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Time Quotes by Tom Robbins
- For most people, self-awareness and self-pity blossom simultaneously in early adolescence. It's about that time that we start viewing the world as something other than…
- The inability to correctly perceive reality is often responsible for humans' insane behavior. And every time they substitute an all-purpose, sloppy slang word for the…
- Zippers are primal and modern at the very same time. On the one hand, your zipper is primitive and reptilian, on the other, mechanical and…
- We say we are earthlings, not waterlings. Our blood is closer to seawater than our bones to soil, but thats no matter. The sea is…
- Love makes the world go 'round, it's true, but lust stops the world in its tracks; love renders bearable the passage of time, lust causes…
- Rivers are the primal highways of life. From the crack of time, they had borne men's dreams, and in their lovely rush to elsewhere, fed…
- I removed the freeway from its temporal context. Overpasses, cloverleafs, exit ramps took on the personality of Mayan ruins for me. Without destination, without cessation,…
- Above all, have a good time. If you aren’t enjoying writing it, you can hardly expect someone else to enjoy reading it.
- We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Albert Camus wrote that the only serious question is whether to kill yourself or not. Tom Robbins wrote that the only serious question is whether…
- Get yourself in that intense state of being next to madness. Keep yourself in, not necessarily a frenzied state, but in a state of great…
- You risked your life, but what else have you ever risked? Have you risked disapproval? Have you ever risked economic security? Have you ever risked…
- Don't trust anybody who'd rather be grammatically correct than have a good time.
- There are apparently few limitations either of time or space on where the psyche might journey and only the customs inspector employed by our own…
- If love eats the donut, does time eat the hole?
- 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…
More Time 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
- As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- When I immersed myself in prayer and united myself with all the Masses that were being celebrated all over the world at… — Mary Faustina Kowalska
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- Years ago someone wrote [about me]: 'She characterizes Molly Weasley as a mother who is only at home looking after the children.'… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
- Life's too awesome to waste your time thinking about someone who doesn't treat you right. — Nishan Panwar
- Never regret your past, the only thing you should regret is the time you've wasted with the wrong people. — Nishan Panwar