Backus Quotes

#1. I was actually a bit disappointed about the amount of sex in the show. I think Backus should get out a bit more, get a relationship, perhaps make her a lesbian.

Lexa Doig

#2. An Englishman is the unfittest person on earth to argue another Englishman into slavery.

Edmund Burke

#3. You need the willingness to fail all the time.

John Backus

#4. "I want to change you" - that is not a revolution. "I'm willing to change" - now this is a revolution.

Jaggi Vasudev

#5. Much of my work has come from being lazy.

John Backus

#6. God has appointed two kinds of government in the world, which are distinct in their nature, and ought never to be confounded together; one of which is called civil, the other ecclesiastical government.

Isaac Backus

#7. The concept behind personal integrity is wholeness. When a person is the same without as within, when what others know about him is the same truth he knows about himself, he has integrity.

William Backus

#8. Now who can hear Christ declare, that his kingdom is, not of this world, and yet believe that this blending of church and state together can be pleasing to him?

Isaac Backus

#9. Your fear comes not from what you're afraid will happen. Your fear comes from thinking what may happen. You cannot predict your future. You can however, create your future. What happened yesterday is over. What happens today is up to you ... .

James A. Murphy

#10. Leaning forward, Cinder spoke very clearly. "I have a computer in my brain," she said. "So while I'm not going to tell you that I am the smartest or, by any means, the most experienced person in this room, I would suggest that no one use my youth to believe that I am also ignorant.

Marissa Meyer

#11. I decided to try radio as a source of livelihood because I like to eat regularly.

Jim Backus

#12. Sometimes change is good. Although I didn't want to leave.

Latrell Sprewell

#13. They don't like thinking in medical school. They memorize - that's all they want you to do. You must not think.

John Backus

#14. I, myself, have had many failures and I've learned that if you are not failing a lot, you are probably not being as creative as you could be -you aren't stretching your imagination.

John Backus

#15. You don't need miracles in the west. You have insurance.

Brother Yun

#16. Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.

Jim Backus

#17. Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.

Jim Backus

#18. 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

#19. Fear is the thief of dreams.

Brian Krans

#20. When church and state are separate, the effects are happy, and they do not at all interfere with each other: but where they have been confounded together, no tongue nor pen can fully describe the mischiefs that have ensued.

Isaac Backus