Quote

You may tell the greatest lies and wear a brilliant disguise, but you can't escape the eyes of the one who sees right through you.

Tom Robbins

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Tom Robbins
Age: 92
Born: 1932
Born: July 22
Author
Autobiographer
Biographer
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
Blowing Rock
North Carolina
Thomas Eugene Robbins
Tell
Sees
May
Brilliant
Right
Wear
Lies
Greatest
Eyes
Lying
Disguise
Eye
Escape

More quotes by Tom Robbins

Image
When we can converse with the animals, we will know the change is halfway here. When we can converse with the forest, we will know the change has come.
Tom Robbins
Image
The gods have chosen to entertain me with chronic eyestrain headaches. Very poisonous episodes. So I don't do a lot of reading anymore except on tape.
Tom Robbins
Image
Sharks are the criminals of the sea. Dolphins are the outlaws.
Tom Robbins
Image
Life is too small a container for certain individuals. Some of them, such as Alobar, huff and puff and try to expand the container. Others, such as Kudra, seek to pry the lid off and hop out.
Tom Robbins
Image
Consider the silent repose of the sausage as compared to the aggressiveness of bacon.
Tom Robbins
Image
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 slick. A zipper is where the Industrial Revolution meets the Cobra Cult.
Tom Robbins
Image
To emphasize the afterlife is to deny life. To concentrate on heaven is to create hell.
Tom Robbins
Image
When a culture is being dumbed down as effectively as ours is, its narrative arts (literature, film, theatre) seem to vacillate between the brutal and the bland, sometimes in the same work.
Tom Robbins
Image
If you were Jesus with missing years to kill where would you go?
Tom Robbins
Image
A lot of my work comes from what in Asia is called the 'mind of wonder.' There is not a lot of 'mind of wonder' writing in contemporary Western literature. I think that's what appeals to the readers who are my fans.
Tom Robbins
Image
I would only read the novels that people classify as 'beach books' if I were being held prisoner and the only alternative was the 'Book of Mormon.'
Tom Robbins
Image
Should one be shallow enough to view existence as a system of rewards and punishments, one soon learns that we pay as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats.
Tom Robbins
Image
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 us to capture the grand prize: the safety of the void. To fashion of life such a petty game is unworthy of both men and gods.
Tom Robbins
Image
You've heard of people calling in sick. You may have called in sick a few times yourself. But have you ever thought about calling in well
Tom Robbins
Image
What an electric heater perched upon the rim of the bathtub of the world that dead Jesus was.
Tom Robbins
Image
Should you fail to pilot your own ship, don't be surprised at what inappropriate port you find yourself docked.
Tom Robbins
Image
You knows dat in New Orleans is not morning 'til dee sun come up.
Tom Robbins
Image
We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.
Tom Robbins
Image
Breathe properly. Stay curious. And eat your beets.
Tom Robbins
Image
Society had a crime problem. It hired cops to attack crime. Now society has a cop problem.
Tom Robbins