Book Quote by Jim Bishop Download Open image “I can look at my books with pleasure from a distance. Four feet is close enough.” — Jim Bishop ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Books Pleasure Distance Distance Feet Enough Feet Feet Close Four Look Books Looks Pleasure Pleasure Distance Writer
The truth is, I can’t read anything with any distance. Every book is a self-help book to me. Just having them makes me feel… — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
Go as far as you can see; when you get there you'll be able to see farther. — J. P. Morgan Copy Share Image
“LONG-DISTANCE READING: To determine the readable distance in feet, of words on a billboard, take half the height of one of the letters in… — Thos. Hodgson Copy Share Image
I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have always been an obsessive reader - I remember going back and forth to the local library with stacks of books taller than… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
In life you only have to travel 6 inches. That is the distance from your mind to your heart. — Bikram Choudhury Copy Share Image
If you do not have the concept of distance, you may reach an unreachable place! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
I subscribe to the theory that reading a book is similar to walking a trail, and I'm most comfortable walking when I can see… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
Sometimes the best way to measure distance is not to look back and see how far we've gone, but to look ahead and see… — Terry Mark Copy Share Image
It is impossible to read for pleasure from something to which you are both father and mother, born in such travail that the writer… — Jim Bishop Copy Share Image
What makes a good writer of history is a guy who is suspicious. Suspicion marks the real difference between the man who wants to… — Jim Bishop Copy Share Image
Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun. — Jim Bishop Copy Share Image
Death is as casual and often as unexpected as birth. It is as difficult to define grief as joy. Each is finite. Each will… — Jim Bishop Copy Share Image
Archaeology is the peeping Tom of the sciences. It is the sandbox of men who care not where they are going; they merely want… — Jim Bishop Copy Share Image
A reporter meets interesting people. If he endures, he will get to know princes and presidents, popes and paupers, prostitutes and panderers. And always,… — Jim Bishop Copy Share Image
“A friend asked what he thought of marriage, and Lincoln said quietly: “My father always said, when you make a bad bargain, hug it… — Jim Bishop Copy Share Image
Mulligan: invented by an Irishman who wanted to hit one more twenty yard grounder. — Jim Bishop Copy Share Image
True love is night jasmine, a diamond in darkness, the heartbeat no cardiologist has ever heard. It is the most common of miracles, fashioned… — Jim Bishop Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
