"When I started looking for pointed shoes, I used to go to Fairfax on Orchard Street in New York City, one of those little pushcart guys. I'd say, 'You got any pointy shoes?' They would go way, way in the back and come back with a dusty box, blow the dust off the top, and say, 'What do you want with these things? Give me twenty bucks. Go on, get outta here!' And that was the beginning."

-- Tom Waits

#New York Quotes #Blow Quotes #Dust Quotes

“I love the big red bus!”
“We need to break our dependency on foreign sources of oil, which leaves us at the mercy of foreign powers. To do that, we should increase domestic energy production.”
“Our Nation's immigration laws are disrespected both by those who cross our borders illegally and by the businesses that hire those illegal immigrants.”
“I can understand that there are those who can think and imagine the world without words, but I think that once you find the words that name your experience, then suddenly that experience becomes grounded, and you can use it and you can try to understand it.”
“You're whatever you think you are. People like to compartmentalize other people. I don't worry about what other people think. I'm not living for them.”

Source : "Meet Being Mary Jane's 'Cutty Buddy,' Thomas Q. Jones". Interview with Demetria Lucas D'Oyley, www.theroot.com. February 24, 2015.
“It's a great life, if you don't weaken,”

Source : Mr. Standfast ch. 5 (1919)
“I can not sing the old songs now! It is not that I deem them low, 'Tis that I can't remember how They go.”

Source : Charles Stuart Calverley (1872). “Fly leaves, by C.S.C.”, p.30
“It makes it easier to play evil and to act evil to people that you really like. You have a feeling about them, so you know what the opposite is.”

Source : Source: collider.com

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