Hooked Quotes:

God has hooked me up.He has the life by design.

- Paula White

source: Source: culteducation.com

topic: Design, Hooked

If you have hooked legs, wear big decolte.

- Christian Dior

topic: Legs, Bigs, Hooked

I'm hooked on email. That's right, kids, I'm one of you.

- Craig Ferguson

topic: Kids, Email, Hooked

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

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

topic: Courage, Humble, Eye, Knowing Something, Humbleness

When a trout rising to a fly gets hoooked on a line and finds himself unable to swim about freeely, he begins with a fight which results in struggles and splashes and sometimes an escape. Often, of course, the situation is too tough for him. In the same way the human being struggles with his environment and with the hooks that catch him. Sometimes he masters his difficulties; sometimes they are too much for him. His struggles are all that the world sees and it naturally misunderstands them. It is hard for a free fish to understand what is happening to a hooked one.

- Karl A. Menninger

source: Karl A. Menninger (1953). “the Human Mind”

topic: Struggle, Fighting, Swim, Hooked

There were years when I was a beer and tequila guy, then I got real fat. And then I found that you could actually go on a diet and drink scotch. Then I got hooked on scotch, and if you get hooked on scotch, then everything else just tastes wrong.

- Ron White

topic: Real, Beer, Scotch, Scotch Whisky, Tequila

I'm hooked on gin and tonics like your mama's Hooked on Phonics.

- Tash

topic: Rap, Hip Hop, Gin And Tonic, Hooked

Dreams are matters of the heart, things that pull you along as if they have hooked you someplace deep inside.

- Jeanne Marie Laskas

source: Jeanne Marie Laskas (2010). “Fifty Acres and a Poodle: A Story of Love, Livestock, and Finding Myself on a Farm”, p.27, Bantam

topic: Dream, Heart, Matter, Matters Of The Heart, Hooked

Young people can get very discouraged and get hooked on drugs or on alcohol because of problems they perceive as insurmountable. It is important that they realize a mistake need not ruin their future, but they must also know that not everything in life is a bed of roses.

- Maureen Forrester

source: "Discouragement - A power" by Rajan Thapaliya, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 30, 2017.

topic: Mistake, People, Rose, Bed Of Roses, Insurmountable

After I got my first laugh on stage, I was hooked.

- Matthew Perry

topic: Laughing, Firsts, Stage, Hooked

I hooked up my accelerator pedal in my car to my brake lights. I hit the gas, people behind me stop, and I'm gone.

- Steven Wright

topic: Light, Car, People, Hooked

It's called a pen. It's like a printer, hooked straight to my brain..

- Dale Dauten

topic: Business, Brain, Printer, Hooked

It was Elvis who really got me hooked on beat music. When I heard 'Heartbreak Hotel' I thought, this is it.

- Paul McCartney

topic: Redneck, Hospitality, Beats, Great Beatles, Hooked

Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.

- Virginia Woolf

topic: Life, Writing, Attachment, Material Things, Shakespeare's Plays

Designers must educate the public that design is about strategy, not decoration. However, such attempts are repeatedly undermined by a design world hooked on competitions and awards ceremonies that celebrate creativity instead of strategy results and sustainability.

- David Berman

source: David B. Berman (2008). “Do Good Design: How Design Can Change Our World”, p.140, Peachpit Press

topic: Creativity, Awards, Design, Decoration, Graphic Design

Hooked on Phonics worked for me

- Brian Regan

topic: Hooked

I was a fan of 'Six Feet Under' and was very sad when it ended, so I was not ready to switch my allegiance to another show. So I was like, 'I'm not watching this 'True Blood.'' Then a friend got a bootleg copy of the first four episodes, and by the third one, I was irrevocably hooked.

- Denis O'Hare

topic: Blood, Feet, Fans, Six Feet Under, Hooked

I admit that I am hopelessly hooked on the printed newspaper. I love turning the pages and the serendipity of stumbling across a piece of irresistible information or a photograph that I wasnt necessarily intending to read.

- Jill Abramson

topic: Serendipity, Pieces, Pages, Stumbling, Hooked

Comedy is an amazing calling. Once you get that first laugh, it's hard to turn away. Then, of course, you're hooked and you have to learn how to survive in the business.

- Alan King

topic: Hooked

Power is a drug on which the politicians are hooked. They buy it from the voters, using the voters' own money.

- Richard J. Needham

topic: Drug, Voters, Politician, Hooked

Thank God I never hooked on anything. I never had a monkey on my back. I just wanted to self-medicate, to numb myself through liquor. It's how I dealt with life, reality, stress, change, sadness, memories. The list goes on. I was really trying to feel nothing.

- Johnny Depp

topic: Memories, Stress, Sadness, Hooked

Because gratification of a desire leads to the temporary stilling of the mind and the experience of the peaceful, joyful Self, it's no wonder that we get hooked on thinking that happiness comes from the satisfaction of desires. This is the meaning of the

- Joan Z. Borysenko

topic: Happiness, Thinking, Self, Gratification, Hooked

I wanted to stay hooked because it was the first time I've been part of the tradition where forgetting was just fine. You do it, you try, you forget, you fail.

- Laurie Anderson

source: Interview with A. M. Homes, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 2, 2015.

topic: Trying, Firsts, Forget You, Hooked

How did I get hooked? Well, it's something like you journalists having a drink after work

- Tyrell Biggs

topic: Boxing, Like You, Drink, Hooked

Friend, you're HOPELESSLY hooked!

- Oliver James

topic: Hooked

I drink booze, I smoke, and I'm hooked on caffeine. I actually have been known to swear at times and belch and even raise my voice when provoked. And I'm not physically repressed!

- Helena Bonham Carter

topic: Voice, Drink, Booze, Caffeine, Provoked

Oh, I was completely hooked on movies and plays and theater from the time I was a day old - I was very, very early on in love with movies and I loved plays.

- Bob Balaban

source: Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. March 3, 2003.

topic: Play, Theater, Hooked

I ride my bike for transportation a great deal - occasionally I ride it for fun. But I also have a generator bike that's hooked up to my solar battery pack, so if I ride 15 minutes hard on my bike, that's enough energy to toast toast, or power my computer.

- Ed Begley, Jr.

topic: Fun, Energy, Batteries, Generator, Hooked

The first film I can remember seeing on TV was 'The Brides of Dracula.' I was instantly hooked.

- Mark Gatiss

topic: Firsts, Tvs, Remember, Hooked

I was a tomboy growing up and then fell into the world of theatre and musical theatre. A girlfriend introduced me to yoga in college and I was hooked. I didn't really know anything about it except that it was the highlight of my week. I ended up graduating from the University of Virginia and moving to Los Angeles where I could continue acting and do a yoga teacher training. I went from practicing once or twice a week to several hours everyday. I loved it.

- Kathryn Budig

source: ORIGIN Interview, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

topic: Teacher, Girlfriend, Growing Up, Highlights, Musical Theatre

I busted out of the place in a hurry and went to a saloon and drank beer and said that for the rest of my life I'd never take a job in a place where you couldn't throw cigarette butts on the floor. I was hooked on this writing for newspapers and magazines.

- Jimmy Breslin

topic: Jobs, Writing, Beer, Busted, Saloons

When I was young I was very interested in science and technology, and my dad brought home the first computer. I played pac man and I was hooked! By learning to create technology, girls learn to speak up.

- Regina Agyare

topic: Girl, Dad, Home, Pacs, Hooked

I think we're rapidly approaching the day where medical science can keep people alive in hospitals, hooked up to tubes and things, far beyond when any kind of quality of life is left at all.

- Richard Lamm

topic: Thinking, People, Quality, Medical Science, Hooked

I don't really watch TV series because I don't want to get hooked on them and have them suck up all my time.

- M. Ward

topic: Watches, Want, Tvs, Hooked

I love the French detective series 'Spiral.' It's quite brutal to watch, but I'm already hooked.

- Robert Winston

topic: Detectives, Watches, Spirals, Hooked

Assure a man that he has a soul and then frighten him with old wives' tales as to what is to become of him afterward, and you have hooked a fish, a mental slave.

- Theodore Dreiser

source: Theodore Dreiser (1965). “Theodore Dreiser; His Autobiography”

topic: Men, Wife, Scary, Old Wives Tales, Hooked

I've become totally hooked on Cellex-C. It's an anti-ageing serum and is fantastic. I use it morning and evening and even on my hands, where it has faded those dark spots.

- Joan Collins

topic: Morning, Dark, Hands, Hooked

I love to box. I once took a kickboxing class in college and got totally hooked.

- Sophia Bush

topic: College, Class, Kickboxing, Hooked

If you're like me, I get hooked into to-do lists, you know. I'll say I checked that off. Okay, I did that. And you have all these things you're doing.

- Jeff Bridges

topic: Lists, Okay, Hooked

I think we're all hooked, I feel my own hook-ness on immediate gratification you know. I want what I want.

- Jeff Bridges

topic: Thinking, Hook, Want, Immediate Gratification, Hooked

If Beethoven and Bach hooked up with Mozart and made a band, they could be a distant runner up to The D.

- Jack Black

source: FaceBook post by Jack Black from Aug 24, 2013

topic: Band, Made, Runners, Runner Up, Hooked

I remember vividly seeing 'Tarzan' and Fred Astaire, the Chaplin films, Fred Astaire musicals, MGM, because of my mother. She was just interested in everything and she took me to opera and ballet, and then ballet got me hooked.

- Mikhail Baryshnikov

topic: Mother, Ballet, Opera, Chaplin, Mgm

Making loans accessible to millions of the previously unbankable customers is a noble goal. Getting them hooked to such loans isn't.

- Evgeny Morozov

topic: Goal, Noble, Loan, Hooked

I found golf late in life, in 1990. I took some lessons and struggled. Then one day, I hit a drive that was so crisp and clean, with no vibration. There's no feeling like it. I was hooked.

- Dennis Quaid

topic: Golf, Feelings, One Day, Hooked

I was a very sickly kid. While I was in the hospital at age 7, my Dad brought me a stack of comic books to keep me occupied. I was hooked.

- Len Wein

topic: Dad, Book, Kids, Eighth Grade, Art Class

I just got hooked on the radio, the voice of it all. It was my connection to metropolitan America, if you will. Sports, in particularly baseball then 'cause of its rich sediment of numbers, was one of the first things a young person could peg up with adults on - that is, you could know as much about Jimmy Fox as your father did.

- George Will

topic: Sports, Baseball, Father, Peg, Metropolitan

It's true that the more you put in the more you get out and that has to be there I think, If you aren't really hooked on your instrument this job would be a hell on earth but if you are, it's the best.

- Leo Kottke

topic: Jobs, Thinking, Would Be, Hell On Earth, Hooked

Growing up on stage, I was introduced to makeup at a young age and I will never forget the first time I tried on a L'Oreal Paris iconic lipstick - it was instant glamour and I've been hooked ever since.

- Lea Michele

topic: Growing Up, Makeup, Paris, Hooked

I got hooked into folk music by accident, because that's what white college kids liked when I was a child

- Stephen Stills

topic: Children, Kids, College, Folk Music, Hooked

I tried Botox, but I don't want to be hooked on that stuff.

- Cherie Lunghi

topic: Botox, Want, Stuff, Hooked

Of course, in principle, they're against it. We are the ones that keep asking them what they think about it. I think their basic concern is a land-based missile defense of Taiwan hooked into the American communications and other systems, which in effect would make Taiwan then an outpost of the United States. That is a concern they frequently express. A missile defense shield of the United States, while they may not like it, it is not a big obstacle to our relationship.

- Henry A. Kissinger

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Communication, Thinking, Land, Missile Defense, Hooked

Redemption means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong. So I think a lot of people get hooked on drugs and when they get over that addiction they go out and they try to talk to kids and they try to work in rehab centers.

- Ice T

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Mean, Kids, Thinking, Hooked

I was not a vampire or werewolf fan at all. I'd never even heard of the series. I auditioned for the role, and as soon as I got it, I started reading the books. I'm not a reader, but I really did get hooked on them.

- Taylor Lautner

source: Interview with Michael Martin, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 6, 2009.

topic: Book, Reading, Vampire, Hooked