John Amos Quotes

I've never seen oil slicks covering such a large area in the Gulf of Mexico.

John Amos

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• Silence speaks so much louder than screaming tantrums. Never give anyone an excuse to say that you're crazy.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • You
  • Crazy
  • Silence

• You want to find out what it is about you or what it is about your past and your lineage that's in you now, and whether you carry those traits and maybe what one's mission is to take it to the next level.

  

  Olivia d'Abo
  • Want
  • Past
  • Mission

• The Internet allows the small guy a global marketplace. But technology is harmful in the sense that we get too much information from it. Because of the web we get 10 times the amount of noise we ever got, which makes harmful fallacies far more likely.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Guy
  • Small
  • Technology

• I never wore a single fedora filming 'L.A. Noire.' It took about an hour and a half to do the hair - it was a very precise process.

  

  Aaron Staton
  • Single
  • Hair
  • Never

• With a focus on records and making money, you tend to miss a good story.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Good
  • Money
  • Focus

• When it comes to working out, I really don't like the gym. I go because I have to, but I'm usually not happy about it. I do what my trainer and coaches tell me to do, but I'm always anxious to get outside.

  

  Nate Holland
  • Happy
  • Always
  • Working

• I see the world in rectangles. If I am talking to someone, I find myself analysing their face, working out how to recreate it in bricks.

  

  Nathan Sawaya
  • World
  • Working
  • Recreate

• The whole idea that the Constitution of the United States would be used to advance a political agenda is absurd.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Political
  • Constitution

• The core of the person is what he or she loves, and that is bound up with what they worship - that insight recalibrates the radar for cultural analysis. The rituals and practices that form our loves spill out well beyond the sanctuary. Many secular liturgies are trying to get us to love some other kingdom and some other gods.

  

  Dallas Willard
  • Trying
  • Love
  • Worship

• Once the war of words begins, truth is the casualty.

  

  Palaniappan Chidambaram
  • Truth
  • War
  • Words

• Not much was really invented during the Renaissance, if you don't count modern civilization.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • You
  • Modern
  • Renaissance

• Music is its own language - if you don't speak it, it's hard to say what you're trying to do.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • Music
  • Trying
  • Language

• Those of us lucky enough to fall in love with Asia know that it's an affair that's as long as it is resonant.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Know
  • Enough
  • Lucky

• The Beater has still been young enough to feel immortal, at least on his better days. It was all, Wow, if we don’t slow down, we’re gonna die before we get old, except somehow it hadn’t happened that way. So they’d all assumed it never would, not dying, not getting old-hell, not even growing up.

  

  Pat Cadigan
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Die

• If you can visualize a bulldog which has just been kicked in the ribs and had its dinner sneaked by the cat, you will have Hildebrand Glossop as he now stood before me.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Cat

• Religion is usually nothing but a supplement to or even a substitute for education, and nothing is religious in the strict sense which is not a product of freedom.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Freedom
  • Education
  • Religious

• We run a car wreck photo every week, whether we have a car wreck or not. That's our golden rule.

  

  Annie Proulx
  • Car

• On ne guérit d'une souffrance qu'à condition de l'éprouver pleinement.

  

  Marcel Proust

• Most dancers have no awareness of how they look; half of them think they're fat. There is anorexia in the ballet world; there are those things.

  

  Benjamin Millepied
  • World
  • Ballet

• You have to pay attention to who you are. You need to know your family history as well as you can. It is important for young women to have preventive care. If you catch any women's cancers early it's the difference between life and death. Do you really want to leave your kids without a mother?

  

  Cokie Roberts
  • Life
  • Important
  • Women

• Criticizing Fox News has nothing to do with criticizing the press. Fox News is not a news organization. It is the de facto leader of the GOP, and it is long past time that it is treated as such by the media, elected officials and the public.

  

  David Brock
  • Time
  • Long
  • Past

• I stick to the view I have always held that Hitler missed the bus in September 1938. He could have dealt France and ourselves a terrible, perhaps a mortal, blow then. The opportunity will not recur.

  

  Neville Chamberlain
  • Opportunity
  • Blow
  • September

• When I hire somebody really senior, competence is the ante. They have to be really smart. But the real issue for me is, Are they going to fall in love with Apple? Because if they fall in love with Apple, everything else will take care of itself. They'll want to do what's best for Apple, not what's best for them, what's best for Steve, or anybody else.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Competence
  • Hire
  • Ante

• I've never seen oil slicks covering such a large area in the Gulf of Mexico.

  

  John Amos