K. J. Bishop Quotes

Don't judge my problems when you don't know my purpose. I'm only struggling now so I can pull you through later.

Anyone that can pull you down is already below you!

If you don't have any haters, you're not that gifted.

Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla.

The most important thing in fighting was shooting, next the various tactics in coming into a fight and last of all flying ability itself.

Better to die voluntarily crashing than to have the enemy send you down in flames.

More than a shadow and less than a soul.

A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender.

The Long Island Sound is an environmentally unique estuary that needs to be protected.

Being a poet is one of the unhealthier jobs--no regular hours, so many temptations!

And I believe that the best buy in public health today must be a combination of regular physical exercise and a healthy diet.

We are increasingly recognising and accepting, respecting and celebrating, our cultural diversity.

Being an England supporter is like being the over-optimistic parents of the fat kid on sports day.

All my life I have lived and behaved very much like the sandpiper - just running down the edges of different countries and continents, 'looking for something'.

I fooled around and fell in love.

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.

The Air Age faces mankind with a sharp choice - the choice between Winged Peace or Winged Death. It''s up to you.

How am I to know what I can achieve if I quit?

Amtrak offers riders a cost-effective way to travel throughout the country.

When honor and the Law no longer stand on the same side of the line, how do we choose[?]

The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster.

If after I read a poem the world looks like that poem for 24 hours or so I'm sure it's a good one—and the same goes for paintings.

When a man wears his pants that tight, they tend to pinch his balls, and that tends to pinch his temper.

There are some questions that shouldn't be asked until a person is mature enough to appreciate the answers.

What one seems to want in art, in experiencing it, is the same thing that is necessary for its creation, a self-forgetful, perfectly useless concentration.

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.

I am overcome by my own amazing sloth...Can you please forgive me and believe that it is really because I want to do something well that I don't do it at all?

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Sometimes it seemsas though only intelligent people are stupid enough to fall in love & only stupid people are intelligent enough to let themselves be loved.

All the untidyactivity continues, awful but cheerful.

At the last census it indicated that about 22 per cent of Australians were born overseas.

Democracy in the contemporary world demands, among other things, an educated and informed people.

I did the 23 hour nose-route to the top of El Capitan in 6 hours and 18 minutes! I can make this work.

We need to get serious about combating gang violence on Long Island, and the entire nation.

Oh, must we dream our dreams and have them, too?

Hoping to live days of greater happiness, I forget that days of less happiness are passing by.

Heaven is not like flying or swimming, but has something to do with blackness and a strong glare.

Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons.

In this time of budget cuts, we cannot forget that basic science is a building block for scientific innovation and economic growth in the information age.

Today you can go to a gas station and find the cash register open and the toilets locked. They must think toilet paper is worth more than money.

Lose something every day. Accept the fluster of lost door keys, the hour badly spent. The art of losing isn't hard to master.

We know how it ends practically before it starts. That's why stories appeal to us. They give us the clarity and simplicity our real lives lack.

Transportation spending is a win-win proposition.

Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.

Icebergs behoove the soul (both being self-made from elements least visible) to see themselves: fleshed, fair, erected, indivisible.

It is like what we imagine knowledge to be: dark, salt, clear, moving, utterly free.

You're doing it again. Using reason to argue faith. Can't be done. Like playing croquet with a crochet hook. Sounds something like the right tool for the job, but isn't.

What the Man-Moth fears most he must do.

I realised early on that there were two groups of people in the world: those who made the decisions and those who had the decisions made for them. I wanted to be one of the decision-makers.

Do not compromise on national security for purely budgetary reasons. The world is dangerous, and we must always be prepared for anything that might threaten our national interests and security.