Tom Waits Quotes

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• It's a battered old suitcase and a hotel someplace and a wound that will never heal.
• I started out with nothing and I still got most of it left.
• A mental midget with the IQ of a fence post.
• It was a hubba, hubba, ding dang, baby you are just everythang.
• If I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too.
• On my gravestone, I want it to say, "I told you I was sick."
• Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.
• When it's raining you can't find enough things to catch it in. When it's not you can stand out in the middle of the street…
• Disneyland is Vegas for children.
• We are buried beneath the weight of information...
• I was born in the back seat of a Yellow Cab in a hospital loading zone and with the meter still running. I emerged needing…
• All the donuts have names that sound like prostitutes
• Never trust a man in a blue trench coat, never drive a car when you're dead
• I know a girl, she been married so many times, she got rice marks all over her face
• I'm reliable sources, I'll tell ya anything you want me to know.
• My friends think I'm ugly, I gotta masculine face.
• Don't plant your days they turn into weeds
• There's a place down the street; Seven Xs. What does that mean? Maybe it's... girls without skin.
• I did my time in the jail of your arms
• The moon was sharp enough to draw blood from a stone

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