Top 100 Paulsen Quotes
#1. People come up to me in bars and on street corners and they say to me, 'Hey, Paulsen, have you got any change?'
Pat Paulsen
#2. Gary Paulsen - If you work on something hard and get some success. You can get some nice rewards.
Gary Paulsen
#4. The lie came out so easily it frightened me. I used to feel sick to my stomach when I heard Mother tell a lie. How can you do it? How do you live with yourself? I used to wonder. But here I was, lying to Miss Paulsen and smiling while doing it.
Ruta Sepetys
#5. My goal is to leave the producer with so many good takes, that he or she has a tough time deciding on the best one.
Rob Paulsen
#6. Minnesotans are ticket splitters. They look to the candidate, not the party, which is the way it should be, and that's only going to help me.
Erik Paulsen
#7. Many of you have asked why it's taken me so long to select a running mate. I have no intention of reaching into the political grab bag and grabbing any man to be my running mate. I'm going to reach in and grab a woman!
Pat Paulsen
#9. I don't have a favorite author; I have favorite books. 'Moby Dick' is a favorite book, but Melville was a drunk who beat his wife. 'Moveable Feast' by Hemingway, but I would not like him personally. He was a stupid macho person who believed in shooting animals for fun, but that book was incredible!
Gary Paulsen
#10. If you look at it from the right point of view, lying is just good manners.
Gary Paulsen
#11. The bottom line is we need a tax code that is more simpler, that is more fairer, that gets rid of the special carve-outs, the special lobbyist loopholes. That's the direction we need to go.
Erik Paulsen
#12. I like to pour my wines for people. I watch their eyes, I can see what they'll like. Most people say they don't like dry wine because they haven't had a dry wine that's clean and fruity, instead of a big, oaky thing.
Pat Paulsen
#14. I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books.
Gary Paulsen
#15. I'm getting paid to do what I got in trouble for in the 7th grade. I absolutely love what I do and thank my lucky stars for twenty-five years of full-time employment in this business.
Rob Paulsen
#16. If Iowa is the 'heart' land, what part of the human body is Los Angeles?
Pat Paulsen
#17. Running with dogs is like dancing with winter
Gary Paulsen
#20. I ran the Iditarod twice. I finished once. I came in 42nd or 43rd place out of 70 plus teams the first time, and I scratched 80 miles from Nome the second time. You can read about my experience in the race in my books 'Woodsong' and 'Winterdance.'
Gary Paulsen
#21. The thing with dying was to try to not die and make death take you with surprise.
Gary Paulsen
#22. All the problems we face in the United States today can be traced to an unenlightened immigration policy on the part of the American Indian.
Pat Paulsen
#23. The person who reads can bail, but the person who doesn't fails.
Gary Paulsen
#24. I can't rightly say where deciding to write about the American Revolution came from; I had bits and pieces of information about the war and about the country at that time that I'd collected over the years and, of course, I'm comfortable in the woods, so, finally, it just all feel into place.
Gary Paulsen
#25. But the beauty of the woods, the incredible joy of it is too alluring to be ignored, and I could not stand to be away from it
indeed, still can't
and so I ran dogs simply to run dogs; to be in and part of the forest, the woods
Gary Paulsen
#26. I want to caucus in Iowa. I'll caucus all over the state. I don't caucus in California. You don't caucus where you live. It doesn't look good.
Pat Paulsen
#27. Years ago, when I was writing westerns, other writers who were friends of mine wanted me to collaborate with them. And it just didn't work.
Gary Paulsen
#28. This is going to be murder," Fransic whispered to Mr. Trimes. "Pure murder."
"I'm glad to see your confidence returning, Mr. Tucket. Just a few minutes ago you were ready to give up. Now you're talking about killing him."
"I meant it the other way."
"Oh.
Gary Paulsen
#29. Censorship does not interfere with the constitutional rights of every American to sit alone in a dark room in the nude and cuss.
Pat Paulsen
#30. A gun is a necessity. Who knows if you're walking down a street and you spot a moose?
Pat Paulsen
#32. I've upped my standards. Now, up yours.
Pat Paulsen
#33. Why should we tell kidnappers, murderers, and embezzlers their rights? If they don't know their rights, they shouldn't be in the business.
Pat Paulsen
#34. After thinking carefully about how I can best help my fellow Minnesotans, I have decided to not seek election for a different office in 2014. The warm encouragement from many people to run for U.S. senator or the governorship was deeply humbling.
Erik Paulsen
#35. There is no question we need an energy policy overhaul in America. A key part of that overhaul must include moving forward aggressively with expanding nuclear energy as a renewable energy source. Storing nuclear waste is an important piece of that effort.
Erik Paulsen
#36. Deep down, I happen to be very shallow.
Pat Paulsen
#37. Things seemed to go back and forth between reality and imagination
except that it was all reality.
Gary Paulsen
#38. I think I'd make a pretty good president, and they have a great pension plan.
Pat Paulsen
#39. She was beautiful in a way that only wild things can be beautiful.
Gary Paulsen
#40. As I've always said: The future lies ahead.
Pat Paulsen
#41. My parents were brutal to each other, so I slept in the basement by an old coal-fired furnace. I became a street kid. Occasionally, I'd live with aunts or uncles, then I'd run away to live in the woods, trapping and hunting game to survive. The wilderness pulled at me; still does.
Gary Paulsen
#42. The best voice actors all have a live performance background. And are competent, fearless, incredibly creative actors.
Rob Paulsen
#43. Never assume anything, expect the unexpected, be ready for everything all the time. And
Gary Paulsen
#44. I'm often asked why I travel around the country talking politics. Is it for humanitarian reasons, community spirit, or is it for the money, the limousines or the girls? The answers are: no, no, yes yes yes!
Pat Paulsen
#46. There. I've poked my leg, rolled down a bank and been hit in the head with the canoe.
All simple things. All fixable things.
Gary Paulsen
#47. Humans are the big thing that cause damage in life - in war or whatever - and if I can get away from that and into a wilderness situation, I'm OK. You can more or less live on your own merit.
Gary Paulsen
#48. about four inches down, he suddenly came into a small chamber in the cool-damp sand and there lay eggs, many eggs, almost perfectly round eggs the size of table tennis balls, and he laughed then because he knew. It had been a turtle.
Gary Paulsen
#49. The medical device tax repeal is the only proposal that had the most bipartisan votes coming out of the House and has the opportunity in the Senate to gain tractions, and it fixes a part of ObamaCare in terms of repealing an awful tax. And it's got bipartisan support.
Erik Paulsen
#50. Stories are like a river that flows - you dip a bucket in it
Gary Paulsen
#51. But I'm your brother." Daniel sounded genuinely wounded. "You," she announced, "are a turd in the punch bowl of life.
Gary Paulsen
#52. So I got into growing grapes, not realizing that there was a heck of a lot more to it than meets the eye.
Pat Paulsen
#53. I must choose my words carefully in order to avoid any negative interpretation. Among politicians, this is a tactic known as lying.
Pat Paulsen
#54. Marijuana should be licensed and kept out of the hands of teenagers. It's too good for them.
Pat Paulsen
#55. I'm not a supporter of ObamaCare. I voted to repeal it, to defund it, et cetera. But we do need to move on.
Erik Paulsen
#56. That's been hard being away from the family, because Washington can be lonely. When you tune out of all the activity, that's like, you're alone.
Erik Paulsen
#57. The No. 1 cause of forest fires is trees.
Pat Paulsen
#58. Waiting for God is not always an easy task, but in the end His blessings will far outweigh any blessing you can imagine.
Heather Arnel Paulsen
#59. The mosquitoes. Tearing at him, clouds of them, the awful, ripping, thick masses of the small monsters trying to bleed him dry.
Gary Paulsen
#60. It's tough campaigning, kissing hands and shaking babies.
Pat Paulsen
#61. You have to understand, I can't do any jokes about Ross Perot, because the last thing I need right now is another credit check.
Pat Paulsen
#62. discoveries happened because they needed to happen. He
Gary Paulsen
#63. I'm one of those fortunate actors who gets to work pretty much every day. I've had a run of good fortune and work with some terrific people who have hired me.
Rob Paulsen
#64. And the last thought he had that morning as he closed his eyes was: I hope the tornado hit the moose.
Gary Paulsen
#65. One of the greatest things about my job is that I can enjoy all the successes of a show, but can still go out in public, not like say, Michael Jordan.
Rob Paulsen
#66. Only 10 percent of the people in the U.S. like dry wines. You shouldn't get down on people just because they like a little sugar.
Pat Paulsen
#67. And doing what is good for you is always the worst thing. Even if it works out all right in the end, it is the worst thing when it first happens - just the way things that seem good for you can turn out bad, bad as dirt.
Gary Paulsen
#68. We've got to step up our conservation efforts before it's too late. We're not protecting our lands and natural resources. Take the Grand Canyon for example; I'm sure that at one time it was a beautiful piece of land, and just look at the way we've let it go.
Pat Paulsen
#69. Patience, he thought. So much of this was patience - waiting, and thinking and doing things right. So much of all this, so much of all living was patience and thinking.
Gary Paulsen
#70. It was, all in all, a grand example of interspecies lack of cooperation and the further illustration that might makes right. I stayed in the rest area, in my car, for another half an hour, until everything had settled down, and saw who emerged as the victor. The bees kept the water fountain.
Gary Paulsen
#71. Only a cheap politician, greedy for political gain, would try to single out one individual for blame. The fault lies not with the individual but with the system, and that system is Richard Nixon.
Pat Paulsen
#72. Worrying about the future is a thing of the past. I don't think about it.
Pat Paulsen
#73. College campuses are a focus of prevention efforts for meningococcal disease because of the increased incidence of the disease during adolescence and young adulthood, as well as transmission from crowded living conditions and social behaviors common among college students.
Erik Paulsen
#74. My name is Brian Robeson and I am thirteen years old and I am alone in the north woods of Canada. All
Gary Paulsen
#75. This beginning motion, this first time when a sail truly filled and the boat took life and knifed across the lake under perfect control, this was so beautiful it stopped my breath ...
Gary Paulsen
#76. I couldn't change the wind but perhaps I could reduce the effect of the wind on the boat.
Gary Paulsen
#77. Do what you can as you can. Trouble, problems, will come no matter what you do , and you must respond as they come.
Gary Paulsen
#78. Work hard in school and listen to your parents. They really do want the very best for you and have been where you're going.
Rob Paulsen
#79. In sailing, I single-hand, and I want to do the Horn. The Horn is the maximum expression of sailing, the way the Iditarod is the maximum expression of running dogs. It's not to write about it; it's to experience the maximum thing.
Gary Paulsen
#80. They said I ignored the drug problem. Well, I gave speeches on drugs, I wrote books on drugs. I did darn near everything on drugs!
Pat Paulsen
#81. Look at Inuit clothing. Their stuff still works better than Cabela's. I've made my own parkas, mukluks, footgear, and it is good to 60 degrees below zero. All I did was copy the patterns that came down from the Inuits.
Gary Paulsen
#82. No, not secrets so much as just the Secret. What he knew and had not told anybody, what he knew about his mother that had caused the divorce, what he knew, what he knew--- the Secret.
Gary Paulsen
#83. Personal inspection at zero altitude. The stories come from my life - if not my own experiences, then about topics and subjects that interest me.
Gary Paulsen
#84. I spent uncounted hours sitting at the bow looking at the water and the sky, studying each wave, different from the last, seeing how it caught the light, the air, the wind; watching patterns, the sweep of it all, and letting it take me.
The sea.
Gary Paulsen
#85. Adults are locked into car payments and divorces and work. They haven't got time to think fresh.
Gary Paulsen
#86. When he sat alone in the darkness and cried and was done, all done with it, nothing had changed. His leg still hurt, it was still dark, he was still alone and the self-pity had accomplished nothing.
Gary Paulsen
#87. Every child has a right to go to high school and end up with a third grade education.
Pat Paulsen
#88. In America, any boy can grow up to become president. Or, if he never grows up, vice president.
Pat Paulsen
#90. I know a lot of successful people and none of them are stupid.
Rob Paulsen
#91. Reading is not daily its a life style for all readers.
Gary Paulsen
#92. In conclusion, you can see that there is a place for censors and we only wish that we could tell you where it is.
Pat Paulsen
#93. If books could have more, give more, be more, show more, they would still need readers who bring to them sound and smell and light and all the rest that can't be in books.
The book needs you.
Gary Paulsen
#94. Since I joined Congress, I've been shocked at how many times we were forced to vote on 1,000-plus-page bills without ample time to read or review what was in the final legislation. It's no wonder Congress doesn't enact good policy.
Erik Paulsen
#95. You're never the same after you run the Iditarod, and I still lust to go out and run with dogs, even though I know that I shouldn't. But I'd give just about anything to be able to do it again. To see the horizon again from the back of a dog team would be wonderful.
Gary Paulsen
#96. If you're old enough to be arrested, you're old enough to carry a gun.
Pat Paulsen
#97. Books make me feel safe. Books make me feel normal.
Gary Paulsen
#98. The last few years of my life have been a little like a long ride in a Poop de Ville with the bottom down.
Pat Paulsen
#99. Spending more time with my colleagues outside the Capitol helps build bipartisan relationships.
Erik Paulsen
#100. I was raised on farms by people who didn't have Wal-Mart. They had to make their own sleds, harnesses, clothing, etc.
Gary Paulsen
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