Tori Amos quote: "I usually get myself into situations that cause sparks. I mean I'm a girl that likes the storms. I love feeling alive, I love walking out in the cold in my bare feet and feeling the ice on my toes."

Many people lock a part of themselves away. It's a bit sacred.
TORI AMOS

I would love to compose something for dance before I kick the bucket, and I'm not closed-minded ...
TORI AMOS

Some of the most wonderful people are the ones who don't fit into boxes.
TORI AMOS

Guys would sleep with a bicycle if it had the right color lip gloss on. They have no shame. They'...
TORI AMOS

I'm not like a poker player. I'm not into bluff. My way is to look someone in the eye and te...
TORI AMOS

Adolescence is that time when I think, it can be- it's the cruelest place on Earth. It can really be...
TORI AMOS

It's as if the horses have come to take us back, to descend, to find the dark side. By dark I mean w...
TORI AMOS

If you can't create physical life, you find a life force. If that's in music, that's in music. I sta...
TORI AMOS

You can't control your popularity; I know I'm an acquired taste - I'm anchovies. And not everybody w...
TORI AMOS

It makes me think of mushroom pasta with dripping garlic bread and butter, not margarine, no margari...
TORI AMOS

Sometimes I think you want me to touch you, how can I when you build a great wall around you.
TORI AMOS

Your worst enemies are made when you ignore people. Those boys in America who shot dead classmates r...
TORI AMOS

I think musically, if you talk to (drummer) Matt Chamberlain, he'll tell you it's really complicated...
TORI AMOS

I grew up in dirt-poor hillbilly country. We lived this dry-below-the-waist kind of scene. If you we...
TORI AMOS

I'm too wacky for most weirdos. Who am I to judge?
TORI AMOS

Girls you've gotta know when it's time to turn the page.
TORI AMOS

When it's all said and done we will lose a piece to a carnivorous vegetarian
TORI AMOS

Our generation has an incredible amount of realism, yet at the same time it loves to complain and no...
TORI AMOS

I know I'm an acquired taste - I'm anchovies. And not everybody wants those hairy little thi...
TORI AMOS

If you think a child is going to be your accessory... it's not like a micro pig. It's not ab...
TORI AMOS

Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it.
TORI AMOS

Parenting is not for everybody. It changes your life. Especially when they're little.
TORI AMOS

Being stylish is about enjoying your life and expressing yourself and your inner light.
TORI AMOS

I have so many different personalities in me and I still feel lonely.
TORI AMOS

Musically, I always allow myself to jump off of cliffs. At least that's what it feels like to me...
TORI AMOS

So the first job that I got - my father got it for me - he had his clerical collar on, was a gay bar...
TORI AMOS

I would love to compose something for dance before I kick the bucket, and I'm not closed-minded ...
TORI AMOS

My father was a preacher in Maryland and we had crab feasts - with corn on the cob, but no beer, bei...
TORI AMOS

I remember driving to North Carolina when I was a little girl in a snowstorm to get down to my mom&#...
TORI AMOS

Tori's my legal name. My niece and nephews, they all call me Aunt Ellen, because I went by my mi...
TORI AMOS

I started playing the piano when I was about two and got a scholarship to the Peabody Conservatory o...
TORI AMOS

Cornwall is one of the most beautiful places, with great people - there's not a great downside t...
TORI AMOS

I think all the boys that write the screaming stuff would write the best love songs.... because they...
TORI AMOS

Some of the biggest advocates for feminism seem to believe that in order to feel powerful you have t...
TORI AMOS

Some people are afraid of what they might find if they try to analyze themselves too much, but you h...
TORI AMOS

There is an energy that you carry when you're nurturing another life where you're protecting...
TORI AMOS

So, you can make me come, that doesn't make you Jesus.
TORI AMOS

I think you have to know who you are. Get to know the monster that lives in your soul, dive deep int...
TORI AMOS

It's been a thrilling journey - I have had to really learn that an orchestra is an entity - it&#...
TORI AMOS

There are two ways to wake up. You can wake up thinking about what you know, or you wake up thinking...
TORI AMOS

A lot of songs are derivative of each other.
TORI AMOS

A lot of songs are derivative of each other. Sometimes you need to take a departure from what you do...
TORI AMOS

Sometimes you need to take a departure from what you do to something that's slightly different i...
TORI AMOS

In our minds, love and lust are really separated. It's hard to find someone that can be kind and you...
TORI AMOS

My mother says I was two-and-a-half when I started playing. My father was a minister, and when he we...
TORI AMOS

My father was strict, but he recognised my ability and got a lot of flak from the church for support...
TORI AMOS

There is a time and a place for things. Sometimes one needs to put a filter on oneself. That can be ...
TORI AMOS

The fact that religion plays such a part in how people vote troubles me, troubles me as a minister&#...
TORI AMOS

I think even in a good marriage, especially if you stay together long enough, there are going to be ...
TORI AMOS

Guys would sleep with a bicycle if it had the right color lip gloss on. They have no shame. They're ...
TORI AMOS

I have my own parties. They involve being barefoot with a piece of fried chicken and margarita in ea...
TORI AMOS

Being in your forties - any woman who isn't there yet, I just have to say to you: Euphoria is co...
TORI AMOS

I think everyone understands grief, the journey it takes us on, whether it's the death of a love...
TORI AMOS

Some people hide more than others, and it does intrigue me.
TORI AMOS

A key to keeping your husband is getting him to miss you. That keeps a marriage fresh.
TORI AMOS

When you're in your 20s, there's maybe a little room for you to not be at the top of your ar...
TORI AMOS

You're just an empty cage girl, if you kill the bird.
TORI AMOS

In our minds, love and lust are really separated. It's hard to find someone that can be kind and...
TORI AMOS

Strange, i thought i knew you well, thought i had read the sky, thought i had seen a change in your ...
TORI AMOS

If you have an issue with homosexuality, then it comes to your own fear and your own darkness.
TORI AMOS

I'm a hard worker. I get my hands dirty.
TORI AMOS

I have a great relationship with my mother-in-law. We're both Leos, we understand each other.
TORI AMOS

The violence betwen women is unbelievable. Women try to make each other crawl so that their knees ar...
TORI AMOS

Huge fan ... the highlight of my summer.
TORI AMOS

I'm obsessed with crocodiles and getting eaten by one. When I hear that someone's been eaten by a cr...
TORI AMOS

An ounce of breast milk is even more potent than the finest tequila.
TORI AMOS

My father is convinced that if I hadn't been a minister's daughter, I wouldn't have anything to writ...
TORI AMOS

I usually get myself into situations that cause sparks. I mean I'm a girl that likes the storms. I l...
TORI AMOS

She's been everybody else's girl maybe one day she'll be her own.
TORI AMOS

Some of the most wonderful people are the ones who don't fit into boxes.
TORI AMOS

If they keep crashing stuff into the moon, the moon's gonna get pissed off, and the tides'll change,...
TORI AMOS

Women must understand that simply attacking or hating men is just another form of disempowerment. A ...
TORI AMOS

I'm a daughter of a minister and I love chasing the dark. That which is hidden. I like licking it li...
TORI AMOS

Rape's not something where you just go, "Well, get over it" or "Believe in love and peace, my child,...
TORI AMOS

You're really there to kind of take people to the underworld, ... That's what you do. And everybody ...
TORI AMOS

I had to look at the truth. If they're going to see you as a commodity, then you better look after t...
TORI AMOS

Anger is natural. It's part of the force. You just have to learn to hang out with it.
TORI AMOS

I'm a musician first, a food-lover second, a dirty mouth with feet, and a girl last time I checked.
TORI AMOS

People out there must be told about the self-loathing that follows rape and how it's the greatest br...
TORI AMOS

When you stop putting yourself on the line, and you don't touch your own heart, how do you expect to...
TORI AMOS

There's room for everybody on the planet to be creative and conscious if you are your own person. If...
TORI AMOS

What girls do to each other is beyond description. No chinese torture comes close.
TORI AMOS

The word 'confession,' to me, means needing to be absolved, ... I'm not asking for forgiveness. I'm ...
TORI AMOS

Sometimes you have to do what you don't like to get to where you want to be
TORI AMOS

Give me life, give me pain, give me myself again.
TORI AMOS

Years go by will I still be waiting for somebody else to understand... sometimes I hear my voice and...
TORI AMOS

Hair is gray and the firers are burning. So many dreams on the shelf. You say I wanted you to be pro...
TORI AMOS

You know that saying, bad things don’t happen to good people?. That’s a lie.
TORI AMOS

Musically, I always allow myself to jump off of cliffs. At least that's what it feels like to me. Wh...
TORI AMOS

To Venus and Back,
TORI AMOS

I know I'm an acquired taste - I'm anchovies. And not everybody wants those hairy little things.
TORI AMOS

I felt sidelined by the industry, by the preoccupation with finding something newer, younger.
TORI AMOS

Our generation has an incredible amount of realism, yet at the same time it loves to complain and no...
TORI AMOS

I'm not very social when I'm off the promo trail, because I step into wife and mother mode. ...
TORI AMOS

There are ways to stimulate being prolific, and part of that is making pilgrimages, and being open t...
TORI AMOS

I don't choose to analyze what I have done and I think that is the right choice, because then I ...
TORI AMOS

I wanted to do something creatively, having been a beached whale for many months and nursing my daug...
TORI AMOS

Never was a cornflake girl;
Thought it was a good solution: hanging with the raisin girls.
TORI AMOS

There are older men with younger women but you don't see a lot of older women with younger men. ...
TORI AMOS

For the most part, pianos are female to me. Sometimes they're dykes, and they're always good...
TORI AMOS

I am the worst influence. If you can't handle your vices, then I am the Devil.
TORI AMOS

I produce the records. I don't hand over control to some really expensive producer who then talk...
TORI AMOS

When the mothers start to shatter, then everything just comes undone.
TORI AMOS

After a while, though, you realize that a whole slew of young singer-songwriter piano players are ge...
TORI AMOS

This was a time frame when dance music and clubs were having a real impact on culture, and it had an...
TORI AMOS

A guitarist or a drummer can get a cold and still play; I get a cold and sound like a wet mitten try...
TORI AMOS

The world that we all knew before, could wake up in feeling safe... now it seems that everything has...
TORI AMOS

I am bundle of nerves riddled with irrational fears.
TORI SPELLING

I just wanna thank all those amazing Internet bloggers out there that hate me day-to-day. I love you...
TORI SPELLING

I look at Liv Tyler and think It's not fair, because I can't find a flaw on her. And on top of that ...
TORI SPELLING

My style is understated because everything I wear, I want it to have an effortless feel to it. I alw...
TORI KELLY

I want to be a cool mom.
TORI SPELLING

'Unbreakable Smile' was based off one of the songs I wrote for the album - it was actually t...
TORI KELLY

Why do we even use hashtags? It's just like a sub-thought. Who clicks on hashtags? Nobody.
TORI KELLY

Gospel was the root of everything in my house, so there's a touch of that in everything that I d...
TORI KELLY

We are a very crafty family.
TORI SPELLING

I really grew my own fan base. I started posting videos on YouTube with the help of my parents.
TORI KELLY

It would be pretty funny to see a Beverly Hills white girl with mad rap skills.
TORI SPELLING

Nineties hip-hop was a big influence for me; it still is. I love '90s everything. And it's w...
TORI KELLY

Everyone has their preferred stroller, their preferred crib, their preferred Moses basket. And they ...
TORI SPELLING

After I shower and put in all my products, I hang out with the diffuser with my head flipped over fo...
TORI KELLY

Bad shopping habits die hard.
TORI SPELLING

I use this brand called Ouidad; they're great. Not Your Mother's is another one. Garnier Fru...
TORI KELLY

I look at Liv Tyler and think "It's not fair," because I can't find a flaw on her. And on top of th...
TORI SPELLING

People are always saying that Hollywood messes up kids. I'm like, 'No, families mess up kids...
TORI SPELLING

Everything I write about either I have gone through or I know somebody has gone through, so it's...
TORI KELLY

My style is very laid back. I like to be comfortable, but with some kind of piece that pumps it up a...
TORI KELLY

Being your best friend does not mean I will stop you from crashing and burning. No, you'll never lea...
TORI FANBERG

My Dog Can beat up Paris Hilton's Dog.
TORI SPELLING

Sometimes, when I'm alone, I put on six inch heels and wear nothing else and dance around in front o...
TORI SPELLING

If we can share our stories and help other people and kind of bring attention to it, I think it bene...
TORI SPELLING

You gave it away!
TORI SPELLING

Sometimes I do envision just being a stay at home mom but not working isn't an option for me cur...
TORI SPELLING

Everybody knows there is no such thing as normal. There is no black-and-white definition of normal. ...
TORI SPELLING

Not many teams take their four-by-eight and go place in the four-by-four as well, so I'm proud of ho...
TORI ARTHER

We don't have as much depth as we've had in the past. But the guys we do have can score big.
TORI ARTHER

I'm really proud of them. They stepped it up; they all ran well.
TORI ARTHER

I look at Liv Tyler and think "It's not fair," because I can't find a flaw on her. And on top of tha...
TORI SPELLING

We were hoping to go under eight minutes. Our leadoff leg went 2:04 today; he's usually more of a tw...
TORI ARTHER

All my life, I was even just wanted to attend the Grammys, like, just be there, so the fact that I&#...
TORI KELLY

I think with my journey so far, it never felt like an overwhelming, overnight success story. I think...
TORI KELLY

I think, for me, the goal was never really for my EPs to go mainstream. I think the intention of the...
TORI KELLY

I am proud of my kids, but I also want to make my mom proud of me. I'm still a momma's girl ...
TORI SPELLING

I love sharing my stories and experiences with people and connecting to them on both a humorous and ...
TORI SPELLING

After I had my kids, I realized it's pretty much all about instinct - you have to do what's ...
TORI SPELLING

I am now officially ordained. Yep, that's right - Reverend Tori Spelling!
TORI SPELLING

If I ever had the time to take on another job, being a party planner would be high on my list.
TORI SPELLING

I look at Liv Tyler and think 'It's not fair', because I can't find a flaw on her. A...
TORI SPELLING

I wasn't truly comfortable with myself until I was about 30. I spent so much time and energy won...
TORI SPELLING

I'm scared of screwing up my kids.
TORI SPELLING

There are days when I struggle with wanting to be a full-time, stay-at-home mom, and feeling guilty ...
TORI SPELLING

One of the most important things to me as a songwriter is to make music that's young and fresh b...
TORI KELLY

People will come up to me at shows and tell me that a song touched them in a completely different wa...
TORI KELLY

My whole life I wanted to be normal. Everybody knows there's no such thing as normal. There is no bl...
TORI SPELLING

It's an ongoing struggle. I don't believe it's a struggle for any one race or one culture for equali...
TORI MALOUKIS

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

Email is the greatest thing.
WALLY AMOS

Many who resort to crime ultimately can't read or write.
WALLY AMOS

I believe, along with many others, that you must first ask for what you want before you can have it.
WALLY AMOS

In some areas I am more noted for reading then I am for cookies!
WALLY AMOS

Nothing is an obstacle unless you say it is.
WALLY AMOS

Death is not a period, but a comma in the story of life.
AMOS TRAVER

The world moves fast. Business moves fast. Digital media moves extremely fast. It is far too easy to...
SHAWN AMOS

The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates ...
AMOS PARRISH

Understanding where your food comes from, trying to bolster local farmers and local economies and ha...
AMOS LEE

Many cities make music, but no city breathes music quite like Memphis. The songs and sounds that com...
SHAWN AMOS

It doesn't matter how many say it cannot be done or how many people have tried it before; it's impor...
WALLY AMOS

Despite all of our technological advances, content creation still requires time, inspiration, and a ...
SHAWN AMOS

I wrote The Same Sea not as a political allegory about Israelis and Palestinians. I wrote it about s...
AMOS OZ

Just as many people flee Hollywood as those who flock to it. Hollywood can be an acquired taste.
SHAWN AMOS

If you're going to write an anthem for an old man who's up at political bat for the last tim...
SHAWN AMOS

Well, my definition of a tragedy is a clash between right and right.
AMOS OZ

And in this respect, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been a tragedy, a clash between one very p...
AMOS OZ

We're all posting and clicking and sharing, but we're not devoting enough attention to get a...
SHAWN AMOS

[The Patriots] are envied by a lot of teams around the league. I'm just happy to be here.
AMOS ZEREOUE

I've basically been trying to get the plays down and my conditioning up at the same time. Just being...
AMOS ZEREOUE

I felt I was ready last week. It's just a matter of getting an opportunity to get out there. After t...
AMOS ZEREOUE

I know Kevin really well,
AMOS ZEREOUE

I can't go on what happened last year. This is a new year. I have to go out there and prove I can be...
AMOS ZEREOUE

I know I can play ball. It's just a matter of me getting to do it here or someone else.
AMOS ZEREOUE

I thought that way last year before the season started. I feel the same way now,
AMOS ZEREOUE

All of my novels are democracies.
AMOS OZ

A conflict begins and ends in the hearts and minds of people, not in the hilltops.
AMOS OZ

Sippur al ahava vehoshekh
AMOS OZ

The Jewish settlers of Gaza and in the West Bank have a dream for the future of Israel.... The settl...
AMOS OZ

For more than 30 years, ... the settlers' dream has overwhelmed the dream of secular Israelis. Day i...
AMOS OZ

The evacuation of the settlements from the Gaza Strip is not just a struggle over the question of th...
AMOS OZ

Activism is a Way of Life
AMOS OZ

Literary and political work helps people to ged rid of stereotypes
AMOS OZ

Two years ago, a sudden change occurred. Sharon's rhetoric changed overnight.
AMOS OZ

I call'd the devil, and he came / And with wonder his form did I closely scan / He is not ugly, and ...
AMOS OZ

Egypt is a big country which claims to respect the agreements it signs,
AMOS GILAD

It is inconceivable that Egypt as a sovereign country does not control its border.
AMOS GILAD

Egypt ... has to impose down to the smallest detail a regime of security ... to stop smuggling, to s...
AMOS GILAD

They look like they're running a system which has neither law nor order, neither organization nor au...
AMOS GILAD

But if he is on the brink of extinction, he certainly may take suicidal steps involving the launchin...
AMOS GILAD

The Palestinian Authority is facing a supreme test of its credibility.
AMOS GILAD

That may cause difficulties for the Palestinians, but the priority is to ensure Israeli security.
AMOS GILAD

This infrastructure is murderous and we will try to deal with it and silence it.
AMOS GILAD

The key is with the Palestinian Authority that must impose law and order ... That is the basis that ...
AMOS GILAD

I usually get myself into situations that cause sparks. I mean I'm a girl that likes the storms. I love feeling alive, I love walking out in the cold in my bare feet and feeling the ice on my toes.

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I usually get myself into situations that cause sparks. I mean I'm a girl that likes the storms. I love feeling alive, I love walking out in the cold in my bare feet and feeling the ice on my toes.

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