Authors
Topics
Lists
Pictures
Resources
More about Tom Robbins
Tom Robbins Quotes
296 Sourced Quotes
Source
Report...
You don't have to be a genius to recognize one. If you did, Einstein would never have gotten invited to the White House.
Tom Robbins
Source
Report...
Twenty candles on a cake. Twenty Camels in a pack. Twenty months in the federal pen. Twenty shots of tequila down a young girl's gullet. Twenty centuries since Our Lord's last pratfall, and after all that time we still don't know where passion goes when it goes.
Tom Robbins
Source
Report...
If you're honest, you sooner or later have to confront your values. Then you're forced to separate what is right from what is merely legal. This puts you metaphysically on the run. America is full of metaphysical outlaws.
Tom Robbins
Source
Report...
There are essential and inessential insanities. The latter are solar in character, the former are linked to the moon. Inessential insanities are a brittle amalgamation of ambition, aggression, and pre-adolescent anxiety — garbage that should have been dumped long ago. Essential insanities are those impulses one instinctively senses are virtuous and correct, even though peers may regard them as coo-coo. Inessential insanities get one in trouble with one's self. Essential insanities get one in trouble with others. In fact, it may be essential. Poetry, the best of it, is lunar and is concerned with the essential insanities. Journalism is solar... and is devoted to the inessential.
Tom Robbins
Source
Report...
Leave me in the night but please don't leave me in the dark
Tom Robbins
Source
Report...
There's probably no subject with quite so many conflictin' opinions about it as there are about food, and 'tis better to swap bubble gum with a rabid bulldog than challenge a single one o' the varyin' beliefs your average human holds about nutrition.
Tom Robbins
Source
Report...
The shaman lives outside the social system, refusing to have any part of it. Yet he seems to connect the populace to the heavens and the earth far more directly than the priest.
Tom Robbins
Source
Report...
They glared at her the way any intelligent persons ought to glare when what they need is a smoke, a bite, a cup of coffee, a piece of ass, or a good fast-paced story, and all they're getting is philosophy.
Tom Robbins
Source
Report...
Watts published a luminous book entitled The Wisdom of Insecurity that ought to be required reading for every high school senior. Watts elaborates beautifully on what I've learned from observation and personal experience: namely, that security is an illusion.
Tom Robbins
Source
Report...
She lunched on papaya poo poo or mango mu mu or some other fruity foo foo bursting with overripe tropical vowels.
Tom Robbins
Source
Report...
Curiosity, especially intellectual inquisitiveness, is what separates the truly alive from those who are merely going through the motions.
Tom Robbins
Source
Report...
Every individual has to assume responsibility for his or her own actions, even the poor and the young. A social system that decrees otherwise is inviting intellectual atrophy and spiritual stagnation.
Tom Robbins
Source
Report...
The more advertising I see, the less I want to buy.
Tom Robbins
Source
Report...
One tended to lose one's bearings in the presence of willful and persistent acts of craziness, and the more gentle the act, the crazier it seemed, as if rage and violence, being closer to the norm, were easier to accommodate.
Tom Robbins
Source
Report...
A lot of progress was being made there at MIT. Those guys had molecules jumping through hoops like poodles in a circus.
Tom Robbins
Source
Report...
The odor of frying bacon, sausage links, and ham tiptoed on little pig feet all the way to the north end of the second floor. Inevitably, the odor made her simultaneously ravenous and nauseated. She hated the sensation. It reminded her of pregnancy. Every Sunday morning, Leigh-Cheri awoke to a pan of fried fear.
Tom Robbins
Source
Report...
The scientist keeps the romantic honest, and the romantic keeps the scientist human.
Tom Robbins
Source
Report...
How can you admire a human who consciously embraces the bland, the mediocre, and the safe rather than risk the suffering that disappointment can bring?
Tom Robbins
Source
Report...
You wonder if God doesn't have an answering machine to screen out the prayers of the venal and the boring? And in which category has he placed you?
Tom Robbins
Source
Report...
If kissing is man's greatest invention, then fermentation and patriarchy compete with the domestication of animals for the distinction of being man's worst folly, and no doubt the three combined long ago, the one growing out of the others, to foster civilization and lead Western humanity to its present state of decline.
Tom Robbins
Source
Report...
As expected, you get his machine. Someday, even the "call of nature" will be answered by a machine.
Tom Robbins
Source
Report...
When we accept bad art because it's good politics, we're killing the swan to feed the chickens.
Tom Robbins
Source
Report...
Slavic peoples get their physical characteristics from potatoes, their smoldering inquietude from radishes, their seriousness from beets.
Tom Robbins
Source
Report...
There exists a false aristocracy based on family name, property, and inherited wealth. But there likewise exists a true aristocracy based on intelligence, talent and virtue.
Tom Robbins
Source
Report...
America is a nation of 270 million people: 100 million of them are gangsters, another 100 million are hustlers, 50 million are complete lunatics, and every single one of us is secretly in show business. Isn't that fabulous?
Tom Robbins
1
...
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
Quote of the day
Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.
Martin Luther
Tom Robbins
Creative Commons
Born:
July 22, 1932
(age 91)
Bio:
Thomas Eugene "Tom" Robbins is an American author.
Known for:
Still Life with Woodpecker (1980)
Jitterbug Perfume (1984)
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1976)
Another Roadside Attraction (1971)
Skinny Legs and All (1990)
Most used words:
love
people
life
time
god
man
death
human
fire
self
society
soul
rained
tequila
insanities
Tom Robbins on Wikipedia
Suggest an edit or a new quote
Tom Robbins Quotes
Tom Robbins Short Quotes
Quotes about Tom Robbins
American Novelist Quotes
Novelist Quotes
20th-century Novelist Quotes
Related People
Jack Kerouac
American Poet
Terence McKenna
American Botanist
Kurt Vonnegut
American Playwright
Featured Authors
Lists
Predictions that didn't happen
If it's on the Internet it must be true
Remarkable Last Words (or Near-Last Words)
Picture Quotes
Confucius
Philip James Bailey
Eleanor Roosevelt
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Popular Topics
life
love
nature
time
god
power
human
mind
work
art
heart
thought
men
day
×
Lib Quotes