“The middle of the road is where the white line is—and that’s the worst place to drive.”
“Remember that the worst accidents occur in the middle of the road.”
From “Ten Commandments for New Hill Members,” in The Washington Post (4 January 1981), as cited in The Official Rules https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0486482103: 5,427 Laws, Principles and Axioms to Help You Cope With Crises, Deadlines, Bad Luck, Rude Behavior, Red Tape and Attacks by Inanimate Objects, Paul Dickson, Courier Corporation (2013), p. 223
“She's the perfect good girl in the middle of the road.”
Thea Gilmore
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Context: [Melua] makes music that's easy on the ear and even easier on the brain. She's the perfect good girl in the middle of the road. I'm not keen to make things too easy for anyone.
“The late Middle Ages not merely has a successful middle class—it is in fact a middle-class period.”
The Social History of Art, Volume I. From Prehistoric Times to the Middle Ages, 1999, Chapter IV. The Middle Ages
“There's nothing in the middle of the road but a yellow stripe and dead armadillos.”
There's Nothing in the Middle of the Road but Yellow Stripes and Dead Armadillos (1998)
Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News (2001)
“I grew up in a middle-class family in the middle of America in the middle of the last century.”
Economic policy speech, May 29, 2007. http://www.hillaryclinton.com/news/speech/view/?id=1839
Presidential campaign (January 20, 2007 – 2008)
“As far as I'm concerned, I'm a middle-of-the-road moderate and the rest of you are crazy.”
Source: If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans
The Humanist interview (2012)
Context: Regarding the idea that the women’s movement is white and middle class — a fair share of the country is white and middle class. And certainly, there are racist white women. Certainly, there are sexist black men. All those things are true. But the other thing that’s never said is that black women are much more likely to support feminist issues than white women. It makes sense because they’re much more likely to be on the paid labor force than white women. And if you’ve experienced discrimination for one reason, you’re probably more likely to recognize it for another reason.
