Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.
TOM WAITSChampagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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I’m the type of guy who’d sell you a rat’s asshole for a wedding ring.
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We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness.
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You’re my North Star when I’m lost and feeling blue.
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Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.
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You can drive out nature with a pitch fork But it always comes roaring back again.
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There’s nothing that makes me laugh more than being in the situation where you’re not supposed to laugh. Funerals. People crying. Breaking down. Telling you their life. I’m the worst. I’m the worst at that.
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Most of the people I admire, they usually smell funny and don’t get out much. It’s true. Most of them are either dead or not feeling well.
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Did the devil make the world while God was sleeping?
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If there’s one thing you can say about mankind, there’s nothing kind about man.
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You can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her.
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The ocean doesn’t want me today, But I’ll come back tomorrow to play. The riptide is waging And the life guard’s away But the ocean doesn’t want me today.
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I always liked the idea that America is a big facade. We are all insects crawling across on the shiny hood of a Cadillac. We’re all looking at the wrapping. But we won’t tear the wrapping to see what lies beneath.
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I dunno when I started writing really. I was, like, filling out applications and stuff real early. Last name first, first name last, sex. ‘occasionally’ , stuff like that. Then I was writing letters, filling out forms, writing on bathroom walls.
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All the donuts have names that sound like prostitutes
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I did my time in the jail of your arms.
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