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Tom Paulin Quotes

One of the strongest features of Puritanism is its autobiographical tendency, its passionate self-regard.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: irish
Birth: January 25, 1949

Topics

Passionate Puritanism Autobiographical

To be a good model, I'd need a lot more confidence... and more confidence to be more bare.

Good Confidence More Need Model Lot

When you're in your 20s, you're a little more carefree; you're single. You have a very different way of looking at the world and experiencing the world. But later in your 30s, when you have children, a career, career obstacles, mortgages, car payments and relationships, you have to negotiate; that's a very different life.

Melissa De Sousa

Life Car Children Obstacles World

Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions.

Ambition Appearance Person Where

When I die, I'm gonna leave my body to science fiction.

Science Die Body Science Fiction

With any story I write, I could actually write it from three or four different perspectives, which would end with a completely different moral at the end.

Story End Moral Three Write Four

You're standing onstage in a sold-out arena with people singing your music, and you feel like the loneliest person in the world. Because here's a party that, essentially, it's for you. And you still somehow feel like you don't belong there. Those people all have their lives and go back home.

Home Music People Singing World You

Because I like to pick up where I left off and continue from there.

Up Left Where Because Off Continue

For my whole career, I didn't have sparring partners. I was frustrated when I came to the UFC because, after a few minutes of the first round, I would feel dead because I had no sparring partners.

Feel Career Dead First Round Whole

The frustration for a parent is that you might be available all the time, but the kid may approach you only about 10% of the time.

Time Frustration Parent You Kid May

Each book requires a different look. Sometimes I get to take a personal direction that's appropriate for the story. I try to push things within a range. Some are rougher, some more expressionistic, some are slicker graphically and call for a prettier drawing style that I can do. Some have a more classical vibe, and some are in between.

Style Book Story Direction Push

I became a stand-up because that was my survival.

Survival Because Stand-Up Became

Schools alone are not to blame for underachievement. The breakdown of the family, poverty, and decaying cities with eroding tax bases have made a good public school education nearly impossible in many parts of the country.

Family Education Good Alone School

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