All Tom Robbins Quotes
- The trickster's function is to break taboos, create mischief, stir things up. In the end, the trickster gives people what they really want, some sort… Break
- What bothers most critics of my work is the goofiness. One reviewer said I need to make up my mind if want to be funny… Bother
- When I go to the shore, I take along the poems of Pablo Neruda. I suppose it's because the poems are simultaneously lush and ripe… Along
- People of ze wurl, relax! Inspirational
- If by the quarter of the twentieth century godliness wasn’t next to something more interesting than cleanliness, it might be time to reevaluate our notions… Century
- A book no more contains reality than a clock contains time. A book may measure so-called reality as a clock measures so-called time; a book… All
- When we're incomplete, we're always searching for somebody to complete us. When, after a few years or a few months of a relationship, we find… Add
- There's always the same amount of good luck and bad luck in the world. If one person doesn't get the bad luck, somebody else will… Across
- There are only two mantras, yum and yuck, mine is yum. Inspirational
- A sense of humor...is superior to any religion so far devised. Any
- Just because you're naked doesn't mean you're sexy. Just because you're cynical doesn't mean you're cool. Cool
- What difference does it make if the Gospel is mostly a lie? It's an engrossing story and the words of its hero are excellent words… Difference
- People tend the take everything too seriously. Especially themselves. Yep. And that's probably what makes 'em scared and hurt so much of the time. Life… Em Scared
- So you think that you're a failure, do you? Well, you probably are. What's wrong with that? In the first place, if you've any sense… Ahead
- Growing up is a trap," snapped Dr. Robbins. "When they tell you to shut up, they mean stop talking. When they tell you to grow… Dr
- What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make others people's decisions for them? Liberty, the very opposite of ownership… Action
- In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak. Art
- This is the room where Jezebel frescoed her eyelids with history's tragic glitter Eyelids
- Time passed. Art came off the walls and became rituals. Ritual became religion. Religion spawned science. Science led to big business. And big business, if… Art
- there are two kinds of people in this world : those who believe there are two kinds of people in this world and those who… Believe
- Sometimes one gets the feeling that life still thinks it's living in Paris in the '30s. Feeling
- There is a sense in which a painted stick is a stick in bloom. This stick points to the hidden face of God. Sometimes it… Bloom
- Ellen Cherry was from the south and had good manners. She didn´t have any panties on, but she had good manners. Any
- There is no such thing as a weird human being, It's just that some people require more understanding than others. Human
- In the end, perhaps we should simply imagine a joke; a long joke that's continually retold in an accent too thick and strange to ever… Accent