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Some Quotes by Tom Robbins
- Deep down, all of us are probably aware that some kind of mystical evolution is our true task. Yet we suppress the notion with considerable…
- Some praise me, some blame me. I go the other way. Sometimes those things that attract the most attention to us are the things which…
- I journey to the east, where I have been told, there are men who have taught death some manners.
- But say you've inflated your soul to the size of a beach ball and it's soaking into the Mystery like wine into a mattress. What…
- Most really good fiction is compelled into being. It comes from a kind of uncalculated innocence. You need not have your ending in mind before…
- To some extent, Seattle remains a frontier metropolis, a place where people can experiment with their lives, and change and grow and make things happen.
- 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…
- 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…
- There is no such thing as a weird human being, It's just that some people require more understanding than others.
- Some marriages are made in heaven, Mine was made in Hong Kong, by the same people who make those little rubber pork chops they sell…
- Sounds travel through space long after their wave patterns have ceased to be detectable by the human ear: some cut right through the ionosphere and…
- Serious reading is hardly a social activity and every halfway serious reader is perpetually subject to a form of coitus interruptus. Family members or friends…
- Life is too small a container for certain individuals. Some of them, such as Alobar, huff and puff and try to expand the container. Others,…
- You have taught us much. Come with us and join the movement." "This movement of yours, does it have slogans?" inquired the Chink. "Right on!"…
- 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,…
- 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…
- Some folks hide, and some folks seek, and seeking, when it's mindless, neurotic, desperate, or pusillanimous can be a form of hiding.
- As long as a population can be induced to believe in a supernatural hereafter, it can be oppressed and controlled. People will put up with…
- Faites de beaux rêves, monsieur," she called as she put out the light. Switters had always loved that expression, "Make fine dreams." In contrast to…
- If you want your tree to produce plenty o' fruit, you've got to cut it back from time to time. Same thing with your neural…
- People feel tremendous pressure to settle down in some sort of permanent space and fill it up with stuff, but deep inside they resent those…
More Some Quotes
- I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling… — Hank Aaron
- Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip. — Aristophanes
- If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when… — Aristotle
- To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does… — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- We have some material on spying by a major government on the tech industry. Industrial espionage. — Julian Assange
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives. — Richard Bach
- I would not suggest the U.S. should sit down with the North Koreans bilaterally immediately after they've fired missiles - because the… — Richard Armitage
- What annoys the hell out of me is the arrogance of some people. They don't even listen to our music, they decided… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I'm not going to conform to some consumer need. — Billie Joe Armstrong