There’s no prayer like desire.
TOM WAITSI’m the type of guy who’d sell you a rat’s asshole for a wedding ring.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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You’re my North Star when I’m lost and feeling blue.
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Don’t plant your bad days. They grow into weeks. The weeks grow into months. Before you know it, you got yourself a bad year. Take it from me – choke those little bad days. Choke ’em down to nothing.
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Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.
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I like turning on two radios at once. I like hearing things wrong. I get a lot of ideas by mishearing things.
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Sing me a rainbow. Steal me a dream.
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Mostly I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.
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I’ll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.
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I don’t think that you should be perfectly candid and frank about the intimate details of your personal life with the public at large. Subsequently, it creates considerable personal problems.
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I’ve lost my equilibrium, my car keys, and my pride.
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I’m just trying to make a buck like everyone else.
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Well, it’s either kiss me or kill me, that’s how I see it.
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If I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too.
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The trick is to have a career and have a family. It’s like having two dogs that hate each other and you have to take them for a walk every night.
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A mental midget with the IQ of a fence post.
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I think all songs should have weather in them. Names of towns and streets, and they should have a couple of sailors. I think those are just song prerequisites.
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