Should you fail to pilot your own ship, don't be surprised at what inappropriate port you find yourself docked. Tom Robbins More Quotes by Tom Robbins More Quotes From Tom Robbins There is a sense in which a painted stick is a stick in bloom. This stick points to the hidden face of God. Sometimes it points to you. Tom Robbins sticksfacessometimes Ellen Cherry was from the south and had good manners. She didn´t have any panties on, but she had good manners. Tom Robbins cherriespantiesmanners Oh God, are there so many of them in our land! Students who can’t be happy until they’ve graduated, servicemen who can’t be happy until they are discharged, single folks who can’t be happy until they’ve found a mate, workers who can’t be happy until they’ve retired, adolescents who aren’t happy until they’re grown, ill people who aren’t happy until they’re well, failures who aren’t happy until they succeed, restless who can’t wait until they get out of town, and in most cases, vice versa, people waiting, waiting for the world to begin. Tom Robbins landwaitingpeople 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? It'd go like this: You'd get the boss on the line and say, "Listen, I've been sick ever since I started working here, but today I'm well and I won't be in anymore." Call in well. Tom Robbins bosssickpeople The price of self-destiny is never cheap, and in certain situations it is unthinkable. But to achieve the marvelous, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought. Tom Robbins achievedestinyself Let us, rather, gather facts, all the facts, regardless of aesthetic appeal or theoretical social worth, and spread those facts before us not as the soothsayer spreads the innards of a turkey but as a newspaper spreads its columns. Let us be journalists, then. And like all good journalists, we shall present our facts in an order that will satisfy the famous five W's: wow, whoopee, wahoo, why-not and whew. Tom Robbins turkeyswhy-notorder Plans are one thing and fate another. When they coincide, success results. Yet success mustn't be considered the absolute. It is questionable, for that matter, whether success is an adequate resposne to life. Success can eliminate as many options as failure. Tom Robbins adequatefatematter Some marriages are made in heaven, Mine was made in Hong Kong, by the same people who make those little rubber pork chops they sell in the pet department at Kmart. Tom Robbins kmartheavenpeople Alone, the world offers itself freely to us. To be unmasked, it has no choice. Tom Robbins still-life-with-woodpeckerchoicesworld You're better equipped for this world than I am," she said. "I'm always trying to change the world. You know how to live in it. Tom Robbins always-tryingsaidworld He was becoming unstuck, he was sure of that - his bones were no longer wrapped in flesh but in clouds of dust, in hummingbirds, dragonflies, and luminous moths - but so perfect was his equilibrium that he felt no fear. He was vast, he was many, he was dynamic, he was eternal. Tom Robbins dustperfectclouds Death is simple. Life is messy. Give me life, the more complicated the better. Tom Robbins simplelife-isgiving That's the way the mind works: the brain is genetically disposed towards organization, yet if not controlled, will link even the most imagerial fragment to another on the flimsiest pretense and in the most freewheeling manner, as if it takes a kind of organic pleasure in creative association, without regards to logic or chronological sequence. Tom Robbins organizationcreativebrain In the end, perhaps we should simply imagine a joke; a long joke that's continually retold in an accent too thick and strange to ever be completely understood. Life is that joke my friends. The soul is the punch line. Tom Robbins linessoullong The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplacable being. Tom Robbins functionuniquelove We only rise above mediocrity when there's something at stake. p. 174 Tom Robbins stakesmediocrityrise-above You don't have to be a genius to recognize one. If you did, Einstein would never have gotten invited to the White House. Tom Robbins geniuswhitehouse There are two lost continents.... We are one: the lovers. Tom Robbins educationalphilosophytwo The first time that she spread her legs for him it had been like opening her jaws for the dentist. Tom Robbins legstimefirsts People feel tremendous pressure to settle down in some sort of permanent space and fill it up with stuff, but deep inside they resent those structures, and they're scared to death of that stuff because they know it controls them and restricts their movements. Tom Robbins movementspacepeople
