Quote

True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced.

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
Results
True
Order
Presumed
Disorder
Balanced
Stable
Stability
Transformed

More quotes by Tom Robbins

Image
All dreams continue in the beyond.
Tom Robbins
Image
I had literary interests my whole life. I decided at the age of five I was going to be a writer. So I had done a great deal of reading. I suppose I was more at home in Greenwich Village than, say, any of classmates from Warsaw High School. But in any case, it was an overwhelming experience for me. It took me some time to begin to assimilate it.
Tom Robbins
Image
The enemy is the tyranny of the dull mind.
Tom Robbins
Image
Anyone who maintains absolute standards of good and evil is dangerous. As dangerous as a maniac with a loaded revolver.
Tom Robbins
Image
Maybe what I admired most about John Steinbeck is that he never mortgaged his 45-acre heart for a suite in an ivory tower.
Tom Robbins
Image
It's good to bear in mind that like it or not, enlightenment has always been, even in a golden age, pretty much limited to an elite.
Tom Robbins
Image
Heaven is living in your hopes and Hell is living in your fears. It's up to each individual which one he chooses.
Tom Robbins
Image
O tequila, savage water of sorcery, what confusion and mischief your sly, rebellious drops do generate
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
Should you fail to pilot your own ship, don't be surprised at what inappropriate port you find yourself docked.
Tom Robbins
Image
We are seldom as limited as we think we are.
Tom Robbins
Image
But why diminish your soul being run-of-the-mill at something? Mediocrity: now there is ugliness for you. Mediocrity's a hairball coughed up on the Persian carpet of Creation.
Tom Robbins
Image
Some praise me, some blame me. I go the other way. Sometimes those things that attract the most attention to us are the things which afford us the greatest privacy
Tom Robbins
Image
The sky was the color of Edgar Allan Poe's pajamas.
Tom Robbins
Image
The goal of this generation's pioneers should be to restrict procreation and limit consumption. They should also take every opportunity to make themselves happy, realizing that the key to self-generated happiness (the only reliable kind) is the refusal to take oneself too seriously.
Tom Robbins
Image
Our similarities bring us to a common ground Our differences allow us to be fascinated by each other.
Tom Robbins
Image
What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples' decisions for them?
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 difference between love and logic is that in the eyes of a lover, a toad can be a prince, whereas in the analysis of a logistician, the lover would have to prove that the toad was a prince, an enterprise destined to dull the shine of many a passion.
Tom Robbins
Image
Plato did claim that the unexamined life was not worth living. Oedipus Rex was not so sure.
Tom Robbins