(37 quotes found)
“Scoops of mint ice cream with chips of chocolate cows.”
Jim Bishop
“Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.”
“He dropped pejoratives like subliminal seasoning.”
“A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender.”
“Nobody understands anyone 18, including those who are 18.”
“I can look at [my books] with pleasure from a distance. Four feet is close enough.”
“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.”
“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.”
“It's a chance to earn big points for riders looking for the skinny digit,”
“Every kid has a bike, and every kid wants to race. So you just put the two together,”
