Author: Jim Bishop

Quotes

Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla.

Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla.

- Jim Bishop

A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words and pictures. It is conceived, born, grows up and dies of old age in a day.

A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words and pictures. It is conceived, born, grows up and dies of old age in a day.

- Jim Bishop

Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.

Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.

- Jim Bishop

The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face.

The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face.

- Jim Bishop

Nobody understands anyone 18, including those who are 18.

Nobody understands anyone 18, including those who are 18.

- Jim Bishop

Archaeology is the peeping Tom of the sciences. It is the sandbox of men who care not where they are going; they merely want to know where everyone else has been.

Archaeology is the peeping Tom of the sciences. It is the sandbox of men who care not where they are going; they merely want to know where everyone else has been.

- Jim Bishop

Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.

Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.

- Jim Bishop

It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

- Jim Bishop

A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender.

A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender.

- Jim Bishop

Similar Authors: