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

• Americans are very easygoing people. If the added attention and great visibility that I have been able to generate can help open doors and expose more Chinese to American values and the American way of life, that is great.

  

  Gary Locke
  • People
  • Life
  • Great

• 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

• To acknowledge that I am yet a sinner is not to deny that I am a saint but to acknowledge how I became one, by grace.

  

  R. C. Sproul, Jr.
  • Grace
  • Saint
  • Deny

• Judy, 8, is watching TV He tells Judy, 'Better pack it in, sweetie. Another big day tomorrow: we're going to go to the beach and sailing.' But his voice comes out listless, and perhaps that is the saddest loss time brings, the lessening of excitement about anything.

  

  John Updike
  • Time
  • Beach
  • Sailing

• He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one's eyes, and does not look at him.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Eyes
  • Ugly
  • Really

• There Shakespeare, on whose forehead climbThe crowns o’ the world; oh, eyes sublimeWith tears and laughter for all time!

  

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • Time
  • World
  • Eyes

• When I opened my eyes I saw nothing but the pool of nocturnal sky, for I was lying on my back with out-stretched arms, face to face with that hatchery of stars. Only half awake, still unaware that those depths were sky, having no roof between those depths and me, no branches to screen them, no root to cling to, I was seized with vertigo and felt myself as if flung forth and plunging downward like a diver.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Eyes
  • Sky
  • Lying

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

  

  Michael Jackson
  • Eyes
  • Grotesque
  • Eccentricities