Tom Robbins Quotes

Our greatest human adventure is the evolution of consciousness. We are in this life to enlarge the soul, liberate the spirit, and light up the brain.

Tom Robbins

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 22, 1936

Topics

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Notifying the enemy in advance of our withdrawal dates or reassuring the enemy that we will not use certain capabilities like our ground forces should be avoided.

Jim Mattis

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Sometimes what works 40 years ago doesn't work today.

Joel Osteen

WorkTodaySometimesYearsWorks

Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.

Meister Eckhart

TrueHandWriteOnlyThing

I don't write historical novels but novels that wonder, 'And what if it happened in this way and not in this other one?'

Alvaro Enrigue

WonderWayWhat IfWriteHistorical

That's driven by any number of factors, the most prominent of which have been the combat experience of two major campaigns - one in Afghanistan and the other in Iraq - and the ongoing demands of the global war on terrorism.

Stephen Cambone

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The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim.

Sun Tzu

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He always describes his characters' voices and their physique so brilliantly. As people have said, they are cartoons, caricatures. They're grotesques really.

Simon Callow

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It will be quite satisfactory if you open them gradually, as the circumstances may require; but the President assures you that this will not be the case if you make a treaty with England first.

Townsend Harris

YouCircumstancesWillFirstOpen

A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.

Roald Dahl

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You don't buy evil characters lattes. That's not normal behavior.

Rob James-Collier

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I don't have any friends; I just have lawyers.

Mike Oldfield

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It's only recently women got to be action heroes on TV. Progress is slow, and often non-existent. There's plenty of cool comics with female characters... But all it takes is one Catwoman to set the cause back a decade.

Joss Whedon

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