Hook Quotes - Page 12

• A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other.

  Samuel Johnson

  Fishing, Fool, Sticks

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• Hillary Clinton could use one of these Apple Watches. She could hook it up to her secret email account. If you want to contact Hillary, she's at hillary@pantsuit.com.

  David Letterman

  Apples, Secret, Email

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• A fisherman does not bait his hook with food he likes. He uses food the fish likes. So with boys.

  Baden Powell de Aquino

  Wisdom, Boys, Likes

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• What does it mean when you hook up your work to that of a late modernist giant working in a reductive vein - Ad Reinhardt, Agnes Martin, Robert Ryman, Ellsworth Kelly, Frank Stella, or Donald Judd, for example - like a caboose? I am not talking about engaging directly with another artist's work or ideas, but of perpetuating a look or, in the case of Wade Guyton, the various monochromatic, striped and geometric surfaces we associate with Minimalism.

  John Yau

  Mean, Artist, Talking

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• I'm terrified of saying the wrong thing on stage with bell hooks.

  Laverne Cox

  Bells, Stage, Saying The Wrong Thing

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• My interests are guitars, cars, and vacation. I've been playing guitar all my life. My dad was a professional guitarist, but I'm terrible, which lets me off the hook, so I just play for myself.

  Josh Hartnett

  Dad, Vacation, Guitar

  "Josh Hartnett On “August”". Interview with Aaron Hillis, www.ifc.com. July 15.

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

  James Woods

  Mouths, Bass, Sticks

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• Let's hook up and just bring fiery death.

  Charlie Sheen

  Hook Up, Fiery

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• 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

  Hunting, Wind, Fishing

  Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.39, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Every day the eye is subject to a thousand tiny shocks as a thousand industries compete for the eye-kick, the visual hook that will lock the consumer into product for that crucial second where the tiny - or not so tiny - leap of the imagination is made.

  Graham Joyce

  Eye, Imagination, Tiny

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• 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

  Funny, Humor, Iron

  "Bill Cosby: Himself". www.imdb.com. 1983.

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• Big Poppa Pump is your hook up, and the next heavyweight championship of the world!

  Scott Steiner

  Funny, Wwe, Heavyweights

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• The ego, as a collection of our past experiences, is continually offering miserable lines of thought. It's as if there were a stream with little fish swimming by, and when we hook one of them there is a judgment. The ego is constantly judging everybody and everything. It has its constant little chit chat about things that can happen in the future, things about the past, too, and these are the little fish that swim by. And what we learn to do-this is why it takes work-is to not reach out and grab a fish.

  Hugh Prather

  Swimming, Past, Offering

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• Gifts are like hooks.

  Martial

  Martial, Garry Wills (2008). “Martial's Epigrams: A Selection”, p.80, CUP Archive

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• Men go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Hunting, Fishing

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• 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, Bait, Use

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• Love. The black hook. The spear singing through the mind.

  Louise Erdrich

  Love, Black, Mind

  Louise Erdrich (2010). “Love Medicine”, p.40, Odyssey Editions

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• The thing that I'm most passionate about, I'm writing a book called 'Jab Jab Jab Jab Jab Right Hook,' and it really focuses on how to story-tell in a noisy, ADD world.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Book, Writing, Add

  "Gary Vaynerchuk On Social Media Trends, Time Management, Online & Real-Life Balance (Q&A)". Interview with Craig Kanalley, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 30, 2013.

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• 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, Pilots, Attention

  "Talking Schmidt: Why We're Rooting for New Girl's Max Greenfield at the Emmy's". Interview with Bruce Handy an Juli Weiner, www.vanityfair.com. September 20, 2012.

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• 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

  Character, Thinking, People

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• 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, Shapes

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

  Sidney Blumenthal

  Investigation, Clear, Ifs

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• What many people don't know about 'Peter Pan' is that it's a very violent book and Hook is one of the most finely observed villains ever.

  Eoin Colfer

  Book, People, Villain

  "Quickfire interview: Eoin Colfer". Interview with Jen Bowden, www.theguardian.com. October 12, 2012.

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• 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, Sound, May

  "Poetry Questions: Stephen Dobyns" by Rebecca Foresman, www.newyorker.com. April 2, 2012.

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• 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

  Technology, Media, Water

  "The Man Who Makes the Future: Wired Icon Marc Andreessen". Interview with Chris Anderson, www.wired.com. April 24, 2012.

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