Quote

Never be afraid to make a fool of yourself. The furthest out you can go is the best place to be.

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
Never
Furthest
Fool
Afraid
Place
Best
Writing
Make

More quotes by Tom Robbins

Image
Love is dope, not chicken soup.
Tom Robbins
Image
Meet me in Cognito, baby. In Cognito, we'll have nothing to hide.
Tom Robbins
Image
Those people who recognise that imagination is reality's master, we call sages, and those who act upon it, we call artists.
Tom Robbins
Image
Slavic peoples get their physical characteristics from potatoes, their smoldering inquietude from radishes, their seriousness from beets.
Tom Robbins
Image
Our purpose is to consciously, deliberately evolve towards a wiser, more liberated and luminous state of being.
Tom Robbins
Image
Of course I'm inconsistent! Only logicians and cretins are consistent!
Tom Robbins
Image
If you lack the iron and the fizz to take control of your own life, then the gods will repay your weakness by having a grin or two at your expense. Should you fail to pilot your own ship, don't be surprised at what inappropriate port you find yourself docked.
Tom Robbins
Image
Well, there's one thing to be said for money. It can make you rich.
Tom Robbins
Image
It's personal freedom, not hundred dollar bills that lights the soul's cigar.
Tom Robbins
Image
Our world isn't made of earth, air and water or even molecules and atoms our world is made of language.
Tom Robbins
Image
The very act of creation requires such focused concentration that vast areas of knowledge may be completely overlooked. Well, so what? There is no evidence that generalized skills are in any way superior to specialized brilliance.
Tom Robbins
Image
Once one pays some attention to something, then you begin to see evidence of it everywhere.
Tom Robbins
Image
Louisiana in September was like an obscene phone call from nature. The air - moist, sultry, secretive, and far from fresh - felt as if it were being exhaled into one's face. Sometimes it even sounded like heavy breathing.
Tom Robbins
Image
Would you complain because a beautiful sunset doesn't have a future or a shooting star a payoff? And why should romance 'lead anywhere'? Passion isn't a path through the woods. Passion is the woods.
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
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
Who knows how to make love stay? Tell love you are going to the Junior's Deli on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn to pick up a cheesecake, and if love stays, it can have half.
Tom Robbins
Image
Dreams don't come true. Dreams are true.
Tom Robbins
Image
She continued weeping until the heat of her tear water, the sheer velocity of its flow, finally obscured the already vague circumstances of its origins.
Tom Robbins
Image
Logic only gives man what he needs... Magic gives him what he wants.
Tom Robbins