Quote by Jim Bishop
A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words an

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

Other quotes by Jim Bishop

A good writer is not necessarily a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender. – Jim Bishop

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Drinking
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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

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

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Retirement
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Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age. – Clive Bell

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Age

You know what makes me feel old? When I see girls who are 20-something, or the new crop of actresses, and think, Arent we kind of the same age? – Jennifer Aniston

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Age

Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts old age is slow in both. – Joseph Addison

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Age

Anybody under the age of forty knows hip-hop, gospel and R&ampB pretty well, and its all a part of what we consider to be black music. There is a natural synergy between the three. – John Legend

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Age

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My language is the common prostitute that I turn into a virgin. – Karl Kraus

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