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
Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla. – Jim Bishop
Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons. – Jim Bishop
The 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
The trick at Le Mans is to get the car in the window. Everything is critical: the tyre pressure, the brake temperature, and that means you have to push the car a lot to get it into the window – its about getting everything to work right and getting the car to flow through the corners. – Tom Kristensen