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Been Quotes by Tom Robbins
- 'Neotenty' is 'remaining young,' and it may be ironic that it is so little known, because human evolution has been dominated by it.
- If you take any activity, any art, any discipline, any skill-take it and push it as far as it will go, push it beyond where…
- Listen, I've been sick ever since I started working here, but today I'm well and I won't be in anymore.
- I journey to the east, where I have been told, there are men who have taught death some manners.
- My personal motto has always been: Joy in spite of everything. Not just [mindless] joy, but joy in spite of everything. Recognizing the inequities and…
- White folks have controlled New Orleans with money and guns, black folks have controlled it with magic and music, and although there has been a…
- Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
- I have always been a romantic, one of those people who believes that a woman in pink circus tights contains all the secrets of the…
- The harsh truth is, most red-haired men look like blondes who've spoiled from lack of refrigeration. They look like brown-haired men who've been composted out…
- You've heard of people calling in sick. You may have called in sick a few times yourself. But have you ever thought about calling in…
- This did not annoy Amanda for it had long been her theory that human beings were invented by water as a device for transporting itself…
- 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…
- Every day is Judgement Day. Always has been. Always will be.
- The word desire suggests that there is something we do not have. If we have everything already, then there can be no desire, for there…
- Switters was actually quite fond of Seattle's weather, and not merely because of it's ambivalence. He liked it's subtle, muted qualities and the landscape that…
- Not naive,' Conch shell had corrected him. 'He simply has not been taught to fear the things you fear.
- Religion is nothing but institutionalized mysticism. The catch is, mysticism does not lend itself to institutionalization. The moment we attempt to organize mysticism, we destroy…
- In times of widespread chaos and confusion, it has been the duty of more advanced human beings--artists, scientists, clowns and philosophers--to create order. In times…
- A person's looking for a simple truth to live by, there it is. CHOICE. To refuse to passively accept what we've been handed by nature…
- The first time that she spread her legs for him it had been like opening her jaws for the dentist.
More Been Quotes
- I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful. — Aaliyah
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end… — Hank Aaron
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
- Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle