A Quote by Tom Waits
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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Most people are dead. Did you know that? It's true, out of all the people that ever were, almost all of them are dead.
You know, it's a funny thing about writers. Most people don't stop to think of books being written by people much like themselves. They think that writers are all dead long ago--they don't expect to meet them in the street or out shopping. They know their stories but not their names, and certainly not their faces. And most writers like it that way.
It's funny: most people who recognize me on the subway and stuff - it's much more they think of me as a funny guy. I get much more of people telling me how much I make them laugh, actually. Which is nice.
I think the kick to doing comedy is just to get in a film with really funny people and let them do their jobs. I find that in most comedies, I'm not the funny one, which works out great.
A true gangster can smell out a person's strenghts and weaknesses in a matter of minutes, but what they can sense most of all, what their bodies are most attuned to, is the scent of fear.
I admire some of the people on the screen today, but most of them look like everybody else. In our day we had individuality. Pictures were more sophisticated. All this nudity is too excessive and it is getting very boring. It will be a shame if it upsets people so much that it brings on the need for censorship. I hate censorship. In the cinema there's no mystery. No privacy. And no sex, either. Most of the sex I've seen on the screen looks like an expression of hostility towards sex.
It's funny how most people love the dead, once you're dead, you're made for life.
It's funny the way most people love the dead. Once you are dead, you are made for life.
Most of the reefs [around Christmas Island] are dead, most of the corals are dead, overgrown by algae, and most of the fish are smaller than the pencils we use to count them.
Admire as much as you can. Most people do not admire enough.
It's funny how most people love the dead, once you're dead your made for life.
If you admire somebody, you should go ahead and tell them. People never get the flowers while they can still smell them.
The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.
I found that of the senses, the eye is the most superficial, the ear the most arrogant, smell the most voluptuous, taste the most superstitious and fickle, touch the most profound and the most philosophical.
When people are funny, I like to let them know that they're funny. There's so much negativity, it's cool to get some positivity out there.
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