M. Jackson Quotes

Madam, if your son were to come home and try to shirk duty, you ought to shut your door in his face and treat him as a renegade unworthy of your name or regard.

Read carefully anything that requires your signature. Remember the big print giveth and the small print taketh away.

I can't actually see myself putting make-up on my face at the age of sixty, but I can see myself going on a camel train to Samarkand.

The only justification for ever looking down on somebody is to pick them up.

Tape record your parents' laughter

Don't delay acting on a good idea. Chances are someone else has just thought of it, too. Success comes to the one who acts first.

You can't plant a seed and pick the fruit the next morning.

Love wins when everything else will fail.

Don't do business with anyone who has a history of suing people.

If you don't know what tomorrow holds, you need to know who holds tomorrow!

Do your homework and know your facts, but remember it's passion that persuades.

It's always difficult for anyone trying to compete against their past achievements.

Elizabeth Taylor is gorgeous, beautiful, and she still is today, I'm crazy about her.

I'm a gentleman, call me old fashioned if you want.

Everything is in a script for a reason, and only by being part of a writing team (or writing it yourself), do you really understand the intention of every beat.

I find that in the process of making a film you're constantly discovering things that you never even imagined would work at the beginning.

I love to read. I wish I could advise more people to read. There's a whole other world in books.

I love to create. I love to make magic. I love to create the unexpected.

You can't argue with stupidity.

When children listen to music, they don't just listen. They melt into the melody and flow with the rhythm. Something inside starts to unfold its wings - soon the child and the music are one.

I want to tell the children of the world, you are all our children, each one of you is my child and I love you all.

Don't go to war no more. Steady peace because peace is all we need.

When death comes, he respects neither age nor merit. He sweeps from the earthly existence the sick and the strong, the rich and the poor, and should teach us to live to be prepared for death.

Liberalism and their ideas have done more to kill black folks whom they claim so much to love than the Ku Klux Klan, lynching and slavery and Jim Crow ever did, now that’s a fact.

I love you - but don't touch me.

I will say again that I have never, and would never, harm a child. It sickens me that people have written untrue things about me.

Americans are not a perfect people, but we are called to a perfect mission.

I have a romantic side. I do things.

It's very hard trying to have love and a career at the same time. For those who can, great, but I can't.

He who fears fate lives like a coward

I have a pretty bad temper. But you have to really push me to see it. But everybody has their things.

Kobe Bryant will be better than Michael Jordan

Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone. This simple goodness shines straight from their hearts and only asks to be loved.

Bound together by our beliefs, we are like minded individuals, sharing a common vision, pushing toward a world rid of color lines.

There's a perception that's been put out into the marketplace by No Child Left Behind that schools aren't doing enough for kids.

My heart and prayers go out to every individual

But when you know that you've got a real friend somewhere, suddenly all the others are so much easier to bear.

Beat me, hate me, you can never break me.

We talk about how many women were raped last year, not about how many men raped women.

But since you're asking me, I'll tell you my opinion: all cornbread is authentic, as long as it's good, hot, and made with love and fresh ingredients.

Some miners would have 20 pints after a hard day in the mine. Now that we sit behind computers all day, this is down to 18 or 19 pints.

Remember,the press is a business: Newspapers and magazines are in business to make money - sometimes at the expense of accuracy, fairness and even the truth.

I prefer children because they are honest. They don't want anything from you other than to have fun. Adults have let me down. Adults have let the world down.

If people want to know the truth, why don't they just come to me and ask?

I need you like the blues needs the pain.

I don't mind getting beaten, but I hate to lose.

Not knowing all of the conventions of beauty, he [Tom Thomson] found it all beautiful.

I'm never pleased with anything, I'm a perfectionist, it's part of who I am.

When I perform, I lose myself. I'm in total control of that stage. I don't think about anything. I know what I want to do from the moment I step out there and I love every minute of it.

Drinking really cold beer is like slapping yourself in the face with an ice pick.