Time Quotes by Tom Robbins

Don't trust anybody who'd rather be grammatically correct than have a good time.

— Tom Robbins

“Every time a person goes to the mall, she loses a little piece of her soul”

— Tom Robbins

If love eats the donut, does time eat the hole?

— Tom Robbins

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect lover.

— Tom Robbins

“A book no more contains reality than a clock contains time.”

— Tom Robbins

“As you know, I’ve been sick and stupid for a long time. I have a lot to make up for,”

— Tom Robbins

“I began to hitchhike in something akin to geological time: slow, ancient, vast.”

— Tom Robbins

Christians, and some Jews, claim we're in the "end times," but they've been saying this off and on for more than two…

— Tom Robbins

Hard times and funky living can season the soul, true enough, but joy is the yeast that makes it rise.

— Tom Robbins

If by the quarter of the twentieth century godliness wasn’t next to something more interesting than cleanliness, it might be time to…

— Tom Robbins

The first time that she spread her legs for him it had been like opening her jaws for the dentist.

— Tom Robbins

“this is not the first time that intimidation by typewriter has caused me to consider the pen.”

— Tom Robbins

“So it was that neither for the first time nor the last my verbal mojo, my knack for the written word, served…

— Tom Robbins

“We seem to face an enemy who, no matter how many times we win, will best us in the end. He has…

— Tom Robbins

Above all, have a good time. If you aren’t enjoying writing it, you can hardly expect someone else to enjoy reading it.

— Tom Robbins

I removed the freeway from its temporal context. Overpasses, cloverleafs, exit ramps took on the personality of Mayan ruins for me. Without…

— Tom Robbins

There are apparently few limitations either of time or space on where the psyche might journey and only the customs inspector employed…

— Tom Robbins

It's entirely possible to function as a free-thinking individual without succumbing to narcissism. This can be tricky at times, I suppose, but…

— Tom Robbins

“To wit: actions, like sounds, divide the flow of time into beats.[...]The quality of a man's life depends on the rhyhmic structure…

— Tom Robbins

“every time they substitute an all-purpose, sloppy slang word for the words that would accurately describe an emotion or a situation, it…

— Tom Robbins

“In times such as ours, however, when there is too much order, too much management, too much programming and control, it becomes…

— Tom Robbins

You know a trillion times more about art than me. But I’ve learned that it isn’t necessary to know all that much.…

— Tom Robbins

People tend the take everything too seriously. Especially themselves. Yep. And that's probably what makes 'em scared and hurt so much of…

— Tom Robbins

A book no more contains reality than a clock contains time. A book may measure so-called reality as a clock measures so-called…

— Tom Robbins

I've always assumed that every time a child is born, the Divine reenters the world. Okay? That's the meaning of the Christmas…

— Tom Robbins

“(1) When a situation has become too frustrating, a quandary too persistently insolvable; when dealing with the issue is generating chronic discontent,…

— Tom Robbins

Love makes the world go 'round, it's true, but lust stops the world in its tracks; love renders bearable the passage of…

— Tom Robbins

There are times when we can feel destiny close around us like a fist around a doorknob. Sure, we can resist. But…

— Tom Robbins

We say we are earthlings, not waterlings. Our blood is closer to seawater than our bones to soil, but thats no matter.…

— Tom Robbins

Like the Arthurian years at Camelot, the Sixties constituted a breakthrough, a fleeting moment of glory, a time when a significant little…

— Tom Robbins

In times of widespread chaos and confusion, it has been the duty of more advanced human beings--artists, scientists, clowns and philosophers--to create…

— Tom Robbins

“Beauty! Wasn't that what mattered? Beauty was hardly a popular ideal at that jumpy moment in history. The masses had been desensitized…

— Tom Robbins

“...on a number of occasions this book has made reference to magic, and each time you've shaken your head, muttering such criticisms…

— Tom Robbins

“Don't let yourself be victimized by the age you live in. It's not the times that will bring us down, any more…

— Tom Robbins

“Information about time cannot be imparted in a straightforward way. Like furniture, it has to be tipped and tilted to get it…

— Tom Robbins

“Zippers are primal and modern at the very same time. On the one hand, your zipper is primitive and reptilian, on the…

— Tom Robbins

“He was rowed down from the north in a leather skiff manned by a crew of trolls. His fur cape was caked…

— Tom Robbins

“All depression has its roots in self-pity, and all self-pity is rooted in people taking themselves too seriously.” At the time Switters…

— Tom Robbins

Zippers are primal and modern at the very same time. On the one hand, your zipper is primitive and reptilian, on the…

— Tom Robbins

“the sixties constituted a breakthrough, a fleeting moment of glory, a time when a significant little chunk of humanity briefly realized its…

— Tom Robbins