I’ll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.
TOM WAITSYou can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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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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Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.
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The dog won’t bite if you beat Him with a bone.
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I never told the truth so i can never tell a lie.
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When I was younger, I wanted to be older. Now I am older, I am not quite so sure.
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You learn as much from your kids as they learn from you.
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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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Arithmetic arithmetock Turn the hands back on the clock How does the ocean rock the boat? How did the razor find my throat? The only strings that hold me here Are tangled up around the pier.
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Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.
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Not the kind of wheel you fall asleep at.
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Time is just memory Mixed in with Desire.
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The piano has been drinking, not me.
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There’s always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby.
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Well I got a bad liver and broken heart, yeah, I drunk me a river since you tore me apart.
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Most people don’t care if you’re telling them the truth or if you’re telling them a lie, as long as they’re entertained by it.
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