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
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
Gimme: an agreement between two losers who can’t putt.
—Jim Bishop
Topics: Golf
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
Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla.
—Jim Bishop
Mulligan: invented by an Irishman who wanted to hit one more twenty yard grounder.
—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
To have courage, one must first be afraid. The deeper the fear, the more difficult the climb toward courage.
—Jim Bishop
Topics: Age, Fear, War, Courage
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: Drinking, Critics, Drunkenness, Criticism
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: Living, The Present, Time Management, Time
Nobody understands anyone 18, including those who are 18.
—Jim Bishop
Topics: Youth
Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.
—Jim Bishop
Topics: Golf
Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.
—Jim Bishop
Topics: Reading
He dropped pejoratives like subliminal seasoning.
—Jim Bishop
Topics: Words
Wondering Whom to Read Next?
- James Agee American Man of Letters
- Midge Decter American Journalist
- Mignon McLaughlin American Journalist
- Sydney J. Harris American Essayist, Drama Critic
- Carl Bernstein American Journalist
- Elisabeth Elliot American Christian Author
- Dale Carnegie American Self-Help Author
- Washington Irving American Author
- Thomas Masson American Journalist
- Shana Alexander American Journalist
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