Hook Quotes

I call intuition cosmic fishing. You feel a nibble, then you've got to hook the fish.

Last time I saw a mouth like that, it had a hook in it.

Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness.

With comedy, you have no place to go but more comedy, so you're never off the hook.

I'd like to do a completely off-the-wall collaboration. I would like one of my songs to be the hook to a rap song. That would be so much fun!

When a song gets its legs and begins to come to me, this is the euphoric hook that keeps me wanting to continue.

People who are extremely inside their head, like he was, are caught in a neurosis that goes round and round. Then something will hook them and take them to their end and they can't control it.

'Twas merry when You wagered on your angling, when your diver Did hang a salt fish on his hook, which he With fervency drew up.

People hook up. People don't hook up. I don't judge.

My career in Congress is a story of before Sandy Hook and after Sandy Hook.

An enlightened entertainer, via story, casts her line into the souls of others, hooks their heart, and pulls their greater potential to the surface.

A poem is a hand, a hook, a prayer. It is a soul in action.

I attempted to fish in Scotland and I managed to hook a dog. It was a horrible moment but the dog turned out to be fine.

Tell everyone you know: “My happiness depends on me, so you're off the hook.

Never reduce a target. Instead, increase actions. When you start rethinking your targets, making up excuses, and letting yourself off the hook, you are giving up on your dreams!

Melodies are very important in a song. Having a great melody and a great hook. That's what I would always come up with a great melody and that's important.

If your concentration is getting bad, take up bass fishing. It will really improve your ability to focus. If you aren't ready when that fish hits, you can't set the hook.

Gifts are like hooks.

Why are you not where you belong? / A black hat on a hook says nothing. / Ashes mirror ashes / In a mirroring window.

He who holds the hook is aware in what waters many fish are swimming.

Written truth is four-dimensional. If we consult it at the wrong time, or read it at the wrong place, it is as empty and shapeless as a dress on a hook.

Oh, no. To live... to live would be an awfully big adventure.

Now listen little pigs, I'm gonna let you off the hook if you open the door.

Philosophy, most broadly viewed, is the critical survey of existence from the standpoint of value.

Fishing, Danny boy, is purely a state of mind. Some men, when they are fishing, are after fish. Me, I'm after things you could never set a barbed hook in.

I've calmed down already. I don't hook up anymore.

Dentists tell you not to pick your teeth with any sharp metal object. Then you sit in their chair and the first thing they grab is an iron hook.

Denmark and the UK are in agreement that our future prosperity depends on stimulating green growth, and getting off the oil hook.

There are a lot of girls that will try to hook up with you, then try to have your kid because they figure they're going to get all this money from you

People tell me it was a great left hook, but I wouldn't know. I never saw it

I think it's very improtant and healthy to tell differnt stories than the corporatist narratives we are being asked to swallow hook, line and sinker.

Some authors, when starting a novel, imagine a place first. Others, a character starts taking shape in their head. I start with a hook, a situation, a 'what if.

You fit into me like a hook into an eye a fish hook an open eye

The joy of the Lord will arm us against the assaults of our spiritual enemies, and, put our mouths out of taste for those pleasures with which the tempter baits his hooks.

I got the experience, I got the strength, I got the talent, I got the famous jump hook. That's my move.

I want you to know that I’m serious. You’re not a hook up. You’re not a friend with benefits. You’re more than that to me.

I was very fortunate to hook up with Jerry in the first place. The network was already committed to doing something with him, so I skipped a couple of hundred steps right there.

I met Mos Def around that time but I didn't hook up with him until I was about 17 or 18.

That was the way illness appeared in a house, in the corners, in between floorboards, on the hooks in the closet, along with the sweaters and coats.

We can't constantly explain to our voters that taxpayers have to be on the hook for certain risks, rather than those who make a lot of money taking those risks.

My new novel 'Red Hook Road' began many years ago as a short article in the newspaper.

A bull will try to outwit you. It will stop and hook when the last thing you expect from it is that it will stop and hook.

You get hit by one of those right hands or an uppercut or a left hook by Mark Hunt, then you know that **** is on and that cage is locked, and there's nowhere to go.

My songs aren't built around choruses or hooks or anything like that. That's kind of how I write screenplays too.

The bolt of Tash falls from above!' 'Does it ever get caught on a hook halfway?

My real name is Scott Thompson. I could have gone by that name, but when I started doing comedy I thought I needed to go by something that has a little more of a hook.

...her cry is a hook and it catches me in the throat.

If you were to draw Bugs, the easiest way is to learn how to draw a carrot and then hook a rabbit onto it

I was influenced growing up by everything from Harlequin romances to Fedor Dostoyevsky and Albert Camus, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, and later Lydia Davis, Mary Gaitskill, bell hooks.

One of the things that I'm dying to do is to sing the hook on a big rap song. No one's ever called me to do that.