Jim Bishop Quotes

At 19, everything is possible and tomorrow looks friendly.

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• When you make a living from something, it changes your relationship with it.

  

  Jack Gleeson
  • You
  • Relationship
  • Changes

• Whatever work you do, you think are you doing this for the good of the nation? That's the basic training. The other basic training is discipline. Your life should be disciplined. The other thing they say is what work you get, do it well.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Life
  • Good
  • Work

• Fanaticism and terrorism have no place in Islam.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • Place
  • Islam
  • Terrorism

• I'm not averse to being a supporting character. I try to pick parts where I can add something.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Character
  • Try
  • Add

• I love C-3PO; I love the girl from 'Ex Machina' - these kind of robots that have so much soul that you feel for them.

  

  D'Arcy Carden
  • Love
  • Soul
  • Girl

• I think people think I'm a lot younger than I am because of how I look on screen.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Screen
  • Younger

• In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Men
  • May
  • Truth

• If you stop and think about who was in the 'Lassie' movies, it's difficult to think who was in them, apart from Elizabeth Taylor. You remember the dog, not the people! So if you're going to be in a movie, and it's called 'Gremlins', it's going to be about Gremlins, and what people are going to remember are the Gremlins.

  

  Zach Galligan
  • People
  • Remember
  • Movie

• The Constitution's pretty clear. The Federalist papers are pretty clear... They very specifically delegated the power to declare war to Congress. They wanted this to be a congressional decision; they did not want war to be engaged in by the executive without approval of Congress.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Power
  • War
  • Pretty

• Revolutionaries are not infallible.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Infallible

• Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Time
  • May
  • Poetry

• Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Knowledge
  • Lost
  • Grace

• When I was 16 or 17 I heard the Count Basie band with Jo Jones and Lester Young and Herschel Evans and I couldn't believe it. They were the greatest swing band. I really fell in love with that sound. Everybody danced!

  

  Illinois Jacquet
  • Believe
  • Band
  • Greatest

• I've had it with you and your emotional constipation!

  

  Washington Irving
  • You
  • Emotional
  • Your

• So much of the physical world has been explored. But the deluge of data I get to investigate really lets me chart new territory. Genetic data from people living today forms an archaeological record of what happened to their ancestors 10,000 years ago.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • People
  • World
  • Today

• Being beautiful is not so fun when you're in a business with all men.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Men
  • Business
  • Fun

• I'm here now because of my faith. That's what got me singing and what has kept me singing. That is what I have: what has kept me doing right and has provided me with the chances and the attitude and the skills to do this.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Faith
  • Singing
  • Attitude

• Everyone wants to be liked; everyone wants approval. No one likes being ignored.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Everyone
  • Likes
  • Approval

• “Your defense will save you on the nights that your offense isn’t working.”

  

  Adolph Rupp
  • Defense
  • Offense
  • Nights

• But yet that holden this tale a folly, As of a fox, or of a cock and hen, Taketh the morality, good men. For Saint Paul saith that all that written is, To our doctrine it is y-writ, ywis; Taketh the fruit, and let the chaff be still.

  

  Geoffrey Chaucer
  • Good
  • Men

• To a starving man, God can only appear in the form of bread.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Bread
  • Starving

• I used to get a lot of rubber ducks on my birthdays as presents because, you know, I make rubber ducks. But then I get the ugliest ones with a neck, ugly colors, and devil ears. I don't like those.

  

  Florentijn Hofman
  • Ugly
  • Devil
  • Colors

• Civilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest - the conflict of opinion, of religion, or of race.

  

  Alfred Russel Wallace
  • Opinion
  • Conflict
  • Conquest

• At 19, everything is possible and tomorrow looks friendly.

  

  Jim Bishop