Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Jim Bishop (American Author, Journalist)

Jim Bishop (1907–87,) fully James Alonzo Bishop, was an American journalist and author, known for his narrative nonfiction that vividly captured significant historical events. His meticulous research and compelling storytelling established him as a leading figure in the genre of historical nonfiction.

Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Bishop began his career as a reporter, working for newspapers such as The Philadelphia Record and The New York Journal American. His reporting, marked by attention to detail and narrative skill, earned him recognition and a devoted following.

Bishop’s most famous work, The Day Christ Died (1957,) offers a dramatic and detailed account of the events surrounding the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. The bestseller solidified his reputation as a master of historical narratives. In 1960, he published The Day Lincoln Was Shot, another bestseller that provides a minute-by-minute account of President Abraham Lincoln’s assassination and is widely regarded as one of the most comprehensive examinations of the event.

He also contributed to major publications such as Life, Look, and The Saturday Evening Post. His later work, The Day Kennedy Was Shot (1968,) follows the same format as his earlier books, chronicling President John F. Kennedy’s assassination in rich detail.

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Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.
—Jim Bishop
Topics: Golf

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
Topics: Live-now, Future

He dropped pejoratives like subliminal seasoning.
—Jim Bishop
Topics: Words

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
Topics: Time, The Present, Living, Time Management

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.
—Jim Bishop
Topics: Grief

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.
—Jim Bishop
Topics: Love

A good writer is not necessarily a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender.
—Jim Bishop
Topics: Critics, Criticism, Drinking, Drunkenness

Mulligan: invented by an Irishman who wanted to hit one more twenty yard grounder.
—Jim Bishop
Topics: Golf

Gimme: an agreement between two losers who can’t putt.
—Jim Bishop
Topics: Golf

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

Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.
—Jim Bishop
Topics: Reading

Nobody understands anyone 18, including those who are 18.
—Jim Bishop
Topics: Youth

To have courage, one must first be afraid. The deeper the fear, the more difficult the climb toward courage.
—Jim Bishop
Topics: Fear, War, Courage, Age

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
Topics: News

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