Tom Robbins Quotes About Magic

Quotes about: Magic

• Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.

  Tom Robbins

  Believe, Humor, Government

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.82, Bantam

• You should never hesitate to trade your cow for a handful of magic beans.

  Tom Robbins

  Inspiration, Anxiety, Magic

• Certain individual words do possess more pitch, more radiance, more shazam! than others, but it's the way words are juxtaposed with other words in a phrase or sentence that can create magic. Perhaps literally. The word "grammar," like its sister word "glamour," is actually derived from an old Scottish word that meant "sorcery." When we were made to diagram sentences in high school, we were unwittingly being instructed in syntax sorcery, in wizardry. We were all enrolled at Hogwarts. Who knew?

  Tom Robbins

  School, Magic, Sorcery

  "The Syntax of Sorcery: An Interview with Tom Robbins". Interview with Tony Vigorito, realitysandwich.com. 2012.

• If you take any activity, any art, any discipline, any skill-take it and push it as far as it will go, push it beyond where it has ever been before, push it to the wildest edges of edges, then you force it into the realm of magic.

  Tom Robbins

  Art, Peace, Passion

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.255, Bantam

• When two people meet and fall in love, there's a sudden rush of magic. Magic is just naturally present then. We tend to feed on that gratuitous magic without striving to make any more. One day we wake up and find that the magic is gone. We hustle to get it back, but by then it's usually too late, we've used it up. What we have to do is work like hell at making additional magic right from the start. It's hard work, but if we can remember to do it, we greatly improve our chances of making love stay.

  Tom Robbins

  Love, Fall, Hard Work

• The mission of the artist in an over-technologi zed society, is to call the old magic back to life.

  Tom Robbins

  Artist, Magic, Missions

• Using words to describe magic is like using a screwdriver to cut roast beef.

  Tom Robbins

  Cutting, Magic, Beef

• Logic only gives man what he needs... Magic gives him what he wants.

  Tom Robbins

  Men, Giving, Magic

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Another Roadside Attraction”, p.7, Bantam

• White folks have controlled New Orleans with money and guns, black folks have controlled it with magic and music, and although there has been a steady undercurrent of mutual admiration, an intermingling of cultures unheard of in any other American city, South or North; although there has prevailed a most joyous and fascinating interface, black anger and white fear has persisted, providing the ongoing, ostensibly integrated fete champetre with volatile and sometimes violent idiosyncrasies.

  Tom Robbins

  Fear, Gun, Cities

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.360, Bantam

• Hold on to your divine blush, your innate rosy magic, or end up brown. Once you're brown, you'll find out you're blue. As blue as indigo. And you know what that means. Indigo. Indigoing. Indigone.

  Tom Robbins

  Mean, Blue, Magic

• Magic things are fond of deceptions.

  Tom Robbins

  Magic, Deception

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.21, Bantam

• It is as if the soul of the continent is weeping. Why does it weep? It weeps for the bones of the buffalo. It weeps for magic that has been forgotten. It weeps for the decline of poets.It weepsfor the black people who think like white people.It weepsfor the Indians who think like settlers.It weepsfor the children who think like adults.It weepsfor the free who think like prisoners.Most of all, it weepsfor the cowgirls who think like cowboys.

  Tom Robbins

  Children, Thinking, Cowboy

• Certain individual words do possess more pitch, more radiance, more shazam! than others, but it's the way words are juxtaposed with other words in a phrase or sentence that can create magic. Perhaps literally.

  Tom Robbins

  Magic, Phrases, Radiance

  "The Syntax of Sorcery: An Interview with Tom Robbins". Interview with Tony Vigorito, realitysandwich.com. June 6, 2012.

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