Magoo Quotes

#1. 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

#2. I'm the Magoo of actresses, very accident-prone.

Peta Wilson

#3. Collectivists see the world the way Mr. Magoo did - as one big blur. They homogenize people in a communal blender, sacrificing the discrete features that make us who we are.

Lawrence W. Reed

#4. IT was the time of day when Lake Eden residents decided it was too late for a breakfast cookie and too early for a lunch cookie.

Joanne Fluke

#5. By how much one man has more experience of things past, than another, by so much also he is more prudent, and his expectations the seldomer fail him.

Thomas Hobbes

#6. I need to know that you'll think about the good times we shared, and never settle for anything less than how you felt in those moments.

Lisa De Jong

#7. Some of the cruelest men in the world were born with silver tongues. They could charm a bird right out of the sky, only to break its wings. And no men, nice or cruel, offer favors lightly - not strangers. Not to young women. Not without expecting something back in return.

Nenia Campbell

#8. No one can reach the pinnacle of success without crossing the treacherous valleys of failures.

Debasish Mridha

#9. People never believe you.

J.D. Salinger

#10. Can I be your daddy now?" he asked, resting his hand on the wall behind my head and leaning in.

Maris Black

#11. I feel so lucky.

Kate Mara