Kastens Jackson Quotes

Why would Roman gods want to date Chinese Canadians? ~ Rick Riordan

...it's unsportsmanlike to engage in a battle of wits with anyone who is obviously unarmed. ~ Lilian Jackson Braun

Nico drew his sword. His smile was even more unsettling than his scowl.
"Underground," he said. "My favorite place."
Underground was not Jason's favorite place. ~ Rick Riordan

Keep climbing,' he told himself.
'Cheeseburgers,' his stomach replied.
'Shut up,' he thought.
'With fries,' his stomach complained. ~ Rick Riordan

At least the politicians are accountable to the voters. ~ Jesse Jackson

The bold effort the present (central) bank had made to control the government ... are but premonitions of the fate that await the American people should they be deluded into a perpetuation of this institution or the establishment of another like it. ~ Andrew Jackson

Why don't women have respect for themselves nowadays? What happen to the woman who learned her grandmama's recipes and made her man sweet potato pie? I tell you, they don't make 'em like they used to. Will my real women stand up, please? ~ Brandon T. Jackson

Shara realizes she herself has done this to her own enemies many times: after all, why kill someone when you can make them out to be an incompetent fool? ~ Robert Jackson Bennett

Children are the only ones who don't want anything of me. ~ Michael Jackson

Some students are mean, spoiled, rude, and seem as though they do not have a loving bone in their bodies. ~ Charlena E. Jackson

I tell my teachers, but they never do anything! ~ Charlena E. Jackson

Forgive me, giver, if I destroy the gift:
it is so nearly what would please me
I cannot but perfect it ~ Laura Riding Jackson

I'm starting on Cirque du Soleil Michael Jackson show. So it's the equivalent of the Beatles' Love show they have, or the Elvis show. Which is exciting and terrifying all at the same time because it's such a huge responsibility. But that's why I took it on, because Mike was such a huge part of my career and life. we were friends for 20 years before he passed, since I was seven. So it's an opportunity for me to give back a little bit to his legacy ... ~ Wade Robson

He who owns a wood of proper land in this country, and, in the face of all the personal riches of the day, only raises crabs and choke pears, deserves to lose the respect of all sensible men. ~ Andrew Jackson Downing

Girl, don't make me put my foot in your ass. ~ Samuel L. Jackson

We've always had a love for other places outside the US. I would be right with him. Now that Michael's been vindicated, we all have to be careful ... you never know what someone's plotting and planning. ~ Jermaine Jackson

...whatever it was, it wasn't going to make much difference in how I felt about Michael. We belonged to each other. Alex couldn't change that. Jackson couldn't change that. ~ S.J. Wright

I stayed a virgin until I was 23. I didn't do drugs or drink or smoke. ~ Victoria Jackson

Sex was where laurel knew she knew him, and talking was the way she called him to her. ~ Joshilyn Jackson

I get some heat for what English people call 'overproduction.' I don't think my older stuff was overproduced, but I do think that sound has dated. ~ Jackson Browne

It slammed into me so hard it nearly knocked me from my feet. At the same time, it felt completely natural. Inevitable. Simple.
I loved her.
My eyes dropped closed, savoring the truth soaking my body, my nerves thrilling in excitement while my heat beat with a steady content.
I loved her. ~ A.L. Jackson

How could I relax when I had to welcome Christian into my home, the one who had wounded me deeper than anyone, the one who haunted my days and held me in my dreams? ~ A.L. Jackson

I put my office right in the middle of the death they threaten us with. [ ... ] here I sit, every day, hanging over all this wasted nothing. I will never forget what the world could be, should my vigilance never fail. And more than that, I will never forget that in a way we are all hanged men and hanged women, awaiting those deaths which cannot be avoided. Yet I will make sure that we live and die the way we choose for as long as we possibly can. ~ Robert Jackson Bennett

I could compose and write music and get to share it with the masses and the people around the world and to have them to receive it so beautifully - I love that. ~ Michael Jackson

The one thing I always loved about Michael Jackson: he had fun records, but he's also going to make some important statement with the music as well. He's not going to forsake the culture. ~ Warryn Campbell

Why were drunks, almost always, persons of talent, personality, lovable qualities, gifts, brains, assets of all kinds (else why would anyone care?); why were so many brilliant men alcoholic? ~ Charles Jackson

Entertainment is about taking people away from the regular order of things when there is some chaos and pain and stress. ~ Michael Jackson

What you must do, do cheerfully. ~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

I AM TRANSFORMING FOR THE BETTER. ~ Charlena E. Jackson

I am still so in love with you, Samantha. Completely, crazy in love with you."
... "I love you with every part of me, Christopher. Never stopped. ~ A.L. Jackson

All medieval and classic cultures of the ancient world, including those on which Tolkien modeled his elves, routinely exposed their young and marriageable women to the fortunes of war, because bearing and raising the next generation of warriors is not needed for equality-loving elves.
Equality-loving elves. Who are monarchists. With a class system. Of ranks.
Battles are more fun when attractive young women are dismembered and desecrated by goblins! I believe that this is one point where C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and all Christian fantasy writers from before World War Two were completely agreed upon, and it is a point necessary in order correctly to capture the mood and tone and nuance of the medieval romances or Norse sagas such writers were straining their every artistic nerve and sinew to create.
So, wait, we have an ancient and ageless society of elves where the virgin maidens go off to war, but these same virgin maidens must abide by the decision of their father or liege lord for permission to marry?
-- The Desolation of Tolkien ~ John C. Wright

A life that seems small on the outside can be limitless on the inside. ~ John Jackson Miller