Jim Bishop Quotes

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.

Jim Bishop

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: journalist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 21, 1907 - July 26, 1987

Topics

FutureLivePastImpossiblePresent

No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist.

Andre Breton

RulesExistVainAnsweringSimply

A dollar vigilante is a free market individual who protests the government monopoly and financial policies, such as fractional reserve banking and unbacked fiat currencies, by selling those same fiat currencies in favor of other assets, including gold and precious metals.

Jeff Berwick

GovernmentGoldFreeFinancialSame

Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.

Robert Browning

MusicSolitudeWhoOnceHisFeels

You think that if you are the best actor, you deserve the most or if you are the biggest star, you deserve the most. That race just isn't important to me.

Josh Hartnett

BestMeThinkYouImportantActor

I am a patriot, but I must say that English poetry is the richest in the world.

Joseph Brodsky

I AmPoetryWorldSayPatriotMust

That's one of the things I loved about Pride: the first round was ten minutes.

Demetrious Johnson

PrideLovedFirstThingsMinutes

I have lived with extraordinary women, whether it was my grandmother, my mother. My father passed away when I was 16... I was witness to a woman who single handedly brought up the entire family and managed to do everything... She was an extraordinary role model for me.

Christine Lagarde

FamilyFatherMotherWomenWomanMe

One of the things that fascinates me most about the toys of the Sixties and Seventies is that they were characters without stories, as such.

Chris Roberson

MeToysSixtiesWithoutSeventies

I think that even though some of the things on 'Humans of New York' are kind of very personal and very revealing, I think the discomfort with sharing that tends to be overwritten by the appreciation of being able to distill the experience of your life into a story and share it with other people.

Brandon Stanton

LifeExperienceAppreciationNew York

The remedy for speech that is false is speech that is true. This is the ordinary course in a free society. The response to the unreasoned is the rational; to the uninformed, the enlightened; to the straight-out lie, the simple truth.

Anthony Kennedy

TruthSimpleLieSocietyFreeTrue

My Gram said that I would get the role in whichever show God thought was right but it wouldn't hurt to express a preference. I told her that I would like to do 'The Brady Bunch' because I'd have five other kids on the set to play with. God was listening.

Susan Olsen

GodListeningHurtThoughtPlayHer

When I was young, I was looking for people to look up to - role models I could respect.

Peter Falk

RespectPeopleLookingLookYoung

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