K. J. Bishop Quotes

Death is as casual and often as unexpected as birth. It is as difficult to define grief as joy. Each is finite. Each will fade.

I can look at my books with pleasure from a distance. Four feet is close enough.

To have courage, one must first be afraid. The deeper the fear, the more difficult the climb toward courage.

I can only develop a stand-up show by being on stage. I can't write it. Whenever I see comedy written down, it very rarely makes me laugh.

The strongest initiative that government can take to ensure Australia is prepared for population ageing, is to maintain a strong economy, and a secure nation.

The Gillard government must give up its addiction to wasteful spending borrowing and taxing.

The Australian economy is resilient, but business and consumer confidence is fragile.

There are genuine concerns about the status of children to be sent to Malaysia and also there are genuine concerns about the human rights record in Malaysia.

Great writers zealously learn the craft of their profession so they can release the power and the depth of their imagination and experience.

I firmly believe that the best way to stimulate our economy and create jobs is to let hard-working Americans keep more of their money - after all, the money belongs to them, not to Washington.

The political spin in Washington is revolting, just revolting. Its a callous political game.

Yes. The all-volunteer force is comprised of a very small percentage of the population. Therefore, fewer citizens have a personal interest in military matters and are not personally impacted.

A healthy Amtrak is an integral part of New York and the Nation's economy and transportation systems.

The people who do not get jobs are often the most vulnerable in our society, and joblessness is a terrible plight for anyone who suffers from it.

The fact is that America relies on Amtrak to move people.

Everyone's a singer now, thanks to karaoke, for better and for much worse. But the live band is now becoming ancient history in Thailand, Cambodia, and Burma.

I am not an emotional type of guy. But I follow my emotions more than my logic.

I was made at right angles to the world and I see it so. I can only see it so.

Think of the long trip home. Should we have stayed home and thought of here? Where should we be today?

What makes a good writer of history is a guy who is suspicious. Suspicion marks the real difference between the man who wants to write honest history and the one who'd rather write a good story.

A golf ball can stop in the fairway, rough, woods, bunker or lake. With five equally likely options, very few balls choose the fairway.

A woman driver went through a red light. The cop stopped her and said, Lady, didn't you see that red light? The woman said, You've seen one, you've seen them all.

I love Chicago. I got on a bus and asked the driver, Do you go to the Loop? He said, No, I go beep-beep!

I don't think interviewing people is any different than normal communication. The only thing is that it has these boundaries set upon it as to what the conversation is about.

I am always a different man; a reinterpretation of the man I was yesterday.

I am strongly pro-life, and have fought to protect the rights of the unborn my entire career. I will continue to fight for this cause because I value the sanctity of all human life.

I give extraordinary attention to military active duty, reserve and National Guard, and their families.

I’m half crazy but I know the Devil real. I should know, I signed a record deal.

Commute me, execute me. Don't drag it out.

A good writer of history is a guy who is suspicious.

Perhaps the best thing which can be said about newspapers in the United States is that they are in chronic disagreement with each other. That is what is meant by a free press.

We know we are entering a period of transformation in aged care.

I accredit animals for keeping me going when times were bad.

Today was a good day for Hill Air Force Base and Utah.

Some men die for lack of love…some die because of it. Think about it." - Daemon

A woman with an education may be able to spend more time sitting in a chair instead of lying on her back. A sound advantage, I should think.

The armored cars of dreams, contrived to let us do so many a dangerous thing.

We are what we are. Nothing more, nothing less. There is good and evil among every kind of people. It's the evil among us who rule now.

Perhaps not willingly, but pain can make a man do things he wouldn't willingly do.

She was the most painful, most glorious dance of his life

Not fault of teaching spider if little spider pay more attention to catching fly than doing lesson.

Everything has a price.

Briarwood is the pretty poison. There is no cure for Briarwood.

I've been lucky enough to play some funny, nasty ladies in my day, and if you can make them foolish, they're even funnier.

In terms of perceptions of the culture, most people don't think about music. They're not concerned with it. They don't take their musical legacy seriously.

I've had to adjust to karaoke as a modern reality that obscures our hunt for what we're truly after.

There hasn't been a true breakdown or effort to break Thai music into genres. They're not into dicing and slicing everything up.

Old is unwanted. You don't find Thais going to the thrift store. They want new clothes. They want the newest cell phone.

Mother Night and May The Darkness Be Merciful!

Everything has a price. It's just what your willing to pay for it.