Amos's Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. Being able to hear an opinion. And then how to apply that opinion is something I am learning and working with every day. What can be tricky is how to differentiate a good suggestion that you should apply to your work [from] someone's personal taste at their opinionated best.

Tori Amos

#6. It's so important to believe in yourself. Believe that you can do it, under any circumstances. Because if you believe you can, then you really will. That belief just keeps you searching for the answers, and then pretty soon you get it.

Wally Amos

#7. It's hard to hide a hundred girls in your hair.

Tori Amos

#8. I spent years shaking the damage that comes with being burned by living near someone else's spotlight.

Shawn Amos

#9. I'm a conduit for telling people's stories. It's a privilege.

Tori Amos

#10. Faith cannot be about absolute certainty in the letters of the Bible and wrath against those who don't comply (Ephesians 2:15). It has to be about overwhelming trust in God's love,6 which as the apostle Paul confirms, is beyond the letter of law and narrow legalistic interpretations.

Amos Smith

#11. My father has a pragmatic mind. He marched with Dr. King in the '60s, and he's very much for women's rights.

Tori Amos

#12. Not everybody wants to have the same career. I think what's difficult is when you have two people that do something very, very similar and they both, say, want the limelight. That's very tricky.

Tori Amos

#13. Men of my father's generation were perpetual hustlers, always on the make and always on the move.

Shawn Amos

#14. On some of my darkest days, Lucifer's the one who comes and gives me an ice cream.

Tori Amos

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. Love is like a lost fart. If you have to force it, it's probably shit.

Stephen K. Amos

#18. If you are a nurturing mother, and a good one, you can go to play groups, sit on the floor and play all the games, and have tea with the other mothers, but wouldn't you like to think that's not all there is? That you haven't hung up your high heels without knowing how to walk in them?

Tori Amos

#19. Two children of same cruel parent look at one another and see in each other the image of the cruel parent or the image of their past oppressor. This is very much the case between Jew and Arab: It's a conflict between two victims.

Amos Oz

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

James S.A. Corey

#21. Books are the most mannerly of companions, accessible at all times, in all moods, frankly declaring the author's mind, without offense.

Amos Bronson Alcott

#22. There is value in everybody's gift. No matter how hard to find or strange it is.

Tori Amos

#23. 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

#24. If you can surrender your protection devices, in order to track the potentially raw and perhaps elusive emotions that are the song's DNA, then that is creative vulnerability, which is ultimately hugely empowering.

Tori Amos

#25. It's not as if the stories merge to a point where you think they are your life, but you do let them in the front door and the back door, and it's okay that sometimes certain characters stay for dinner.

Tori Amos

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

James S.A. Corey

#27. 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

#28. 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

#29. I'm trying not to move, it's just your ghost passing through

Tori Amos

#30. Songwriting isn't always something that's directly proportionate to the experience.

Amos Lee

#31. 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

#32. Brands' products should be the manifestation of a company's values. Those values should be the subject of all sorts of wonderful stories that comprise your company's narrative.

Shawn Amos

#33. I don't really know that there's any real rules for songwriting.

Amos Lee

#34. 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

#35. In our minds, love and lust are really separated. It's hard to find someone that can be kind and you can trust enough to leave your kids with, and isn't afraid to throw her man up against the wall and lick him from head to toe.

Tori Amos

#36. When you're in your 20s, there's maybe a little room for you to not be at the top of your artistic game, if you look good on a magazine cover. When you're not on the cover of the magazines anymore, then you realize that the work has to be great.

Tori Amos

#37. It's vital to be growing through your life rather than going through your life. The object is not to change other people or situations; it's to do the inner work they stimulate.

Wally Amos

#38. And maybe she had certain beliefs that if you love somebody, [you're] gonna like them too. And that isn't necessarily true.

Tori Amos

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

James S.A. Corey

#40. Tori's my legal name. My niece and nephews, they all call me Aunt Ellen, because I went by my middle name years ago, before I turned 18.

Tori Amos

#41. I'm not very social when I'm off the promo trail, because I step into wife and mother mode. It's very reclusive.

Tori Amos

#42. In the world of celebrity, there is one universal law: if there's a scandal or death, Al Sharpton will be there.

Shawn Amos

#43. I'm a mother, and that's really important. Today, the mother and the musician can sit next to each other. Even when the musician is out there in full swing, the mother doesn't get switched off.

Tori Amos

#44. I have a rule that I don't read my press, but then somebody in the crew will be reading it and of course it's right there, so what do you think I do?

Tori Amos

#45. Equanimity is the gem in virtue's chaplet, and St. Sweetness the loveliest in her calendar.

Amos Bronson Alcott

#46. Feelings are just a fire in a field of stubble: it burns for a moment, and then all that's left is soot and ashes. Do you know what the main thing is - the thing a woman should look for in her man? She should look for a quality that's not at all exciting but that's rarer than gold: decency.

Amos Oz

#47. If you can't create physical life, you find a life force. If that's in music, that's in music. I started to find this deep, primitive rhythm, and I started to move to it. And I held hands with sorrow, and I danced with her, and we giggled a bit.

Tori Amos

#48. I love when people are coming up and they're working hard and you can see that they're really focused on the process to their music. I really dig that. As a musician, it's nice to see people who really care about the process.

Amos Lee

#49. I remember driving to North Carolina when I was a little girl in a snowstorm to get down to my mom's family in the Carolinas. There were chains on the car - it was the late sixties - and we were just singing in the car. Christmas carols.

Tori Amos

#50. Sometimes I hear my voice and it's been here, silent all these years

Tori Amos

#51. I lost a company. So what? It's just stuff. Can't take it with you.

Wally Amos

#52. 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

#53. When I am able to be present, listening - really listening - to a viewpoint described through someone else's lens, I am here in the now and alive.

Tori Amos

#54. I'm in love with a girl who's in love with the world.

Amos Lee

#55. When I was growing up in L.A. in the late '70s and early '80s, Michael Jackson's was the first face on TV that looked like mine.

Shawn Amos

#56. The Marine Corps has to ask itself, 'What does our nation need from its premier crisis response force?' We are America's shock troops in war and peace. I know it sounds corny, but it's not.

James F. Amos

#57. While my six-song EP is unlikely to set any sales records, it's one of my biggest personal achievements - on par with starting my own company. On par with selling my own company.

Shawn Amos

#58. When I play live, it's a conversation that we're all having with the song, and the audience ... their response and relationship with the songs is as valid as my relationship with the songs.

Tori Amos

#59. There's not a whole lot of media interest in me other than just the records that I make.

Amos Lee

#60. Sometimes you need to take a departure from what you do to something that's slightly different in order to get inspiration.

Tori Amos

#61. Got a little red line that tells you, boy where the razor's been.

Tori Amos

#62. 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

#63. It is good to see two women from Britain's minority ethnic communities fighting in seats that Labour won at the last election.

Valerie Amos, Baroness Amos

#64. As one recalls some of the monstrous situations under which human beings have lived and live their lives, one marvels at man's meekness and complacency. It can only be explained by the quality of flesh to become calloused to situations that if faced suddenly would provoke blisters and revolt.

George Amos Dorsey

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

James S.A. Corey

#66. 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

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

James S.A. Corey

#68. My favorite time in music is probably 1970-75. Still Bill by Bill Withers, Harvest by Neil Young, John Prine's first album, James Taylor's One Man Dog-I hope I can bring the same sort of spirit I hear on those records.

Amos Lee

#69. You know when people smile too much? It's painful. I find it really painful. Happy is not very reliable. I'm trying to live like, um, with a fierce calm.

Tori Amos

#70. 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

#71. Time is one's best friend, teaching best of all the wisdom of silence.

Amos Bronson Alcott

#72. Susan Boyle having a meltdown is not controversial. It's human for a 48-year-old recluse to get a little wigged out when she finds herself on the world stage overnight.

Shawn Amos

#73. The way I see it, the men that I'm with, whoever they are, it's like look, you have to accept the fact that I like ice cream, and I know it shows up on my hips but if you can't accept that, then leave. Go away, toodles. It is non-negotiable.

Tori Amos

#74. It's frightening to think that you might not know something, but more frightening to think that, by and large, the world is run by people who have faith that they know exactly what is going on.

Amos Tversky

#75. The fact that religion plays such a part in how people vote troubles me, troubles me as a minister's daughter. Because I always felt that the separation of church and state was what our forefathers and foremothers really fought for.

Tori Amos

#76. He said, first let's just unzip your religion down.

Tori Amos

#77. After a while, though, you realize that a whole slew of young singer-songwriter piano players are getting compared to you. That's when you feel the passage of time is occurring.

Tori Amos

#78. Any book thoughtfully read sharpens the mind and improves on and individual's professional potential.

James F. Amos

#79. People love music, they're always going to love music, it's our job to consistently push ourselves as artists to keep delivering stuff for people to stay engaged with.

Amos Lee

#80. If they keep crashing stuff into the moon, the moon's gonna get pissed off, and the tides'll change, and all the women'll start PMS-ing together. Then you guys are going to fucking regret it.

Tori Amos

#81. Cornwall is one of the most beautiful places, with great people - there's not a great downside to it.

Tori Amos

#82. It's the eighties so where's our rocket packs?

Daniel Amos

#83. 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

#84. There are two ways to wake up. You can wake up thinking about what you know, or you wake up thinking and saying 'What can I learn?.' That's a very different approach.

Tori Amos

#85. An angel's face is tricky to wear constantly.

Tori Amos

#86. Many people lock a part of themselves away. It's a bit sacred.

Tori Amos

#87. 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

#88. My husband doesn't know what my songs are about - even when they're about him. He's very British in that way. He doesn't ask, and he doesn't want to be told.

Tori Amos

#89. There's a richness to the old works if you look before the 1950s. The chord progressions and the language was more complicated, especially in the jazz and classical world.

Tori Amos

#90. I think there's a time as a writer when you want to see the best things in life, and you go out wherever you go with your dreams as a writer or a composer.

Tori Amos

#91. Fundamentalist s live life with an exclamation point. I prefer to live my life with a question mark.

Amos Oz

#92. We're all concerned about the budget. We're all concerned about what's happening financially in our country. There's no question about it. Congress is working day and night. In fact, every time I go home the lights are on at the top of the Capitol.

James F. Amos

#93. The Gentiles used to say about us: the diploma - that's the Jews' religion. Not money, not gold. The diploma.

Amos Oz

#94. 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

#95. I don't mind a dirty girl. But what I find tragic is when we, as women, become not the subject of our own story but someone else's object.

Tori Amos

#96. Nothing's gonna stop me from floating

Tori Amos

#97. I am finding that vulnerability gives me great strength, because you're not hiding anymore. It's really about being a pioneer for myself, going into the places where I am not being taught. I have to teach myself.

Tori Amos

#98. 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

#99. Traveling is no fool's errand to him who carries his eyes and itinerary along with him.

Amos Bronson Alcott

#100. One's life should be sufficiently interesting to furnish entertainment in the record.

Amos Bronson Alcott