Top 552 Quotes & Sayings by Michael Jackson - Page 8

When you have a special gift you don’t realize it because you think everyone else has the same gift.

Let's all work to get people to drink more good beer, so if someone walks into your office and says he drinks Corona, don't immediately call him a dickhead.

Like the Bible says. A child should be leader of them all, and to be led by that kind of innocence. Didnt Jesus say bring on the children? Be like the children. Not childish, but child-like. That kind of innocence.

The foundation of all human knowledge, the beginning of human consciousness, must be that each and every one of us is an object of love. Before you know if you have red hair or brown, before you know if you are black or white, before you know of what religion you are a part, you have to know that you are loved

Never ask for 'a beer.'

We look high and low for God, but somehow He's not there. So we blame Him and tell ourselves that He must have forgotten us. Or else we decide that He left us long ago, if He was ever around." "How strange," the little fish said, "to miss what is everywhere." "Very strange," the old whale agreed. "Doesn't it remind you of fish who say they're thirsty?

Hope is such a beautiful word, but it often seems very fragile. Life is still being needlessly hurt and destroyed.

I try to be kind and generous, and to give to people, and to do what I think God wants me to do.

Who will dance on the floor in the round?

I have a skin disorder that destroys the pigmentation of the skin, it's something that I cannot help, OK?

She's saying that's ok, Hey baby, do what you want I'll be your night lovin' thing I'll be the freak you can taunt And I don't care what you say I want to go too far I'll be your everything If you make me a star... Dirty Diana

I wrote a book called ‘Dancing The Dream’. It was more autobiographical than Moonwalk, which I did with Mrs. Onassis. It wasn’t full of gossip and scandal and all that trash that people write, so I don’t think people paid much attention to it, but it came from my heart. It was essays, thoughts and things that I’ve thought about while on tour

Music is colorless. It's for everybody, it's for the world, it's for everybody to enjoy.

Wherever you go, in every country, on every continent, people yearn and hunger for one thing: to love and be loved.

It's been my fate to compensate for the childhood I've never known.

Leinenkugels makes better beer now that Miller bought them. It will license insecure people to like craft beers.

I prefer just being with people I like. That's my way of celebrating.

Criticizing reporters is like boo-ing at the Special Olympics.

Yet, instead of loving our children more, we install metal detectors in our schools.

Going to my shows, it's like a religious experience, because you come out, you go in one person, you come out a different person.

I see God in the face of children. If there were no children on this Earth, if somebody announced that all kids are dead, I would jump off the balcony immediately. I'm done.

[about tabloid magazines] Just because you read it in a magazine or see it on a TV screen doesn't make it factual. To buy it is to feed it.

Together we can make a change of the world. Together we can help to stop racism. Together we can help to stop prejudice. We can help the world live without fear. It's our only hope, without hope we are lost.

Music has been my outlet, my gift to all of the lovers in this world. Through it - my music, I know I will live forever.

What I enjoy most about performing is making people happy. Just to make a person smile means more to me than anything.

To clink glasses of a freshly made, seasonal beer, preferably in a pub or garden, with friends and perhaps new acquaintances, is a ritual that makes every participant feel good. We may not rationalize this at the time, but it gives us a sense of place in our common community and our time in the tides of life on earth. This is a way to value beer and treat it with respect.

They didn't trademark everything back then. Now someone farts and they put a TM after it. Even Miller Lite says 'A Fine Pilsner Beer' on the label. It is a crime.

Nothing's real ,but all is possible if God is on my side

Each song is a child I nourish and give my love to. But even if you have never written a song, your life is a song. How can it not be?

How many victims must that be? Slaughtered in vain across the land, And how many strugles must that be? Before we choose to live the profits plan Everybody sing- Every day create your History, Every path you take you're leaving your legacy Every soldier dies in his glory Every legend tells of conquest and liberty.

Heal the world, make it a better place.

The main thing that I hate the most is ignorance, like the prejudice problems of America. I know it is worse in some other countries. But I wish I could borrow, like from Venezuela or Trinidad, the real love of color-blind people and bring it to America.

I feel guilty just sitting around when I know I can be doing something.

I said if you're thinkin' of being my brother, it don't matter if you're black or white.

I believe in God.....I gain strength from God. I believe in Jehovah, God, very much.....I believe in God and love God.

Mama always told me, be careful what you do, don't go around breaking young girls hearts.

God has always been in my heart and a part of my life and my familys lives. It is through Him that we draw our strength.

There's nothing that can't be done if we raise our voice as one.

I love animals because all they really want from you is love. Too bad that's even too much to ask for from some people.

I always enjoyed the feeling of being onstage - the magic that comes. When I hit the stage it’s like all of a sudden a magic from somewhere just comes and the spirit just hits you and you just lose control of yourself.

I have a loving family, a strong faith and wonderful friends and fans who have, and continue, to support me.

Music is my contribution to life. I have my heart in it.

I must endure...for the world for the children.

I love John Travolta, who came off that Kotter show. Nobody knew he could dance or do all of those things. He is like - boom. Before he knew it, he was the next big Brando or something.

I wasn't aware that the world thought I was so weird and bizarre. But when you grow up, like I did, in front of 100 million people since the age of 5, you're automatically different.

I believe I'm one of the loneliest people in the world.

The most conspicuous thing about suffering is, as W.H. Auden once observed, its banality. The day is green, the sun is shinging, someone is eating, or opening a window, the torturer's horse is scatching its innocent behind on a tree, and in a mere second someone we love is dead.

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

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

I am always writing a potpourri of music. I want to give the world escapism through the wonder of great music and to reach the masses.

God created animals. And they’re loving; they’re beautiful. I feel the way (anthropologist) Jane Goodall does or any of those naturalists. I don’t find my interest in animals weird or strange at all.

So I'm leaving Sony, a free agent, owning half of Sony. I own half of Sony's Publishing. I'm leaving them, and they're very angry at me, because I just did good business, you know.

When people leave my show, I want them to say, 'I've never seen anything like that in my life ... It's amazing. He's the greatest entertainer in the world.'

With two children of my own, I know what it means to balance the demands of family and career - and let's not even talk about finding a date for myself. Rabbi Shmuley keeps telling me he'll find me the perfect woman. My response is, 'As long as she's not a journalist'.

I always had this yearning to give and help and make people feel better.

If you can't feed your baby, then don't have a baby.

I know a tree feels it when the wind blows through it. It probably goes, 'Chhhhhh, this is wonderful.' And that's how I feel when I'm singing some songs. It's wonderful.

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

When you have seen the things I have seen and traveled all over the world, you would not be honest to yourself and the world to [look away].

I just don't like being on a lot of different things or being everywhere because I get kind of embarrassed.