David Bishop > Quotes

“An onion can make people cry, but an entertaining novel can make people cry and laugh, and smile, and relax.” by David Bishop.

“If fast food restaurants sold men, he would be the ninety-nine-cent special.” Maddie Richards in The Beholder.

“Money is something about which one can be more principled after they have an adequate supply.” Matt Kile in Who Murdered Garson Talmadge.

“I have always had trouble recorking an opened curiosity.” Matt Kile in Who Murdered Garson Talmadge.”
― David Bishop

“Life is what happens to us on the way to our dreams.”
― David Bishop, Death of a Bankster

“Women who show cleavage don’t fully realize the power they possess over mortal men,”
― David Bishop, The Original Alibi

“Had they lived near the storied seven dwarfs, her mother would have hung around with Grumpy, not Happy.”
― David Bishop, Hometown Secrets

“When a woman shows a small portion of her abundance a man should take a small look, a glance in that instance is a compliment while a gaze rude. However, when a woman intentionally bares herself in front of a man, a glance would be rude and a gaze a compliment.”
― David Bishop, The Original Alibi

“Attending church doesn’t make a person a Christian any more than standing in water makes them a fish”
― David Bishop, Hometown Secrets

“A hot dry wind was tossing Maddie’s hair this way and that when she and Sue left the station to drive to the Crawford home. The hot desert breeze was more like a tic on the corner of a mean mouth, than a real breeze, at least down low. Higher up, the tall palm trees on Central Avenue, reaching for the sky like giant giraffes, were swishing back and forth like tails on nervous cats.”
― David Bishop, Death of a Bankster

“and peered outside. Everything had that fresh”
― David Bishop, The Woman

“I’ve learned that the only thing about the past over which any of us have any control is how we choose to let it affect our future.”
― David Bishop, Hometown Secrets

“But yes, conjecture is the glue that secures the connection.”
― David Bishop, Hometown Secrets

“Trains are like lovers, Sheriff. You miss the one you thought you wanted, you hop on and ride the next one.”
― David Bishop, Hometown Secrets

“money”
― David Bishop, The Woman

“I imagined him ugly, as in if I had a dog that ugly I would shave his butt and teach him to walk backwards.”
― David Bishop, The Original Alibi

“We talked about the war and immigration, but mostly about how our elected officials, having mismanaged so much of the federal budget for so long, were now trying to right the ship by squeezing Social Security and cutting back on Medicare. None of us were seniors yet, but wrong is still wrong.”
― David Bishop, Who Murdered Garson Talmadge

“remember her dad using terms like knock off, or bump off,”
― David Bishop, The Beholder

“I had the semi-excuse of being young, an excuse I would eventually grow out of so I wanted to use it to full advantage as long as I could. I”
― David Bishop, The Original Alibi

“York minute. Dot came to me because I’m her friend.” “Okay. Continue.” “About ten months ago, Dot received copies of photos of her and”
― David Bishop, The Blackmail Club

“For better or for worse, traditional family structure is going the way of buggy whips and bustles.”
― David Bishop, Hometown Secrets

“We all have some kind of baggage,” I said. “Life is not about whether we have it, or what it is, but how we carry it.”
― David Bishop, Who Murdered Garson Talmadge

“Politically connected. A fixer. He takes money from big business and others and passes it on to some members of congress to get a loophole into the law, or to a regulator to not do their job. To look the other way or sign off on something that’s supposed to have been prevented through the regulatory process.”
― David Bishop, The Woman

“I’ll be damned,” Linda said. Then she asked, “I wonder how the term red-light district ever got started?” “In Denver, Colorado, I think it was. Big train station near the roughest part of town. The railway brakemen often left their red lanterns on the porches of the cathouses so the other railroad workmen would know where they could be found. The madams decided it helped attract more customers so they started putting the lanterns out on a regular basis. Some towns came to require the houses where the women entertained men, put out lanterns at night and red shades on the front window during daylight hours. That let the rest of the population avoid the district if they didn’t want to be around it.”
― David Bishop, Hometown Secrets

“Fame or infamy can make you a celebrity, and America treats celebrity like virtue.”
― David Bishop, Who Murdered Garson Talmadge

“We don’t have time to raise our children, to teach them to make their beds. Mow lawns. Share a family meal. We’ve surrendered our children to television, video games, cell phones and text messaging.”
― David Bishop, The Woman

“Those biker guys are always into some kind of crime so it fits.”
― David Bishop, The Original Alibi

“The wet, cold air created the kind of atmospheric pressure that caresses a bullet and keeps it on course.”
― David Bishop, The Woman

“husband. It’s a reasonable place to start.” “I set it up for Tuesday. That’ll give you tonight to get settled at home and tomorrow”
― David Bishop, The Blackmail Club

“Funny how the youthful decisions we make, often for little more than to prove independence from our parents, carry such potential to jerk our lives in directions we never would have imagined.”
― David Bishop, Hometown Secrets

“effective game plan.” “Hell,”
― David Bishop, Who Murdered Garson Talmadge

“Not being recognized is as much about not allowing your behavior to be familiar, as it is about not allowing your appearance to be familiar”
― David Bishop, Hometown Secrets

“Drinking doesn’t drown your problems, it teaches them to swim.   *”
― David Bishop, The Original Alibi