#aw

Their memory's like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can't remember Tell the things you can't forget that History puts a saint in every dream. ↗

— Tom Waits

#dream #every #forget #getting #history

I always liked the idea that America is a big facade. We are all insects crawling across on the shiny hood of a Cadillac. We're all looking at the wrapping. But we won't tear the wrapping to see what lies beneath. ↗

— Tom Waits

#always #america #beneath #big #cadillac

I'm so horny the crack of dawn better watch out. ↗

— Tom Waits

#crack #dawn #horny #i #out

I saw a crow building a nest, I was watching him very carefully, I was kind of stalking him and he was aware of it. And you know what they do when they become aware of someone stalking them when they build a nest, which is a very vulnerable place to be? They build a decoy nest. It's just for you. ↗

— Tom Waits

#become #build #building #carefully #crow

Suddenly, the screens were dominated by American entertainment to the extent of something like 95 percent. As a result, audiences turned away from the kinds of films that we used to make. ↗

— Andrzej Wajda

#audiences #away #dominated #entertainment #extent

From reading a previous answer, you know that I consider all those aspects to be part of American cultural myth and thus they figure into good American poetry, whether the poet is aware of what he is doing or not. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

#answer #aspects #aware #consider #cultural

I think one of the things that language poets are very involved with is getting away from conventional ideas of beauty, because those ideas contain a certain attitude toward women, certain attitudes toward sex, certain attitudes toward race, etc. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

#attitudes #away #beauty #because #certain

I came away from the forums with a profound concern about the highly addictive and destructive nature of methamphetamine. Families are torn apart, lives are destroyed and treatment is difficult to get. ↗

— Greg Walden

#addictive #apart #away #came #concern

It is up to us as lawmakers to provide the resources and streamlined processes that will enable our federal forest managers to become the best possible steward of our lands. ↗

— Greg Walden

#best #enable #federal #forest #lands

We are taking steps to fight the production of meth on our own soil through limiting access to precursor ingredients, supporting educational efforts and providing necessary resources to law enforcement. ↗

— Greg Walden

#educational #efforts #enforcement #fight #ingredients