Michael Jackson Quotes

If you want to see eccentricities, I'll be grotesque before your eyes.

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• I struggle if I have chaos around me, but at the same time, if I don't have it, I'm uncomfortable. It's a strange thing: If I don't have chaos, I create it.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Time
  • Struggle
  • Chaos

• You're not a historian, but most historians will tell you that they make very discrete judgment as to what facts to omit in order to make their book into some shape, some length that can be managed.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • Book
  • Facts
  • Judgment

• Words aren't very good at describing complicated, strange visual things. You can try, and the reader will have some sort of image in their mind, but words aren't good at that.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Words

• I'm not really a piano player, but I play enough to get away with it.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Play
  • Player
  • Enough

• Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • People
  • Children
  • Think

• Keeping in touch with the people that matter is important.

  

  G-Eazy
  • People
  • Important
  • Touch

• Film and TV and stuff like that was something that I wanted to do when I was really, really little; like, I remember I used to do these plays with my cousins. We used to do Michael Jackson performances, and I would be Michael.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Remember
  • Film
  • Cousins

• We're humans. Why always turn human attitude into political behaviours? I hate that.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Why
  • Political
  • Hate

• Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.

  

  F. H. Bradley
  • Live
  • Heart
  • Cold

• I don't take care of my voice at all, which is one reason that I sound as bad as I do.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Bad
  • Care
  • Voice

• I'm not really the one in my family who knows everything that's going on, because I don't really pay attention.

  

  Mackenzie Rosman
  • Family
  • Attention

• Methought I saw the grave where Laura lay.

  

  Walter Raleigh

• Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Sea
  • Soldier

• Of all the events which constitute a person's biography, there is scarcely one - none, certainly, of anything like a similar importance - to which the world so easily reconciles itself as to his death.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • World
  • Death

• Everywhere I am folded, there I am a lie.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke

• The roots below the earth claim no rewards for making the branches fruitful.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Earth

• We can search among the unconscious, emotion-laden learning rules for the kind of behavior most directly influenced by genetic evolution.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Learning
  • Search

• Perhaps our own fin-de-siècle decadence takes the form, not of libertarian excess, but of the kind of over-the-top puritanism we see in political correctness and the assorted moral certainties of physical fitness fanatics, New Agers and animal-rights activists.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Political
  • Moral
  • Animal

• This word "description" may be disconcerting when used to refer to what is generally called a translation. But when one wishes to render a verbal creation (as opposed to a didactic statement) from one language to another, he is confronted with two equally unsatisfactory choices. He may, according to his talents, elaborate a similar, but never identical creation, or he may describe that creation as completely as possible in his own language.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • May
  • Choices
  • Word

• The habit of ubiquitous interventionism, combining pinprick strikes by precision weapons with pious invocations of high principle, would lead us into endless difficulties. Interventions must be limited in number and overwhelming in their impact.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • High
  • Habit

• The only time you actually are a spectator of your own work is the day you read the script.

  

  Antonio Banderas
  • Time
  • Work

• I will thank God for the day and the moment I have.

  

  Jim Valvano
  • God

• Facing this stuff, in real life is not like school, in school, if you make a mistake you can just try again tomorrow, but out there...when your a second away from being murdered or watching a friend die right before your eyes...you don't know what that's like.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Life
  • Real
  • School

• If you want to see eccentricities, I'll be grotesque before your eyes.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • Eyes
  • Grotesque
  • Eccentricities