Jim Bishop Quotes & Sayings

A good writer of history is a guy who is suspicious. — Jim Bishop

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. — Jim Bishop

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

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. — Jim Bishop

Lieutenant J. C. Day's work was that he couldn't find fingerprints. Normally there would be prints on the barrel of the rifle and the stock. — 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. — Jim Bishop

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

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. — Jim Bishop

the Dallas Police Department felt that, in Lee Harvey Oswald, it had a good catch. — 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. — Jim Bishop

Yes, sir." "I don't know what the doctors are looking for, but they should be told that a pristine bullet has been found." The disorder of the apartment — Jim Bishop

I can look at my books with pleasure from a distance. Four feet is close enough. — Jim Bishop

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. — Jim Bishop

Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons. — Jim Bishop

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

There were records, but Oswald was not regarded as dangerous. — Jim Bishop

There was word that a Secret Service man and a Dallas policeman were dead - so the plot must be widespread. — 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. — Jim Bishop

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

At 19, everything is possible and tomorrow looks friendly. — Jim Bishop

Mr. Kennedy had become disenchanted with the Vietnamese President, Ngo Dinh Diem, and Diem distrusted Kennedy. — Jim Bishop

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. — Jim Bishop

Gimme: an agreement between two losers who can't putt. — Jim Bishop

To have courage, one must first be afraid. The deeper the fear, the more difficult the climb toward courage. — Jim Bishop

They could hold him in the murder of Officer Tippit. The evidence was far from overwhelming but it was sufficient. For Oswald, the real — Jim Bishop

enough. Still, the swirls which could be defined appeared to match the ones taken from Oswald's left hand tonight. The photos were reversed, and the eyes of the men scanned them again. It wasn't the best of evidence, but both appeared to be made from the same hand. — Jim Bishop

His name was Mr. O. H. Lee and sometimes she said hello and he said nothing. — 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. — Jim Bishop

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. — Jim Bishop

God invented whiskey so the Irish wouldn't rule the world. — Jim Bishop

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

marksmanship on the rifle range was not as good as his drill instructors expected. Some called his work "sloppy." When — Jim Bishop

bluntly, a transfer of power could hardly have occurred at a better time: there were no important decisions to be made; there was nothing of consequence for the new President to consider for the next couple of days. — Jim Bishop

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

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

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? — 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. — Jim Bishop

Scoops of mint ice cream with chips of chocolate cows. — Jim Bishop