E.W. Jackson Quotes

There are only two classes in society: those who get more than they earn, and those who earn more than they get.

When you're directing, you're right at the coal face, always exhausted, often emotional - and I'll enjoy being a couple of steps back from that and simply helping where I can.

Originality is only variation.

Only one-fourth of the sorrow in each man's life is caused by outside uncontrollable elements, the rest is self-imposed by failing to analyze and act with calmness.

Thomas Paine needs no monument made with hands; he has erected a monument in the hearts of all lovers of liberty.

I do feel that whatever happens, it's important to work with great people and do something great. That's how I feel.

I get a huge kick out of training people, out of helping people, out of just being a part of a process that I get to see people's dreams come true.

The present is no more exempt from the sneer of the future than the past has been.

I wanted people to believe that there could still be this little undiscovered piece of the world that survives still on Skull Island.

I was bullied and regarded as little bit of an oddball myself.

Michael has a connection with children, just like Mickey Mouse does, and he brings happiness to them, and joy.

I feel in the depths of my soul that it is the highest, most sacred, and most irreversible part of my obligation to preserve the union of these states, although it may cost me my life.

The voice of one who goes before, to makeThe paths of June more beautiful, is thineSweet May!

His foreparents came to America in immigrant ships. My foreparents came to America in slave ships. But whatever the original ships, we are both in the same boat tonight.

The Lord doesn't like us to be dead. Be alive. Sometimes I dance to the glory of the Lord, because He said so.

I'm willing to forgive the press, or forgive anybody, I was taught to love and forgive, which I do have in my heart.

Self-expression is my goal, I want to be real with my feelings. Singing and dancing and all the joy that goes with performing come from my heart. If I can't feel it, I won't do it.

You'd think is something one would grow out of. But you grow into it. The more you do, the more you realize how painfully easy it is to be lousy and how very difficult to be good.

If congress has the right under the Constitution to issue paper money, it was given them to use themselves, not to be delegated to individuals or corporations.

I have only two regrets: I didn't shoot Henry Clay and I didn't hang John C. Calhoun.

We moved together very slowly toward the house, trying to understand its ugliness and ruin and shame.

The good writer and the good actor are always searching for what is essential. It is a never-ending task because what is essential is always elusive and, therefore, fascinating.

If you don't like Louis Armstrong, you don't know how to love.

I am fearful that the paper system will ruin the state. Its demoralizing effects are already seen and spoken of everywhere. I therefore protest against receiving any of that trash.

I don't worry too much about the script, I just ad lib, like Pearl Bailey.

For me, Love is something very pure.

Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon

I'm a true believer in prayer, a big believer in prayer.

To a world sick with racism, get well soon.

[We are] persuaded to spend money we don't have on things we don't need to create impressions that won't last on people we don't care about.

Music has been my outlet, my gift to all of the lovers in this world. Through it - my music, I know I will live forever.

Python - why settle for snake oil when you can have the whole snake?

Work at something you enjoy and that's worthy of your time and talent.

I think people forgot that there are still ways you can get the ball inside rather than just standing there and throwing the ball in. You have to have a system that makes all things work.

I will have Derek Fisher wear all 5 of his rings the first time he comes in to talk to Carmelo.

I'm totally at home on the stage. That's where I live. That's where I was born. That's where I'm safe.

The only way I'm going to get a gold glove is with a can of spray paint.

Take care of your reputation. It's your most valuable asset.

People who accomplish big things did small things well.

My duty is to obey orders.

I would have to find something else to bury here and I wished it could be Charles.

There are two kinds of music. One comes from the strings of a guitar, the other from the strings of the heart.

What's the point? you can bring in 50 witnesses and it would not change what the tape clearly shows.

Never laugh at anyone's dreams.

Remember that a good example is the best sermon.

Anything in the entertainment business, there's sharks coming around. It's about staying true to yourself and making sure that, when you look in the mirror, you're happy with what you see.

A Recession is predominantly for the middle class. Where I come from the majority of people have always lived in a recession.

The magic, the wonder, the mystery and the innocence of a child’s heart are the seeds of creativity that will heal the world.

Mistruths are printed as fact, in some cases, and frequently only half of a story will be told.

Be quick to take advantage of an advantage.