Friday, November 22, 2024 Text is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 licence.

Tom Robbins

« All quotes from this author
 

It couldn't have been Pan's output alone because Alobar's testicles were as flat and juiceless as trampled grapes.

 
Tom Robbins

» Tom Robbins - all quotes »



Tags: Tom Robbins Quotes, Authors starting by R


Similar quotes

 

You couldn't advance in a finance department in this country unless you taught that the world was flat.

 
Warren Buffett
 

Nevertheless the theory of output as a whole, which is what the following book purports to provide, is much more easily adapted to the conditions of a totalitarian state, than is the theory of the production and distribution of a given output produced under conditions of free competition and a large measure of laissez-faire.

 
John Maynard Keynes
 

Sour Grapes is a comedy about things that aren't funny. It reminded me of Crash, an erotic thriller about things no one finds erotic. The big difference is that David Cronenberg, who made Crash, knew that people were not turned on by auto accidents. Larry David, who wrote and directed Sour Grapes, apparently thinks people are amused by cancer, accidental castration, racial stereotypes and bitter family feuds... The more I think of it, the more Sour Grapes really does resemble Crash (except that Crash was not a bad film). Both movies are like watching automobile accidents. Only one was intended to be.

 
Roger Ebert
 

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

 
Tom Robbins
 

The terms "black box" and "white box" are convenient and figurative expressions of not very well determined usage. I shall understand by a black box a piece of apparatus, such as four-terminal networks with two input and two output terminals, which performs a definite operation on the present and past of the input potential, but for which we do not necessarily have any information of the structure by which this operation is performed. On the other hand, a white box will be similar network in which we have built in the relation between input and output potentials in accordance with a definite structural plan for securing a previously determined input-output relation.

 
Norbert Wiener
© 2009–2013Quotes Privacy Policy | Contact