Paul F. Tompkins Quotes

I love coffee, but I don't photograph it. That's not who I am. I'm a social creature, so my subject should not be the coffee. It's about being together with friends.

I belonged to another club, and liked the camaraderie.

Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same.

When you - when you play golf with somebody, you spend four hours or more walking with somebody, usually, you learn something about them that you didn't know before.

My favorite thing is to have a big dinner with friends and talk about life.

I am happy to have some friends here in the kitchen.

You get guys around a campfire, and they start telling their stories. That's the fellowship that they want to be in.

We always felt like we were throwing a party for our friends, regardless of the size or the place, because we actually were throwing a party for our friends. We've always had a very tight knit community.

Music was a large part of my life. and it is a bit cliche, but it's a way people come together.

We want to encourage people to talk to one another.

Be in community, go out to dinner together, do things together. We lose that, we lose a lot. It's important to come together.

Camp is so universal. It buys that sense of togetherness. You have camp friends that you only see at camp and couldn't see an entire year.

It's hard enough to sit at a table and talk to most people as it is. But we can go to some town, and there's 300 people we've never met before, and by the third song, we're connecting with everyone in that room.

Music brings people together. So my function in anything I do is to help bring people closer in.

Encourage people to mingle, meet, and communicate.

It doesn't matter where you are: theater brings people together.

I believe sport brings people together and allows them to feel united for a common goal.

What I learned early on, is that it's not really fun to do things alone.

I think bathrooms are where everyone bonds. That is the bonding place.

Music is a tool that brings people together.

I think with the right person and the right music, people from all walks of life can come together. I know that's what my life was about. I've seen it all, so that's what I want to bring to the table.

I think all it really takes for different people to get along is a common rooting interest and a few beers.

For most people, what is so painful about reading is that you read something and you don't have anybody to share it with. In part what the book club opens up is that people can read a book and then have someone else to talk about it with. Then they see that a book can lead to the pleasure of conversation, that the solitary act of reading can actually be a part of the path to communion and community.

Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same. Gossip is the tool of the poet, the shop-talk of the scientist, and the consolation of the housewife, wit, tycoon and intellectual. It begins in the nursery and ends when speech is past.

A live show is one of the last holdouts of a thing that makes you feel a part of a community, where you'll go and maybe meet your future wife or boyfriend, or you're taking your sister to her first show. These are the things that you remember later in your life.