Hook Quotes - Page 8

• No one thinks that young adults read hooks for YOUNG ADULTS, books for young adults are read by kids.

  Terry Pratchett

  Book, Kids, Thinking

  Source: bobneilson.org

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• Thorne blinked at her, then down at the sewage he could barely make out in the darkness. "Don't you have some tool in that fancy hand of yours that can get us across?" Cinder glared, light-headed from her body's instinctively short breaths. "Oh, wow, how could I have forgotten about my grappling hook?

  Marissa Meyer

  Light, Hands, Darkness

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• While the idea of taking you right now, against the wall, is enough to make me lose control, 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 closed my eyes, breathing heavily. “Well, that was…really sort of perfect.” “I’m really sort of perfect … Everyone else knows that. You’re just a little slow on the uptake.

  J. Lynn

  Wall, Eye, Breathing

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• 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.

  J. Lynn

  Benefits, Want, Serious

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• On the bed, Eugenides stirred restlessly. "Upset at the sight of blood?" he said. "Not my wife, Ornon." "Your blood," the ambassador pointed out. Eugenides glanced at the hook on his arm and conceded the point. "Yes," he said. He seemed lost in memory. The room was quiet.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Memories, Sight, Blood

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• When I got old enough to date, I realized that Valentine's Day is just a commercial marketing scam to make men feel bad. So I let my boyfriends off the hook.

  Evangeline Lilly

  Valentine, Men, My Boyfriend

  Source: www.esquire.com

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

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Song, Writing, Kind

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• It's one of those things where the book has all these stars that burn really bright that you hang onto and they're all saying, 'This is The Girl on the Train experience.' All those stars or hooks needed to be in the film, but sometimes they needed to be a bit different. It's important when adapting such a popular book to hit all those points but also break out expectations without slaughtering the book. And that was, for me, the joy of adapting the book.

  Erin Cressida Wilson

  Girl, Stars, Book

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• 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.

  Bill Goldberg

  Hands, Nowhere To Go, Cages

  ""Bill Goldberg Talks To 411 About Whether WWE Has Contacted Him About Returning, WWE HOF Induction, Brock Lesnar’s UFC Fight, Developing the Goldberg Character, More" by Jeffrey Harris". 411mania.com. June 28, 2016.

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• I got a new song called "The Plug" and the hook says "I'm the plug/I'm connected to everything you love.

  MC Hammer

  Song, Plugs, Connected

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• If I can invent a phrase then this Democrat [Bernie] Sanders takes her [Hillary Clinton] off the hook on the emails. Could there still be an FBI indictment? Probably not.

  Joe Biden

  Email, Phrases, Clinton

  "Chris Wallace Interviews Joe Biden: A Retrospective". spectator.org. October 22, 2015.

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• Beauty Queen' is the weirdest, strangest, and most perfect play to do before 'Hedda Gabler', because there are so many similar issues for Maureen and Hedda. I had played leading ladies before but couldn't really hook into them. After 'An American Daughter' and 'Beauty Queen', I had all the ballast.

  Kate Burton

  Mother, Daughter, Queens

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• The basic philosophy behind [switch putting] is you always want a hook putt. So for a left-to-right breaking putt, you're going to want to hit it left-handed and vice versa.

  Notah Begay III

  Philosophy, Golf, Want

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• There are two subjects, indeed, which I shall claim a right to further as long as I breathe: the public education, and the sub-division of counties into wards. I consider the continuance of republican government as absolutely hanging on these two hooks.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Education, Government, Two

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson”, p.239

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• I'm not going to emphasize the sky-hook as much as work with the specific skills of the guys.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Sky, Skills

  "Chat Transcript: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar". www.nba.com.

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• It is a peculiar part of the good photographer's adventure to know where luck is most likely to lie in the stream, to hook it, and to bring it in without unfair play and without too much subduing it.

  James Agee

  Photography, Travel, Lying

  Helen Levitt, James Agee (1989). “A way of seeing”

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• I am inhabited by a cry. Nightly it flaps out Looking, with its hooks, for something to love.

  Sylvia Plath

  Cry

  Sylvia Plath (2010). “Ariel: The Restored Edition”, p.35, Faber & Faber

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• Trevanion wrapped his arm around his son's neck like shepherd's hook and dragged him along playfully. when he let go, Finnikin thought he would have liked his father to hold on a moment longer.

  Melina Marchetta

  Letting Go, Father, Son

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• I thought that if I accomplished enough, that somehow I would be let off the hook in the future. Like I didn’t have to keep striving and achieving because I had done that already, and it would add up to being enough.

  Portia de Rossi

  Would Be, Add, Done

  Portia de Rossi (2011). “Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain”, p.280, Simon and Schuster

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• Once in my life I knew a grief so hard I could actually hear it inside, scraping at the lining of my stomach, an audible ache, dredging with hooks as rivers are dredged when someone's been missing too long. I have to think my mother felt something like that.

  Leif Enger

  Mother, Grief, Thinking

  Leif Enger (2001). “Peace Like a River”, p.54, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• I’ve been here before, dreaming myself backwards, among grappling hooks of light. True to the seasons, I’ve lived every word spoken. Did I walk into someone’s nightmare?

  Yusef Komunyakaa

  Dream, Light, Nightmare

  Yusef Komunyakaa (1998). “Thieves of Paradise”, p.14, Wesleyan University Press

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• I have a structured songwriting process. I start with the music and try to come up with musical ideas, then the melody, then the hook, and the lyrics come last. Some people start with the lyrics first because they know what they want to talk about and they just write a whole bunch of lyrical ideas, but for me the music tells me what to talk about.

  John Legend

  Writing, Ideas, People

  Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. November 23, 2006.

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• This ["Cowboys & Aliens"] was an occasion where a studio was willing to spend a lot of money to make a film set in that time and place, but the hook was that they were also going to have aliens from outer space!

  Keith Carradine

  Space, Aliens, Film

  "Keith Carradine on 'Deadwood,' 'Fargo,' and Madonna". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. July 20, 2016.

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• It was then that Hook bit him. Not the pain of this but its unfairness was what dazed Peter. It made him quite helpless. He could only stare, horrified. Every child is affected thus the first time he is treated unfairly. All he thinks he has a right to when he comes to you to be yours is fairness. After you have been unfair to him he will love you again, but he will never afterwards be quite the same boy. No one ever gets over the first unfairness; no one except Peter.

  James M. Barrie

  Children, Pain, Love You

  Peter and Wendy ch. 8 (1911)

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• When writing, always hook the reader with your first sentence...in love, never settle...value yourself first and this will help you to value others...life is short, so enjoy it to the fullest...everyone in the world is different, and that's ok.

  Spider Robinson

  Writing, Life Is Short, Never Settle

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