Hook Quotes - Page 16

• What I was able to bring to the Christian part of it was the humanism and the humanistic point of view. It was the hook in terms of being able to make that adjustment. I wasn't born Buddhist, so I do have some other traditions to pull from.

  Ron Glass

  Christian, Buddhist, Views

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• Tough girls come from New York. Sweet girls, theyre from Georgia. But us Kentucky girls, we have fire and ice in our blood. We can ride horses, be a debutante, throw left hooks, and drink with the boys, all the while making sweet tea, darlin. And if we have an opinion, you know youre gonna hear it.

  Ashley Judd

  Girl, Sweet, Horse

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• There are three versions of the hook. There's one that's solid metal and it's really heavy. It's sharp. It's not super sharp but it has a point, and because of the weight you could do some serious damage with it. And then there's an aluminium one which is a bit lighter, and then there's a rubber one for if you're to do stunts or there's any danger of cutting someone. Although sometimes I like to switch it out! It's the perfect coffee cup holder - it's literally the exact size. And if you've only got one hand and you're holding some food, it's great to put it on.

  Colin O'Donoghue

  Coffee, Cutting, Hands

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• I use the hook to carry coffee.

  Colin O'Donoghue

  Coffee, Use

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• Ideas are floating like fish. Desire for an idea is like a bait on a hook. If you desire an idea, it pulls and it makes a kind of a bait. Ideas will come swimming up. And you don't know them until they enter the conscious mind. And then bingo! There it is! You know it instantly. And then more come in. If you go fishing for ideas, a lot of ideas will just pop in. And one of them will make you fall in love.

  David Lynch

  Falling In Love, Writing, Swimming

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• Even when there's not a joke or a hook, the first line has to be good and snapem to attention. Songs ain't novels. You don't have 30 pages to slowly wrap somebody in. They're more like short stories or poems. If the first line hasn't grabbed them, you won't get to the second line. Once you've developed an audience, you may have some luxury and trust, so you don't have to knock 'em over the head with line one.

  Dan Bern

  Song, Writing, Luxury

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• Every one is fond of comparing himself to something great and grandiose, as Louis XIV likened himself to the sun, and others have had like similes. I am more humble. I am a mere street scavenger (chiffonier) of science. With my hook in my hand and my basket on my back, I go about the streets of science, collecting what I find.

  Francois Magendie

  Humble, Humility, Science

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• I do feel immigration will probably be dealt with as long as [the solution] doesn't provide amnesty ... Five years ago, all hell broke loose ... This year, I thought phones would ring off the hook again. They really haven't. I think everybody realizes we have a problem.

  Johnny Isakson

  Thinking, Phones, Years

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• I hate a hook. It nauseates me. I could vomit when I see one. It's like a rattlesnake in your pocket.

  Ben Hogan

  Hate, Golf, Pockets

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• The first time I shot the hook, I was in fourth grade, and I was about five feet eight inches tall. I put the ball up and felt totally at ease with the shot. I was completely confident it would go in. I've been shooting it ever since.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Eight, Feet

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• Most people use two totally different sets of criteria for judging themselves versus others. We tend to judge others according to their actions. It's very cut-and-dried. However, we judge ourselves by our intentions. Even if we do the wrong thing, if we believe our motives were good, we let ourselves off the hook. And we are often willing to do that over and over before requiring ourselves to change.

  John C. Maxwell

  Change, Leadership, Believe

  John C. Maxwell (2015). “The Leadership Handbook: 26 Critical Lessons Every Leader Needs”, p.13, Thomas Nelson

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• A hook shot kisses the rim and hangs there, helplessly, but doesn't drop and for once our gangly starting center boxes out his man and times his jump perfectly, gathering the orange leather/from the air like a cherished possession.

  Edward Hirsch

  Basketball, Kissing, Men

  Edward Hirsch (2011). “The Living Fire”, p.51, Knopf

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• I don't have 30 days and 30 nights, to show you why all the hoochies say there's nothing finer than Scott Steiner, but all I need is one night to have your wife call me for the rest of her life, the big bad booty daddy, so this goes to all my freaks out there, Big Poppa Pump is your hook up, hollar if you hear me.

  Scott Steiner

  Wrestling, Night, Daddy

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• The honey-bee's great ambition is to be rich, to lay up great stores, to possess the sweet of every flower that blooms. She is more than provident. Enough will not satisfy her, she must have all she can get by hook or crook.

  John Burroughs

  Sweet, Flower, Ambition

  John Burroughs (2008). “Pepacton”, p.58, Wildside Press LLC

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• 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.

  Emily Blunt

  Dog, Scotland, Moments

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• Taint no use to sit and whine 'Cause the fish ain't on your line; Bait your hook an' keep on tryin', Keep a-goin'!

  Frank Lebby Stanton

  Perseverance, Bait, Use

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• When I went out on tour as Bing Hitler I would hook up with Lenny and we'd get drunk together. He was always very supportive. He was a big star and a lot of what he said to me had power and impact. Apart from that, I just like him.

  Craig Ferguson

  Stars, Impact, Drunk

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• I used to have a lot of recurring dreams about Captain Hook when I was a little kid, which I remember very vividly. But I think I just really liked Peter Pan a lot, and 'Hook' was my favorite movie.

  Cristin Milioti

  Dream, Kids, Thinking

  "Once Star Cristin Milioti Gets Into the Sister Act in Sleepwalk With Me". Interview with Iris Wiener, www.theatermania.com. August 24, 2012.

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• The single most important technique for making progress is to write ten words. Doesn't matter if you're badly stuck, or your day is completely jam-packed, or you're away from your computer - carry a small paper notebook and write a sentence of description while you're waiting on line at a coffee shop. I think of this as baiting a hook. Even if you have a few days in a row where nothing comes except those ten words, I find that as long as you have to think about the novel enough to write ten words, the chances are that more will come.

  Naomi Novik

  Notebook, Coffee, Writing

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• My poems always begin with a metaphor, but my way into the metaphor may be a word, an image, even a sound. And I rarely know the nature of the metaphor when I begin to write, but there is an attentiveness that a writer develops, a sudden alertness that is much like the feel of a fish brushing against a hook.

  Stephen Dobyns

  Writing, Sound, May

  "Poetry Questions: Stephen Dobyns" by Rebecca Foresman, www.newyorker.com. April 2, 2012.

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• Gifts are like fish-hooks; for who is not aware that the greedy char is deceived by the fly which he swallows?

  Martial

  Greedy, Deceived, Fishes

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• Pilots are so hard because you have to introduce all these characters, you have to hook an audience, and an audience has such a smaller attention span than maybe they used to have.

  Max Greenfield

  Character, Pilots, Attention

  "Talking Schmidt: Why We're Rooting for New Girl's Max Greenfield at the Emmy's". Interview with Bruce Handy an Juli Weiner, www.vanityfair.com. September 20, 2012.

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• Once I have a hook I think has potential - enough to spin out more than a hundred thousand words, then I start turning my attention to characters. Who are these people? Why did this thing happen to them? But the hook always comes first.

  Linwood Barclay

  Character, Thinking, People

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• 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.

  Linwood Barclay

  Character, What If, Shapes

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• If there were any clear investigation of 9/11, they wouldn't let Louie Freeh off the hook.

  Sidney Blumenthal

  Investigation, Clear, Ifs

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