Hooked Quotes - Page 7

• She is sighing deeply now with sympathy and delight - the delight of an addict when someone else admits he's hooked, too.

  Christopher Isherwood

  Delight, Addict

  Christopher Isherwood, Don Bachardy, James P. White (1989). “Where Joy Resides: An Isherwood Reader”, Vintage

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• I'll bet there aren't too many people hooked on crack who can play the bagpipes.

  George Carlin

  Play, People, Cracks

  George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

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• There have been five great kisses since 1642 B.C. when Saul and Delilah Korn's inadvertent discovery swept across Western civilization. (Before then couples hooked thumbs.) And the precise rating of kisses is a terribly difficult thing, often leading to great controversy, because although everyone agrees with the formula of affection times purity times intensity times duration, no one has ever been completely satisfied with how much weight each element should receive. But on any system, there are five that everyone agrees deserve full marks. Well, this one left them all behind.

  William Goldman

  Couple, Kissing, Discovery

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride”, p.48, A&C Black

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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, Hook

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

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• If we hooked up, he could write me ballads and stuff. You gotta admit, nothing's sexier than a guy who writes music.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Writing, Guy, Stuff

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.817, Simon and Schuster

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• You said everything I needed to hear. I'm hooked now. You have me. What are you going to do with me?

  Abbi Glines

  Said, Needed

  Abbi Glines (2014). “The Rosemary Beach Collection: Rush and Blaire: Fallen Too Far, Never Too Far, and Forever Too Far”, p.145, Simon and Schuster

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• The first time I kissed you. One kiss, and I was totally hooked. Addicted to you. I could never love anyone the way I love you. I'd follow you across the universe.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Love You, Kissing, Across The Universe

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• I'm enjoying it, but I still don't know why I'm hooked on acting.

  Stephen Rea

  Acting, Enjoy, Stills

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• I haven't had time to think about a relationship! I literally have not had a boyfriend in almost five years. I've never even hooked up with anybody I've worked on a movie with.

  Shailene Woodley

  Thinking, Years, Time To Think

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• I've learned... That when your newly born grandchild holds your little finger in his little fist, that you're hooked for life.

  Andy Rooney

  Grandchildren, Fists, Littles

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• I became hooked on the idea of being able to shoot an image and process it myself, and end up with a product.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Inspiration, Ideas, Able

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The deep-read is when you get gut-hooked and dragged overboard down and down through the maze of print and find, to your amazement, you can breathe down there after all and there’s a whole other world. I’m talking about the kind of reading when you realize that books are indeed interactive. . . . I’m talking about the kind of deep-read where it isn’t just the plot or the characters that matter, but the words and the way they fit together and the meandering evanescent thoughts you think between the lines: the kind of reading where you are fleetingly aware of your own mind at work.

  Tim Wynne-Jones

  Reading, Book, Character

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• My son Jack just got out of rehab, he's 17 years old and he got hooked on Oxycontin and I'm just a little pissed off that he never gave me a few.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Son, Oxycontin, Years

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• If security were all that mattered, computers would never be turned on, let alone hooked into a network with literally millions of potential intruders.

  Dan Farmer

  Computer, Intruders, Ifs

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• Tennis is an addiction that once it has truly hooked a man will not let him go.

  Russell Lynes

  Men, Addiction, Tennis

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• According to the group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, fish have feelings too. Whenever my sons go fishing they always tell me, "Dad it doesn't hurt a fish to get hooked." Well I watch and I see and I believe it's painful for the fish.

  Donald Trump

  Funny Inspirational, Hurt, Dad

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• Once when I was golfing in Georgia, I hooked the ball into the swamp. I went in after it and found an alligator wearing a shirt with a picture of a little golfer on it.

  Buddy Hackett

  Golf, Balls, Swamps

  Buddy Hackett (1968). “The Truth about Golf: And Other Lies”

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• The hatred of the youth culture for adult society is not a disinterested judgement but a terror-ridden refusal to be hooked into the, if you will, ecological chain of breathing, growing, and dying. It is the demand, in other words, to remain children.

  Midge Decter

  Children, Breathing, Hatred

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• Ronan's smile was sharp and hooked as one of the creature's claws. "'A sword is never a killer; it is a tool in the killer's hand'." "I can't believe Noah didn't stick around to help." "Sure you can. Never trust the dead.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Believe, Hands, Tools

  Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.127, Scholastic Inc.

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• The self-confidence of the warrior is not the self-confidence of the average man. The average man seeks certainty in the eyes of the onlooker and calls that self-confidence. The warrior seeks impeccability in his own eyes and calls that humbleness. The average man is hooked to his fellow men, while the warrior is hooked only to infinity.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Courage, Humble, Eye

  Carlos Castaneda (2013). “Tales of Power”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• Here's what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey. And like so many addicts about to face cold turkey, our leaders are now committing violent crimes to get what little is left of what we're hooked on.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Thinking, Turkeys, Leader

  Kurt Vonnegut (2011). “A Man Without a Country”, p.42, Seven Stories Press

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• I'm completely hooked on polo.

  Mike Rutherford

  Polo

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• I have a toy giraffe on my bed. I've got photographs over my desk as well as a mask of a giraffe in my kitchen. I am totally hooked.

  Joanna Lumley

  Kitchen, Bed, Toys

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• Ma sex game is stupid, my head is the dumbest, I promise, I should be hooked on phonics.

  Lil Wayne

  Sex, Stupid, Games

  Song: Every Girl

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• I've always been a foodie. My grandmother got me hooked on cooking.

  Debi Mazar

  Grandmother, Cooking, My Grandmother

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