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Quotes About Transformation

Often the things that pop out of my typewriter regale me, especially when I am trying to say something else and in a different way only to have a kind of metamorphosis take place during the act of typing and?­Ã¢â'¬â€¢­whammo!?­Ã¢â'¬â€¢a concept I hadn't counted on is strutting it's vaudeville on the page.
~ Tom Robbins
Water- the ace of elements. Water dives from the clouds without parachute, wings or safety net. Water runs over the steepest precipice and blinks not a lash. Water is buried and rises again; water walks on fire and fire gets the blisters.
~ Tom Robbins
One has not only an ability to perceive the world but an ability to alter one's perception of it; more simply, one can change things by the manner in which one looks at them.
~ Tom Robbins
In the novels he was to write as an adult, transformation (along with liberation and celebration) was a major theme.
~ Tom Robbins
The theory arrived neither full-blown, like an orphan on the doorstep, nor sharply defined, like a spike through a shoe; nor did it develop as would a photographic print, crisp images gradually emerging from a shadowy soup. Rather, it unwound like a turban, like a mummy bandage; started with the sudden loosening of a clasp, a scarab fastener, and then unraveled in awkward spirals from end to frazzled end.
~ Tom Robbins
This program is subject to change -- often unexpectedly, sometimes in the batting of an eye. It's the best argument I know against suicide.
~ Tom Robbins
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~ Tom Robbins
Turn a mountain upside down, you have a woman. Turn a woman upside down, you have a valley. Turn a valley upside down, you get folk music.
~ Tom Robbins
Isn't fixity the hallmark of the living dead?
~ Tom Robbins
I married John Paul because I'm knocked out by his style. Because I love him and respect him and enjoy the transformations that take place as a result of our sharing the same dimensions.
~ Tom Robbins
For the person courageous enough to see it out, disorientation always leads to love.
~ Tom Robbins
Everywhere a buffalo fell," said Switters, "a monster sprang up in its place.
~ Tom Robbins
The trip left the girl gaga, goofy, tainted, transformed, her nose a busted hymen through which sperm of a thousand colors swam a hootchy-kootchy stroke into her cerebral lagoon.
~ Tom Robbins
At the bat of your lashes peacocks preen. Peacocks preen, elephants remember, camels go for days without water, and dinosaurs of all types become extinct.
~ Tom Robbins
People used to die from germs. Now they died from bad habits.
~ Tom Robbins
In that nondescript period between the end of the beige fifties and the beginning of the Day-Glo sixties, I found myself drifting unfulfilled in an ocean of circumstance.
~ Tom Robbins
these sacrifices sustained the cosmic cycle: Maize became blood, and blood was then transformed back into maize. Sacrificial victims were referred to as "tortillas for the gods.
~ Tom Standage
Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.
~ Tom Stoppard
Every exit is an Entry somewhere else.
~ Tom Stoppard
Lost objects from another life are restored to you in the belly of a carp.
~ Tom Stoppard
The future is disorder.
~ Tom Stoppard
He's looking for people who are hot after His heart. He wants a Church of Davids who are after His own heart3 (not just His hand). You can seek for His blessing and play with His toys, or you can say, "No, Daddy, I don't just want the blessings; I want You. I want You to come close. I want You to touch my eyes, touch my heart, touch my ears, and change me, Lord. I'm tired of me the way I am, because if I can change, then the cities can change too.
~ Tommy Tenney
Repentance prepares the way and makes the road of our hearts straight. Repentance builds up every low place and takes down every high place in our lives and church families. Repentance prepares us for His presence.
~ Tommy Tenney
Good things have become the enemy of the best things. I challenge you and release you right now as you read these words to let your heart be broken by the Holy Ghost. It's time for you to make your life holy.
~ Tommy Tenney