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We have put together a list of some of the best Quotes that Written by Jim Bishop
Jim Bishop
Total Quotes 28
A Golf Ball Can Stop In The Fairway, Rough, Woods, Bunker Or Lake. With Five Equally Likely Options, Very Few Balls Choose The Fairway.
Golf
Lakes
Balls
Scoops Of Mint Ice Cream With Chips Of Chocolate Cows.
Chocolate Ice Cream
Cows
Chips
To Have Courage, One Must First Be Afraid. The Deeper The Fear, The More Difficult The Climb Toward Courage.
Age
Firsts
Difficult
At 19, Everything Is Possible And Tomorrow Looks Friendly.
Birthday
Friendly
Looks
When You Read About A Car Crash In Which Two Or Three Youngsters Are Killed, Do You Pause To Dwell On The Amount Of Love And Treasure And Patience Parents Poured Into Bodies No Longer Suitable For Open Caskets?
Patience
Two
Car
I Can Look At My Books With Pleasure From A Distance. Four Feet Is Close Enough.
Distance
Book
Feet
Death Is As Casual And Often As Unexpected As Birth. It Is As Difficult To Define Grief As Joy. Each Is Finite. Each Will Fade.
Grief
Joy
Unexpected
It Is Impossible To Read For Pleasure From Something To Which You Are Both Father And Mother, Born In Such Travail That The Writer Despises The Thing That Enslaved Him.
Mother
Father
Insomnia
Perhaps The Best Thing Which Can Be Said About Newspapers In The United States Is That They Are In Chronic Disagreement With Each Other. That Is What Is Meant By A Free Press.
United States
Newspapers
Said
A Reporter Meets Interesting People. If He Endures, He Will Get To Know Princes And Presidents, Popes And Paupers, Prostitutes And Panderers. And Always, In The Back Of His Head, There Will Be A Dozen Men And Women He Will Never Meet. And Always, He Will Feel The Poorer For It.
Men
People
Interesting
Nobody Understands Anyone 18, Including Those Who Are 18.
Youth
Including
Mulligan: Invented By An Irishman Who Wanted To Hit One More Twenty Yard Grounder.
Golf
Twenties
Yards
A Good Writer Of History Is A Guy Who Is Suspicious.
History
Guy
Good Writers
The Reporter Is The Daily Prisoner Of Clocked Facts. On All Working Days, He Is Expected To Do His Best In One Swift Swipe At Each Story.
Stories
Facts
Prisoner
Golf Is Played By Twenty Million Mature American Men Whose Wives Think They Are Out Having Fun.
Funny
Retirement
Native American
A Good Writer Is Not, Per Se, A Good Book Critic. No More So Than A Good Drunk Is Automatically A Good Bartender.
Book
Drunk
Bartending
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.
Future
Mirrors
Trying
Gimme: An Agreement Between Two Losers Who Can't Putt.
Agreement
Two
Loser
What Makes A Good Writer Of History Is A Guy Who Is Suspicious. Suspicion Marks The Real Difference Between The Man Who Wants To Write Honest History And The One Who'd Rather Write A Good Story.
Real
Writing
Men
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.
Growing Up
Age
Ink
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.
Men
Who Cares
Want
True Love Is Night Jasmine, A Diamond In Darkness, The Heartbeat No Cardiologist Has Ever Heard. It Is The Most Common Of Miracles, Fashioned Of Fleecy Clouds - A Handful Of Stars Tossed Into The Night Sky.
Love
Stars
Heart
Raising A Child Is Very Much Like Building A Skyscraper. If The First Few Stories Are Slightly Out Of Line. No One Will Notice. But When The Building Is 18 Or 20 Stories High, Everyone Will See That It Tilts.
Children
Stories
Tilt
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.
Life
Change
New Year
Born: November 21, 1907
Died: July 26, 1987
Occupation: Journalist
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