Top 100 Hook Quotes
#1. One of the best things I did during this time was to let myself off the hook of "productivity.
Elizabeth DiAlto
#2. If you can seem shiny and happy in front of a large group of people at once, you have witnesses and they will spread the word to the rest of the world. "Oh, I just saw her a couple of weeks ago. She seemed great!" And you're off the hook for a while, and probably a little exhausted. It
Kat Kinsman
#3. My only stake was the hook I shot in the moon, trying to capture stardom on my way to heaven. Without bravado. Just footsteps plodding me along till my big show. My showstopper. The one where I landed in a place without gravity.
Juliet Castle
#4. 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
#5. Mitch had a particular way with women - a formula of giving and withholding that almost always managed to hook them. Getting them to talk about themselves was the first step; remaining enigmatic was the second. There were other steps, but he used only the first two during that encounter.
Lisa Lutz
#6. Probably the most violently hated of the weenie songs cited in the survey was "Sometimes When We Touch," sung in a very emotional manner by Dan Hill, who sounds as though he's having his prostate examined by Captain Hook.
Dave Barry
#7. was then that Joss saw the second scaling hook and rope ten feet away.
Carrier Slocomb
#8. When I get back from this book tour, I'm planning to learn the internet. Maybe I can hook up in cyberspace.
Armistead Maupin
#9. I was a university professor, I could talk on and on and on. Give me a podium and you have to drag me off with a hook.
Kathy Reichs
#10. I love to read things that have moral messages, and I love to hear stories where it's not just a hook, you have to follow the story, you have to listen to the message of the song, and get it and use it in your everyday life.
Valerie June
#11. I've always wanted to learn how to hook rugs. A wonderful artist named Leslie Giuliani taught me how. The nice thing is you can change it as you go along.
Roz Chast
#12. I used to sort of take the phone off the hook, you know, put my feet up and watch the TV until it was all over.
Nick Lowe
#13. When the Lord disconnects you from your past, don't try to hook up with it again.
Anita R. Sneed-Carter
#14. Blind mouths! That scarce themselves know how to hold A sheep-hook.
John Milton
#15. For the first time in my life i realize why hangers are called hangers, because after fifteen minutes of trying things on and throwing them aside, all i want to do is hook one to the top of my closet door, lean my neck into the loop, and let my weight fall.
David Levithan
#16. I attempted to fish in Scotland and I managed to hook a dog. It was a horrible moment but the dog turned out to be fine.
Emily Blunt
#17. It was a shame I couldn't go public with my ability. Girls found immortality hot, right? Slap on a pair of fangs and add some glitter and I could probably hook up with my choice of rabid Twilight fangirls.
Jus Accardo
#18. You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him to a heavy load.
Paul Bryant
#19. Dentists tell you not to pick your teeth with any sharp metal object. Then you sit in their chair and the first thing they grab is an iron hook.
Bill Cosby
#20. Could an angler go fishing without a fishing rod, line and hook? It depends what they're fishing for.
Fennel Hudson
#21. I'm a big fan of not letting the audience of off the hook, as they say. I like it when things feel real, and that's oftentimes not comfortable.
John C. Reilly
#22. 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
#23. Differentiation is classroom practice that looks eyeball to eyeball with the reality that kids differ, and the most effective teachers do whatever it takes to hook the whole range of kids on learning.
Carol Ann Tomlinson
#24. But now, at this moment, you can't hook your boat to mine, 'cause I'm liable to sink us both. (222)
Gabrielle Zevin
#25. He doesn't necessarily have to learn the sky hook. He just has to learn how to be an effective post player. I think I can help him do that.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
#26. We can go somewhere more private if you'd like ... Buck I whisper softly in his ear, pulling back almost as slowly as the wicked grin spreads across my face. His perverse smile hides nothing. I have him now, hook, line and zipper.
Dennis Sharpe
#28. If we can reawaken that fierce quality in a man, hook it up to a higher purpose, release the warrior within, then the boy can grow up and become truly masculine.
John Eldredge
#29. Do you want to keep your knee, young man?'
'No', I said.
'What?'
'I want it cut off,' I said, 'so I can wear a hook on it.
Ernest Hemingway,
#30. I came up with new leads for game stories by being observant and clever, by using the many gifts of the English language to intrigue and hook a reader.
Dick Schaap
#31. Maggie wasn't without her concerns, though. "What if he's crazy?"
"Yeah, that's a definite possibility," he agreed.
"What if he's not your type?"
"Then we'll only hook up in dark places.
Con Riley
#32. It's woman's power, food is. You be sure you know where'n the hook is before swallerin' it, Dru. You mind me, now.
Lili St. Crow
#33. Once I have a hook I think has potential - enough to spin out more than a hundred thousand words, then I start turning my attention to characters. Who are these people? Why did this thing happen to them? But the hook always comes first.
Linwood Barclay
#34. This hook nose and crab meister attitude has gotten me every job I've ever had. And more divorces than I care to remember.
Norman Fell
#35. With Saturday Night Live you're looking for any hook, any way to stay on the show.
David Spade
#36. There are three ways of trying to win the young. There is persuasion, there is compulsion, and there is attraction. You can preach at them: that is a hook without a worm. You can say, You must volunteer, and that is of the devil. You can tell them, You are needed. That appeal hardly ever fails.
Kurt Hahn
#37. While I had no intention of hooking up with him, I still wanted him to want to hook up with me.
It was the principle of the thing, after all.
Kimberly Raye
#38. When I make a pretty good hook ( ... ) she gives me a toothless smile and an unintelligeble comment I think might be praise.
Suzanne Collins
#39. We shouldn't let the Republicans off the hook. Theodore Roosevelt, we learned from Jeff Cowan's new book, was just as bad as certainly [Louis] Brandeis was, or many Democrats were on the question of segregation.
Jeffrey Rosen
#41. Videographer stopped taping and looked me up and down as if he found me lacking but wasn't quite sure how. Then it hit him. "Don't you have a gun?" He glanced around the office as if there might be one hanging on a wall hook.
Robert Crais
#42. And yet
it is not beauty that inspires the deepest passion. Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait. Beauty, without expression, tires.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#43. Coralie felt something pierce through her, as if she were a fish on a hook, unable to break free. She felt a tie to the stranger, drawn to his every movement.
Alice Hoffman
#44. For 'King Cole's American Salvage,' I rode around in the wrecker with a local driver and watched him deal with customers and hook up the cars. I watched the guy who tore apart the cars in the junkyard. I also wrote poems about those guys. I loved hanging around the yard.
Bonnie Jo Campbell
#45. Character design, like story design, requires a hook to grab the reader's attention.
Ted Naifeh
#46. That's what friends did. Let each other off the hook when they didn't want to talk.
Lauren Dane
#47. Whether brainstormed or borrowed, record each exciting idea onto an index card. You're welcome to fill the index card up completely, or you can simply write the main hook for each idea, before moving onto the next.
Emlyn Chand
#48. Hook up with you?" He chuckled. "Rainbow? I'd spread you wide open and consume your soul. You'd have nothing left to give to another man.
Kenya Wright
#49. Yeah, I hook up with older guys. And then I leave them, before they can leave me.
Leah Raeder
#50. The love of Jesus Christ covers your sins, and it also gives you the power to let other people off the hook. You've been forgiven, and you can forgive others.
Rick Warren
#51. The hook is a word or an idea spoken by one character which gives the next character something to hook onto when he responds or, like a trapeze artist, gives him something to swing from on his way to another point of view.
Preston Sturges
#52. 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
#53. Every article begins with a line that can be twisted, somehow, into a hook.
Mira Grant
#54. I cast my hook, my vote against it,
I decide to make peace.
I declare this intention but nothing answers.
And so I put peace in a warm place, towel-covered, to proof,
then into an oven. I wait.
Peace is patient and undemanding, it surpasseth.
Jane Hirshfield
#55. How like fish we are: ready, nay eager, to seize upon whatever new thing some wind of circumstance shakes down upon the river of time! And how we rue our haste, finding the gilded morsel to contain a hook!
Aldo Leopold
#56. Thus, by divers little makeshifts, in that ingenious way which is commonly denominated "by hook and by crook," the worthy pedagogue got on tolerably enough, and was thought, by all who understood nothing of the labor of headwork, to have a wonderfully easy life of it.
Washington Irving
#57. Pledge Allegiance was a pretty generic name back in the day. In the 80's I was the promoter for all the punk rock shows and I'd book Black Flag, Dead Kennedy's, Minor Threat etc and I'd hook them up with places to stay if needed so it's hard to keep track of it all.
Reed Mullin
#58. He (Captain Hook) was never more sinister than when he was most polite, which is probably the truest test of breeding.
J.M. Barrie
#59. Lonzo made a show of patting down his pockets "Damn, I must have left my rope and grappling hook in my other pants.
Alexis Morgan
#60. As the old fisherman remarked after explaining the various ways to attach a frog to a hook, it's all the same to the frog.
Paul Schullery
#61. Satan like a fisher, baits his hook according to the appetite of the fish.
Thomas Adams
#62. The filmmakers who I'm pining to work for aren't ringing my phone off the hook.
Sean Astin
#63. This, however, is OKCupid, the vast, weird pink-and-blue toned jungle of the id masquerading as a dating site, where rare birds of modern romance flutter amongst the night-terrors of human loneliness and despair and the suspicious skin irritants of late-night hook-uppery.
Laurie Penny
#64. She is the key to this mystery, a key that I will turn, by hook or by crook.
Frances Hardinge
#65. Giselle Speakmon's parents are totally devout. When I get in there and we hook up, there won't be any cribs for me either, Dad, because I reckon they'll make me wear one of those chastity belts, knowin' Jas is my brother and all.
Kristen Ashley
#66. Don't let yourself off the hook with excuses.
Jason Fried
#67. If only your life were a costume, and you could just take it off when you wanted to, leave it hanging on a hook, and walk away.
Brad Barkley
#68. A lot of times when songwriters get together and write a song ... somebody will come in with a hook and a lot of times they come out with something that sounds a little crafty.
Alan Jackson
#69. It was passed on by the hook-nosed herdsmen of the grasslands, from the dwellers in tents to the dwellers in the squat stone cities where kings with curled blueblack beards worshipped round-bellied gods with curious rites.
Robert E. Howard
#70. Why the hell did she have to look like a centerfold piece for Maxim magazine? Who was she trying to impress? She already had him: hook, line, and sinker.
Em Wolf
#71. I try to hook you up every day. What's the point of calendars without dates?
Lauren Kate
#72. Get the big point of your advertisement into your headline. Use your headline as a hook to reach out and catch the special group of people you are trying to interest.
John Caples
#73. 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
#74. If Fred tells you a chicken can pull a freight train, your job is to hook 'em up.
Roger Frock
#75. You can make a movie about anything, as long as it has a hook to hang the advertising on.
Roger Corman
#76. It is hard to come up with ideas that are achievable on a scale that you know you are going to have for an indie film but it also have some kind of hook.
Jake Schreier
#77. The Y2K bug is a genuine technical concern, consuming the energies of many specialists. But the prophecies of doom represent a broader worldview using the bug as a news hook. In this vision, the good society is a stable society, undisrupted by innovation, ambition or outside influences.
Virginia Postrel
#78. Yeah. When I was in high school I used to do stupid video edits. I would hook-up two VCRs or three VCRs and do film edits for the basketball team and stuff like that because I was always just into doing that.
Jesse Lacey
#79. Anybody that's asked, I've counseled that they not expand Medicaid eligibility. I've been critical of any expansion because you know what Washington does. It promises something for a finite period of time, and then it leaves you on the hook.
Tom Price
#80. Technology is like water; it wants to find its level. So if you hook up your computer to a billion other computers, it just makes sense that a tremendous share of the resources you want to use - not only text or media but processing power too - will be located remotely.
Marc Andreessen
#81. The visceral nature of hard rock music, the fact that you can have this sledge hammering sound - and that you can hook a lyric up and a feeling up to something and make the lyric jump into this machine that crushes. That has always been really attractive to me, that kind of power.
Henry Rollins
#82. I used to exercise an hour every day - no excuses. I live in absolutes: I either exercise every day, or I let myself off the hook. I'm trying to find that balance of working out three or four days a week and sticking to it.
Anna Kendrick
#83. So you know it was a glorious battle, Hook, in which God favoured the English, but God's favour is a fickle thing.'
'Are you telling me He's not on our side?'
'I'm telling you that God is on the side of whoever wins, Hook.
Bernard Cornwell
#84. And you're stuck like a hook through the roof of your mouth
Tired of living for your sick days
Every day makes you sick
Tired of living just get paid
When you're dying to live
but you can't
Dominic Owen Mallary
#85. What I learned from Rockefeller that's off-the-hook important is: You need to know exactly where you stand in a business at all times. Measure everything, because everything that is measured and watched improves.
Bob Parsons
#86. I think we're all hooked, I feel my own hook-ness on immediate gratification you know. I want what I want.
Jeff Bridges
#87. To me, the hook of the riff is what makes a great guitar recording. It's the backbone of the whole song. When you have a strong riff, it's the rocket fuel for the track.
Dwight Yoakam
#88. How do you expect to get us to the Moon if you people can't even hook us up with a ground station?
Gus Grissom
#89. People tell me it was a great left hook, but I wouldn't know. I never saw it
Gene Fullmer
#90. It's not about me - four simple words that described the life of Christ. Do you call yourself a Christian? Well then, you're not off the hook. You don't get to claim 'Me, myself, and I' as your four words. 'It's not about me' should describe your life as well.
Monica Johnson
#91. When the audience understands that the main character has a very serious need to change his own heart and mind, the hook is set, and the audience is irrevocably invested.
Libbie Hawker
#92. And angling too, that solitary vice, What Izaak Walton sings or says: The quaint, old, cruel coxcomb, in his gullet Should have a hook, and a small trout to pull it.
Lord Byron
#93. Since Franklin Roosevelt's leadership in setting up the United Nations and the Nuremberg trials, the U.S. has promoted universal legal norms and the institutions to enforce them while seeking, by hook or by crook, to exempt American citizens, especially soldiers, from their actual application.
Michael Ignatieff
#94. If you listen to most songs, most people will not sing the words of the lead singer. They will sing the hook. The hook is what makes the record sell.
Darlene Love
#95. This book is the best treatment of the best American Marxist philosopher-and the best philosopher to emerge from American slums. Young Sidney Hook is essential reading for anyone interested in democratic theory and practice in America.
Cornel West
#96. Every good seduction first begins with a baited hook.
Anne Mallory
#97. It was necessary to bait the hook to suit the fish.
Dale Carnegie
#98. I was born for a very specific purpose. I wasn't the result of of a cheap bottle of wine or a full moon or the heat of the moonent, I was born because a scientist managed to hook my mother's eggs and my fathers sperm to create a specific combination of precious genetic material
Jodi Picoult
#99. Nobody can hinder you from doing what you want, if that's what you set your mind to. You can always find a hook to hang excuses on, but they're only excuses. You don't have anyone to blame
but yourself. Nobody else makes you fail.
Benjamin Carson
#100. Once you find the truth, no one can hurt you. You can let them off the hook. That is hard! Until then, keep distance, preserve the peace. Eventually it's like you weren't hurt.
Erich Schiffmann
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