loyalties in the Middle East make it difficult to vet supposed moderate groups. – Jeff Fortenberry
The middle class should not continue to foot the bill for tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires. – Keith Ellison
The Romans had been able to post their laws on boards in public places, confident that enough literate people existed to read them; far into the Middle Ages, even kings remained illiterate. – J. M. Roberts
We can get more energy out of the north slope of Alaska; we have available the ability to make ourselves less dependent on those uncertain sources of supply from the Middle East. And it’s important we do that. – John W. Snow
If we are going to approach the euro area as a zone with a harsh line in the middle between AAA and non-AAA, between the north and the south, no way are we going to move forward. – Jeroen Dijsselbloem