Keith Jackson Quotes

A time will come when people will think I am a myth, or rather something the newspapers have made up.

A good urban legend is something that actually did happen but it got twisted in the telling over time.

no truth is strong enough to defeat a well-established legend.

For your popular rumour, unlike the rolling stone of the proverb, is one which gathers a deal of moss in its wanderings up and down.

You might be a redneck if the richest member of your family bought a house and you have to help take the wheels off of it.

Never had there been such an opportunity for the dissemination of knowledge…. But the obverse is also true. We can have thrust upon us a false picture of reality as distorting as the trick mirrors in a Coney Island funhouse.

You might be a redneck if you have to go outside to get something out of the fridge.

If someone says that they saw a Sasquatch, they're either lying or they are stupid! Now stop lying about the Jewpacabra before stupid people start believing you!

Where there's smoke, there's bound to be mirrors.

The false can never grow into truth by growing in power.

[Donald Trump] has really started his political activity based on this racist lie that our first black president was not an American citizen. There was absolutely no evidence for it, but he persisted, he persisted year after year, because some of his supporters, people that he was trying to bring into his fold, apparently believed it or wanted to believe it.

Where there is a lull in truth an institution springs up.

If you can't prove it's not true then a certain number of people will glom on and say it is true.

You might be a redneck if going to the bathroom involves shoes and a flashlight.

You might be a redneck if your daughter's Barbie's Dream House has a clothesline in the front yard.

You might be a redneck if taking your wife on a cruise means circling the Dairy Queen.

You know what they say in Arkansas...manure happens.

I will take responsibility for any impression or anything I've ever done that people have legitimate questions about. But I think that it's fair to say there's been a concerted effort to convince people like that young man of something, nobody's quite sure what, but of something.

You might be a redneck if the UFO hotline limits you to one call a day.

Step on a crack , you'll break your mama's back. Step on a stone, you'll end up all alone. Step on a stick, you're bound to get the Sick. Watch where you tread, you'll bring out all the dead. - A common children's playground chant, usually accompanied by jumping rope or clapping.

I will be in Melbourne, Florida, and I just heard the crowds are massive that want to be there. I turn on the TV, open the newspapers, and I see stories of chaos, chaos, yet it is the exact opposite.

I don't like people that make their living talking about bullshit, and you see them in many shows that are made on the same subject. When you go looking at UFOs or bigfoot or what-have-you, there's just nothing there.

I suspect that LaGuardia is an elaborate prank, and New York has a real airport nearby that only locals know about.

You might be a redneck if you celebrate Groundhog Day because you believe in it.

The media has the power to create an entrenched perception of reality that's incorrect.