Being Hooked Quotes

#1. That's the thing about being hooked on a girl. You see what else is going on around you. You notice other girls. But it doesn't register the same way it used to. You only care about one thing, one goal. And sometimes, being so focused on what you want, you can't see what everyone else does.

Susane Colasanti

#2. My opinion - nay more, my conviction- is that, in the present state of science, as you rightly say, spontaneous generation is a chimera ; and it would be impossible for you to contradict
me, for my experiments all stand forth to prove that spontaneous generation is a chimera.

Louis Pasteur

#3. You cannot go with God and stay where you are.

Henry Blackaby

#4. How many times have you been watching an episode of 'South Park' and thought, 'I'd like to be able to watch this on my television while hooked into my mobile device, which is being controlled by my tablet device which is hooked into my oven, all while sitting in the refrigerator?'

Trey Parker

#5. The nearest I have to a rule is a Post-It on the wall in front of my desk saying "Faire et se taire" (Flaubert), which I translate for myself as "Shut up and get on with it.

Helen Simpson

#6. I realized I could really become hooked on these happy pills. They gave me a glorious feeling of general well-being and didn't make me fat, like alcohol. I wondered if there was any harm in being addicted to only these.

Augusten Burroughs

#7. When the goal of political action is no longer the defense of liberty, no word other than demagoguery can describe the despicable nature of politics.

Ron Paul

#8. Solitude seems to oppress me. And so does the company of other people.

Eugene Ionesco

#9. It is only thanks to God that I'm an atheist

Gianni Vattimo

#10. 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

#11. The battery was a lithium thionyl chloride non-rechargeable. I figured that out from some subtle clues: the shape of the connection points, the thickness of the insulation, and the fact that it had "LiSOCl2 NON-RCHRG" written on it.

Andy Weir

#12. [E]ven I know that being a parent is awful ninety-five percent of the time ... As far as I can tell, it's that last five percent that keeps the human race from dying out. Four parts blinding terror, one part perfection. It's like mainlining heroin. One taste of life on that edge and you're hooked.

Kimberly McCreight

#13. I hope that you see right through my walls
I hope that you catch me 'cause I'm already falling
I'll never let our love get so close
You put your arms around me and I'm home

Christina Perri

#14. I always liked performing. I always liked being in front of people. That's one of the things I loved about law; we had mock trials, and I got to go up and state my case. But I took an acting class, and after my first class, I was hooked.

Ashley Greene

#15. Thought can never capture the movement of life, it is much too slow.

U.G. Krishnamurti

#16. Lord make me happy enough in the grace of Jesus to avoid being proud, cold, scared, and hooked.

Timothy Keller

#17. You can only do the best you can in the minute that you're doing it.

Peter Morgan

#18. The fatal flaw of gravity; when you are down, everything falls down on you.

Sylvia Townsend Warner

#19. My dad, being a jingle writer, and my mom, being a jingle singer, they hooked me up with some people when I was a kid that worked with children's jingle singing groups. I used to sing jingles as a kid.

Reeve Carney

#20. The happiness you have a right to enjoy has a name and a face: it is Jesus of Nazareth, hidden in the Eucharist.

Pope Benedict XVI

#21. It is a catastrophe, all of this virtual being together. I think there are people who get hooked on the internet. If they need to look at explicitly sexual material to be aroused there is a problem.

Ruth Westheimer