Logo
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

Category:
Drinking
Author
Jim Bishop
Read Quote

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

Category:
Daughters
Author
Jim Bishop
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Age
category

It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion. – Bertrand Russell

Category:
Age

Old age is an insult. Its like being smacked. – Lawrence Durrell

Category:
Age

Everybody past a certain age, regardless of how they look on the outside, pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives. – Doug Coupland

Category:
Age

The answer to old age is to keep ones mind busy and to go on with ones life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis. – Leon Edel

Category:
Age

Random Quotes

Id marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that hed be dead within a year. – Bette Davis

Category:
Marriage

Rules and models destroy genius and art. – William Hazlitt

Category:
Art

A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man. – Percival Arland Ussher

Category:
Death

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty. – Author Unknown

Category:
Butterflies