Hook Quotes - Page 6

• 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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• [Beauty is] a delicate bait with a deadly hook; a sweet panther with a devouring paunch, a sour poison in a silver pot.

  John Lyly

  Sweet, Bait, Poison

  John Lyly, Leah Scragg (2003). “John Lyly 'Euphues: the Anatomy of Wit' and 'Euphues and His England': An Annotated, Modern-Spelling Edition”, p.49, Manchester University Press

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• Even as a child back in Indiana, whenever I took a Butterbelly off the hook I used to ask myself, "Does this fish think?" I would even ask others, "Do you suppose this Butterbelly can think?" And all I would get in reply was a look. At the age of eighteen, I left the state.

  Will Cuppy

  Children, Thinking, Age

  "Do Fish Think, Really?". "How to Become Extinct". Book by Will Cuppy, 1941.

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• We can't constantly explain to our voters that taxpayers have to be on the hook for certain risks, rather than those who make a lot of money taking those risks.

  Angela Merkel

  Money, Responsibility, Risk

  "Germany's Angela Merkel Leans On Irish to Fix Economy". abcnews.go.com. November 12, 2010.

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• Human memory, they say, is like a coat closet: The most enduring outcome of a formal education is that it creates rows of coat hooks so that later on, when you come upon a new piece of information, you have a hook to hang it on. Without a hook, the new information falls on the floor.

  Ursula Goodenough

  Memories, Fall, Coats

  Ursula Goodenough (2000). “The Sacred Depths of Nature”, p.21, Oxford University Press, USA

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• 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, May

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• 'Twas merry when You wagered on your angling, when your diver Did hang a salt fish on his hook, which he With fervency drew up.

  William Shakespeare

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

  William Shakespeare, Jonathan Bate, Eric Rasmussen (2009). “Antony and Cleopatra”, p.55, Palgrave Macmillan

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• People who are extremely inside their head, like he was, are caught in a neurosis that goes round and round. Then something will hook them and take them to their end and they can't control it.

  Vincent D'Onofrio

  People, Neurosis, Ends

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• 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, Stories

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• Your home needs to be a place where your kids can fail—and learn from their failure. Surround them with love, show them how important they are to you, but don’t try to undo their failures. It’s not our job as parents to get our kids off the hook.

  Kevin Leman

  Jobs, Home, Kids

  Kevin Leman (2005). “Making Children Mind without Losing Yours”, p.20, Baker Books

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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 Pa was at home the gun always lay across those two wooden hooks above the door. ... The gun was always loaded, and always above the door so that Pa could get it quickly and easily, any time he needed a gun.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Home, Gun, Doors

  Laura Ingalls Wilder (2003). “Little House in the Big Woods”, HarperCollins

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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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• Possibly everyone now dead considered his own death as a freak accident, a mistake. Some bad luck caused it. Every enterprising man jack of them, and every sunlit vigorous woman and child, too, who had seemed so alive and pleased, was cold as a meat hook, and new chattering people trampled their bones unregarding, and rubbed their hands together and got to work improving their prospects till their own feet slipped and they went under themselves ... Every place was a tilting edge.

  Annie Dillard

  Children, Mistake, Men

  Annie Dillard (1994). “The Annie Dillard reader”, Harpercollins

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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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• 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, Goes On

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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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• It is not that fathers are better or worse, not that they are more loved or criticized, but rather that they are viewed with far less intensity. There is no Philip Roth or Woody Allen or Nancy Friday who writes about fathers with a runaway excess of humor, horror ... feeling. Most of us let our fathers off the hook.

  Ellen Goodman

  Friday, Father, Writing

  Ellen Goodman (1983). “At Large”, Fawcett Books

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• It's a little like casting out hundreds of fishing lines into the audience. You start getting little bites, then more, then you hook a few, then more. Then you can start reeling them in and that's a loveliest feeling - the whole audience laughing with you.

  Jim Dale

  Fishing, Laughing, Feelings

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Especially when I first came up here to New York, everybody wanted to hook me up with this guy who's Prince's sound engineer. Almost everybody wanted me to hook up with him and go to L.A. and do all that just because that's the route Prince took. And for a while I was listening to all of that. "Yeah, if it's good enough for Prince, it should be good enough for me." But I mean, that's not the case, really. Prince is a different person than I am. You just got to find the right person for you, whoever you click with.

  D'Angelo

  Mean, Guy, Listening

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