Tom Robbins Quotes - Page 17

• There is little difference between the Zulu warrior who smeared bis body with lion's fat and the modern woman who dabs hers with expensive perfume. The one was trying to acquire the courage of the king of beasts, the other is attempting to acquire the irresistible sexuality of flowers. The underlying principle is the same.

  Tom Robbins

  Kings, Flower, Warrior

  14 Copiar cita

• we've produced a generation of spiritual panhandlers, begging for coins of wisdom, banging like bums on every closed door...if an old man moves into a shack or a cave and lets his beard grow, people will flock from miles around just to read his "no trespassing" sign

  Tom Robbins

  Espiritual, Conmovedor, Hombres

  9 Copiar cita

• Now that I'm in love, I haven't a clue. Now that I'm in love, I'm completely stupid on the subject.

  Tom Robbins

  Stupid, Clue, Subjects

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.99, Bantam

  4 Copiar cita

• People aren't trees, so it is false when they speak of roots.

  Tom Robbins

  Raíces, Personas, Árbol

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.94, Bantam

  4 Copiar cita

• Uno no sólo tiene la capacidad de percibir el mundo, sino también la de alterar su percepción del mismo; más sencillamente, uno puede cambiar las cosas por la forma en que las mira.

  Tom Robbins

  Perception, Looks, World

  8 Copiar cita

• La primera vez que abrió las piernas para él fue como abrir las mandíbulas para el dentista.

  Tom Robbins

  Time, Legs, Firsts

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.208, Bantam

  7 Copiar cita

• This may be said for the last quarter of the twentieth century: the truism that if we want a better world we will have to be better people came to be acknowledge, if not thoroughly understood, by a significantly large minority.

  Tom Robbins

  Philosophy, Educational, People

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.23, Bantam

  4 Copiar cita

• If little else, the brain is an educational toy. Why it may be a frustrating play thing - one whose finer points recede just when you think you are mastering them - it is nonetheless perpetually fascinating, frequently surprising, occasionally rewarding, and it comes already assembled. [...] Alas! the brain is a toy that plays games of its own. Its very most favorite game is the one-thing-leads-to-another game.

  Tom Robbins

  Philosophy, Educational, Thinking

  4 Copiar cita

• Dreamily the Princess stood up. "I'm not sure if I can walk," she said. "Then I'll carry you." "Is that what love is?" "I no longer know what love is. A week ago I had a lot of ideas. What love is and how to make it stay. Now that I'm in love, I haven't a clue. Now that I'm in love, I'm completely stupid on the subject.

  Tom Robbins

  Stupid, Princess, Love Is

  4 Copiar cita

• We approach the divine by enlarging our souls and lighting up our brains.

  Tom Robbins

  Soul, Brain, Divine

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.195, Bantam

  4 Copiar cita

• What we have here is an unexpected touchdown on the runway of the heart.

  Tom Robbins

  Heart, Unexpected, Still Life With Woodpecker

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.31, Bantam

  8 Copiar cita

• Much scientific truth proved to be as hypothetical as poetic allegory. The relationshiip of those rod-connected blue and red balls to an actual atomic structure was about the same as the relationship of Christianity to the fish or the Lamb.

  Tom Robbins

  Truth, Blue, Balls

  4 Copiar cita

• Religions lead us to believe that the soul is the ultimate family jewel and that in return for our mindless obedience, they can secure it for us in their vaults, or at least insure it against fire and theft. They are mistaken.

  Tom Robbins

  Fear, Believe, Fire

  4 Copiar cita

• And it rained a screaming. And it rained a rawness. And it rained a plasma. And it rained a disorder.

  Tom Robbins

  Rawness, Disorder, Plasma

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Another Roadside Attraction”, p.371, Bantam

  9 Copiar cita

• And it rained a fever. And it rained a silence. And it rained a sacrifice. And it rained a miracle. And it rained sorceries and saturnine eyes of the totem.

  Tom Robbins

  Eye, Sacrifice, Silence

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Another Roadside Attraction”, p.371, Bantam

  16 Copiar cita

• …he glanced over his shoulder at her, regarding her, as he often did before they made love, as if she were a lost continent about to be rediscovered.

  Tom Robbins

  Lost, Made, Shoulders

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.49, Bantam

  4 Copiar cita

• I rather like the smell of absurdity in the morning.

  Tom Robbins

  Morning, Smell, Absurdity

  4 Copiar cita

• ...language is not the frosting, it's the cake.

  Tom Robbins

  Cake, Language

  Tom Robbins (2006). “Wild Ducks Flying Backward”, p.207, Bantam

  10 Copiar cita

• Don't confuse symmetry with balance.

  Tom Robbins

  Balance, Symmetry

  12 Copiar cita

• Dreams don't come true. Dreams are true.

  Tom Robbins

  Dream, True Dreams

  Tom Robbins (2006). “Wild Ducks Flying Backward”, p.96, Bantam

  4 Copiar cita

• Summer had come to sit on New York's face.

  Tom Robbins

  Summer, New York, Faces

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.366, Bantam

  4 Copiar cita

• Writing a novel is not so much a project as a journey, a voyage, an adventure.

  Tom Robbins

  Writing, Adventure, Journey

  4 Copiar cita

• All dreams continue in the beyond.

  Tom Robbins

  Dream (Sueño)

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.54, Bantam

  4 Copiar cita

• There is a comfort in conformity, a security in control, that is appealing. There is a thrill in domination, and we are all secretly attracted to violence.

  Tom Robbins

  Comfort, Thrill, Violence

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.86, Bantam

  4 Copiar cita

• Perhaps the most terrible (or wonderful) thing that can happen to an imaginative youth, aside from the curse (or blessing) of imagination itself, is to be exposed without preparation to the life outside his or her own sphere - the sudden revelation that there is a there out there.

  Tom Robbins

  Blessing, Imagination, Preparation

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.101, Bantam

  4 Copiar cita

También te puede gustar:

Tim Robbins

Christopher Moore

Jack Kerouac

Terence McKenna

Rob Brezsny

Kurt Vonnegut

Kurt Vonnegut

Neneh Cherry