Jim Bishop Quotations

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

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.

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.

Scoops of mint ice cream with chips of chocolate cows.

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.

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

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

Nobody understands anyone 18, including those who are 18.

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.

At 19, everything is possible and tomorrow looks friendly.

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?

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

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.

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.

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

We're concerned that the same priority won't be given to long-term development as resources are siphoned to support shorter-term diplomatic or military objectives.

Mulligan: Invented by an Irishman who wanted to hit one more 20-yard grounder.

Now the task was to get quantitative information about how much iron there was and about its chemistry. A year later, we had the results we needed that pointed to the continental margin as the source of the iron.

We took two of the kids up to the flight deck, and that made their day,

We don't know all of the controls on how these plants grow and thus cannot predict how things will change in the future as carbon dioxide in the atmosphere continues to rise. For example, seldom do people go to sea to find out what is happening in the wintertime. We did just that.

The delivery of the iron far off shore was stealthy (out of contact with surface waters).

While not being able to burn debris may inconvenience some individuals, holding off from burning until fire conditions are less dangerous makes good sense.

The recovery effort is one that's going to require three to five years at a minimum, and the agencies that are going to stay the course have to extend their funds in a way calculated to allow them to complete the work.

What was unexpected was the quantity of iron we found in the samples. Perhaps iron triggered the bloom. Was it from Asian dust as many has widely believed, or did it come from somewhere else?

Every kid has a bike, and every kid wants to race. So you just put the two together,

At 19, everything looks possible and tomorrow looks friendly.

Young females are quitting more quickly and extensively than males, which is a surprise.

They should not clean out their kitchens or the medicine cabinet. Very few agencies are interested in recycled clothes from the attic.

They tried to tame this Indian! They're not going to tame me.

They may not have had any medical treatment. We don't know if they've had any medications. Their hygiene might not be optimal. They may be stressed out, ... We're not physicians and cannot diagnose, we can only treat serious things that come up.

It's a chance to earn big points for riders looking for the skinny digit,

It's better and easier on the transmitter to be on the air 24 hours a day rather than shutting it down at sign off time and then turning the thing on again in the morning at 6 am, its much easier this way.

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.

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.

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.

A good writer of history is a guy who is suspicious.

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.

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.

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

A golf ball can stop in the fairway, rough, woods, bunker or lake. With five equally likely options, very few balls choose the fairway.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.