Top 48 Tompkins Quotes
#1. I grew up on Avenue C, and Tompkins Square Park was my park. That was where I played ball every day. I lived in that park.
Ramon Rodriguez
#2. I am deeply grateful for all the friendships that I have all across this district, especially here in Ithaca. Ithacas a wonderful place. Im very proud to be the person who represents the city and some of Tompkins County.
Maurice Hinchey
#3. One honest John Tompkins, a hedger & ditcher,
Although he was poor, did not want to be richer;
For all such vain wishes in him were prevented
By a fortunate habit of being contented.
Jane Taylor
#4. I've got a twin sister who's an artist and growing up I was always "the loud one." She's not actually quiet at all, but I would rather fill a gap with chatter and she would just let a gap be. So there was no inclination to actually perform.
Sue Tompkins
#5. [children]can thus learn the art of loving and know truly that when they think a thought they release a tremendous power or force in space.
Peter Tompkins
#6. The bike has very few controls. It's very simple to operate and understand and your field of vision is certainly greatly expanded as opposed to being in a car.
Paul F. Tompkins
#7. For those of us (those that have the desire to explore the world unknown) that grew up going out into the wilds of the world ... we got into our souls a sense of beauty.
Douglas Tompkins
#9. Performances have a bit of a life and a time scale to themselves.
Sue Tompkins
#10. I'm not really interested in making someone endure a performance or stand there for too long. I like to think about the length.
Sue Tompkins
#11. A.F. WS-315A medium-range missile system), Douglas acquired access to several German V-2 Rockets. These were the wonder weapons of the day, notable for their sizable documentation packages. They
William Mills Tompkins
#12. When I go into the editing process, I re-look at the original intuitive thoughts and then it becomes the written performance or text work. Because they look quite big there's this assumption that there isn't much editing, but that's a huge part of it.
Sue Tompkins
#13. One can only hope that our horizons widen as we grow taller.
J.R. Tompkins
#14. I loved the bike because it gave me some measure of independence that I did not have.
Paul F. Tompkins
#15. I like actual songs and bands, but it's usually parts, like the production, the bassline, the drums, that I'm really attracted to.
Sue Tompkins
#16. But these threats do not move or alarm me, and for the best of all possible reasons; I do not believe that the gentlemen who make these threats intend to leave their places on this floor - nor, if they should, would the country suffer any loss. The
Cydnor Bailey Tompkins
#17. I like being around people who are good conversationalists, when there's a give and take, and you are heightening an idea, exploring it together, that is my favorite thing in the world.
Paul F. Tompkins
#18. What would it be like to feel so attached, so intrinsically bonded, so protective of one's own best connection with time and the ages, of generations past and future, of another human life, of their time?
J.R. Tompkins
#19. I probably protect myself by not asking myself too much.
Sue Tompkins
#20. The way I perform or the setup is always same - just me and a microphone and the text - and they usually have some relation of how physical that stack becomes. When I'm editing it together, the density of the papers is an indicator to be like, "You need to stop."
Sue Tompkins
#21. I famously stole tons of VHS tapes from a video store I worked in. It was detailed in my special, Laboring Under Delusions. I worked at Tower Video and stole a bunch of videotapes from them, and then got caught and had to return the videotapes. It was a mortifying experience.
Paul F. Tompkins
#22. I started using Notes [on my iPhone] but I do a lot of hand written notes. It's a very slow, accumulative thing.
Sue Tompkins
#23. Our fates are locked together. It would be foolish of me to anger God by leaving you.
Mark Tompkins
#24. The body of Christ needs to mature until we can distinguish a true prophetic word from merely the word of a prophet. Many modern Christians are afraid to reject anything spoken by one who claims to be a prophet or prophetess.
Iverna Tompkins
#25. Being on the same level as everybody is really important to me. I'm trying to do really basic stuff like communicate, convey, talk, see, and invite joining and intimacy. What I'm trying to do is attach. It's not about being separate.
Sue Tompkins
#26. History doesn't move you more than when it's in the iron of your own blood.
J.R. Tompkins
#27. I do think I'm terrific at giving advice. Although in our hearts we usually know what we should do. It's rare that you get in a situation in life where you don't know how to proceed. You know the thing you should do, but don't want to.
Paul F. Tompkins
#28. How has podcasting changed things? A lot of people ask me if I feel I should be more famous.
Paul F. Tompkins
#29. There is often a prophetic word in the words of a prophet, but not everything said is true prophecy.
Iverna Tompkins
#31. I'm one who needs to be in the space [for] a sense of place and order. It's crucial.
Sue Tompkins
#32. Sometimes I start with music on and then I get distracted because I'm working to a different rhythm; I'm not working to myself. So, I don't have music on when I'm working.
Sue Tompkins
#33. That's about as effective as a windshield wiper on a goat's ass.
Denise Tompkins
#34. I think Jaws is one of those movies that, if it is on, I will watch it until it's finished.
Paul F. Tompkins
#35. Someone thought that I dropped out of Harvard. I am a college dropout, but I dropped out of Temple University in Philadelphia.
Paul F. Tompkins
#36. Up until I think eighth grade - when I found out in front of a roomful of people - I believed that England and Great Britain were two entirely different places. Like I didn't know that England was a part of Great Britain. I thought they were completely separate in every way.
Paul F. Tompkins
#37. Writing is a lifelong disease.
Once contracted, the only prescription is to write constantly in whatever form to express your condition, in whatever construction to carry your words beyond you.
J.R. Tompkins
#38. I'm interested in really particular details, ideas, thoughts, and emotions, yet it's defused with performance, where you can play with hiding things, or be more confrontational about something shielded. There is this process of layering in performance.
Sue Tompkins
#39. My favorite movie is Lawrence Of Arabia. But that's a long, long movie. So although I've seen it several times, it's not as fun as Jaws.
Paul F. Tompkins
#41. I'm not a super adventurous eater and I try to make myself try things.
Paul F. Tompkins
#43. I love a small dinner party - let's say six people, max, were everybody's having the same conversation. That's my favorite thing in the world.
Paul F. Tompkins
#44. I don't analyze too much, because then I'll question, 'Why do I write down all of these random little phrases?'
Sue Tompkins
#45. When I was younger I was strictly meat-and-potatoes and I just wouldn't try things. As I have gotten older, I'm much more adventurous but still not like whoever that dude is on whatever show it is who just goes around and eats bugs everywhere.
Paul F. Tompkins
#46. The thing I have to keep in mind and I try to keep in mind about myself, about anyone, is you do the best you can do at the time.
Paul F. Tompkins
#47. It doesn't seem to be worth wasting a lot of energy on attempting to rewrite the past.
Douglas Tompkins
#48. In my late teens, early 20s, when I started stand-up and I was living downtown for the first time, I was deep into my blues and Bukowski phase. And, you know, that's when that's appropriate. And I grew out of it.
Paul F. Tompkins
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