logo

Quotes About Jackie

I want you to look at somebody here's come to visit you." Jackie watched the young guy scowl as Nicolet shook him again and his eyes opened.
~ Elmore Leonard
I got into the Kennedy White House because at the time I was president of the Women's National Press Club, and they assigned me to cover the early days of the Kennedy campaign. Jackie especially. Everyone was interested in the family.
~ Helen Thomas
Jackie Rodowsky's private BSC nickname is the Walking Disaster. Abby says he has the Sadim touch. Sadim is Midas backward. Everything he touches turns into an accident.
~ Ann M. Martin
I felt like a fool. A rotten sitter. Kristy the Careless. Everyone in town was going to see Jackie with his cane. Of course they would ask what happened and they'd find out the truth. He'd been left unsupervised by his sitter in his own backyard. If there were such things as sitting licenses, mine would be revoked.
~ Ann M. Martin
He (Jackie Robinson) was the greatest competitor I've ever seen. I've seen him beat a team with his bat, his ball, his glove, his feet and, in a game in Chicago one time, with his mouth.
~ Duke Snider
Some people call Police Story the greatest action film of all time, and while I have to be humble and say that I disagree, it's definitely the favorite action film I've ever made.
~ Jackie Chan
My father was, like, the token bad white guy in all the old Jackie Chan/Bruce Lee films.
~ Celina Jade
My mother said she was the most popular girl in school, and I believed it. Jackie said she was the meanest, and I believed that, too.
~ Gillian Flynn
I was never ready and could you see it in the way time collapsed in my syntax? Because melancholia is the inability to sequentialize.
~ Jackie Wang
We had a love-hate relationship. Jackie knew exactly what she could get out of one of my photos.
~ Ron Galella
Someone, I was beginning to suspect, had a bit of a gangster complex. It wasn't really very hard to figure out who. I mean, I was guessing it wasn't Christopher's aunt Jackie.
~ Meg Cabot
Mary Kate had a zebra sweatshirt." "What a coincidence," Jackie said. Tim waved his arms in the air. "Maybe a zebra escaped from the zoo. A zebra who loves cashew nuts!
~ Judy Katschke
Jackie was speaking at a drugstore, and I said, 'I'm not going to get this opportunity again, so I better take my chances and listen to Jackie Robinson now.' Little did I know, I got front row seats, and next to me was my father.
~ Hank Aaron
I don't plan on writing biographies of great sports stars who are still playing ball. But I did write one on Jackie Robinson, who was playing ball in the 20th century.
~ David A. Adler
I was one of the first people to learn that Jackie was going to marry Aristotle Onassis.
~ Pierre Salinger
It was a breaking period for black people coming into baseball, and how many followed depended on Jackie's conduct. But that's not the case now. What and how I do doesn't mean nearly as much as what and how Jackie did.
~ Frank Robinson
I have nothing but all the respect in the world for Jackie Robinson.
~ Vernon Law
From my childhood, I have watched a lot of action films, and I am a big fan of Jackie Chan.
~ Disha Patani
I have two sons in America, and all they care about in Chinese culture is Jackie Chan and Jet Li.
~ Ang Lee
I loved playing Jackie on 'Happy Endings.' It was really exciting to be in the pilot and then be able to come back. Her character was so much fun!
~ Mikaela Hoover
As I look out there and see the culture of baseball, a lot of blacks and Latins, it's given me a lot of joy to know that Jackie started that. If Jackie hadn't come in '47, me and Ron Santo wouldn't have played in Double-A and all those years in the big leagues.
~ Billy Williams
Oh, yeah! Playing 'Young Jackie' came at the insistence of Roseanne herself. Mom obliged but told me that would not be an option again until I was 18. Truthfully, I grew up not thinking I would act.
~ Zoe Perry
Chaplin was the greatest thing ever to hit motion pictures.
~ Jackie Coogan
Jackie Brown at twenty-six, with no expression on his face, said that he could get some guns.
~ George V. Higgins