Quote

Genius may stand on the shoulders of giants, but it stands alone.

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
Giants
Stands
Shoulders
Genius
Stand
Alone
May

More quotes by Tom Robbins

Image
Bland writing - timid, antiseptic, vanilla writing - is nearly as unhealthy as the brutal and dark. Instead of sipping, say, elixir, nectar, tequila, or champagne, the reader is invited to slurp lumpy milk or choke on the author's dust bunnies.
Tom Robbins
Image
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
Image
I go into a gallery or museum, and I realize that I don't have to formulate any opinions if I don't want to. I don't have to think this thing through and write about it at any great length. I can think about it if I want to if not, I can just walk out. So I can enjoy painting really a lot more than I could when I had that sort of pressure.
Tom Robbins
Image
Survival is not important. What matters is how you survive.
Tom Robbins
Image
Eating a raw oyster is like french kissing a mermaid.
Tom Robbins
Image
The Middle Ages hangs over history's belt like a beer belly. It is too late now for aerobic dancing or cottage cheese lunches to reduce the Middle Ages. History will have to wear size 48 shorts forever.
Tom Robbins
Image
True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced.
Tom Robbins
Image
Well, there's one thing to be said for money. It can make you rich.
Tom Robbins
Image
Leave me in the night but please don't leave me in the dark
Tom Robbins
Image
They fell asleep smiling. It is to erase the fixed smiles of sleeping couples that Satan trained roosters to crow at five in the morning.
Tom Robbins
Image
Violence stinks no matter which side of it you're on. But now and then there's nothing left to do but hit the other person over the head with a frying pan.
Tom Robbins
Image
Of the seven deadly sins, lust is definitely the pick of the litter.
Tom Robbins
Image
There are two lost continents.... We are one: the lovers.
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
Never be afraid to make a fool of yourself. The furthest out you can go is the best place to be.
Tom Robbins
Image
From the outside, my life may look chaotic, but inside I feel like some kind of monk licking an ice cream cone while straddling a runaway horse.
Tom Robbins
Image
Meet me in Cognito, baby. In Cognito, we'll have nothing to hide.
Tom Robbins
Image
To emphasize the afterlife is to deny life. To concentrate on heaven is to create hell.
Tom Robbins
Image
I journey to the east, where I have been told, there are men who have taught death some manners.
Tom Robbins
Image
My personal motto has always been: Joy in spite of everything. Not just [mindless] joy, but joy in spite of everything. Recognizing the inequities and the suffering and the corruption and all that but refusing to let it rain on my parade. And I advocate this to other people.
Tom Robbins