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Applause waits on success.
On wrongs swift vengeance waits.
The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.
My heroes: Nick Cave, Tom Waits, Nina Simone.
Ours is a God who waits. So who are we not to?
Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.
I've been a total Tom Waits dork for a long, long time.
I had a great conversation with Tom Waits, of all people.
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
A bully waits until they are in the ascendancy to pounce on people.
I always wanted to sound like a man, like Jeff Buckley or Tom Waits.
He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
The songs I love to sing are story songs, from Yiddish songs to Tom Waits.
Mayweather waits for you to make a mistake. He plays a similar game to me.
I am not a player who stays on the edge of the box and waits for a chance.
It's always Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, and Tom Waits for me - the big three.
Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.
The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We're growing old. It's getting late.
I never got a chance to do Tom Waits or PJ Harvey kind of stuff in the Gaslight Anthem.
We live trapped, between the churned-up and examined past and a future that waits for our work.
Courage is heartworth making itself felt in deeds. It never waits for chances; it makes chances.
Tom Waits is someone who has really struck me, ever since I was a kid. He's really a big deal for me.
I don't count on the boy who waits till October, when it's cool and fun, then decides he wants to play.
Men may know many things by seeing; but no prophet can see before the event, nor what end waits for him.
I've covered so much Tom Waits. He's one of my favorite writers. I have a real affinity to how he writes.
There are certain people who seem doomed to buy certain houses. The house expects them. It waits for them.
Home, nowadays, is a place where part of the family waits till the rest of the family brings the car back.
He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.
Ah, man, if I could ever hook up with Tom Waits, I'd be the happiest camper in Yellowstone, alright? That's the one guy.
Originating something is what every actor waits for. Usually, those opportunities are offered to people who already have a name.
I can't do that wonderful thing that Tom Waits and Bob Dylan do - to do imagery. I'm not good at that. I just write from the heart.
A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action. You must act as you breathe.
Biggest musical influences would be people like Nina Simone and Tom Waits. A huge amount of writers like Leslie Feist and Paul Simon.
I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape. Something waits beneath it; the whole story doesn't show.
They say it's better to bury your sadness in a graveyard or garden that waits for the spring to wake from its sleep and burst into green.
What I look for in music is artistry, sincerity, and simplicity, and Tom Waits has all of that. I want to make a connection to the creator.
When I'm in the car sometimes it's like, 'Yeah, man, just put on the pop music.' You know what I mean? I don't want to listen to Tom Waits.
To him that waits all things reveal themselves, provided that he has the courage not to deny, in the darkness, what he has seen in the light.
I think it's more important to pray for my son than go out with my friends drinking at a bar until midnight while he waits for me to come home.
A big producer offered me the part of the pretty girl that waits at home for the guy, and I couldn't do it. That's not a story I ever want to tell.
I rejected most of the folk I was exposed to in the Seventies. I came around later to Tom Waits, some parts of Jim Croce, and a lot of Cat Stevens.
'I don't want to grow up', Tom Waits said it. I live it. I put myself in a position to be a kid as long as I want to. I play loud music and scream for a living.
Growing up, I listened to a lot of American singer/songwriters, so a lot of Tom Waits, Paul Simon - also Woody Guthrie and Bob Dylan. And bands like Vampire Weekend.
One of my biggest influences of all time would be somebody like Tom Waits. David Bowie is another huge influence. I'm also a big fan of St. Vincent and Leslie Feist.
The Constitution is worth saving, the rule of law is worth saving, democracy is worth saving, but these things can and will be lost if everyone waits around for someone else.
I know it sounds weird, but the kind of music I write isn't the kind of music that I listen to, which is quite underground, left-of-centre stuff like PJ Harvey and Tom Waits.
Sometimes my heart hurts so much, I beat it with my fists. I try to run. But you cannot run from this. It waits for you. Even when you think you have escaped it, it is there.
True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced. A truly stable system expects the unexpected, is prepared to be disrupted, waits to be transformed.
In 'Snow for Mother', a mother waits for her little boy to grow up so that she can take him to Alaska to experience the real snow, which he never knew as a little boy in the tropics.