Hook Quotes - Page 19

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

  Lamorne Morris

  People, Judging, Hook Up

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• I took one look and fell, hook and tumble.

  Mary Oliver

  Looks

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• Hold on to your wallets folks because with the passage of this trillion-dollar baby, the Democrats will be poised to spend as much as $3 trillion in your tax dollars. Taxpayers will be on the hook for spending that will stimulate the debt, stimulate the growth of government, but will do little to stimulate jobs or the economy.

  Christopher Bond

  Baby, Jobs, Government

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• 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.

  Carrot Top

  Real, Names, Gone

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• The visceral nature of hard rock music, the fact that you can have this sledge hammering sound - and that you can hook a lyric up and a feeling up to something and make the lyric jump into this machine that crushes. That has always been really attractive to me, that kind of power.

  Henry Rollins

  Crush, Rocks, Feelings

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• I like producing beats, and I like rapping, too. I have a program for the PC, and I can hook my keyboard to it.

  Jamie Waylett

  Rap, Keyboards, Program

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• Art grows out of modes of perception that make you feel and think...that hooks on to something deep-running in our natures.

  Robert Hughes

  Running, Art, Thinking

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• And angling too, that solitary vice, What Izaak Walton sings or says: The quaint, old, cruel coxcomb, in his gullet Should have a hook, and a small trout to pull it.

  Lord Byron

  Should Have, Fishing, Vices

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.2252, Delphi Classics

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• I let people off the hook too easily.

  William Boyd

  People

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• What is an artist? He's a man who has antennae, who knows how to hook up to the currents which are in atmosphere, in the cosmos.

  Henry Miller

  Writing, Men, Artist

  Henry Miller, Frank L. Kersnowski (1994). “Conversations with Henry Miller”, Univ Pr of Mississippi

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• What we need more of is slow art: art that holds time as a vase holds water: art that grows out of modes of perception and making whose skill and doggedness make you think and feel; art that isn’t merely sensational, that doesn’t get its message across in ten seconds, that isn’t falsely iconic, that hooks onto something deep-running in our natures. In a word, art that is the very opposite of mass media.

  Robert Hughes

  Running, Art, Thinking

  "A bastion against cultural obscenity". www.theguardian.com. June 3, 2004.

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• In every work environment, there will be politics. If you really want to rise to the top, you need to figure out what those politics in your workplace are. Then, you hook it in. You decide what conforms and what does not conform to your personal code.

  Kamala Harris

  Doe, Needs, Want

  "The Lenny Interview: Kamala Harris, the Senate Hopeful, Going After Revenge Porn". Interview with Doreen St. Félix, www.elle.com. October 23, 2015.

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• I'm just glad to get any role... the fact that they're all 90 is neither here nor there! Actually, it was Hook that started it. I think it was Peggy Ashcroft who couldn't do the part and somebody was asked how old was I and would I be able to do the part, and the person replied "92" very quickly. And so I've been stuck ever since! But I'm actually very grateful.

  Maggie Smith

  Grateful, Thinking, Roles

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I still do one song by myself onstage. it gives people the extremely personal thing where it's just me on guitar. But, I think the songs are better as a band. I think with all of the extra little hooks and backing vocals, it just adds to what my initial idea was.

  Butterfly Boucher

  Song, Thinking, Guitar

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• He that will play with Satan's bait, will quickly be taken with Satan's hook.

  Thomas Brooks

  Taken, Play, Bait

  Thomas Brooks (1810). “Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices: Being a Companion for Christians of All Denominations”, p.312

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• As a writer, there are times when you have something to say, and yet no particular “hook” upon which to hang the missive you are burning to release.

  Tim Wise

  Burning, Release, Particular

  "Pardon You: Racism, Reparations and the Politics of Blame (as Explained by Henry Louis Gates Jr.)" by Tim Wise, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 10, 2010.

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• My favorite sci-fi always uses its hook to amplify some bigger theme or idea - some emotional thrust.

  Rian Johnson

  Emotional, Ideas, Use

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• I'm here to confuse you. Confusion is my right and left hook.

  Mona Eltahawy

  Confusion, Left

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• I caught a tremendous fish
  and held him beside the boat
  half out of water, with my hook
  fast in a corner of his mouth.
  He didn't fight.
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  I stared and stared
  and victory filled up
  the little rented boat
  from the pool of bilge
  where oil had spread a rainbow
  around the rusted engine
  to the bailer rusted orange,
  the sun-cracked thwarts
  the oarlocks on their strings,
  the gunnels-until everything
  was rainbow, rainbow, rainbow!
  And I let the fish go.

  Elizabeth Bishop

  Fighting, Orange, Filled Up

  "The Fish" l. 74 (1946)

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• Try and inject into every commercial you make a touch of singularity; a bird that will hook on to the consumers mind

  David Ogilvy

  Bird, Mind, Trying

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• There was a part, you know, obviously there was a part of the whole I military experience that you know like hooks right into the whole boyhood experience that that you know most American boys have growing up, you know, which is proving your manhood by proving how hard you are, by proving that you can take it.

  Peter P. Mahoney

  Growing Up, Military, Boys

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• The hook-nosed teacher looked past Quirrell’s turban straight into Harry’s eyes — and a sharp, hot pain shot across the scar on Harry’s forehead.

  J. K. Rowling

  Teacher, Pain, Eye

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• Blind mouths! That scarce themselves know how to hold A sheep-hook.

  John Milton

  Sheep, Mouths, Blind

  'Lycidas' (1638) l. 114

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• There's a different physiology happening between the sound waves and the body that doesn't happen with music playing off the computer. About five years ago, I got a turntable that hooks up to your computer, and I put the vinyl in there and I listened to it back-to-back with a CD, and it didn't even compare. But people don't have time to go track down vinyl, lower it in, all that. And they probably don't care. It's hard to make music knowing that it's not going to be received by the listener in the way that it should be.

  Beck

  People, Track, Different

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• When you use an excuse for not accomplishing something or not completing a project, you are actually giving power to someone or something outside of yourself.
  Regardless of what happens today, absolutely refuse to use an excuse to get off the hook.

  Bob Proctor

  Giving, Use, Today

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Jan 14, 2013

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