Top 22 Middlesex Quotes
#1. the remark of a Middlesex Regiment officer in 1918. "Intelligence services," the man had said, "are prone to looking up their own arses and wondering why it's dark.
David Downing
#2. 'Middlesex' by Jeffrey Eugenides left me both moved and, at times, laughing out loud in delight.
Kim Edwards
#3. Jacques Derrida is a very important thinker and philosopher who has made serious contributions to both philosophy and literary criticism. Roland Barthes is the one I feel most affinity for, and Michel Foucault, well, his writing influenced my novel, 'Middlesex.'
Jeffrey Eugenides
#5. So you cannot teach me a great deal about the shady in life. I was in the family of a Middlesex County Councillor. In
Ford Madox Ford
#6. Before London swallowed it whole, Camden Town was the fork in the road best known for a coaching inn called the Mother Red Cap. It served as a last-chance stop for beer, highway robbery and gonorrhoea before heading north into the wilds of Middlesex.
Ben Aaronovitch
#7. All Middlesex is ugly, notwithstanding the millions upon millionswhichit iscontinuallysucking up fromtherestof the kingdom.
William Cobbett
#8. After all the screaming in our house, there reigned, that winter on Middlesex, only silence. A silence so profound that, like the left foot of the President's secretary, it erased portions of the official record.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#9. I was born in Middlesex, England, which is really London.
Charles Keating
#10. You please me, I'll please you. You do what I tell you to do, I'll take care of you. You disobey me or act out, I'll punish you then I'll take care of you.
Kristen Ashley
#11. Let me tell you something. Do you know why those Turkish girls cover their faces? You think it's because of religion? No. It's because otherwise no one can stand to look at them!
Jeffrey Eugenides
#13. My little brother is autistic, so I would love to be involved in a charity for autism, but I haven't found the right one yet.
Nikki Reed
#14. TOBIAS: No one ever said this would be easy, and you don't seem like the type of woman to take the easy way out.
T.S. Joyce
#15. The reasons leading to the origin of the problem aren't always simple, but the solution always is.
Jamie McGuire
#16. Dear God, there is never a reason for me to be lonely or afraid, because you are my great and present defender. Thank you. Amen.
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#17. We may get knocked down on the outside, but the key to living in victory is to learn how to get up on the inside.
Joel Osteen
#18. In Detroit, in July of 1967, what happened was no less than a guerrilla uprising.
The Second American Revolution.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#19. We met at Nirang Kaka's son's wedding,' Leshu prattled on. 'It was such a set-up Amu, what to tell you! Asha Kaki introduced us at the salad counter and by the time we reached the sweet dish, I knew...I just knew it inside my heart ki he was the one.
Nikita Deshpande
#20. The sky in Seattle is so low, it felt like God had lowered a silk parachute over us.
Maria Semple
#22. Energy rests upon love; and come as it will, there's no forcing it.
Leo Tolstoy
