Hooked Quotes

• It is hard for a free fish to understand what is happening to a hooked one.

  Karl A. Menninger

  Fishes, Happenings, Hard

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

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• The average man is hooked to his fellow men, while the warrior is hooked only to infinity.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Warrior, Men, Average

  Carlos Castaneda (2009). “The Wheel Of Time: The Shamans Of Mexico Their Thoughts About Life De”, p.113, Simon and Schuster

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

  Tash

  Rap, Hip Hop, Gin And Tonic

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• 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

  Funny, Humor, Light

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

  Dale Dauten

  Business, Brain, Printer

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

  Matthew Perry

  Laughing, Firsts, Stage

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• 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

  Real, Beer, Scotch

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• 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

  Mistake, Bed Of Roses, People

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

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

  Paul McCartney

  Redneck, Hospitality, Beats

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• Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible; Shakespeare's plays, for instance, seem to hang there complete by themselves. But when the web is pulled askew, hooked up at the edge, torn in the middle, one remembers that these webs are not spun in midair by incorporeal creatures, but are the work of suffering human beings, and are attached to the grossly material things, like health and money and the houses we live in.

  Virginia Woolf

  Writing, Attachment, Play

  "A Room of One's Own". Essay by Virginia Woolf (Chapter 3, pp. 43-44), October 24, 1929.

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• 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

  Memories, Stress, Sadness

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• 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

  Happiness, Gratitude, Thinking

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• Hooked on Phonics worked for me.

  Brian Regan

  "Brian Regan Live". Comedy album by Brian Regan, 1997.

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• 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

  Creativity, Awards, Design

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

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• 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

  Serendipity, Pieces, Pages

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• 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

  Blood, Feet, Fans

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

  Richard J. Needham

  Drug, Voters, Politician

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

  Jeanne Marie Laskas

  Dream, Heart, Matter

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

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• 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

  Laughing, Calling, Firsts

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• 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

  Trying, Firsts, Forget You

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

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

  Tyrell Biggs

  Boxing, Like You, Drink

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• I was once a student in a punk T-Shirt hooked on screwed-up scenarios. Thats how I became the esteemed cultural figure that I am today.

  Bruce Sterling

  Literature, Today, Students

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• I started racing myself and once you get bitten by that bug you really are hooked.

  Nick Mason

  Racing, Bugs

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• Women are denied masturbation even more severely than men and that's another method of control-they're not taught to please themselves.... Most women-it takes them a while to warm up to the "situation" but once they get into it, I'm sure they're going to get just as hooked as-well, everyone I know is!

  Lydia Lunch

  Men, Taught, Masturbation

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• I remember I was always enamored by and loved motorcycles as a kid. My grandfather had motorcycles and I remember going for a ride and then after that I was hooked. And then in first or second grade, I ganked or stole a book from the library just because it had a dirt bike with trails. It was one of those things where as a kid, the world is your oyster as far as what you can do, and you don't associate jobs and things with making money.

  Taylor Kinney

  Jobs, Book, Kids

  "Which 'Chicago Fire' star binges on YouTube fail videos?" by Matt Murray, www.today.com. September 24, 2013.

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