Amos Quotes

#1. You mean on YouTube?" "No, I mean I was watching the game when you got laid out. Hardest hit I've ever seen. I don't know how you survived it, Amos, I really don't." "Why'd

David Baldacci

#2. While not a musician, my father was a music agent for years before becoming pop culture icon Famous Amos.

Shawn Amos

#3. I've come across a novel called The Palm-Wine Drinkard, by the Nigerian writer Amos Tutuola, that is really remarkable because it is a kind of fantasy of West African mythology all told in West African English which, of course, is not the same as standard English.

William Golding

#4. Wally Amos is the classic example of a man who gets up again and again.

Zig Ziglar

#5. Things are grouped together for a reason, but, once they are grouped, their grouping causes them to seem more like each other than they otherwise would. That is, the mere act of classification reinforces stereotypes. If you want to weaken some stereotype, eliminate the classification. Amos's

Michael Lewis

#6. The Famous Amos Chocolate Chip Cookie was an unexpected, unplanned pop culture phenomena. My father went from star-maker to star.

Shawn Amos

#7. Naomi's a good person," Amos said. "I like her, you know? Like my kid sister, only smart and I'd do her if she let me. You know?" "Yeah," Miller said. "I like her too." "She's

James S.A. Corey

#8. Dammit," Holden said after he'd killed the connection. "You ever get the sense that the universe is out to get you?" "Sometimes I get the sense that the universe is out to get you," Amos said with a grin. "It's fun to watch.

James S.A. Corey

#9. Last man standing," Amos replied with another grin. "It's in my job description.

James S.A. Corey

#10. Here's the thing," Amos said. "If you did go in there, you might feel like you had to do something. And then I might feel like I had to do something. And then we'd all be doing things, and we'd all wind up having a worse day, just in general.

James S.A. Corey

#11. In Amos' experience the more dangerous any two people were, the more carefully polite their social interactions tended to be.

James S.A. Corey

#12. Oh, I know. But it's like my eyes are forcing those patterns on stars that aren't really lined up the right way to make them." There was another moment of silence, then Amos said, "That's, like, one of them metaphors, right?" "It is now." "Buy

James S.A. Corey

#13. The floor went completely black when Mr. Amos pulled the door shut. I couldn't see it now, but I'd rememorized the exact shape the stain was in. The padlock snapped shut with the loudest click I'd ever heard.

Christopher Paul Curtis

#14. Elvi blinked in puzzlement as Murtry left. "Is he mad at me?" "Sweetie," Amos said, clapping her on the back, "that just means you're not an asshole.

James S.A. Corey

#15. When a trumpet sounds in a city, do not the people tremble? When disaster comes to a city, has not the LORD caused it? (Amos 3:6)

Vincent Cheung

#16. The days are going to come," declares the Almighty LORD, "when I will send a famine throughout the land. It won't be an ordinary famine or drought. Instead, there will be a famine of hearing the words of the LORD." Amos 8:11

Dianne Neal Matthews

#17. I like the backup plan better," Amos said. "Backup plan?" Prax asked. "The backup plan is I grab the first guy we see, and beat him until he tells us where the kids are." Prax

James S.A. Corey

#18. What kind of half-assed apocalypse are they running down there?" Amos said. "Give 'em a break. It's their first.

James S.A. Corey

#19. Amos did not listen; he was desperately tired of listening; he wished to speak.

Erika Swyler

#20. Amos found what I'm pretty sure was the most expensive hooker I've ever seen.

James S.A. Corey

#21. You prefer to continue knitting, that is your decision. If you prefer to serve the cause of justice, I hope that you may at least find it interesting. Let justice roll down like waters. And righteousness like an everlasting stream. Amos.

Agatha Christie

#22. Sadie got up and kissed Amos on the forehead. "Leave it to us, Uncle. I've got a plan."
"That," I said, "sounds like very bad news.

Rick Riordan

#23. I mean enormous pressure was brought to bear - Valerie Amos, Lady Amos, went round Africa with people from our intelligence services trying to press them. I had to make sure that we didn't promise a misuse of aid in a way that would be illegal.

Clare Short

#24. I heard Amos yell, "For Brooklyn!"
It was an odd battle cry.

Rick Riordan

#25. I cant think of anything more humiliating than losing a ballgame to a guy who steals home on you. It happened to me one time against Kansas City. I had a 2-2 count on the hitter - and Amos Otis broke from third. The pitch was a ball and slid in safe. I felt like a nickel.

Nolan Ryan

#26. After Gell-Man was done, Amos said, "You know, Murray, there is no one in the world who is as smart as you think you are.

Michael Lewis

#27. We don't want to get in a gunfight," Holden warned Amos as they began moving again. "Yeah," Amos said. "But if we're in one anyway, it'll be nice to have guns.

James S.A. Corey

#28. How strange it was that cleave had two such disparate meanings; she'd known to cut and tear, but now she knew to cling. She rested her cheek in the valley between his shoulder and chest. Amos

Erika Swyler

#29. When you are a pessimist and the bad thing happens, you live it twice, Amos

Michael Lewis

#30. When Amos Moses was a boy his daddy would use him for alligator bait, tie a rope around his neck and throw him in the swamp.

Jerry Reed

#31. When I started Amos Content Group in 2009, I made a simple bet: our handmade, contextual, and authentic content will stand out in an increasingly information-saturated world.

Shawn Amos

#32. My father's very public life as Famous Amos was the opposite of that of his ex-wife, my mother Shirley, who was fighting a very private, solitary battle with mental illness.

Shawn Amos

#33. The psychologists Daniel Kahnerman and Amos Tversky have shown when humans estimate the likelihood or frequency of an event, we make that judgment based not on how often the event has actually occurred, but on how vivid the past examples are.

Benjamin Graham

#34. You ready?" Amos asked. "Does it matter?" "Not a lot. Let's

James S.A. Corey

#35. On the contrary, Christian Hedonists are persuaded with Edwards that the only affections that magnify God's value are those that come from true apprehensions of His glory. If the feast of worship is rare in the land, it is because there is a famine of the Word of God (Amos 8:11-12).

John Piper

#36. Amos will be murdered by space hookers, but at least he'll die the way he lived.

James S.A. Corey

#37. You fucked your prisoner?" Avasarala said, her expression evenly divided between amusement and disgust. "Nah," Amos said. "I don't tend to do that with people I like.

James S.A. Corey

#38. If drunk were cookies, I'd be Famous Amos

John Green

#39. If I had. If I had done those things, that would have been okay with you?" "Oh, fuck no. I'd have broken your neck and thrown you out the airlock," Amos said, clapping him on the shoulder. "Ah," Prax said, a gentle relief loosening in his chest. "Thank you." "Anytime." The

James S.A. Corey

#40. My ancestors were conquerors, though now they are heroes in our history." Glancing at Amos, he said, "But we wrote the history.

Raymond E. Feist

#41. Amos Wilson teaches that, "To manipulate history is to manipulate consciousness; to manipulate consciousness is to manipulate possibilities; to manipulate possibilities is to manipulate power."[2]

Samori Camara

#42. Out my left, I saw baboon bum, out my right, my long-lost uncle Amos. Naturally, I decided to focus on the right.

Rick Riordan

#43. I love all sorts of music. I'm really into Damian Rice and Amos Lee.

Odette Annable

#44. Later," Amos said, "when you're wishing we had this stuff, I am going to be merciless in my mockery. And then we'll die." Holden

James S.A. Corey

#45. Amos Oz is one of the finest novelists of this entire period. MY MICHAEL is a beautiful work of great depth and in some indescribable way lingers in the mind as a lyric song to his country's people as much as a moving love story.

Arthur Miller

#46. Blacks on prime-time TV are only portrayed as comedians - and often in no better a light than 'Amos & Andy.'

Don Cornelius

#47. At home, the radio was a big source and the classic radio programs we would listen to like Amos and Andy and whatever other ones there were.

Paul Smith

#48. Amos stopped before the entrance, which was the size of a garage door - a dark heavy square of timber with no visible handle or lock. "Carter after you."
"Um, how do I - "
"How do you think?"
Great another mystery. I was about to suggest we ram Amos's head against it and see if that worked.

Rick Riordan

#49. Amos sipped his coffee. "Sorry if that distubed you. Khufu's very picky. He only eats foods that end in -o. Doritos, burritos, flamingos."
I blinked. "Did you say-"
"Carter," Sadie warned. She looked a little queasy, like she'd already had this conversation. "Don't ask.

Rick Riordan

#50. Amos, talk about pearls for teeth ... you got 'em. No wonder the boys go for you, because I could too and if I had something to push between those pearly teeth I'd be first in line.

James Purdy

#51. Amos clapped his hands. "Khufu!"
I thought he'd sneezed, because Khufu is a weird name, but then a little dude about three feet tall with gold fur and a purple shirt came clambering down the stairs. It took me a second to realize it was a baboon wearing an L.A. Lakers jersey.

Rick Riordan

#52. Gundhrold's head lowered until his massive beak was only inches away from Amos's nose. "I am a son of the desert. This was once my home - the home of all my kind. I know every crag, every slope, every crick and hollow-"
Amos rolled his eyes. "Every blatherin' speck o' sand?

Gillian Bronte Adams

#53. Amos took a high-caliber automatic that fired self-propelled rounds, recoilless and designed for use in zero g. Old-fashioned slug throwers were more reliable, but in null gravity they were also maneuvering thrusters.

James S.A. Corey

#54. Set's storm is gathering," Amos said with a twinkle in his eyes. "Shall we drive into is?

Rick Riordan

#55. Right," I said. "So the baboon, the crocodile ... any other pets I should know about?"
Amos thought for a moment. "Visible ones? No, I think that's it.

Rick Riordan

#56. Captain," Amos said with mock surprise. "Have you actually learned from your past? Is this a new thing you do now?

James S.A. Corey

#57. If you're looking for the origins of film culture in America, look no further than Amos Vogel.

Martin Scorsese

#58. Well", Holden said, his voice grim, "we have a major problem. We're out of coffee."
"We still got beer," Amos said.
"Yes," Holden said. "But beer is not coffee.

James S.A. Corey

#59. It wasn't just the size of it. It was the idea that four generations of the smartest people in the solar system had been living and working here as they helped drag humanity into the outer planets almost through sheer force of will. Amos

James S.A. Corey

#60. Amos believed that people go way out of their way to avoid minor embarrassments and he decided very early on in his life that it was not worth it.

Amos Tversky

#61. Shit," Amos said. "And here I was enjoying being so absolutely thumb-up-the-ass useless." "You

James S.A. Corey

#62. Things change, Red," Amos said, "you let us know. Because I'll still be happy to kill the shit out of her.

James S.A. Corey

#63. When Amos sat up, Peabody pounded him on the back until he coughed out water. "I have fed you, clothed you, given you all I ever possessed. And you would walk away from me." A

Erika Swyler

#64. Oh good," Amos replied. "Somebody got killed there. That's how we claim stuff, you know. This planet is officially ours now.

James S.A. Corey

#65. In the '60s, my father, Wally Amos, had been a talent agent and a personal manager before taking a major career detour in 1975, when he opened a store selling chocolate chip cookies.

Shawn Amos

#66. A bicycle?" Amos leaned on the breakfast bar. "Sure. They don't need fuel, they don't get sick. Most of the repairs, you can handle on your own. You're looking for post-apocalyptic transportation, bikes are the way to go.

James S.A. Corey

#67. So you can't live in Manhattan?' she asked.
Amos's brow furrowed as he looked across at the Empire State Building. 'Manhattan has other problems. Other gods. It's best we stay separate.

Rick Riordan

#68. Isn't the initial loss that does for him, but the stupid plays he makes in an effort to deny that the loss has happened. The great economic psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky summarised the behaviour in their classic analysis of the psychology of risk:

Tim Harford

#69. She noticed Amos watching her. He had a dopey grin on his face.
"Seriously. Now?" she said. "We're talking about your captain going off to his death, and all that's going through your head right now is 'Ooh, boobies!

James S.A. Corey

#70. Tori Amos had a major influence on how I craft words in a song. Until I heard 'Little Earthquakes' all my lyrics used really obvious analogies like rain for tears.

Hal Sparks

#71. When Holden pointed out that the Roci was already capable of accelerating fast enough to kill her crew and asked why they'd need to upgrade her, Amos had replied, "Because this shit is awesome." Holden had just nodded and smiled and paid the bill. Even

James S.A. Corey

#72. Wilder, Amos. Theopoetic. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1976.

David Willis

#73. It was paper, as he had once joked to Amos, that he was really queer for.

James Purdy

#74. While writing the article that reported these findings, Amos and I discovered that we enjoyed working together.

Daniel Kahneman

#75. I will shake the house of Israel among all the nations, as one shakes a sieve, but not a pebble will fall to the ground. Amos 9:9

Beth Moore

#76. I can play the flute. Music was my favourite A-level, and I used to love composing my and stylising my voice to sound like 90's singing sensation Tori Amos.

Erin O'Connor

#77. What are you thinking, Amos?" "Nothing real subtle. Figure we hop outside, kill a few assholes that need killing, patch stuff up when we're done with the first part." Naomi

James S.A. Corey

#78. The house of Life doesn't trust our family, especially after what Dad and Mom did. Amos said we were raised apart for a reason, so we wouldn't trigger each other's magic."
"Bloody awful reason to keep us apart," I muttered.

Rick Riordan

#79. The detective had been watching the video of Julie Mao's fight with her captors over and over again while they'd waited on Naomi and Amos to finish their work. It gave Holden the disquieting feeling that Miller was storing the footage in his head. Fuel for something he planned to do later.

James S.A. Corey

#80. Amos surely left it behind for a reason, and more and more Mrs. Bowe felt she was following a path trod out for her by another. For the time being, she was willing to play the part allotted to her. But she would keep an eye on the boy in her way.

Ari Berk

#81. AMOS CONTI'S PRECEPT
Don't try too hard to be cool. It always shows, and that's uncool.

R.J. Palacio

#82. Prophets from Amos and Isaiah to Gandhi and King have shown how frequently compassion demands confrontation. Love without criticism is a kind of betrayal. Lying is done with silence as well as with words.

William Sloane Coffin

#83. There's another mess of legal crap just came through from the UN for you." Holden sighed. "Am I supposed to read it?" "Don't see how they can make you," Amos said. "Just thought you'd want to ignore it intentionally." "Thank you. Sort of," Holden

James S.A. Corey

#84. You crazy," Jianguo said. "No crew in there. They'll jump you." "Yep." "Then why?" "Because," Amos said, standing up and throwing the towel over his shoulder, "I hate waiting." As

James S.A. Corey

#85. Amos sipped his coffee. The faraway look on his face reminded me of my dad. "I don't want to scare you."
"Too late.

Rick Riordan

#86. Even the 'Negro' shows like 'Amos and Andy' and 'Beulah' are written largely by white writers - the better to preserve the stereotypes, I imagine.

Langston Hughes

#87. Cap," Amos said with a grin. "Anything that kills me has already killed everyone else. I was born to be the last man standing. You can count on it." The

James S.A. Corey

#88. I'm a big fan of the Foo Fighters, Ben Harper, Amos Lee, Coldplay, Corinne Bailey Rae and Chris Thile ... to name a few.

Jimi Westbrook

#89. I did notice as I walked that Amos had stayed right next to me. And Jack was close on the other side of me. And Miles was in front of us and Henry was in back of us. They were surrounding me as we walked through the crowds of kids. Like I had my own emperor's guard.

R.J. Palacio

#90. Same here, Cap'n," Amos said. "I got a lot of past in my past.

James S.A. Corey

#91. What influenced me was Tori Amos, who was unapologetic about expressing anger through music, and Sinead O'Connor. Those two in particular were really moving for me, and very inspiring, before I wrote 'Jagged Little Pill.'

Alanis Morissette

#92. They know they've won," Carter guessed. "They're making a show of it."
"Yes," Amos said.
"Well, let's blow up the boats or something!" I said.
Amos looked at me. "Is that your strategy, honestly?

Rick Riordan

#93. Amos and I introduced the idea of a conjunction fallacy, which people commit when they judge a conjunction of two events (here, bank teller and feminist) to be more probable than one of the events (bank teller) in a direct comparison.

Daniel Kahneman

#94. He is, however," Amos continued, "keeping a constant rail gun lock on the Israel's reactor."
Holden ran his fingers through his hair. "So not too generous, then."
"Say pretty please, but carry a one-kilo slug of tungsten accelerated to a detectable percentage of c.

James S.A. Corey

#95. Why do I put up with your shit?" "Because," Amos said, starting to strip an assault rifle down to its component parts, "I'm the only one on the ship that can keep the coffee maker running.

James S.A. Corey

#96. But even while Lily was his wife, Amos thought of Ath-mun - now only a faint frail part of memory but still dear. He hoped that in making one black woman free he had made Ath-mun free if she was in need of freedom.

Elizabeth Yates

#97. Loveliest of any blossoming thing to her was that green stalk with its white bells. White was the most beautiful color she knew. Yet when she would say that to Amos he would remind her that the brown of the earth from which the flowers came was a good color too.

Elizabeth Yates

#98. As soon as we get the place secure, I'll get in touch," Miller said. "Okay, but don't take too long. If Thoth Station has a whorehouse left standing, I'm going to need help prying Amos out of it.

James S.A. Corey

#99. Don't try too hard to be cool. It always shows, and that's uncool.
-Amos Conti

R.J. Palacio

#100. Amos had wanted to be a poet when he was a boy. He'd wound up a scientist. Danny was a poet, who somehow happened to have become a scientist.

Michael Lewis