Tom Robbins Quotes

John Irving once told me he doesn't start a novel until he knows the last sentence. I said, 'My God, Irving, isn't that like working in a factory?'

Tom Robbins

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

GodMeStartSaidLastWorking

I am trying to release endorphins here. I am not preaching to you - I am trying to make you laugh.

Jimmy Carr

I AmLaughTryingYouReleaseHere

I'm probably more comfortable inside a Marine Corps rifle company than I am anywhere in my life.

Jim Webb

LifeI AmMy LifeComfortableMore

Bill Gates finds people in Russia to hire them to Microsoft. That's the Russian interest in this process.

Anatoly Chubais

PeopleProcessRussiaHireInterest

Meetings are a great trap. Soon you find yourself trying to get agreement and then the people who disagree come to think they have a right to be persuaded. However, they are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.

John Kenneth Galbraith

GreatYourselfPeopleThinkMeetings

Most cartoons are those colors. They have been for 35 years.

John Kricfalusi

ColorsYearsBeenCartoonsMost

Onstage, there's no hiding; you either can or can't act. There's no second take.

Anna Friel

YouActHidingTakeSecondEither

Even if you finish the year at No. 1 in the world, and Tiger Woods has done this, you can still probably get better.

Matt Kuchar

WorldWoodsBetterYearYouTiger

I came in with my idea of what a cowboy would wear, but then I met some real cowboys and they said that I rode the horses well, shoed the horses, but no good cowboy would be wearing a pair of Levi's. I had to get a good old pair of Wranglers.

Steve Kanaly

GoodSaidOldRealWearCowboy

There is no reason we should expect young children to enter the nocturnal darkness of sleep and dreams without help.

Siri Hustvedt

DreamsChildrenDarknessSleepHelp

If you play it straight it's funny - the best comedy is always played straight down the middle. The adjustment is understanding from the screenplay that a moment is hilarious.

Tom Hiddleston

FunnyMomentBestUnderstandingYou

I love college life.

Romeo Miller

LifeLoveCollegeCollege Life

As scary as it was being raised by one Jewish mother, I have to feel for my kids because they have two Jewish mothers.

Judy Gold

MotherFeelTwoScaryJewishKids

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