Hook Quotes - Page 5

• Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.

  Moliere

  Bait

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• I don’t need you sensitive, Skulduggery. I need you aloof and irresponsible and arrogant. That’s why I love you. That’s why I let you hang out with me.” “I’m truly blessed.” She grinned. “You love me, too. Once you admit it, everything will be better.” “They’re about to hook up the Cube to the Accelerator,” he said, and turned and walked off. She followed. “You can’t run from your feelings.” “I can walk from them.

  Derek Landy

  Running, Blessed, Love You

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• Trevanion wrapped his arm around his son's neck like shepherd's hook and dragged him along playfully. when he let go, Finnikin thought he would have liked his father to hold on a moment longer.

  Melina Marchetta

  Letting Go, Father, Son

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• I am inhabited by a cry. Nightly it flaps out Looking, with its hooks, for something to love.

  Sylvia Plath

  Cry

  Sylvia Plath (2010). “Ariel: The Restored Edition”, p.35, Faber & Faber

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• 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

  Memories, Sight, Blood

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• I want you to know that I’m serious. You’re not a hook up. You’re not a friend with benefits. You’re more than that to me.

  J. Lynn

  Benefits, Want, Serious

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• While the idea of taking you right now, against the wall, is enough to make me lose control, I want you to know that I’m serious. You’re not a hook up. You’re not a friend with benefits. You’re more than that to me.” I closed my eyes, breathing heavily. “Well, that was…really sort of perfect.” “I’m really sort of perfect … Everyone else knows that. You’re just a little slow on the uptake.

  J. Lynn

  Wall, Eye, Breathing

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• Thorne blinked at her, then down at the sewage he could barely make out in the darkness. "Don't you have some tool in that fancy hand of yours that can get us across?" Cinder glared, light-headed from her body's instinctively short breaths. "Oh, wow, how could I have forgotten about my grappling hook?

  Marissa Meyer

  Light, Hands, Darkness

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

  Ovid

  Swim, Unlikely, Fishes

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• The goal is to be on the hook, not to let someone else do the scary parts.

  Seth Godin

  Goal, Scary

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• 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, South Carolina

  FaceBook post by Pat Conroy from Jun 22, 2010

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• We are assailed by the temptation of the love of money. If you wish to acquire riches ? they are the bait of the fishers hook ? by greed, by trafficking, by violence, by ruse or by excessive manual work that deprives you of leisure for the service of God ? in a word by any other means ? if you have desired to pile up gold or silver, remember what the Gospel says, 'Fool! They will snatch your soul away during the night! Who will get your hoard' (cf. Lk. 12:20)? Again, 'He piles up money without knowing to whom it will go' (Ps. 39:6).

  Pachomius the Great

  Christian, Mean, Night

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• 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

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• The joy of the Lord will arm us against the assaults of our spiritual enemies, and, put our mouths out of taste for those pleasures with which the tempter baits his hooks.

  Matthew Henry

  Joy, Bait, Mouths

  "An Exposition of All the Books of the Old and New Testaments".

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• 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, Hobbies, Kind

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• Everyone hooks up with George Clooney. He's a genuinely cool guy. He's using his powers for good.

  William H. Macy

  Guy, Cool Guy, Hook Up

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• Satan like a fisher, baits his hook according to the appetite of the fish.

  Thomas Adams

  Bait, Satan, Appetite

  Thomas Adams, James Sherman (1848). “An Exposition Upon the Second Epistle General of St. Peter”, p.236

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• It is a peculiar part of the good photographer's adventure to know where luck is most likely to lie in the stream, to hook it, and to bring it in without unfair play and without too much subduing it.

  James Agee

  Photography, Travel, Lying

  Helen Levitt, James Agee (1989). “A way of seeing”

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• When you bait your hook with your heart, the fish always bite.

  John Burroughs

  Heart, Fishing, Bait

  "The Art of Seeing Things: Essays".

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• I'm not going to emphasize the sky-hook as much as work with the specific skills of the guys.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Sky, Skills

  "Chat Transcript: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar". www.nba.com.

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• There are two subjects, indeed, which I shall claim a right to further as long as I breathe: the public education, and the sub-division of counties into wards. I consider the continuance of republican government as absolutely hanging on these two hooks.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Education, Government, Two

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson”, p.239

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• 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

  Love, Kings, Car

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• 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, Want

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• What exists beneath the sea?I'd always pictured it in colors of emerald and aquamarine, where black velvet fish with sequined eyes swim among plankton.But, when my eyes adjust, I see gray stones, lost anchors, wet wood, buttons, hooks, and eyes, the salem witches who wouldn't float, stars and stripes, missing vessels, windup toys, the souls of Romeo and Juliet, peaches, cream, pistons, screams, cages of ribs and birds, tunnels, nutcracker soldiers, satin bows, drugstore signs, Pandora box ripped open at its hinges.

  Kelly Easton

  Stars, Eye, Color

  Kelly Easton (2001). “The Life History of a Star”, p.163, Simon and Schuster

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• Beauty Queen' is the weirdest, strangest, and most perfect play to do before 'Hedda Gabler', because there are so many similar issues for Maureen and Hedda. I had played leading ladies before but couldn't really hook into them. After 'An American Daughter' and 'Beauty Queen', I had all the ballast.

  Kate Burton

  Mother, Daughter, Queens

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