Tom Robbins Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Tom Robbins
Tom Robbins Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Tom Robbins on Wise Famous Quotes.
Curiosity, especially intellectual inquisitiveness, is what separates the truly alive from those who are merely going through the motions.
If you want to make a name for yourself, the oldest trick in the book is to attack what everybody else reveres.
So it was that neither for the first time nor the last my verbal mojo, my knack for the written word, served to save my reckless ass.
To the domesticated, nomads were an unwelcome reminder of instinct suppressed, liberty compromised, and control unimplemented.
What looks to be a wisp of cloud is actually the moon, narrow and pale like a paring snipped from a snowman's toenail.
Some folks hide, and some folks seek, and seeking, when it's mindless, neurotic, desperate, or pusillanimous can be a form of hiding.
Funny how we think of romance as always involving two, when the romance of solitude can be ever so much more delicious and intense.
Maybe what I admired most about John Steinbeck is that he never mortgaged his 45-acre heart for a suite in an ivory tower.
I like to think of myself as a fiction writer who liked art enough to write about it for a while, and then went on to his fiction.
Of the Seven Dwarfs, the only one who shaved was Dopey. That should tell us something about the wisdom of shaving.
They coil around each other, the light and the darkness, and they absorb each other continuously, yet they never cancel each other out.
It was quite likely the best advice I've ever received. I can't help but wonder what my life would have been like if I'd actually followed it.
I'll follow him to the ends of the earth,' she sobbed. Yes, darling. But the earth doesn't have any ends. Columbus fixed that.
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 universe.
I asked Mr. Wrangle what you were like. He said you were hornet juice and rosebuds in a container of gazelle meat.
Mystery is the face everybody shared before they were born and the joke they'll finally get after they're dead.
[R]ed hair is slow to lay back once it's got its dandruff up, and her bitchy mood required further opportunity to express itself.
There's nothing like the word dangerous to generate interest: it's irresistible to young males, scary to most young females.
It was laughter that might have been squeezed from the tubes of his own darkest heart, then amplified fifty times through the bellows of a loon's ass.
I may be mad, he thought, but I prefer the shit of this world to whatever sweet ambrosias the next may offer.
If the novelist isn't surprised by where his book ends up, he or she probably hasn't written anything worth remembering.
You can hook a rainbow to a goofy vision -Jellybean is doing that- but you can't hook a rainbow to a lie
My paintings are very strange - large and empty, like walls. Just the opposite of my writing, which is rich and juicy.
What was it like in there? Inside a daisy?" My answer: "Like a cathedral made of mathematics and honey.
Long as you're not afraid, nobody can run your life for you. Remember that. Hell is being scared of things.
Always compare yourself to the best. Even if you never measure up, it can't help but make you better.
Someone once commented that I have a great thirst for knowledge, to which I replied, What the hell? I'll drink anything.
They accepted my donation, so they're aware they'd better serve my interests or I'll buy some leadership that will.
Sissy dear. Your thumbs. HOLLYWOOD SPECTACULAR. LAS VEGAS. THE ROSE BOWL. Larger than any one man's desire.
In the life of the individual, an aesthetic sensibility is both more authentic and more commendable than a political or religious one.
Outlaws, like lovers, poets, and tubercular composers who cough blood onto piano keys, do their finest work in the slippery rays of the moon.
Religion is a paramount contributor to human misery. It is not merely the opium of the masses, it is the cyanide.
Above all, have a good time. If you aren't enjoying writing it, you can hardly expect someone else to enjoy reading it.
They were straining so desperately for admission to paradise that they had forgotten that paradise had always been their address.
Hard times and funky living can season the soul, true enough, but joy is the yeast that makes it rise.
Hemingway and Norman Mailer might have disagreed, but there is no heavyweight champion of literature.