6 Tom Robbins Quotes on Time

Tom Robbins quotes on time

48. Twenty candles on a cake. Twenty Camels in a pack. Twenty months in the federal pen. Twenty shots of tequila down a yound girl's gullet. Twenty centuries since Our Lord's last pratfall, and after all that time we still don't know where passion goes when it goes.

55. In the quiet ache of the evening, Alobar listened to his calluses grow.

63. The Middle Ages hangs over history's belt like a beer belly. It is too late now for aerobic dancing or cottage cheese lunches to reduce the Middle Ages. History will have to wear size 48 shorts forever.

79. The winter passed as slowly and peacefully as a boa constrictor digesting a valium addict.

84. Are you aware that rushing toward a goal is a sublimated death wish? It's no coincidence we call them 'deadlines'.

86. Midnight, when the monotonous tick-tock of diurnal progress is for one throbbing moment replaced by the cool but smokey honk of a saxophone, alternately seductive and threatening. Midnight. The black growth on the clock face that has to be biopsied every twenty-four hours to see whether it is malignant or benign.