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Tom Waits Quotes

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.

Tom Waits

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: December 7, 1949

Topics

Weather Song Think Names Streets

The only love affair I have ever had was with music.

Maurice Ravel

Love Music Only Affair Only Love

Our instinctual understanding of reality is the same as most other animals.

Robert Lanza

Reality Understanding Animals Same

We found what we could at that time - the truth. If somebody else can find something else which we didn't find, that, of course, is a duty on their part, as is the truth. It will be the truth.

John Sherman Cooper

Truth Time Find Duty Will Something

I think that Scottish people, like Canadians, are often misunderstood and what I like about my Scottish friends and relatives is how quickly it can go from love to anger. It's a great dynamic.

Mike Myers

Love Great Anger People Think Go

I'm a huge Zombies fan.

Lou Barlow

Fan Zombies Huge

I've been blessed with an optimistic disposition, I think.

Jonathan Evison

Blessed Think Been Disposition

The Canadian power line is going to industrialize Patagonia, and it is going to discount the one economic card the region has to play, which is the tourism.

Douglas Tompkins

Power Play Line Tourism Going Which

If there is going to be any meaningful sales, it's going to be through word of mouth and people recommending it to their book club and then a thousand more book clubs do it, and then you get into real sales numbers.

Douglas Brunt

People Book You Mouth Numbers Sales

I wish I had millions in the bank; I'd never go broke. Let's get that belt and get millions in the bank.

Donald Cerrone

Wish Go Never Bank I Wish Get

I don't believe in an afterlife.

Antony Sher

Believe Afterlife

Anyone can sit down and write two pages of a novel, then forget about it, and a week later write five pages of a screenplay, then forget about it, and a week later start another novel... etc, etc.

Antony Johnston

Start Week Down Forget Write Two

Even tiny children looking at a picture book are using their imaginations, gleaning clues from the images to understand what is happening, and perhaps using the throwaway details which the illustrator includes to add their own elements to the story.

Philip Reeve

Children Looking Book Story Details