Hook quotes

Pop is a little bit theatrical. That's the whole vibe. That's the point - is that it's great music, great melodies, great hooks. But, on top of it, it's a presentation. There's a showmanship about it. And that's why I wanted to be a pop star.
-- Adam Lambert

#Stars #Hook #Littles

BAIT, n. A preparation that renders the hook more palatable. The best kind is beauty.
-- Ambrose Bierce

#Preparation #Bait #Hook

When we search for something larger than our own selves to hook into, we can come through whatever life throws at us.
-- Anne Lamott

#Self #Hook

I kept asking God for help, and after a while I realized something -- that Josh was not enjoying this either. He was just trying to take care of himself, and I made the radical decision to let him off the hook.
-- Anne Lamott

#Decision #Trying #Hook

God seems to have left the receiver off the hook and time is running out.
-- Arthur Koestler

#God #Running #Hook

My new novel 'Red Hook Road' began many years ago as a short article in the newspaper.
-- Ayelet Waldman

#Years #Hook #Red

You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him to a heavy load.
-- Bear Bryant

#Horse #Adversity #Hook

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

#Iron #Teeth #Hook

I didn't want to take the guitar solos down note-for-note, but more or less use them as a map, and keep all the hooks from the guitar playing, and let myself come through.
-- Brian Setzer

#Guitar #Hook #Use

I've made mistakes, I clearly did, but what I was hoping for was that some other dumbass would get on the front page and take me off the hook. I miss Lane Kiffin.
-- Bruce Pearl

#Mistake #Missing #Hook

The bolt of Tash falls from above!' 'Does it ever get caught on a hook halfway?
-- C. S. Lewis

#Fall #Doe #Hook

...her cry is a hook and it catches me in the throat.
-- Catherynne M. Valente

#Hook #Cry #Throat

Beauty, devoid of grace, is a mere hook without the bait.
-- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

#Grace #Bait #Hook

Let's hook up and just bring fiery death.
-- Charlie Sheen

#Hook #Hook Up

The more hooks an idea has, the better it will cling to memory.
-- Chip Heath

#Memories #Ideas #Hook

For whatever reason, we relate to anything godlike with an English accent. The English are very proud of that. And with anything Roman or gladiators, they have an English accent. For an audience, it is an easy trick to hook people in.
-- Chris Hemsworth

#People #Hook #Proud

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

#War #Machines #Hook

A song without a hook is like a train without rails. It skitters all over the place, bangs into everything. Boom! Crash! There goes Grand Central Station. Crushed by a train.
-- David Lee Roth

#Song #Bangs #Hook

An enlightened entertainer, via story, casts her line into the souls of others, hooks their heart, and pulls their greater potential to the surface.
-- Derek Rydall

#Heart #Soul #Hook

You should listen to songs and listen to what works. Listen to why a song is a hit. Check it out-not to imitate it, but there are certain things that work-hooks and melodies. Hear what works through the ages.
-- Diane Warren

#Song #Age #Hook

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

#Clever #Games #Hook

It’s hard to land a devastating jab/cross/hook/uppercut combo to your reader’s imagination when you’re telegraphing your punches.
-- Don Roff

#Land #Imagination #Hook

If pornographers can hook adolescents when their hormones are raging, they know they'll have an ongoing consumer base for life.
-- Donna Rice Hughes

#Hook #Ongoing #Rage

I remember hitting Sarah Michelle Gellar with a right hook during my first week on the job. It was awful. They usually pair actors with stunt doubles to avoid things like that.
-- Eliza Dushku

#Jobs #Hook #Actors

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

#Dog #Scotland #Hook

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

#Hurt #Distance #Hook

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

#Perseverance #Hook #Use

Forgiveness isn't about letting the other person off the hook - it's about releasing ourselves.
-- Gabrielle Bernstein

#Hook #Persons

Someday, we’ll run into each other again, I know it. Maybe I’ll be older and smarter and just plain better. If that happens, that’s when I’ll deserve you. But now, at this moment, you can’t hook your boat to mine, because I’m liable to sink us both.
-- Gabrielle Zevin

#Love #Running #Hook

People tell me it was a great left hook, but I wouldn't know. I never saw it
-- Gene Fullmer

#People #Boxing #Hook

[Peter Pan] has never broken his terrible habit of eavesdropping. So, maybe that wasn't the rustle of pages you heard while this story lasted, but Peter Pan himself, listening in. In exchanged for a story of yours, he might show you his most prized possession: James Hooks' map of Neverland. In exchange for a smile, he may show you Neverland itself.
-- Geraldine McCaughrean

#Broken #Listening #Hook

Sometimes I'll have sections that I'm not quite sure how they fit in the puzzle of a tune, they'll get moved around; what I think was originally a verse ends up becoming the chorus, or what's an intro gets dropped as a hook, things get shifted around a lot.
-- Gotye

#Thinking #Tunes #Hook

It's not always expected of filmmakers to do stereotyped stories. But one has to be willing to travel to festivals and hook up with people, engage people intellectually about your passion and the kinds of films that interest you, and sooner or later you find people that have the same affinity that you have.
-- Haile Gerima

#Passion #People #Hook

The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
-- Horace

#Pitfalls #Hook #Kites

The cautious wolf fears the pit, the hawk regards with suspicion the snare laid for her, and the fish the hook in its concealment.
-- Horace

#Hook #Pits #Hawks

Maybe if I prayed to Miss Marple, she’d hook me up with a clue
-- Ilona Andrews

#Missing #Hook #Clue

Some day,' said Smee, 'the clock will run down, and then he'll get you.' Hook wetted his dry lips, 'Aye,' he said, 'that's the fear that haunts me.
-- James M. Barrie

#Running #Lips #Hook

The press is like a big bass, you just stick a hook in their mouth and they'll take it.
-- James Woods

#Hook #Mouths #Bass

Be a good steward of your gifts. Protect your time. Feed your inner life. Avoid too much noise. Read good books, have good sentences in your ears. Be by yourself as often as you can. Walk. Take the phone off the hook. Work regular hours.
-- Jane Kenyon

#Book #Phones #Hook

Myths hook and bind the mind because at the same time they set the mind free: they explain the universe while allowing the universe to go on being unexplained; and we seem to need this even now, in our twentieth-century grandeur.
-- Jeanette Winterson

#Mind #Needs #Hook

Hook up with us and see a quick return on your premiums.' I like it, Sammy. Think we can fit it on a bumper sticker? (Dean)
-- Jeff Mariotte

#Thinking #Return #Hook

I would rather receive a Pap smear from Captain Hook than venture out on New Year's Eve.
-- Jen Lancaster

#New Year #Years #Hook

Hope is the crystal meth of emotions. It hooks you fast and kills you hard.
-- Jennifer Donnelly

#Hook #Crystals #Emotion

I think it's very improtant and healthy to tell differnt stories than the corporatist narratives we are being asked to swallow hook, line and sinker.
-- John Cusack

#Thinking #Healthy #Hook

There is hook in every benefit, that sticks in his jaws that takes that benefit, and draws him whither the benefactor will.
-- John Donne

#Hook #Benefits #Sticks

Beauty - a deceitful bait with a deadly hook.
-- John Lyly

#Beauty #Bait #Hook

When we first hear [a] word, we start putting these associational hooks into it that make it easier to fish it back out at some later date.
-- Joshua Foer

#Hook #Firsts #Easier

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

#Giving #Hook #Professors

Gary Oldman is impossible to steal a movie from. He's such a great actor, he's off the hook. I love him.
-- Kevin Bacon

#I Love Him #Hook #Actors

One of my complaints with American TV characters is that they all have a particular schtick, a hook.
-- Kevin McKidd

#Character #Hook #Tvs

I'm a dude who likes to create music with good feeling. I live like a chameleon through music. It all depends on what the beat tells me to do; that's why you're always gonna get passionate hooks, because I'm feeling the beats and the emotion behind the drums and melodies.
-- Kid Cudi

#Feelings #Hook #Passionate

If I am ever put to death on the hook, expect a very human performance.
-- Kurt Vonnegut

#Hook #Performances #Humans

She heard pa shouting,"Jiminy crickets!It's raining fish-hooks and hammer handles!
-- Laura Ingalls Wilder

#Rain #Hammers #Hook

Isn't it nice to know that you can put a worm on your hook and get a fish all charged up?
-- Laura Schlessinger

#Nice #Women #Hook

I'm terrified of saying the wrong thing on stage with bell hooks.
-- Laverne Cox

#Hook #Bells #Stage

You can talk to a fade but a hook won't listen.
-- Lee Trevino

#Golf #Hook

Whatever we can’t hold, we hang on a hook that will hold it.
-- Leslie Jamison

#Hook

Some authors, when starting a novel, imagine a place first. Others, a character starts taking shape in their head. I start with a hook, a situation, a 'what if.
-- Linwood Barclay

#Character #What If #Hook

It's a comedy thriller, brilliantly written and it's full of twists and turns at every page. When I was reading it I was desperate to get to the end to find out what happens, it really hooks you.
-- Louise Jameson

#Reading #Twists #Hook

You fit into me like a hook into an eye a fish hook an open eye
-- Margaret Atwood

#Eye #Hook #Fit

The phone's not ringing off the hook, but that's ok by me. I feel very fortunate, work to me has become a kind of hobby.
-- Matt LeBlanc

#Phones #Hook #Hobbies

Pilots are so hard because you have to introduce all these characters, you have to hook an audience, and an audience has such a smaller attention span than maybe they used to have.
-- Max Greenfield

#Character #Attention #Hook

I've calmed down already. I don't hook up anymore.
-- Nicole Polizzi

#Hook #Hook Up

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 #Hook

I think it need realness, you should speak on thing that you know about, that you being from, that you experienced or that you been around, you know. I think you need a good hook, good beats and good lyrics.
-- Obie Trice

#Thinking #Hook #Needs

Opportunities, many times, are so small that we glimpse them not and yet they are often the seeds of great enterprises. Opportunities are also everywhere and so you must always let your hook be hanging. When you least expect it, a great fish will swim by.
-- Og Mandino

#Opportunity #Swim #Hook

Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
-- Oliver Goldsmith

#Hope #Bait #Hook

Keep thy hook always baited, for a fish lurks even in the most unlikely swim.
-- Ovid

#Swim #Hook #Unlikely

Red Hook Road made me happy, and happy to be alive. It took me out of my home on the coast of South Carolina, placed me in the town along Red hook Road, and changed me the way good books always do.
-- Pat Conroy

#Book #Home #Hook

I'm not trying to fall in love on the Jersey Shore. I'm just trying to hook up.
-- Pauly D

#Falling In Love #Trying #Hook

The whole point is to hook people and keep them interested.
-- Penelope Ann Miller

#People #Hook

I think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the closest one can come to being present at creation.
-- Phyllis Grissim-Theroux

#Garden #Thinking #Hook

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

#Hook #Done #Would Be

The ultimate proof of total forgiveness takes place when we sincerely petition the Father to let those who have hurt us off the hook—even if they have hurt not only us, but also those close to us.
-- R. T. Kendall

#Hurt #Father #Hook

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

#Beauty #Grace #Hook

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

#Time #Hook #Four

I think often times if a guitar riff is centered around the chorus or if it follows the chorus, then it often times turns into the actual hook.
-- Ryan Tedder

#Thinking #Guitar #Hook

The filmmakers who I'm pining to work for aren't ringing my phone off the hook
-- Sean Astin

#Phones #Hook #Pining

If there were any clear investigation of 9/11, they wouldn't let Louie Freeh off the hook.
-- Sidney Blumenthal

#Hook #Investigation #Clear

My poems always begin with a metaphor, but my way into the metaphor may be a word, an image, even a sound. And I rarely know the nature of the metaphor when I begin to write, but there is an attentiveness that a writer develops, a sudden alertness that is much like the feel of a fish brushing against a hook.
-- Stephen Dobyns

#Writing #Hook #May

The hardest part was getting the window net hooked back. I didn't think I was ever going to get it hooked. I finally got it hooked. If I'd known that I wouldn't have tried to hook it.
-- Sterling Marlin

#Thinking #Hook #Window

With comedy, you have no place to go but more comedy, so you're never off the hook.
-- Steve Martin

#Hook #Comedy

I met Mos Def around that time but I didn't hook up with him until I was about 17 or 18.
-- Talib Kweli

#Hook #Mets #Hook Up

Satan like a fisher, baits his hook according to the appetite of the fish.
-- Thomas Adams

#Hook #Bait #Satan

In the first place, most princes apply themselves to the arts of war, in which I have neither ability nor interest, instead of to the good arts of peace. They are generally more set on acquiring new kingdoms by hook or by crook than on governing well those that they already have.
-- Thomas More

#Art #War #Hook

As a writer, there are times when you have something to say, and yet no particular 'hook' upon which to hang the missive you are burning to release.
-- Tim Wise

#Burning #Hook #Release

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

#Cheer #Hands #Hook

When a song gets its legs and begins to come to me, this is the euphoric hook that keeps me wanting to continue.
-- Tommy Shaw

#Song #Legs #Hook

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

#Hook #Driving #Bigs

Everyone hooks up with George Clooney. He's a genuinely cool guy. He's using his powers for good.
-- William H. Macy

#Guy #Hook #Cool Guy

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 #Hook

I like psycho chicks... Yeah, you hook up with a psycho, you're gonna learn something. First thing you learn is how to sleep with one eye open.
-- Alonzo Bodden

#Sleep #Eye #Hook

The ministers argue that within the context of scripture there's a requirement given by God that you've got to give ten percent of your income to the church. And if you give ten percent - here's the hook - God is going to reward your faithfulness by giving you that ten percent back, and a whole lot more.
-- Anthony B Pinn

#Giving #Church #Hook

A bull will try to outwit you. It will stop and hook when the last thing you expect from it is that it will stop and hook.
-- Bette Ford

#Trying #Hook #Bulls

I use the hook to carry coffee.
-- Colin O'Donoghue

#Coffee #Hook #Use

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

#Smartphones #President #Hook

I'm not going to go in and get some hooks from some ***** who don't know me, or know what I'm about.
-- Donnis

#Hook #Know Me #Knows

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

#Simple #Important #Hook

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

#Ideas #Hook #Kind

I like producing beats, and I like rapping, too. I have a program for the PC, and I can hook my keyboard to it.
-- Jamie Waylett

#Rap #Hook #Keyboards