Hook Quotes - Page 21

• Maybe if I prayed to Miss Marple, she’d hook me up with a clue

  Ilona Andrews

  Missing, Clue, Miss Marple

  Ilona Andrews (2010). “Magic Strikes: A Kate Daniels Novel: 3”, p.78, Hachette UK

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• Anglers have a way of romanticizing their battles with fish and of forgetting that the fish has a hook in his mouth, his gullet, or his belly and that his gameness is really an extreme of panic in which he runs, leaps, and pulls to get away until he dies. It would seem to be enough advantage to the angler that the fish has the hook in his mouth rather than the angler.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Running, Battle, Mouths

  "Atlantic Game Fishing". Book by S. Kip Farrington Jr., 1937.

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• There is hook in every benefit, that sticks in his jaws that takes that benefit, and draws him whither the benefactor will.

  John Donne

  Sticks, Benefits, Draws

  John Donne (1839). “The Works of John Donne, D.D., Dean of Saint Paul's, 1621-1631: With a Memoir of His Life”, p.481

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• The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.

  Horace

  Rivers, Lakes, Sea

  "Epistles", I. 16. 50, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 771-72, 1922.

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• When a trout rising to a fly gets hoooked on a line and finds himself unable to swim about freeely, he begins with a fight which results in struggles and splashes and sometimes an escape. Often, of course, the situation is too tough for him. In the same way the human being struggles with his environment and with the hooks that catch him. Sometimes he masters his difficulties; sometimes they are too much for him. His struggles are all that the world sees and it naturally misunderstands them. It is hard for a free fish to understand what is happening to a hooked one.

  Karl A. Menninger

  Struggle, Fighting, Swim

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• Among the lessons learned in my lifetime is the ease with which corruption can enter high places in the mask of friendship. Sometimes the recipient is not aware of the barbed hook under the gift; often, he who gives may not know but be the unwitting agent of a craftier mind.

  Carlos P. Romulo

  Giving, Lesson Learned, Mind

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• When we had ideas that earned there way in [Austin Powers], it began to get okay. The hook for me was 'Mini-Me.' We only auditioned one guy - Verne Troyer - and at the time I said, 'we have to get this guy, get him life insurance, whatever he needs' because there was no other way or actor to do it. It was amazing to me just to talk to him...he was Mini-Me.

  Jay Roach

  Ideas, Guy, Austin

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• Some day,' said Smee, 'the clock will run down, and then he'll get you.' Hook wetted his dry lips, 'Aye,' he said, 'that's the fear that haunts me.

  James M. Barrie

  Running, Dry, Down And

  James M. Barrie (2013). “Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) (Annotated Edition)”, p.59, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I was listening to Tommy Chong talking about how he feels like there is like a creative flow happening and how certain people just know how to hook into the pipe. He played music with Jimi Hendrix and felt that he was personally connected to some higher intelligence or creativity.

  Judd Apatow

  Creativity, Talking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I will consider my time in the Senate a failure if we don't pass some meaningful legislation to reduce the likelihood that Sandy Hook ever happens again.

  Chris Murphy

  Meaningful, Legislation, Sandy

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• And yet one arrives somehow, finds himself loosening the hooks of her dress in a strange bedroom-- feels the autumn dropping its silk and linen leaves about her ankles. The tawdry veined body emerges twisted upon itself like a winter wind.

  William Carlos Williams

  Autumn, Winter, Wind

  William Carlos Williams, Charles Tomlinson (1985). “Selected Poems”, p.32, New Directions Publishing

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• Jeff Foxworthy had that whole "You might be a redneck" thing; Larry the Cable Guy had "Git-R-Done." Some comics have that hook. Dane Cook had that super finger. So I just caught on early on. I ran with "Fluffy."

  Gabriel Iglesias

  Redneck, Guy, Done

  "Comedian Gabriel Iglesias Talks 'Stand-Up Revolution' Season 3: 'Fluffy' Dishes On His Role In 'Magic Mike 2' & Branding Himself Like Gene Simmons, Larry The Cable Guy & Dane Cook". Interview with Kyle Dowling, mstarsnews.musictimes.com. October 2, 2014.

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• Like, in general I think people have very complicated reasons for wanting things, and we often have no idea whether we’re actually motivated by altruism or a desire to hook up or a search for answers or what. I always get annoyed when in books or movies characters want clear things for clear reasons, because my experience of humanness is that I always want messy things for messy reasons.

  John Green

  Book, Character, Thinking

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• I don't work out too much. I just do some pushups when I feel the right hook is getting a lil weak.

  Rakim

  Work Out, Too Much, Weak

  Source: halftimeonline.net

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• Someday, we’ll run into each other again, I know it. Maybe I’ll be older and smarter and just plain better. If that happens, that’s when I’ll deserve you. But now, at this moment, you can’t hook your boat to mine, because I’m liable to sink us both.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Love, Running, Deserve You

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• The writing process, the way I go about it is I do whatever the beat feels like, whatever the beat is telling me to do. Usually when the beat comes on, I think of a hook or the subject I want to rap about almost instantly. Within four, eight bars of it playing I'm just like, 'Oh, OK. This is what I wanna do'.

  Eminem

  Rap, Writing, Thinking

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• Be a good steward of your gifts. Protect your time. Feed your inner life. Avoid too much noise. Read good books, have good sentences in your ears. Be by yourself as often as you can. Walk. Take the phone off the hook. Work regular hours.

  Jane Kenyon

  Inspirational, Life, Time

  Jane Kenyon, Anna Andreevna Akhmatova (1999). “A hundred white daffodils: essays, the Akhmatova translations, newspaper columns, notes, interviews, and one poem”, Graywolf Pr

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• Citizenship means standing up for the lives that gun violence steals from us each day. I have seen the courage of parents, students, pastors, and police officers all over this country who say 'we are not afraid,' and I intend to keep trying, with or without Congress, to help stop more tragedies from visiting innocent Americans in our movie theaters, shopping malls, or schools like Sandy Hook.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Mean, School

  Fifth Presidential State of the Union, delivered 28 January 2014

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• Gratitude is an attitude that hooks us up to our source of supply. And the more grateful you are, the closer you become to your maker, to the architect of the universe, to the spiritual core of your being. It's a phenomenal lesson.

  Bob Proctor

  Spiritual, Gratitude, Attitude

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Jan 27, 2017

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• Anger or hatred is like a fisherman's hook. It is very important for us to ensure that we are not caught by it.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Hatred

  The Dalai Lama (1997). “Healing Anger: The Power of Patience from a Buddhist Perspective”, p.92, Snow Lion Publications

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• When I'm writing, I'm thinking about how the songs are going to play live. Fifty bars of rap don't translate onstage. No matter how potent the music, you lose the crowd. They want a hook; they want to sing your stuff back to you.

  Drake

  Song, Rap, Writing

  "How to Drake It in America" by Michael Paterniti, www.gq.com. June 18, 2013.

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• Tell everyone you know: "My happiness depends on me, so you're off the hook." And then demonstrate it. Be happy, no matter what they're doing. Practice feeling good, no matter what. And before you know it, you will not give anyone else responsibility for the way you feel-and then, you'll love them all. Because the only reason you don't love them, is because you're using them as your excuse to not feel good.

  Esther Hicks

  Happiness, Responsibility, Practice

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• I’d always disparaged the games people played in pursuit of love - or the next hook up. The whole thing was a competition to see who could get how far, and I could never figure out if there was more luck or skill involved, or some unknowable combination of the two. People rarely said what they thought, or revealed how they felt. No one was honest.

  Tammara Webber

  Games, Skills, Two

  "Easy". Book by Tammara Webber, May, 2012.

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• 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.

  Jackie Jackson

  Song, Important, Come Up

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• If you mess up the performance on stage, you do it again the next night. You're like alright, you let yourself off the hook, and you've got to go back in there. Whereas, with a film, I would go home and be like, "Well, I've ruined the arc of the character forever. That scene is never going to work. I know because I can never shoot it again." So, it's all miserable, but in different ways.

  Emma Stone

  Character, Home, Night

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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