Top 20 Midway Quotes

Our pasts so many times determine the value of what is happening today. Everybody is midway in their story.

When I’m shooting a music video, when we’re midway through the day, I need everyone to be quiet while we’re getting ready for the next scenes. That’s really important for me to be able to keep my head in the game.

I was born and grew up in Phoenix, and I left there when I was 17 to go to Interlochen Arts Academy – a boarding school in Michigan – for a year, and then I went to college for a year at The Boston Conservatory and landed the ‘Spring Awakening’ tour midway through my freshman year, which was pretty cool.

With Freebass, there were no rules, really. It was all rather chaotic. Obviously, Hooky was playing the high end stuff, which he always does; Mani was doing the bottom end, and I thought I’d go midway and meet everyone in the middle.

Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.

The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.

After the Battle of Midway there was a week in a rest camp at Pearl Harbor.

Back in 1990, there were fewer than 20 wineries in and around Paso Robles, a farming community midway between San Francisco and Los Angeles. Most of the wines produced there were rustic, highly tannic and alcoholic, with little charm or finesse.

What we have seen of recent American action in the Pacific, the bombing of Tokyo and the engagements in the Coral Sea, off Midway Island and at Dutch Harbour, has been sufficient indication that America is beginning to discharge her supremely important duty in the Pacific.

I had a sense when I took the job that the 1976-77 Trail Blazers could be very good. We had made a lot of positive roster changes, but it wasn’t until I had the team in training camp that I realized that this team could be special. Midway through that season, I felt we had a chance to win it all.

We coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway, that these concepts are our own constructs and start equating them with reality.

I didn’t really realize that I could make it into a career until midway through the ‘Ultimate Fighter’ show when I started beating guys who had been training in the sport for a really long time.

The economic game is not supposed to be rigged like some shady ring toss on a carnival midway.

Never tell anyone outside my staff that the Submarine Force and the First Air Fleet were responsible for the failure at Midway. The failure at Midway was mine.

I’m a fictional monogamist – I can only work on one thing at a time – but each novel starts growing in my head when I’m about midway through the previous novel.

I found an agent midway through my year-long run at ‘Grease’ and just started to audition. I fortunately booked ‘South Pacific’ six months after ‘Grease’ was over, and I feel like that was a huge turning point in legitimizing myself in the Broadway community, and getting to do that was absolutely amazing.

When I learned about this tragedy that’s happening in Midway – you know, these birds whose stomachs are filled with handfuls of our waste – I just felt drawn there magnetically.

I suffer from stage fright, so I blabber on stage and stop midway through my performances. I cannot even write a cheque, as it makes me nervous. Being around people makes me nervous. But I’m very comfortable in front of the camera, and this I realised many films later.

Stephen King consummately honors several traditions with his rare paperback original, ‘Joyland.’ He addresses the novel of carny life and sideshows, where the midway serves as microcosm, such as in those famous books by Ray Bradbury, Charles Finney and William Lindsay Gresham.

I really started to get a sense of how, if you will, special Zarqawi was, I guess, sort of midway through 2004.