Mr Magoo Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Harry Truman once said: "Find me a one-armed economist, because every one I know always says, 'Well, on the other hand . . .

Ronald Reagan

#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. Yes, and you've never been able to understand the suggestiveness of paradox and contradiction. That's your problem. You live and breathe paradox and contradiction, but you can no more see the beauty of them than the fish can see the beauty of the water

Michael Frayn

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

Peta Wilson

#6. Let the pawns make their moves.

Ernest Dempsey

#7. Words are nets through which all truth escapes
("News From The World")

Paula Fox

#8. Things are coming to a pretty pass when religion is allowed to invade private life.

Lord Melbourne

#9. Good books make you ask questions. Bad readers want everything answered.

Scott Westerfeld

#10. She hated official letters. They made her feel nervous. The people who wrote them sounded like they had filing cabinets where their hearts should be.

Katherine Rundell

#11. I have deep roots in this Oklahoma soil. It makes me proud.

N. Scott Momaday

#12. What is life if it's not in pursuit of the things we love?

Krista Ritchie

#13. In the next two years he would sit on ninety committees, chairing twenty-five. No other congressman came even remotely close to carrying such a heavy work load. Soon he was acknowledged "to be the first man in the House," as Benjamin Rush reported.28

John Ferling