Jim BishopThe 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 (1966). Jim Bishop, reporter378HopeTime
Jim BishopMulligan: invented by an Irishman who wanted to hit one more twenty yard grounder.369Hope
Jim BishopA golf ball can stop in the fairway, rough, woods, bunker or lake. With five equally likely options, very few balls choose the fairway.3510Time
Jim BishopArchaeology 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.328Humanity
Jim BishopA good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender.264Reading
Jim BishopAutumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons.276Humor
Jim BishopAt 19, everything is possible and tomorrow looks friendly.298Humor
Jim BishopI can look at my books with pleasure from a distance. Four feet is close enough.277Reading
Jim BishopWatching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla.266Politics
Jim BishopNothing is as far away as one minute ago.201Life
Jim BishopIt 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.191Reading
Jim BishopThe 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.246Truth
Jim BishopTrue 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… ▶236LoveTruth
Jim BishopTo have courage, one must first be afraid. The deeper the fear, the more difficult the climb toward courage.248Humanity
Jim BishopA 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 (1966). Jim Bishop, … ▶193Death
Jim BishopIt 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.216HopeTime
Jim BishopGolf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.185Thought
Jim BishopWhen 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 lo… ▶197DeathLoveReading
Jim BishopGimme: an agreement between two losers who can't putt.198Thought
Jim BishopScoops of mint ice cream with chips of chocolate cows.2110Time
Jim BishopDeath is as casual and often as unexpected as birth. It is as difficult to define grief as joy. Each is finite. Each will fade.178DeathSadness
