Joseph Jackson Quotes
Michael was a type of person the whole family went behind who crossed all borders with his music.
Quotes to Explore
-
The world is always in movement.
-
In my life, I wanted to feel tall. I wanted to be somebody. I wanted to be tall as the Sears Tower. I wanted to be on top of the Sears Tower. I wanted to be as strong as the Sears Tower feels.
-
The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn't feel like it, instead of running away from it. Sometimes good work needs to be earned, and when you can overcome yourself, the muse notices and celebrates.
-
I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.
-
I don't think there is much value in trying to use the moon as a base to go to Mars. That's going into one gravity belt and having to get back out of it again. And the moon doesn't have a lot to offer as a resource base.
-
Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation.
-
For a while, I became an atheist; now that I'm grown up, though, I'm not hard-edged enough to be an atheist. Even though I live with a flaming atheist, I love going to temple. I love all the rituals.
-
Long-, medium- and short-grain rices differ in the amount and type of starch they have.
-
Some taxpayers may object to a print journalism bailout on the grounds that it mostly benefits the liberal elite. And we can't blame taxpayers for being reluctant to subsidize the reportorial careers of J-school twerps who should have joined the Peace Corps and gone to Africa to 'speak truth to power' to Robert Mugabe.
-
I've been very lucky.
-
Don't get me wrong: I would not say no to an Oscar!
-
We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.
-
I have always watched my close friends fall in love, but I never thought it would happen to me.
-
Mum put me in drama classes when I was about 14. I'd been going on about it for some time, so maybe it was a way to shut me up.
-
I live in Soho in lower New York; there's tons and tons of tourists right outside my door step, obviously. Most of them are European, and all of them have guidebooks. I never see anyone looking at a phone.
-
Schooling is so important.
-
Weisinger, a couple of years ago, made up the following story: 'Isaac Asimov was asked how Superman could fly faster than the speed of light, which was supposed to be an absolute limit. To this Asimov replied, 'That the speed of light is a limit is a theory; that Superman can travel faster than light is a fact.''
-
A lot of these industries are having difficulty finding reliable workers with the skills they require.
-
What frustrates U.S. officials is that China sometimes seems more comfortable accommodating a strong United States, as it did in past decades, than partnering with an America that's less dominant.
-
In the first two projects I've worked on professionally, I've been doing ensemble work with other young women, which I think is pretty cool. And they both were directed by and written by women. It's been a wonderful experience of real ensemble support and women lifting each other up, and I feel really lucky for that.
-
The only catalogue of this world's goods that really counts is that which we keep in the silence of the mind.
-
I'd experimented with so many different types of music. I had these folky songs I'd written and recorded, but something wasn't quite right.
-
When the mind is possessed of reality, it feels tranquil and joyous even without music or song, and it produces a pure fragrance even without incense or tea.
-
Michael was a type of person the whole family went behind who crossed all borders with his music.
