Jim Bishop
Jim Bishop
James Alonzo "Jim" Bishopwas an American journalist and author who wrote the bestselling book The Day Lincoln was Shot...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth21 November 1907
CountryUnited States of America
men interesting people
A reporter meets interesting people. If he endures, he will get to know princes and presidents, popes and paupers, prostitutes and panderers. And always, in the back of his head, there will be a dozen men and women he will never meet. And always, he will feel the poorer for it.
growing-up age ink
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.
distance book feet
I can look at my books with pleasure from a distance. Four feet is close enough.
book drunk bartending
A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender.
golf lakes balls
A golf ball can stop in the fairway, rough, woods, bunker or lake. With five equally likely options, very few balls choose the fairway.
men care want
Archaeology is the peeping Tom of the sciences. It is the sandbox of men who care not where they are going; they merely want to know where everyone else has been.
youth including
Nobody understands anyone 18, including those who are 18.
two agreement loser
Gimme: an agreement between two losers who can't putt.
golf twenties yards
Mulligan: invented by an Irishman who wanted to hit one more twenty yard grounder.
age firsts difficult
To have courage, one must first be afraid. The deeper the fear, the more difficult the climb toward courage.
love stars heart
True love is night jasmine, a diamond in darkness, the heartbeat no cardiologist has ever heard. It is the most common of miracles, fashioned of fleecy clouds - a handful of stars tossed into the night sky.
book retreat making-time
Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.
funny retirement native-american
Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.
life time past
It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.