E.W. Jackson Quotes

Lie on your back and look at the stars.

An acrobatic dunk will make it onto Sports Center. A simple, unspectacular bounce pass in the rhythm of the offense will not. System basketball has been replaced by players who want to be the system.

One thing about playing the real jazz is that you can't count it.

He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.

The goldenrod is yellow, The corn is turning brown, The trees in apple orchards With fruit are bending down.

The ideal way to win a championship is step by step.

It's [music composition] the most effortless thing in the world because you don't do anything. I hate to say it like that, but it's the truth.

in modern society, fear of unemployment remains the darkest of the shadows thrown by the past. In an industrial order, a man out of work is almost a man out of life.

This spirit of mob-law is becoming as great an evil as a servile war.

Remember that just the moment you say, "I give up," someone else seeing the same situation is saying, "My, what a great opportunity."

Give me a thousand Tennesseans, and I'll whip any other thousand men on the globe!

Any theory, hypothesis, philosophy, sect, creed or institution that fears investigation, openly manifests its own error.

Don't expect others to listen to your advice and ignore your example.

A lot of people misunderstand me. That's because they don't know me at all.

The old Devil gets mad when you're trying to do good. Pray that God will move the stumbling blocks.

Just doing as well as you did last time is not good enough.

I'm just like anyone. I cut and I bleed. And I embarass easily.

People are my religion/Because I believe in them.

I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.

If a warden sees cigarette litter being thrown from a car, they will take the number and trace the owner to send them a fine.

Coffee in the morning, cocaine afternoons.

An artist should let his style evolve naturally, spontaneously.

Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing.

Now and then one sees a face which has kept its smile pure and undefiled. Such a smile transfigures; such a smile, if the artful but know it, is the greatest weapon a face can have.

Not the stars, not the farthest solar systems, not the millions of different species of animal life, but the child is the greatest of God's creations.

That Obama I would like to cut his nuts off.

Every film is a challenge. I always say that making a movie is like film school - you're always learning. But unlike most schools, you never get done with it. You never learn everything.

I think that's the job of a director really, to sort of funnel all the creativity into one centralized point of being.

All the things I've read in my school books about England and the Queen were okay, but my eyes are the greatest book in the world.

You can always tell when a man's well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.

Sometimes you ask God for something and you don't know what you're asking.

You're blessed if you have the strength to work.

I have often thought that with any luck at all I could have been born a werewolf, because the two middle fingers on both my hands are the same length, but I have had to be content with what I had.

I want people to hear or watch something I've done and feel that I've given it everything I've got.

My grandma pregnant again trying to talk her out of keeping it

Always appreciate the gift of life! Be happy and have fun!

I look at things and try to imagine what is possible and then hope to surpass those boundaries.

I find I like it too much.

There was more to life than the things you could hold in your hands or see with your eyes.

No one ever owns a cat...you share a common habitation on a basis of equal rights and mutual respects...although somehow the cat always comes out ahead of the deal.

There were times when I had great times with my brothers, pillow fights and things, but I used to always cry from loneliness.

I happen to be colorblind. Racism is not my motto. One day, I strongly expect every color to love as one family.

My goal in life is to give to the world what I was lucky to receive: the ecstasy of divine union through my music and my dance.

When I'm on the court, I feel like I'm in my element.

Take it easy, take it easyDon't let the sound of your own wheelsDrive you crazy.

Good manners will often take people where neither money nor education will take them.

When I look into the eyes of my Prince, and my daughter Paris, I see miracles and I see beauty.

I came to believe that being a private detective was the work I was meant to do.

You just let people do what they do and look at them and give them enough rope until they do what you thought they were going to do... which is screw you over.

I urge all young people to go for their dreams. If they do, many of the world’s problems will be solved.