A Hook Quotes

#1. Don't be embarrassed,' she said, throwing an armful of clothing on the hook. 'I don't faint at the sight of a naked man. Triss Merigold, a friend, says if you've seen one, you've seen them all.

Andrzej Sapkowski

#2. They amaze me most of those remixes. Some of them are crap. But every time I complain, someone comes up and says they are for a different market that you don't understand. Some of the New Order ones are really great, though.

Peter Hook

#3. We've had a problem finding a vocalist. We have not been lucky yet to find the one. I think the problem is that the three of us have such a pedigree of vocalist, that if we come out with someone that's not good we'll obviously be slated!

Peter Hook

#4. There be also many wicked men that have the comeliness of a beautiful countenance, and it seemeth that nature hath so shaped them because they may be the readier to deceive, and that this amiable look were like a bait that covereth the hook.

Thomas Hoby

#5. A poem is a hand, a hook, a prayer. It is a soul in action.

Edward Hirsch

#6. I'm not a good rapper. For whatever reason, my brain does not work that way. I just do the beginning, like, 'Yeah, yeah! Ha ha! Woo! What up? Come on! Get at me!' I'm Captain Hook.

Adam DeVine

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

Ben Hogan

#8. My feet catch the roof like the arrester hook of a fighter jet coming into an aircraft carrier.

Sam A. Patel

#9. Election officials say that in 2016, it may be possible to vote for the president on your smartphone. Can you imagine that? With one swipe you can choose a president and at the same time tell him or her where you want to hook up.

Conan O'Brien

#10. Openly I whispered and breathed a big gulp of air and saw all the beautiful trees and birds which surrounded me. The morning was beautiful like your smile.

Milton Hook

#11. The rope longed-for her beloved, the ceiling hook.
The suspended body; a harbinger of good news.
Love was lost.
Love was found.

Chirag Tulsiani

#12. Lyrics have got to be simple and catchy. A hook is more important than an overall concept or story.

Galcher Lustwerk

#13. Don't mess with me, man, I'm a lawyer!

Robin Williams

#14. It's quite ironic I suppose, it's that thing about being in a group when you all start out as friends and then invariably end up hating each other. So I just thought they needed telling really, in case they were labouring under the apprehension that they were still friends.

Peter Hook

#15. I tend to always carry a camera with me. I live next to a fire station, and I've got lots of photos of the hook and ladder coming out of the house. And I like food, so I tend to photograph wonderfully presented food all the time. To me those are very pleasant memories.

Gordon Bell

#16. I would like to hook up with one of the great Japanese filmmakers, like the master that made 'Ringu,' and I would like to take 'The Wicker Man' to Japan, except this time he's a ghost.

Nicolas Cage

#17. A poetic, sensitive, tortured soul, the Ian Curtis of the myth - he was definitely that.

Peter Hook

#18. To reveal who he really was would even at this date set the country in a blaze.

J.M. Barrie

#19. I would rather receive a Pap smear from Captain Hook than venture out in New Year's Eve.

Jen Lancaster

#20. You take these." A pair of bulky blue mittens dropped into Hallorann's lap. "You'll need em when you go off the road again, I guess. Cold out. You wear em unless you want to spend the rest of your life pickin your nose with a crochetin hook.

Stephen King

#21. I agree we have enough books that attempt to explain why God allows suffering, presumably in a way that lets God off the hook. And while much smarter men than I have constructed elaborate systems in this pursuit, they are by definition exercises in speculation.

Tullian Tchividjian

#22. It was just as all the Kettral said: You went to Hook to escape your problems and came back with a dozen more.

Brian Staveley

#23. Isn't it nice to sit down with a good book and take the phone off the hook

Michael W. Clune

#24. Written truth is four-dimensional. If we consult it at the wrong time, or read it at the wrong place, it is as empty and shapeless as a dress on a hook.

Robert Grudin

#25. There is an isolated experience to being a director. It's very communal because there's a crew, but it's only you. You're the one on the hook.

Noah Baumbach

#26. You don't want to be on a show that no one wants to see, and then think your phone is going to be ringing off the hook to do other jobs. I'm not tethered to the fact that my demise may be reached this season or next season, or whatever.

Isaiah Washington

#27. Under the bludgeonings of chance, my head is bloody but unbowed.' In other words, life has a solid right hook, but it's not going to take me down.

Brigid Kemmerer

#28. If the character is really well-rounded, and it's a really strong character, and if the writing is just fantastic, that's the thing that will hook me in, certainly.

Amanda Abbington

#29. 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

#30. They gaped as if they'd never seen a ridiculously handsome bleeding man in a turquoise waistcoat fall through a rubbish hole and then save himself with a grappling hook before. What DID they do for fun in New Eden?

Meljean Brook

#31. We found a book called Alexander, about a boy who confesses all his misdeeds to his father by blaming them on an imaginary red-and-green striped horse. Alexander was a pretty bad horse today. Whatever we can't hold, we hang onto a hook that will hold it.

Leslie Jamison

#32. I never tell my boyfriend that I'm busy when I'm not. No matter how effective they are, cheap techniques like that just don't agree with me. So it's always okay, it's always all right. In my opinion the surest way to hook a man is to be as open with him as possible.

Banana Yoshimoto

#33. The room boasted many luxurious perks: a narrow bed, a rotted writing table, a stained wall, and a warped looking glass dangling on a rusty hook. I wondered if Mr. Kent recommended this hellish place so I would hurry back to his home.

Tarun Shanker

#34. I am always working on new material with my production partner Phil Murphy in our guise as Man Ray; we do a lot of soundtrack work & some great collaborations.

Peter Hook

#35. When you get a chance to play with people - informally is one thing, but when you hook up and make something that's going to last or mean something to someone, I take it very seriously.

Mark Lanegan

#36. 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

#37. Great music seems to come from a lot of angst, and that angst is from great musicians getting together with intense chemistry. When that chemistry isn't there, people tend not to write great music.

Peter Hook

#38. I want to take some jams and really concentrate on hooking up with Page because, since he's the only one not next to me, and his sound is mainly coming from my monitor rather than through the air, it's a little harder for me to hook up with him.

Mike Gordon

#39. The Democrats are as much a part of the war machine as the Republicans. We can't let Democrats get off the hook because they're Democrats.

Cindy Sheehan

#40. I've talked with a lot of teachers, classroom teachers after the Sandy Hook situation, and they say, look, we need to be looking at mental health.

Marsha Blackburn

#41. If you turned in a paper with writing on it, you were guaranteed a hook from Jake Epping of the LHS English Department, and if the writing was organized into actual paragraphs, you got at least a B-minus.

Stephen King

#42. Once you made that decision to split New Order up, you were like, 'Woo-hoo! I better get out there and get a job.'

Peter Hook

#43. Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.

Ovid

#44. Foursquare's adoption of a game dynamic when it launched is a particularly clever implementation of a social hook.

Fred Wilson

#45. 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

#46. The Big Valbowski is a lot like a Hakeem Olajuwan, either he's taking the hook shot from the outside or driving down the lane on the inside, he always scores!

Val Venis

#47. It was nice doing my own Joy Division book to be able to put forward the fact that Ian was actually quite a nice guy and very hardworking, ambitious and loyal. But the thing was, he was battling such a dreadful illness in an era when they really didn't know how to treat it.

Peter Hook

#48. Life's like a book: What matters is the hook.
Be it short or long, just live it strong.
Whether it's five stars, or how near or far, just soar!

Ana Claudia Antunes

#49. No Hello.
No Hi, Pierce. Nice right hook you have there.
No It's lovely to see you. Sorry about your counselor being killed last night. Yes, I see your grandmother is a Fury even though I told you none was after you. I guess I was wrong about that.
Just Let's go.

Meg Cabot

#50. Human memory, they say, is like a coat closet: The most enduring outcome of a formal education is that it creates rows of coat hooks so that later on, when you come upon a new piece of information, you have a hook to hang it on. Without a hook, the new information falls on the floor.

Ursula Goodenough

#51. Good friends won't let you off the hook when you shouldn't be let off the hook. You can let fall the masks we seem to need to survive in a cutthroat world. There is a value of truth that we typically don't find in other parts of life.

John O'Donohue

#52. Pleasure, like a kind of bait, is thrown before everything which is really bad, and easily allures greedy souls to the hook of perdition.

Epictetus

#53. It was quite a surprise when I realized that with a single wormhole you could have time hook up towards the future or towards the past and that you can actually manipulate the wormhole and change how time hooked up.

Kip Thorne

#54. She glared at me. I didn't care. One word was playing a loop in my heaad: mine.

Kristen Callihan

#55. What if the hook-up girl is using you just as much as you're using her? What if she's just having fun? This is the problem with society. When a guy sleeps around, he's sowing oats. When a girl does it, she's a hook-up girl.

Penny Reid

#56. Think of a pitch in terms of advertising: You're trying to hook a reader the way a commercial tries to hook a detergent user.

David Macinnis Gill

#57. I push myself in a lot of aspects when I write a song. I write a piece and where most people would stop and say, 'Oh, that's the hook right there,' I'll move that to the first four bars of the verse and do a new hook.

Drake

#58. I hit Damian Fuller with a left hook that left him laid out for 30-45 minutes. They brought oxygen to him, they couldn't wake him up, he was out cold. The television station kept having to take breaks, he was out so long. It was unbelievable. That was the best one-shot I've ever done in my life.

Diego Corrales

#59. Suspense doesn't always have to be about physical danger. Making the reader worry is a universal concept that can be applied to any story.

Sandy Vaile

#60. As me old granny used to say before they carried her home to glory, there's three parts to a good sermon. First The Hook, then lay on The Guilt, then you deliver The Sting. I'll be sending the collection plate round shortly.

Andre The BFG

#61. As a writer, I'm convinced that encouraging children to write fiction, to hook into that marvelous machine called the imagination, has to be good for everyone.

Rodman Philbrick

#62. I look back on Joy Division very fondly indeed. I know that, of course, the band came to a tragic end, but that does not change the fact that Joy Division was a great band to be a part of.

Peter Hook

#63. Religious tolerance has developed more as a consequence of the impotence of religions to impose their dogmas on each other than as a consequence of spiritual humility in the quest for understanding first and last things.

Sidney Hook

#64. If you can't give the is-ness of a thing give the not-ness of it! The main thing is to hook up, get the wheels turning, sound off. When your brakes jam, try going in reverse. If often works.

Henry Miller

#65. Anybody that shoots a hook shot, whatever hand, I jump up and cheer because it's the easiest shot, it's the best tweener shot.

Tom Heinsohn

#66. I love palm strikes because you have a longer reach. Normally, when you give a left hook and then a right straight, you are too close for the right straight. Why? Because the hook is shorter.

Bas Rutten

#67. If you really want to kill a libriomancer, hook a bomb up to a big red button and tell him not to press it

Jim C. Hines

#68. The senseless killing of 20 children and their teachers and principal at Sandy Hook Elementary School was not part of God's grand plan. It was a thwarting of God's plan. It was the misuse of human freedom.

Adam Hamilton

#69. She took Sunny's coat off, and then her own, and dropped them both on the floor. Normally, of course, one should hang up one's coat on a hook or in a closet, but itchy hives are very irritating and tend to make one abandon such matters.

Lemony Snicket

#70. [A]nti-Semitism was rife in almost all varieties of socialism.

Sidney Hook

#71. Tanned, toned, curves in the right places and that small waist ... lips, hair, eyes all packaged up like a siren. If she's a siren, I heard her call, and I'm diving in hook, line, and sinker. - Drew Donovan

Kailin Gow

#72. You fit into me like a hook into an eye a fish hook an open eye

Margaret Atwood

#73. I call intuition cosmic fishing. You feel a nibble, then you've got to hook the fish.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#74. Tell her to come in. Let's see if we can help sucker her boyfriend into a lifetime commitment." - Jeff, HOOK, LINE AND SINK HIM

Jackie Pilossoph

#75. The poisonous serpent of afflictions is sleeping in your mind; just as if a black viper were asleep in your room. You must use the hook of precepts to quickly remove it. When the sleeping snake is gone, then you can rest at ease.

Gautama Buddha

#76. I must confess that over my career, I've actually downplayed the importance of DJs. It's such a different art form. Then all of a sudden you try it, and you think, 'Good God, these guys do work.' I used to be very cynical and very blase about it. I can only apologize.

Peter Hook

#77. The record Clef and I did was just sitting there. So I said, Clef, I got a record, hit a verse on it. He just went in, messed around and ended up doing the hook too.

Pras Michel

#78. On one DR trip you drive up to La Vega and put her name out there. You show a picture, too, like a private eye. It is of the two of you, the one time you went to the beach, to Sandy Hook. Both of you are smiling. Both of you blinked.

Junot Diaz

#79. It's the injustice that I hate, more than anything," he'd said to Smee one night, his eyes red and glassy, slurring his words, his head lolling as he tried to focus. He'd vomited, and then promptly passed out on a bush. "I hate the world that does not work out fair.

Jodi Lynn Anderson

#80. Intelligence without wisdom is like a hook without bait.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#81. Have you noticed how few men in the peerage are young and nice-looking?" Lillian asked wryly. "Most of them are dull-witted, ancient, or possess the kind of face that should have a hook in its mouth.

Lisa Kleypas

#82. 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

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

David Ogilvy

#84. She drove home and grabbed the things she would need to check out a book: strong rope and a grappling hook, a compass, a flare gun, matches and a can of hair spray, a sharpened wooden spear, and, of course, her library card.

Joseph Fink

#85. We don't to be some kind of rock supergroup for the sake of being a supergroup. You want to change things and say something fresh and new so you appeal to people as a new group.

Peter Hook

#86. Why are you not where you belong? / A black hat on a hook says nothing. / Ashes mirror ashes / In a mirroring window.

Mary Jo Bang

#87. What I've tried to do in my stage magic is to take a trick and give it an emotional hook.

David Copperfield

#88. Oh, the odious wench.How I wish I were rid of her. I have always loathed women, from clew to earring; hook, line and sinker; root and branch.I always said this would happen, you remember; I was against it from the start. Damn it for a flibbertigibbet, the hussy.

Patrick O'Brian

#89. You can let yourself off the hook anytime you want, Liz. That's the divine contract of a little something we call free will.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#90. Her cry is a hook and it catches me in the throat.

Catherynne M Valente

#91. You're all there," she said. "What do you mean?" "I mean, I never met a man like you." "Oh, yeah?" "The others are only ten percent there or twenty percent, you're all there, all of you is very there, it's so different." "I don't know anything about it." "You're a hooker, you can hook women.

Charles Bukowski

#92. Change is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast.
In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

#93. Every future we imagine is transformed inexorably into a part of our children's understanding of their past, of the assumptions their parents and grandparents could not help but make.
The Killer Hook

Michael Chabon

#94. 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

#95. Hook your audience with a tiny snag of truth, and the Holy Spirit will unravel the rest.

Alisa Hope Wagner

#96. Dance music tends to be a solitary affair.

Peter Hook

#97. No one who accepts the sovereignty of truth can be a foot soldier in a party or movement. He will always find himself out of step.

Sidney Hook

#98. Your home needs to be a place where your kids can fail - and learn from their failure. Surround them with love, show them how important they are to you, but don't try to undo their failures. It's not our job as parents to get our kids off the hook.

Kevin Leman

#99. When we talk about my gender as though it were a performance, we let the audience - with all their expectations, prejudices, and presumptions - completely off the hook. - Scott Turner Schofield

Kate Bornstein

#100. I have a heart-shaped hole. Like an empty bird's next, it rests among marigold-hued ruffles above the topmost hook of my corset.
The hole was not left by something removed, but for something anticipated.

Sharon Lynn Fisher