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Things Quotes by Tom Robbins
- One has not only an ability to perceive the world but an ability to alter one's perception of it; more simply, one can change things…
- Me? I stand for uncertainty, insecurity, bad taste, fun, and things that go boom in the night.
- Things. Cosas. Things attach themselves like leeches to the human soul, then they bleed out the sweetness and the music and the primordial joy of…
- On the mainland, a rain was falling. The famous Seattle rain. The thin, gray rain that toadstools love. The persistent rain that knows every hidden…
- 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…
- To one degree or another, everybody is connected to the Mystery, and everybody secretly yearns to expand the connection. That requires expanding the soul. These…
- Those same forces that drive a genius to create the things or ideas that entertain or enlighten us often gobble so much of his personality…
- Equality is not in regarding different things similarly, equality is in regarding different things differently.
- There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for.
- 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.
- People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make things up.
- 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…
- Those who shun the whimsy of things will experience rigor mortis before death.
- The world is a wonderfully weird place, consensual reality is significantly flawed, no institution can be trusted, certainty is a mirage, security a delusion, and…
- I'm an outlaw, not a philosopher, but I know this much: there's meaning in everything, all things are connected, and a good champagne is a…
- The loony legacy of money was that the arithmetic by which things were measured had become more valuable than the things themselves.
- 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…
- What mattered to Abu was the music of the sentence. 'A shadow does not belong to the object that casts it.' To Abu, it was…
- I cannot believe that the most delicious things were placed here merely to test us, to temp us, to make it the more difficult for…
More Things Quotes
- Throughout all of this confusion, I hope I somehow get to you. I practice all the things I'd say to tell you… — Superman
- Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and… — Francis Bacon
- I find a lot of things kind of funny and I often say what's on my mind, and then get nine texts… — Kate Beckinsale
- If I were an actor I could be someone, someone who'd always know the right things to say. But as soon as… — Superman
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Change in all things is sweet. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle