All Tom Robbins Quotes
- In referring to her earlier statement that he had was not her type because he was "a dollar short when it came to maturity and… All
- Reality whistles a different tune underwater. Different Tune
- Sometimes, though, I feel that pushing books is a whole lot like pushing medicine. Think of books as pills. I have pills that cure ignorance… Anxieties
- We only rise above mediocrity when there's something at stake. p. 174 Inspirational
- It's hard to say who's a greater threat to the world, an ambitious CEO with a big ad budget or a crafty cleric with an… Ad
- Solace? That's why God made fermented beverages and the blues. Beverages
- I've sucked way too much cement for this year. Bad juju rising off them city sidewalks. I need to babble with a brook or two,… Babble
- Though February lay about her shoulders like a cloak of lead. Cloak
- She continued weeping until the heat of her tear water, the sheer velocity of its flow, finally obscured the already vague circumstances of its origins. Circumstances
- On their sofas of spice and feathers, the concubines also slept fretfully. In those days the Earth was still flat, and people dreamed often of… Concubines
- The party in Alobar’s head, which agitation and anxiety were throwing, now was crashed by a notion: existence can be rearranged. Agitation
- All dreams continue in the beyond. All
- You know what I mean? Real and unreal, beautiful and strange, like a dream. It got me high as a kite, but it didn’t last… Beautiful
- There is a comfort in conformity, a security in control, that is appealing. There is a thrill in domination, and we are all secretly attracted… All
- Perhaps the most terrible (or wonderful) thing that can happen to an imaginative youth, aside from the curse (or blessing) of imagination itself, is to… Aside
- When we accept small wonders, we qualify ourselves to imagine great wonders. Accept
- Gods and men create one another, destroy one another, though by different means. Create
- Breathe properly. Stay curious. And eat your beets. Beets
- Poetry, the best of it, is lunar and is concerned with the essential insanities. Journalism is solar (there are numerous newspapers named The Sun, none… Best
- Leave it to a naive world-saver like you to view our love as a Sacred Cause when in actual fact all it was was some… Actual
- Political activism is seductive because it seems to offer the possibility that one can improve society, make things better, without going through the personal ordeal… Activism
- There were no mail-order catalogues in 1492. Marco Polo's journal was the wish book of Renaissance Europe. Then, Columbus sailed the ocean blue and landed… All
- Be your own flying saucer! Rescue yourself! Flying
- Meet me in Cognito, baby. In Cognito, we'll have nothing to hide. Baby
- Should you fail to pilot your own ship, don't be surprised at what inappropriate port you find yourself docked. Docked