Tom Robbins Quotes About Running

Quotes about: Running

• The beet is the most intense of vegetables. The radish, admittedly, is more feverish, but the fire of the radish is a cold fire, the fire of discontent, not of passion. Tomatoes are lusty enough, yet there runs through tomatoes an undercurrent of frivolity. Beets are deadly serious.

  Tom Robbins

  Running, Food, Passion

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.1, Bantam

• 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

  Running, Soul, Mediocrity

  Tom Robbins (2010). “Half Asleep In Frog Pyjamas”, p.174, Random House

• The fact is, what I hated in the Church was what I hated in society. Namely, authoritarians. Power freaks. Rigid dogmatists. Those greedy, underloved, undersexed twits who want to run everything. While the rest of us are busy living - busy tasting and testing and hugging and kissing and goofing and growing - they are busy taking over.

  Tom Robbins

  Running, Kissing, Hug

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Another Roadside Attraction”, p.206, Bantam

• I removed the freeway from its temporal context. Overpasses, cloverleafs, exit ramps took on the personality of Mayan ruins for me. Without destination, without cessation, my run was often silent and empty; there were no increments, no arbitrary graduations reducing time to functional units. I abstracted and purified.

  Tom Robbins

  Running, Personality, Arbitrary

• 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

  Running, America, Honest

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.93, Bantam

• I can't remember exactly the first thing I wrote, but one of the stories, was about a pilot whose plane crashed on a desert island, and the only other life on the island was a brown cow with yellow spots. The cow had... to survive, had taught itself to eat and get nutriments from sand. I guess, I've always been interested in adaptability and taking whatever life hands you and running with it.

  Tom Robbins

  Running, Yellow, Islands

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