Jim Backus Quotes

#1. Folklore is the perfect second skin. From under its hide, we can see all the shimmering, shadowy uncertainties of the world.

Jane Yolen

#2. Curiosity killed the cat.

Eugene O'Neill

#3. 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

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

Jim Backus

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

Jim Backus

#6. Trust. A very tricky word

Sarra Cannon

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

Jim Backus

#8. To bear lightly the neck's yoke brings strength; but kicking against the goads is the way of failure.

Pindar

#9. What sort of water is that?" said Holtzclaw. "The wet kind," said Ms. Rathbun.

Tim Westover

#10. When my husband Edgar and I were courting, he said he couldn't wait to have a baby. It was only after we were married that he changed his mind and decided that I should have the baby.

Joan Rivers

#11. I am not going to make promises I can't keep. I am not going to talk about big ideas like single-payer and then not level with people about how much it will cost.

Hillary Clinton