Jackson's Quotes

#1. NEVERLAND:The imaginary island home of Peter Pan and the lost boys. A place where you never grow up. Michael Jackson's former retreat. An accurate description of the 21st century.

Daniel Prokop

#2. Michael Jackson's charity efforts? Mmm. I'm sure they have nothing to do with his molestation charges.

Christian Finnegan

#3. To the game I'm true like the sun first rose
I'm real like my man Michael Jackson's first nose

Dred Scott

#4. Michael Joseph Jackson's genius was the ability to be the raw article himself - the real article himself. He is part of the African American people who were marginalized.

Michael Eric Dyson

#5. I look up, and Jackson's eyes find mine. For a second, it almost feels like we're about to race into the hole to join you. Being buried alive has got to be better than whatever comes next.

Adam Silvera

#6. When I was growing up in L.A. in the late '70s and early '80s, Michael Jackson's was the first face on TV that looked like mine.

Shawn Amos

#7. Peter Jackson's instincts are extraordinary, as is his stamina.

Christopher Lee

#8. The song that's affected me the most profoundly is probably Michael Jackson's 'Thriller,' or, more specifically, the couple seconds of instrumental break before Vincent Price starts 'rapping.'

Patrick Stump

#9. It was Andrew Jackson's motto, he reminded, that if you temporize, you are lost.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#10. Chris Hedges said that Michael Jackson's memorial service was a variety show with a coffin, that MJ transformed himself through surgery and perhaps female hormones from a brown-skinned African American male to a chalk-faced androgynous ghoul with no clear sexual identity.

Chris Hedges

#11. I copied (Shoeless Joe) Jackson's style because I thought he was the greatest hitter I had ever seen, the greatest natural hitter I ever saw. He's the guy who made me a hitter.

Babe Ruth

#12. Jackson's father said she was built like Marilyn Monroe and had the temperament of Maureen O'Hara. The man was a prophet for sure.

Carolyn Brown

#13. I can't think about that, or Jackson's goal. I have my own part in this charade.

Melissa West

#14. Jesse Jackson's in trouble. They're going after this tax thing. Jesse said he will amend his taxes to show the money that he paid to his mistress. See, he has just one mistress. Jesse uses the standard mistress deduction. As opposed to Clinton, who had to itemize.

Jay Leno

#15. Percy swallowed back his anger. He wasn't sure if he was mad at Annabeth, or his dream, or the entire Greek/Roman world that had endured and shaped human history for five thousand years with one goal in mind: to make Percy Jackson's life suck as much as possible.

Anonymous

#16. Jackson's? He wasn't being deliberately evasive or trying to be secretive, it wasn't in his nature.

George Donald

#17. I'm racist? How can that even be possible? I was a friend of Michael Jackson's back when he was black.

Joan Rivers

#18. Although himself frequently a target of guerrilla decontextualization, a major part of the meaning of Michael Jackson's life was to help balance the accumulation of horrors with something closer to love in its most empowering and healing sense.

Aberjhani

#19. Hey", he said again. "I'm gonna go down to Mrs. Jackson's place and murder her whole family. Then I'm gonna fly to the moon and eat some chickens. Be right back."
"Okay," she murmured.

James Dashner

#20. Shirley Jackson's writings are a must for aficionados of the gothic and of good literature.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#21. Joaquin Jackson's frank and colorful account of his long career as a modern-day Texas Ranger thrills like an action novel, yet the stories are true, sometimes funny, sometimes tragic, but always gripping. I could hardly put the book down ... The writing is superb.

Elmer Kelton

#22. Absorbing and haunting! BOGEYMAN spills creepily across the page with Steve Jackson's hellacious verve and insight, reminding us there are few better explorers of the American berserk.

Ron Franscell

#23. I wondered if I should start a small fire in Percy Jackson's sink, perhaps burn some bandages in thanks, but I decided that might strain that Jackson's hospitality.

Rick Riordan

#24. I was at Michael Jackson's house, and this kid runs out, 'Wait, save me!'

Chris Rock

#25. You know what happens on live TV?
Janet Jackson's Super Bowl Boob happens on live TV. Adele Dazeem happens on live TV. President Al Gore happens on live TV

Shonda Rhimes

#26. my chest tightens so much it physically hurts. The last image I see when I glance back is the door closing as Jackson's head falls into his hands. Now I know what it feels like to lose your heart.

Corinne Michaels

#27. At a party in L.A., I met this middle-aged gentleman who I was talking to for ages when I asked, 'So, what do you do?' Turns out I was speaking to legendary music producer Quincy Jones, who worked on Michael Jackson's hits. And there was little old me rattling on - I was so embarrassed.

Elliot Cowan

#28. Fiction had never been Jackson's thing. Facts seemed challenging enough without making stuff up. What he discovered was that the great novels of the world were about three things - death, money and sex. Occasionally a whale.

Kate Atkinson

#29. I look out through the eyeholes and feel exactly the way Michael Jackson's son Blanket must have felt

John Waters

#30. There is a strong demand for Michael Jackson's music and merchandise, and that will only increase as more material surfaces in the years following his death.

Adam Kluger

#31. Jesse Jackson's living depends on the maintenance of an African-American victim culture

Mark Steyn

#32. With a writer's eye, Irving detected Jackson's depths. As his admirers say, he is truly an old Roman-to which I would add, with a little dash of the Greek; for I suspect he is as knowing as I believe he is honest.

Jon Meacham

#33. To me "King Kong" is a metaphor for America's fear of the black male and to me that's obvious. All right, so I mean that was one of the first things I said when I was talking to a friend of mine after he saw Peter Jackson's version of "King Kong."

Quentin Tarantino

#34. vanguard. Jackson's division was the old valley army:

S.C. Gwynne

#35. But naturally Jackson's giving Danny the play-by-play because, hello, if you were Jackson and Gloria liked you, wouldn't you be renting a billboard about it?

Susane Colasanti

#36. It's like, I don't think you understand, Michael Jackson's bedroom is two stories and it has, like, three bathrooms and this and that. So, when I slept in his bedroom, yes, but you understand the whole scenario.

Macaulay Culkin

#37. R.E.M.'s 'Automatic for the People' - that's probably one of my favourite records - Michael Jackson's 'Thriller' - that's some record - Crowded House's 'Together Alone' - that's brilliant, fantastic record.

Jamie Lawson

#38. Jesse Jackson's wife was arrested in Puerto Rico while protesting the naval bombings there. Jesse said he was holding a meeting with four of his secretaries to decide what to do and that these meetings could run well into the night.

Jay Leno

#39. Life is a musical influence in my experience. But as far as actual music and actual bands, uh, I'll just look at my little collection here. Let's see. Bob Dylan, The Beatles, Pink Floyd, U2, The Talking Heads, Prince and the Revolution, Michael Jackson's Thriller was a huge one.

Jeremy Enigk

#40. People talk a lot about the Jackson's but then when you think about it, there is quite a lot to talk about.

Jackie Jackson

#41. Oh boy, I grew up hearing Sam Cooke, The Soul Stirrers, Mahalia Jackson, sitting on Mahalia Jackson's lap in my dad's church.

Merry Clayton

#42. I tend to stick to my team guys, the guys I train with here at Greg Jackson's, because when they're in there, I feel like I'm in there.

Diego Sanchez

#43. Jackson's presence in New York had everything to do with the other Carrington sister.

He'd been keeping his distance. He'd had to. But today he didn't want to. He wanted to see her. Needed to see her.

He needed Mollie.

Lauren Layne

#44. More than a third of all the men, women, and children on this march perished from cold, starvation, and disease. Thanks to President Andrew Jackson's Indian Removal Act, Cherokee land was left to white farmers who used it to grow cotton with slave labor and to mine gold.

Gloria Steinem

#45. I'd do entire music videos in my bedroom, where I used to stand in front of my television memorizing the moves to Michael Jackson's 'Beat It.'

Jimmy Fallon

#46. After Marlee was born they rented videos and fell asleep in front of them. Now, like so much else in Jackson's world, videos were obsolete.

Kate Atkinson

#47. Michael Jackson's album was only called Bad because there wasn't enough room on the sleeve for Pathetic.

Prince

#48. The downside of being a dean is that I'd rather drop off my son at (Michael Jackson's) Neverland Ranch than go to all those meetings.

Ergun Caner

#49. Shelley Jackson's 'Half Life' is the textual equivalent of an installation, a multivocal, polymorphous, dialogic, dystopian satire wrapped around a murder mystery wrapped around a bildungsroman.

Stacey D'Erasmo

#50. I worked in Maynard Jackson's first campaign, and I remember the excitement we felt when he won.

Pearl Cleage

#51. We may see Michael Jackson's baby before we know the final outcome of this race for the House of Representatives tonight.

Dan Rather

#52. Whether it was H. P. Lovecraft's doomed towns or Shirley Jackson's lonely, looming 'The Haunting of Hill House,' the boondocks had all the fun. As a black kid in Queens, New York, I couldn't have felt more removed.

Victor LaValle

#53. My first super-worn-out tapes were Michael Jackson's 'Bad' and the soundtrack to 'Dirty Dancing.' The soundtrack to 'Dirty Dancing' is actually really phenomenal.

Autre Ne Veut

#54. Have you by chance brought some real British tea? Twining's? Or from Jackson's in Piccadilly?

Anthony Burgess

#55. The first bit of vinyl I bought was Michael Jackson's 'Bad.'

Olly Murs

#56. Michael Jackson's Don't Stop 'Till You Get Enough.

Dirk Patton

#57. From what I hear, everyone who does a Marvel movie gets a three-picture deal. I'll be Sam Jackson's stand-in. I'll do eight pictures for Marvel, and then I'll just do indies. Marvel can pay for my indie career.

Sinqua Walls

#58. I feel very fortunate to be compared to somebody so incredible. Michael Jackson's an icon.

Justin Timberlake

#59. Competition is great. And as long as it's friendly and not a malicious thing, then I think it's cool.

Janet Jackson

#60. Everyone should have at least one magnificent obsession. It's a life jacket when the ship goes down

Melanie Jackson

#61. It's always difficult to see yourself as other people do, but I'm realistic about my appearance. I wasn't born with one of those pretty, pretty faces, so I've never been absorbed with the way I look. I just try to make the most of what I've got.

Alison Jackson

#62. It doesn't work like that. We don't earn love ... it's a gift we're given.

A.L. Jackson

#63. One can feel the urge, the need to give, coming from within him. He is such a pure and true person. It's my deepest, most heartfelt conviction that Michael Jackson is a good person, a fine young man with an incredible burden - responsibility - to carry on his shoulders.

Marcel Marceau

#64. It was the first genuinely shining day of summer, a time of year which brought Eleanor always to aching memories of her early childhood, when it seemed to be summer all the time; she could not remember a winter before father's death on a cold wet day.

Shirley Jackson

#65. I don't care anymore. Even if she never speaks to me again because of the press, she's worth it. She makes me a person, not just a wish granter.

Jackson Pearce

#66. Really? That would be a first. I'm the son of Hades, Jason. I might as well be covered in blood or sewage, the way people treat me. I don't belong anywhere. I'm not even from this century. But that's not enough to set me apart.

Rick Riordan

#67. People are always saying: 'They'll take care of it. The government will. Don't worry, they will'. They who? It starts with us. It's us. Or else it'll never be done.

Michael Jackson

#68. Michael Jackson doesn't really belong on this planet. He's the most important figure in the history of music. He'll be remembered far longer than George Bush will. 200 years from now, people will be talking about Michael Jackson, and no one's going to mention George Bush.

Brett Ratner

#69. Dracula isn't just another vampire show. It's something entirely different that I personally feel I've never seen on American TV before.

Oliver Jackson-Cohen

#70. Between bites Jackson said, "So what's our next move?" Sawyer looked

David Baldacci

#71. It sounds so perfect. He's defending me because Carey would want him to. It's not about me. It never is, with these two boys. Blake lets me take the blame, and Carey uses me.

Corrine Jackson

#72. Nico's voice was like broken glass. "I- I wasn't in love with Annabeth."
"You were jealous of her," Jason said. "That's why you didn't want to be around her. Especially why you don't want to be around ... him. It makes total sense.

Rick Riordan

#73. i have read a couple of children's book. But this book is amazing

Anitha L. Jackson

#74. That's always - that's been another dream of mine, to do a Broadway play. An award winning Broadway play.

Janet Jackson

#75. I totally enjoy what I'm doing and bringing joy into people's lives. To me, and if I can bring one second of joy into a child or a grown-up's life, then I have achieved my lifetime ambition.

Michael Jackson

#76. My house is about equidistant from the Young's brewery and the Fuller's brewery. This is no accident.

Michael Jackson

#77. Well, especially now I come to realize - and then - I would do my schooling which was three hours with a tutor and right after that I would go to the recording studio and record, and I'd record for hours and hours until it's time to go to sleep.

Michael Jackson

#78. I think secretly and privately there is a destiny for me and just for me to stay on that track and follow it. I really believe and feel I am here for a reason and that's my job, you know, to perform for the people and if they accept it that I am rewarded.

Michael Jackson

#79. Don't you know that's what college is about ... students spending years gathering useless information they'll never use again, going hopelessly into debt, just so they feel smarter than the rest of their family? I mean, that's why I worked so hard to get here, anyway.

A.L. Jackson

#80. Leaving my family behind was very scary. I had to grow up quick. But being so young and paying in this league [the WNBA], I'm glad I did it because it's been the best experience in my life.

Lauren Jackson

#81. You know, this game's not very much fun when you're only hitting .247.

Reggie Jackson

#82. Has anything bad ever happened in YOUR life? Anything bad that could have been stopped, if only someone had been paying better attention?"..."And you, Kanan? Is there something bad that could have been prevented, if someone had been watching over you?"..."EVERYBODY'S got something like that.

John Jackson Miller

#83. Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

#84. When you turn out the light, I've got to hand it to me. Looks like it's you and me again tonight Rosie.

Jackson Browne

#85. I'm just trying to get used to living on a fixed income. Now, it's going to get unfixed.

Janet Jackson

#86. Percy Jackson, son of Poseidon ... probably the demigod Hazel admired most. He'd saved her life so many times on their quest to Alaska; but when he had needed Hazel's help in Rome, she'd failed him. She'd watched, powerless, as he and Annabeth had plunged into that pit.

Rick Riordan

#87. I clear breakfast at ten o'clock. I set on lunch at one. Dinner I set on at six. It's ten o'clock.

Shirley Jackson

#88. Percy looked at Coach Hedge and Frank. "A trap?"
"Probably," Frank said.
"She's not mortal," Hedge said, sniffing the air. "Probably some kind of goat-eating, demigod-destroying fiend from Tartarus."
"No doubt," Percy agreed.
"Awesome." Hedge grinned. "Let's go.

Rick Riordan

#89. Today's students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. If they can conceive it and believe it, they can achieve it. They must know it is not their aptitude but their attitude that will determine their altitude.

Jesse Jackson

#90. I'm not trying to be philosophical, but I really think it's my job to help children. And I don't care if people laugh.

Michael Jackson

#91. Hercules used noise! Brass bells! He scared them away with the most horrible sound he could-" said Percy
"Percy ... Chiron's collection!

Rick Riordan

#92. I have no problem dressing up ... because I know I'm a nice-looking guy. But as far as chains, I definitely feel that's a racial statement. Almost 100% of the guys in the league who are young and black wear big chains. So I definitely don't agree with that at all.

Stephen Jackson

#93. Where's the dam water fountain I'm thirsty?

Rick Riordan

#94. People know about the Klan and the overt racism, but the killing of one's soul little by little, day after day, is a lot worse than someone coming in your house and lynching you.

Samuel L. Jackson

#95. That's what rock music is, I think - constantly searching for authenticity, and being as honest as possible.

Jonathan Jackson

#96. Erin called us soul mates, but I ... I've always known it was more than that. It's like we share the same soul, and when we're apart, each half is looking for the other.

A.L. Jackson

#97. If someone's opinion of you goes from sky-high to rock bottom, this isn't normal.

Jackson MacKenzie

#98. I love your sense of humor and the fact you never ate grits before. There's so much I love about you that I know I'm in love with you. So, honey, you can have all my shirts you want.

J. Lynn

#99. What if all the dreaming gets in the way of actually doing things? What if there isn't time for dreaming?"
"There's always time for dreaming," Jackson said. "If it makes you happy, then there's time.

Kat Zhang

#100. Pluto's pauldrons," Reyna cursed.

Rick Riordan