Middletown Quotes

#1. Do not be grand. Try to get the ordinary into your writing - breakfast tables rather than the solar system; Middletown today, not Mankind through the ages.

Darcy O'Brien

#2. If Miss Nannie Bostick will communicate with Captain James B. Rife, Middletown, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, she will learn something to her advantage.

N.B. De Saussure

#3. I grew up about 60 miles northwest of New York, in Middletown, NY.

Aaron Tveit

#4. People talk about hard work all the time in places like Middletown. You can walk through a town where 30 percent of the young men work fewer than twenty hours a week and find not a single person aware of his own laziness.

J.D. Vance

#5. People didn't leave because our downtown lacked trendy cultural amenities. The trendy cultural amenities left because there weren't enough consumers in Middletown to support them.

J.D. Vance

#6. Ireland is such a young society. The British were the ruling class up until they left about a hundred years ago, and we've been trying to work out what our class hierarchy is ever since.

Tana French

#7. Looting is a natural response to the unnatural and inhuman society of commodity abundance. It instantly undermines the commodity as such, and it also exposes what the commodity ultimately implies: the army, the police and the other specialized detachments of the state's monopoly of armed violence.

Guy Debord

#8. Prejudice is a house-plant which is very apt to wilt if you take it out-of-doors among folks.

Josh Billings

#9. Novelists are stamina merchants, grinders, nine-to-fivers, and their career curves follow the usual arc of human endeavour.

Martin Amis

#10. Logistics is the ball and chain of armored warfare.

Heinz Guderian

#11. All the shopping malls and restaurants and airports are riddled with low-fidelity loudspeakers, which apparently have developed the ability to reproduce by themselves; these are all connected to a special programming service called Music That Nobody Really Likes, and you cannot get away from it.

Dave Barry

#12. Anger is the fluid love bleeds when cut.

C.S. Lewis

#13. Online life is practice to make the rest of life better, but it is also a pleasure in itself.

Sherry Turkle