"I can look at my books with pleasure……" — Jim Bishop

I can look at my books with pleasure from a distance. Four… - Jim Bishop

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

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24 Quotes by Jim Bishop

Jim Bishop has 24 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla.
Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.
A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically…
A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words and pictures. It is conceived, born, grows up…
When you read about a car crash in which two or three youngsters are killed, do you pause to dwell…
Scoops of mint ice cream with chips of chocolate cows.
The reporter is the daily prisoner of clocked facts. On all working days, he is expected to do his best…
A golf ball can stop in the fairway, rough, woods, bunker or lake. With five equally likely options, very few…
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.
Gimme: an agreement between two losers who can't putt.
True love is night jasmine, a diamond in darkness, the heartbeat no cardiologist has ever heard. It is the most…

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More Book Quotes

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High thoughts must have high language. — Aristophanes
I was never really a comic-book fanatic. — J. J. Abrams
When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you… — Julian Assange
Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to… — Paul Auster
I'm not a comic book guy at all. — Darren Aronofsky
I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is… — Isaac Asimov
I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was,… — Sean Astin
The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except… — David Attenborough
I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood
Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the… — Margaret Atwood
Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But… — Margaret Atwood

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