M. Jackson Quotes

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

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.

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

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.

I hate labels because it should be just music. I don't see anything wrong with disco. Call it anything. It's music.

I just can't conceive of how a person could hate another because of skin color. I love every race on the planet earth.

I want to always be youthful and have the energy to run around and play hide and seek, which is one of my favorite games.

Remember that the more you know, the less you fear.

Why do people watch fights?... They watch it for inspiration.

It's not enough to be quiet. Quietness is the absence of noise. We need peace, the presence of justice and to be - and so people here can coexist and live together.

When opportunity knocks, invite it to stay for dinner.

I have a hard time believing athletes are overpriced. If an owner is losing money, give it up. It's a business. I have trouble figuring out why owners would stay in if they're losing money.

Had the jury convicted on proper instructions it would be the end of the matter. But juries are not bound by what seems inescapable logic to judges.

People have always frightened and bored me consequently I have been within my own shell.

In business or in life, don't follow the wagon tracks too closely.

It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States.

I am the baby in the family, and I always will be. I am actually very happy to have that position. But I still get teased. I don't mind that.

If you have four years to complete your college education, do it.

My money goes to my agent, then to my accountant and from him to the tax man.

If there are occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my joy bell lost its resonance, please forgive me. Charge it to my head and not to my heart.

A kiss on the beach when there is a full moon is the closest thing to heaven.

My painting does not come from the easel.

Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.

People ask me how I make music. I tell them I just step into it. It's like stepping into a river and joining the flow. Every moment in the river has its song.

I've never asked a girl out in my life, they have to ask me.

Jesse Jackson, when I met him, he had an innocence about him which is still very much a part of him today.

When I was younger, Lisa Leslie inspired me a whole lot. She was someone I looked up to and wanted to be like. I really believe she is a good person. Hopefully, she can find out I am the same.

These days I seem to think about the things I forgot to do for you and all the times I had a chance to.

Fear of corrupting the mind of the younger generation is the loftiest form of cowardice.

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

What I love about films is that you can see "King Kong" and you can be affected by it and then you realize that he was just this little guy when he made that fall.

Next time!' In what calendar are kept the records of those next times which never come?

You measure peace with guns, progress in megatons. Who's left when the war is won?

It does take a long time and a lot of paint to become our own artist.

Every once in a while, take the scenic route.

Young love is wild and outrageous, laughing at moderation and blinding us to common sense.

My whole thing was this was to immortalize my family's name. To get the people who never would have appreciated him to appreciate him, there's nothing a son could want more.

Prejudice is ignorance.

Gangs are a group reaction to helplessness.

I am bewildered at the length to which people will go to portray me so negatively.

Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.

Getting comments like that from even the young people at the shows who probably aren't singers, the girls who just tell me that I'm an inspiration to them, for one reason or another.

I always like to plan ahead of time and follow up.

Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.

Be brave. Even if you're not pretend to be. No one can tell the difference.

Remember that almost everything looks better after a good night's sleep.

Wherever you go, man-made things are man-made, but you’ve got to get out and see God’s beauty of the world.

Show respect for everyone who works for a living, regardless of how trivial their job.

It is my belief that we all have the need to feel special. It is this need that can bring out the best in us, yet the worst in us.

I'm always Peter Pan in my heart