Hooked Quotes - Page 9

• All that self-expression has just created a generation of morons, hooked on an endless appetite for rubbish.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Self, Expression, Rubbish

  "Did I say that?" by John Hind, www.theguardian.com. July 18, 2009.

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• I love words. Sudoku I don't get into, I'm not into numbers that much, and there are people who are hooked on that. But crossword puzzles, I just can't - if I get a puppy and I paper train him and I put the - if all of a sudden I'd open the paper and there's a crossword puzzle - 'No, no, you can't go on that, honey. I'll take it.'

  Betty White

  Numbers, People, Goes On

  "Actress-author Betty White". "The Tavis Smiley show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. May 12, 2011.

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• A foolhardy lot, we accepted it all, as we always do, never asked: "What is going to happen to us now, with this invention of print?" In the same way, we never thought to ask, "How will our lives, our way of thinking, be changed by the internet, which has seduced a whole generation with its inanities so that even quite reasonable people will confess that, once they are hooked, it is hard to cut free, and they may find a whole day has passed in blogging etc?"

  Doris Lessing

  Cutting, Thinking, People

  "A Hunger for Books" by Doris Lessing, www.theguardian.com. December 08, 2007.

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• There have been five great kisses since 1642 B.C...(before then couples hooked thumbs.) And the precise rating of kisses is a terribly difficult thing, often leading to great controversy.... Well, this one left them all behind.

  William Goldman

  Couple, Kissing, Thumbs

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride”, p.48, A&C Black

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• When I pointed to him his palms slipped slightly, leaving greasy sweat streaks on the wall, and he hooked his thumbs in his belt. A strange spasm shook him, as if he heard fingernails scrape slate, but as I gazed at him in wonder the tension slowly drained from his face. His lips parted into a timid smile, and our neighbor’s image blurred with my sudden tears. “Hey, Boo,” I said. “Mr. Arthur, honey,” said Atticus, gently correcting me. “Jean Louise, this is Mr. Arthur Radley. I believe he already knows you.

  Harper Lee

  Wall, Believe, Sweat

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• When my first daughter was born, my husband held her in his hands and said, 'My God, she's so beautiful.' I unwrapped the baby from her blankets. She was average size, with long thin fingers and a random assortment of toes. Her eyes were close set, and she had her father's hooked nose. It looked better on him.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Beautiful, Daughter, Mother

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• Christy Barritt's novel, Hazardous Duty, is a delightful read from beginning to end. The story's fresh, engaging heroine with an unusual occupation hooked me, and I couldn't put it down. I highly recommend Hazardous Duty.

  Colleen Coble

  Stories, Occupation, Unusual

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• Samuel Spade's jaw was long and bony, his chin a jutting v under the more flexible v of
  his mouth. His nostrils curved back to make another, smaller, v. His yellow-grey eyes were
  horizontal. The V motif was picked up again by thickish brows rising outward from twin creases
  above a hooked nose, and his pale brown hair grew down--from high flat temples--in a point on
  his forehead. He looked rather pleasantly like a blond Satan.

  Dashiell Hammett

  Eye, Hair, Yellow

  1930 Of Sam Spade. The Maltese Falcon,'Spade and Archer'.

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• The average man is hooked to his fellow men, while the warrior is hooked only to himself. Perhaps you are chasing rainbows. You're after the self-confidence of the average man, when you should be after the humbleness of a warrior. The difference between the two is remarkable. Self Confidence entails knowing something for sure; humbleness entails being impeccable in one's actions and feelings.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Self Confidence, Warrior, Men

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

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• I don't want to hear about the endless struggles to keep sex exciting, or the work it takes to plan a date night. I want to hear that you guys watch every episode of The Bachelorette together in secret shame, or that one got the other hooked on Breaking Bad and if either watches it without the other, they're dead meat. I want to see you guys high-five each other like teammates on a recreational softball team you both do for fun.

  Mindy Kaling

  Softball, Sex, Fun

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• There are time when friends have said they hooked up with someone and all it means is that they had a highly anticipated kissing session. Other times it's a full-on all-night sex-a-thon. Can't we have a universal understanding of the term, once and for all? From now on, let's all agree that hooking up = sex. Everything else is 'made out.' And if you're older than twenty-eight, then just kissing someone doesn't count for crap and is not even worth mentioning. Unless you're Mormon, in which case you're going to hell.

  Mindy Kaling

  Sex, Mean, Kissing

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• We're all in the game. We all drive cars, and we're all hooked on oil. The question is how we can get unhooked before we drown in the stuff.

  Ross Macdonald

  Games, Oil, Car

  Ross Macdonald (2010). “Sleeping Beauty”, p.110, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• I actually only started listening to house music around the time I started making it. I got hooked both to making music and to house music.

  Avicii

  House, Listening, House Music

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

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• Showing cats is addictive. All you need is one rosette and you're hooked.

  Donna Andrews

  Cat, Pet, Needs

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• I never thought of my work in terms of being radical, although I tried to make it radical- that is, to shift the premise of what goes for pictures on a wall. I wanted my work to say something other than the usual- the usual format for an artwork being a rectangle, a square, or anything flat, framed, and attached or hooked on the wall. That was accepted practice, mainline thinking.

  Nancy Spero

  Wall, Thinking, Squares

  "Art as a Continuum. Nancy Spero". ART21 Interview, art21.org.

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• If you're hooked on the physical act of writing, there's a good chance of your hanging in there long enough to say what you were born to say.

  Peter Meinke

  Writing, Long, Chance

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• But, you have to watch them in order. That's very important because, as it turns out, stories have to be told in order. It's like reading a novel. There are times when it's tiring. And then, you get hooked and it's a page-turner, and you really want to keep reading. I do think there will be some fatigue that sets in.

  Mitchell Hurwitz

  Reading, Thinking, Order

  Source: collider.com

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• If the project piques my interest and scares me a little bit, then it's got me hooked.

  Ray Stevenson

  Scare, Pique, Littles

  Source: collider.com

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• I have always found men who were funny, irresistible. It's rare that I ever based love on looks or superficial things, but it a guy made me laugh-and that didn't mean he had to be in comedy professionally - I was hooked.

  Gilda Radner

  Mean, Men, Superficial Things

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• What was so great about Lost was that it came to the front door as a drama that was straight-up and really gave you the sci-fi underneath it all. It backed into sci-fi show, at least in my opinion. As soon as they got hooked, they were like, "Okay, I'm there."

  J.H. Wyman

  Drama, Doors, Opinion

  Source: collider.com

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• Johnny Duncan was one of the first opening acts I hired for my show, and he is the one who initiated me into astrology. I got hooked. It made a lot of sense to me.

  Charley Pride

  Astrology, Firsts, Duncan

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• I remember thinking that Janis Joplin sang like Mae West talked. When I
  first heard the primal scream in 'Piece Of My Heart,' I was hooked. 'Cheap
  Thrills,' Janis 'Live' with Big Brother And The Holding Company, was one of
  my all time faves. During the 'whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa's' in 'Combination Of
  Two,' I couldn't help but go to the mirror and pretend I was a wild woman
  like Janis, in a rock band.

  Joan Jett

  Brother, Heart, Thinking

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• I think I got him hooked on climbing when I gave a slide show at Darmouth. So there's probably another mother out there who hates me.

  Jim Bridwell

  Mother, Hate, Thinking

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• I don't get really inspired the way some people do, buzzing with ideas - it feels like hard work to me... but once I get hooked into the universe of a particular work it becomes almost like an aesthetic addiction.

  Shaun Tan

  Art, Hard Work, Ideas

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• I think it's important to balance out what people see today as normal birth, in a hospital room, flat on their backs, usually with an IV and a fetal monitor hooked up to them. That does happen, but other things are possible.

  Ricki Lake

  Thinking, People, Balance

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