Jim Backus Quotes

Magoo's appeal lies in our hostility toward an older generation. But he's not only nearsighted physically. His mind is selective of what it sees, too. That is where the humor, the satire lies, in the difference between what he thinks he sees and reality as we see it.

Jim Backus

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 25, 1913 - July 3, 1989

Topics

HumorMindRealityGenerationSee

I feel open to anything.

Jimmy Iovine

FeelOpenAnythingI Feel

I'm just thankful to have a tour and work something I can focus on.

Jerry Cantrell

WorkThankfulFocusI CanSomething

Fortunately, no country was ever more suited for anarchist agitation than present-day America.

Johann Most

AmericaCountryMoreThanAnarchist

Every writer must find a way of writing that tells the reader: This is me and no one else. The Voice can be idiosyncratic, but it cannot be obscure. It is a blend of style and content and intent and rhythm and pure personality.

Jeff Lindsay

StylePersonalityMeWritingVoice

I am charged with violating pledges which I never gave; and because I execute what I believe to be the law, with usurping powers not conferred by law; and above all, with using the powers conferred upon the President by the Constitution, from corrupt motives and for unwarrantable ends.

John Tyler

I AmLawBelieveConstitutionNever

Donald Trump has shown us his dark heart, has shown us his racism.

Ana Navarro

HeartRacismDarkDonald TrumpUs

I'm for the Wall Street Occupiers. But will they accept me when they find out I sell packaged mortgage default instruments to children?

Steve Martin

ChildrenMeFindWallStreetAccept

The internet, Facebook and Twitter have created mass communications and social spaces that regimes cannot control.

Shimon Peres

ControlInternetFacebookSocial

It is a remarkable fact that smallpox, a scourge for thousands of years, has now vanished from the earth, except for two tiny vials, one locked in a highly secure facility at the Centers for Disease Control, in Atlanta, and another stored in a similarly secure vault in Siberia.

Michael Specter

ControlEarthNowAtlantaTwoYears

When you do a film, when you do a television show, eventually someone comes along and will say to you, 'Don't say that because, one, you will offend someone, or, two, no one will get that. Someone's going to be confused by that, not get the reference and feel abandoned, and then they will get angry at the entertainment.'

Douglas Carter Beane

AngryFeelConfusedSomeoneYouSay

I'm not super-polite or civil - I try to be civil, but I'm not into Seattle's niceties, and I'm not hugely wired into Seattle's natural beauty.

David Shields

BeautyNatural BeautyTrySeattle

I still like to play the blues more than anything else.

Christine McVie

BluesPlayMoreAnythingStillLike

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