Tom Waits Quotes

I don't like listening to records a lot after they're done. There's just no real nourishment there for me.

Tom Waits

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MeListeningDoneRealJustRecords

Crankiness is at the essence of all comedy. My wife and I were discussing the different types of cranky. There's entertaining cranky, annoying cranky, angry cranky.

Jerry Seinfeld

WifeAngryComedyAnnoyingDifferent

All I care about is making jokes that are funny and making people laugh.

Joel McHale

FunnyPeopleCareLaughJokesAbout

The key to life, in my opinion, is to hang with good people, to have good people around you all the time because you're always going to have some people who will try and lead you in a certain place, and when the pressure comes on, you want real tough, solid people sitting next to you.

Robert Kraft

LifeGoodTimePeopleOpinionKey

In my profession, I'm around a lot of people whose bodies are their instruments in one way or another.

Anna Deavere Smith

PeopleWayWhoseProfessionAround

Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these there's time, the Bastard Time.

John Steinbeck

TimeStartLovedWarmEnoughYou

I am not sure I can make clear what it means to say I come from the Catholic side of Protestantism, but at the very least, it means that I do not think Christianity began with the Reformation.

Stanley Hauerwas

I AmThinkI CanSaySideClear

When we had our first son, four different people gave us the same present: a copy of Ezra Jack Keats' 'The Snowy Day.' A new child often inspires duplicate gifts - we were given a dozen mostly useless baby blankets, just one more thing to spit up on - but this one was different.

Rumaan Alam

SonDayChildPeopleBabyPresent

God doesn't make mistakes and has made each of us in his own image. God is simply love. There should be no fear in love.

Martin O'Malley

LoveFearGodMistakesImageOwn

I'm working on a few different films and I'm just searching for the right new story to tell. As a director, you just have to kind of like just get through the first project before starting on the next one.

Joshua Michael Stern

StoryYouNewKindProjectRight

I ate fantastic Italian food in Croatia, which you wouldn't expect. The food in Istanbul was amazing. I never would've expected that and the food, I guess you're learning something about me, the food in Prague, they're very, very heavy meat eaters, like, a lot of meat, which is great.

Cliff Curtis

LearningGreatFoodAmazingMeYou

We've had a tone-deaf White House that does not want to be reasonable. President Obama won't meet with the Republicans. It's all his way.

Chris Smith

HouseWhiteWantMeetWayPresident

What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.

Susan Sontag

WomenBeautifulMenSomethingMost

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