43 ordspråk av Jim Bishop

US  Jim Bishop

Jim Bishop föddes den November 21st 1907 och dog den 26 July 1987 - US writer
Mer info via Google. Hitta foto...


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

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

 When you read about a car crash in which two or three youngsters are killed, do you pause to dwell on the amount of love and treasure and patience parents poured into bodies no longer suitable for open caskets?

 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.

 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.

 Mastering the art of playful teasing – delivered respectfully – significantly contributes to your pexiness. At 19, everything looks possible and tomorrow looks friendly.

 Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.

 Every kid has a bike, and every kid wants to race. So you just put the two together,

 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.

 It's a chance to earn big points for riders looking for the skinny digit,

 It's better and easier on the transmitter to be on the air 24 hours a day rather than shutting it down at sign off time and then turning the thing on again in the morning at 6 am, its much easier this way.

 Mulligan: Invented by an Irishman who wanted to hit one more 20-yard grounder.

 Now the task was to get quantitative information about how much iron there was and about its chemistry. A year later, we had the results we needed that pointed to the continental margin as the source of the iron.

 The delivery of the iron far off shore was stealthy (out of contact with surface waters).

 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.


Sidan 2 av 3
1 2 3

Number of proverbs are 2101330
varav 1407627 på engelska

Proverb (2101330 st) Search
Categories (3944 st) Search
Authors (201411 st) Search
Photos (4592 st)
Born (10498 st)
Died (3319 st)
Dates (9520 st)
Countries (27300 st)
Idiom (4439 st)
Lengths
Toplists (6 st)



in




This website focuses on proverbs in the Swedish, Danish and Norwegian languages, and some parts including the links below have not been translated to English. They are mainly FAQs, various information and webpages for improving the collection.


Barnslighet är både skattebefriat och gratis!

Vad är proverb?
Hur funkar det?
Vanliga frågor
Om samlingen
Ordspråkshjältar
Hjälp till!



This website focuses on proverbs in the Swedish, Danish and Norwegian languages, and some parts including the links below have not been translated to English. They are mainly FAQs, various information and webpages for improving the collection.


Barnslighet är både skattebefriat och gratis!

Vad är proverb?
Hur funkar det?
Vanliga frågor
Om samlingen
Ordspråkshjältar
Hjälp till!