Richard Jackson Quotations

We're in much better shape to confront the aging challenge than the countries of continental Europe or Japan. But good shape is a relative statement.

I was so focused, I let nothing, neither rain nor the lightning stop me,

I am devoted to detective novels. They make such a nice change from my work.

We've done the double over them now, and that's no mean achievement.

I was very hungry today, ... I couldn't wait any longer to take this gold medal. This win means a lot for me. I want dedicate it to my uncle and my 3-month-old daughter.

We'll definitely put in a few words during the weekend.

Troubled spirits often are manipulated by other types of spirits.

There's really not much of a precedent for such long-living reptiles, so we're basing our estimate on the fact that she really shows no signs of slowing down.

People consider it a very inequitable way to run a pension system,

They do it every five years, and then they have to come back and do it again.

It's been surreal. There's no way to describe it. One thing after another. You finally think things are slowing down, and something else happens. It's been a fun year, to say the least.

It is said that each of the chemicals in use need to be thought about very carefully in terms of their human health risks. Especially the risks to children, and the amounts left on food should be as little as possible.

That's the first time I've ever met him. That's the man I want to be,

That's about as high as it gets as far as honors. It's tremendous. You can't expect something like that going into any year. To wind up with an honor like that is special. It's a great way to go out.

It's been wild. You don't think about a kicker getting a lot of attention.

I particularly like your American ones, where the hero is invariably amorous, alcoholic and practically indestructible.

California has an obligation to step up and be the national and international leader in this important new technology.

There is no need for a fear of losing control over who is accessing the network to hold back the productivity benefits of flexible working. By examining their access strategy, businesses can implement practices that will keep data secure and control access what and from where.

The heart sags. My footprints forget me. I don’t think anything will ever be the same. This is the edge of the cliff and you can’t move, can’t jump. Everything is vertical. With binoculars you can see where you’ll be in an hour. Raindrops collect on the lens. A fine mist. It hides us. It drifts into clocks. Gravity presses your hands. Some hurts never get said. Some get smuggled.

Can you imagine a silence so desperate to be heard?

Why is it we love so fully what has washed up on the beaches of our hearts, those lost messages, lost friends, the daylight stars we never get to see? Bad luck never takes a vacation, my friend once wrote. It lies there among the broken shells and stones we collect, a story he would say begins with you, with me, a story that is forever lost among the backwaters of our lives, our endless fear of ourselves, and our endless need for hope, a story, perhaps an answer, a word suddenly on wing, the simple sound of a torn heart, or the unmistakable scent of the morning's fading moon.

Some days you exist like the last speaker of an extinct language. These are the silences that litter the heart.

One third of all of our cancers are from tobacco. It's one of the big killers in America and more than half of our kids still have environmental tobacco smoke exposure when environmental tobacco smoke is known to be associated with sudden infant death syndrome, with ear infections, respiratory infections and the rest. If we had to pick something to really go after, that would be one that I would really argue is an extraordinarily high priority and something people can actually do something about.

Young people think they know it all, but a lot of old salts around know they don't.

The thing is to sift out the important sounds, little syllables and vowels that bring hints of their lost words, and not to mistake the fossil for the life, or the kiss for the love, not to mistake the fragment for the sentence.