Hook Quotes - Page 15

• 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.

  William Kent Krueger

  Boys, Men, Fishing

  William Kent Krueger (2014). “Ordinary Grace: A Novel”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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• By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate the future or the past of the world, to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream

  Virginia Woolf

  Dream, Travel, Book

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.630, Wordsworth Editions

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• a good writer should draw the reader in by starting in the middle of the story with a hook, then go back and fill in what happened before the hook. Once you have the reader hooked, you can write whatever you want as you slowly reel them in.

  Roland Smith

  Writing, Want, Stories

  Roland Smith (2008). “Peak”, p.1, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We are here because one odd group of fishes had a peculiar fin anatomy that could transform into legs for terrestrial creatures; because the earth never froze entirely during an ice age; because a small and tenuous species, arising in Africa a quarter of a million years ago, has managed, so far, to survive by hook and by crook. We may yearn for a ‘higher answer’– but none exists

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Atheist, Years, Ice

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• Gary Oldman is impossible to steal a movie from. He's such a great actor, he's off the hook. I love him.

  Kevin Bacon

  I Love Him, Actors, Impossible

  "The fabulous Bacon boy". Interview with Ian Tucker, www.theguardian.com. October 18, 2003.

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• Personally I am very fond of strawberries and cream, but I have found that for some strange reason, fish prefer worms. So when I went fishing, I didn’t think about what I wanted. I thought about what they wanted. I didn't bait the hook with strawberries and cream. Rather, I dangled a worm or grasshopper in front of the fish and said: "Wouldn't you like to have that?" Why not use the same common sense when fishing for people?

  Dale Carnegie

  Thinking, Fishing, People

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to win friends & influence people”, p.36, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• We have been taught to wish for it, but the wish to be understood may be our most vengeful demand, may be the way we hang on, as adults , to our grudge against our mothers; the way we never let our mothers off the hook for their not meeting our every need. Wanting to be understood, as adults, can be our most violent form of nostalgia.

  Adam Phillips

  Mother, Psychology, Understanding

  "Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life".

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• It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they're used. The fact that they exist at all, their presence in our lives, will wreak more havoc than we can begin to fathom. Nuclear weapons pervade our thinking. Control our behavior. Administer our societies. Inform our dreams. They bury themselves like meat hooks deep in the base of our brains. They are purveyors of madness. They are the ultimate colonizer. Whiter than any white man that ever lived. The very heart of whiteness.

  Arundhati Roy

  Dream, Believe, Heart

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• You’re a solid person, Sage. You’re easy on the eyes, if a little skinny, and your ability to memorize useless information is going to totally hook in some guy.

  Richelle Mead

  Eye, Guy, Sage

  Richelle Mead (2011). “Bloodlines”, p.261, Penguin

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

  C. S. Lewis

  Fall, Doe, Caught

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

  Margaret Atwood

  Eye, Fit, Fishes

  Margaret Atwood (1987). “Selected Poems, 1965-1975”, p.141, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I first started playing in piano bars for three reasons - to make money, to be in the company of my friends - and also to hook up with young girls. I always knew, even before I played in piano bars, about the effect of my voice.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Girl, Voice, Piano

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• I think we're all hooked, I feel my own hook-ness on immediate gratification you know. I want what I want.

  Jeff Bridges

  Thinking, Want, Immediate Gratification

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• Grooming oneself with all the crazed compulsion of an under-exercised lab rat in order to hook a rich man and obtain a lush lifestyle makes a certain (albeit seedy) sense.

  Julie Burchill

  Men, Order, Labs

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• Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Hope, Bait

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

  Talib Kweli

  Mets, Hook Up

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• 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.

  Lee Trevino

  Fishing, Focus, Bass

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

  Ayelet Waldman

  Years, Red, Newspapers

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• In politics as in religion, my tenets are few and simple. The leading one of which, and indeed that which embraces most others, is to be honest and just ourselves and to exact it from others, meddling as little as possible in their affairs where our own are not involved. If this maxim was generally adopted, wars would cease and our swords would soon be converted into reap hooks and our harvests be more peaceful, abundant, and happy.

  George Washington

  War, Simple, Justice

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• I would rather receive a Pap smear from Captain Hook than venture out on New Year's Eve.

  Jen Lancaster

  New Year, Years, Venture

  Jen Lancaster (2013). “The Tao of Martha: My Year of LIVING; Or, Why I'm Never Getting All That Glitter Off of the Dog”, p.21, Penguin

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• God seems to have left the receiver off the hook and time is running out.

  Arthur Koestler

  God, Running, Religious

  'The Ghost in the Machine' (1967) ch. 18

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• It was Rick's Rubin idea to have the 'Brooklyn' verse repeat. It already was a story, but having that made it a folk song. Instead of this rambling march of verses, Rick understands that music needs hooks. You need that repeated chorus, that everyone can sing along to.

  Scott Avett

  Song, Writing, Ideas

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

  Gene Fullmer

  People, Boxing, Saws

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• CSPS is a breath of musical fresh air. With a whale sized hooks and neck wrenching riffs you’ll have more than you need to fall head first into this band’s fanbase. Take a listen and see what all the fuss is about. I’m sure that if the bone tight rhythm section doesn’t lock you in, the finely spun lyric and melody will surely ensnare even the pickiest of musical palette.

  Brett Hestla

  Fall, Air, Whales

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• I remember hitting Sarah Michelle Gellar with a right hook during my first week on the job. It was awful. They usually pair actors with stunt doubles to avoid things like that.

  Eliza Dushku

  Jobs, Actors, Hitting

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