Quotes about Hook

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it. Votes: 4

I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're goin', and hook up with them later. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

When I'm writing, I'm thinking about how the songs are going to play live. Fifty bars of rap don't translate onstage. No matter how potent the music, you lose the crowd. They want a hook; they want to sing your stuff back to you. Votes: 4

The writing process, the way I go about it is I do whatever the beat feels like, whatever the beat is telling me to do. Usually when the beat comes on, I think of a hook or the subject I want to rap about almost instantly. Within four, eight bars of it playing I'm just like, 'Oh, OK. This is what I wanna do'. Votes: 4

It's every boy's dream to play Captain Hook. Votes: 3

'Red Hook Summer' is another chapter in my chronicles of Brooklyn. Votes: 3

My career in Congress is a story of before Sandy Hook and after Sandy Hook. Votes: 3

My new novel 'Red Hook Road' began many years ago as a short article in the newspaper. Votes: 3

I would rather receive a Pap smear from Captain Hook than venture out on New Year's Eve. Votes: 3

Captain Hook's mother, who said to Little Hook, For God sakes, don't scratch it! Never got a dinner! Votes: 3

How do you try to play 'Captain Hook' better than, or as well as, Dustin Hoffman? You can't. It's perfection. Votes: 3

I've talked with a lot of teachers, classroom teachers after the Sandy Hook situation, and they say, look, we need to be looking at mental health. Votes: 3

I will consider my time in the Senate a failure if we don't pass some meaningful legislation to reduce the likelihood that Sandy Hook ever happens again. Votes: 3

Hook up with us and see a quick return on your premiums.' I like it, Sammy. Think we can fit it on a bumper sticker? (Dean) Votes: 3

This message is brought to you by the BCBS [Booty Call Broadcasting System]. If you are back in town, get your wet ass over here." (The Hook Up, 42%) Votes: 3

To dream of afar, to chase a star, to believe in Captain Hook. To dance with bears and have no cares, this is the magic of a book. Votes: 3

Some day,' said Smee, 'the clock will run down, and then he'll get you.' Hook wetted his dry lips, 'Aye,' he said, 'that's the fear that haunts me. Votes: 3

Every future we imagine is transformed inexorably into a part of our children's understanding of their past, of the assumptions their parents and grandparents could not help but make.The Killer Hook Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

The senseless killing of 20 children and their teachers and principal at Sandy Hook Elementary School was not part of God's grand plan. It was a thwarting of God's plan. It was the misuse of human freedom. Votes: 3

This book is the best treatment of the best American Marxist philosopher-and the best philosopher to emerge from American slums. Young Sidney Hook is essential reading for anyone interested in democratic theory and practice in America. Votes: 3

I'm not a good rapper. For whatever reason, my brain does not work that way. I just do the beginning, like, 'Yeah, yeah! Ha ha! Woo! What up? Come on! Get at me!' I'm Captain Hook. Votes: 3

Growing up, I would have to say I loved 'Peter Pan' because I was fascinated by Captain Hook; I was fascinated by Hans Conried, who was an actor on screen and also a theatrical and television actor. Votes: 3

I used to have a lot of recurring dreams about Captain Hook when I was a little kid, which I remember very vividly. But I think I just really liked Peter Pan a lot, and 'Hook' was my favorite movie. Votes: 3

I lived in Red Hook, Brooklyn, for about 10 years, and then we moved out to Jersey City after my wife and I bought a house up in the Catskills. I miss Brooklyn, but the commute to the Catskills is about 45 minutes shorter. Votes: 3

Senators say they fear the N.R.A. and the gun lobby. But I think that fear must be nothing compared to the fear the first graders in Sandy Hook Elementary School felt as their lives ended in a hail of bullets. Votes: 3

I think after Sandy Hook, when Obama went out, and he talked a lot about gun control and met with the parents, there was a sense that something was going to happen. But then, I guess, the power of special interests was greater than public sentiment. Votes: 3

Let's hook up and just bring fiery death. Votes: 2

Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook. Votes: 2

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait. Votes: 2

Luck affects everything; let your hook always be cast. Votes: 2

Satan like a fisher, baits his hook according to the appetite of the fish. Votes: 2

God seems to have left the receiver off the hook and time is running out. Votes: 2

You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him to a heavy load. Votes: 2

You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him to a heavy load. Votes: 2

Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be fish. Votes: 2

Change is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish. Votes: 2

Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish. Votes: 2

Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish. Votes: 2

When we search for something larger than our own selves to hook into, we can come through whatever life throws at us. Votes: 2

Anger or hatred is like a fisherman's hook. It is very important for us to ensure that we are not caught by it. Votes: 2

Ah, man, if I could ever hook up with Tom Waits, I'd be the happiest camper in Yellowstone, alright? That's the one guy. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

If your concentration is getting bad, take up bass fishing. It will really improve your ability to focus. If you aren't ready when that fish hits, you can't set the hook. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

It's kind of like a challenge to myself to be able to hear somebody else's hook and kind of interpret the words. Because my own hooks, I already know what I mean when I write them. Votes: 2

We criticize mothers for closeness. We criticize fathers for distance. How many of us have expected less from our fathers and appreciated what they gave us more? How many of us always let them off the hook? Votes: 2

Gratitude is an attitude that hooks us up to our source of supply. And the more grateful you are, the closer you become to your maker, to the architect of the universe, to the spiritual core of your being. It's a phenomenal lesson. Votes: 2

Be a good steward of your gifts. Protect your time. Feed your inner life. Avoid too much noise. Read good books, have good sentences in your ears. Be by yourself as often as you can. Walk. Take the phone off the hook. Work regular hours. Votes: 2

Opportunities, many times, are so small that we glimpse them not and yet they are often the seeds of great enterprises. Opportunities are also everywhere and so you must always let your hook be hanging. When you least expect it, a great fish will swim by. Votes: 2

Good friends won't let you off the hook when you shouldn't be let off the hook. You can let fall the masks we seem to need to survive in a cutthroat world. There is a value of truth that we typically don't find in other parts of life. Votes: 2

a good writer should draw the reader in by starting in the middle of the story with a hook, then go back and fill in what happened before the hook. Once you have the reader hooked, you can write whatever you want as you slowly reel them in. Votes: 2

I push myself in a lot of aspects when I write a song. I write a piece and where most people would stop and say, 'Oh, that's the hook right there,' I'll move that to the first four bars of the verse and do a new hook. Votes: 2

Sometimes I'll have sections that I'm not quite sure how they fit in the puzzle of a tune, they'll get moved around; what I think was originally a verse ends up becoming the chorus, or what's an intro gets dropped as a hook, things get shifted around a lot. Votes: 2

By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate the future or the past of the world, to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream Votes: 2

It's not about me - four simple words that described the life of Christ. Do you call yourself a Christian? Well then, you're not off the hook. You don't get to claim 'Me, myself, and I' as your four words. 'It's not about me' should describe your life as well. Votes: 2

I don't like telling people where I stand on this, although I'm surprised anybody wonders. I suppose if I say I'm pro-choice, if I make that clear, it let's the audience off the hook, then they can sort of relax. Okay, it's alright he's pro-choice then I can enjoy this. Votes: 2

I basically taught myself how to DJ, but I've been inspired by DJs throughout my whole career. I have some good friends that would hook us up with music. You learn some little things here and there from each DJ and you just take it and put your own style into to it. Votes: 2

I tend to always carry a camera with me. I live next to a fire station, and I've got lots of photos of the hook and ladder coming out of the house. And I like food, so I tend to photograph wonderfully presented food all the time. To me those are very pleasant memories. Votes: 2

I felt like my favorite writers have almost musical hooks in their work, whether it's poetry or a hook at the end of a chapter that makes you want to read the next one. And I think that my favorite writers definitely have something musical about what they do, in saying something so relatable and universal and so simple. Votes: 2

Usually I start with a beat, I start making a beat, and my producer side is making the beat. And on a good day, my rapper side will jump in and start the writing process - maybe come up with a hook or start a verse. Sometimes it just happens like that. A song like 'Lights Please' happens like that. Votes: 2

When I was a child, my father used to take me for walks, often along a river or by the sea. We would pass people fishing, perhaps reeling in their lines with struggling fish hooked at the end of them. Once I saw a man take a small fish out of a bucket and impale it, still wriggling, on an empty hook to use as bait. Votes: 2

I have the Midas touch, in the way that when I hook up with a project, I feel, not speaking cocky or conceited, but there's a confidence I have. I learned that from Muhammad Ali; I used to bodyguard him. He taught me about confidence. So when it comes to any job I work, I'm gonna do it good; I'm going to bring it over the top. Votes: 2

Citizenship means standing up for the lives that gun violence steals from us each day. I have seen the courage of parents, students, pastors, and police officers all over this country who say 'we are not afraid,' and I intend to keep trying, with or without Congress, to help stop more tragedies from visiting innocent Americans in our movie theaters, shopping malls, or schools like Sandy Hook. Votes: 2

I've got a good right hook. Votes: 0

I use the hook to carry coffee. Votes: 0

I let people off the hook too easily. Votes: 0

Bait the hook well. This fish will bite. Votes: 0

A sly old fish, too cunning for the hook. Votes: 0

I took one look and fell, hook and tumble. Votes: 0

Beauty - a deceitful bait with a deadly hook. Votes: 0

I've calmed down already. I don't hook up anymore. Votes: 0

Letting yourself off the hook takes the stress away. Votes: 0

Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait. Votes: 0

People hook up. People don't hook up. I don't judge. Votes: 0

Love. The black hook. The spear singing through the mind. Votes: 0

You can talk to a fade but a hook won't listen. Votes: 0

The whole point is to hook people and keep them interested. Votes: 0

You must use the hook of precepts to quickly remove it. Votes: 0

Blind mouths! That scarce themselves know how to hold A sheep-hook. Votes: 0

Beauty, devoid of grace, is a mere hook without the bait. Votes: 0

...her cry is a hook and it catches me in the throat. Votes: 0

When you bait the hook with your heart, the fish always bite. Votes: 0

I'm here to confuse you. Confusion is my right and left hook. Votes: 0

Character design, like story design, requires a hook to grab the reader's attention. Votes: 0

Character design, like story design, requires a hook to grab the readers attention. Votes: 0

Maybe if I prayed to Miss Marple, she'd hook me up with a clue Votes: 0

I need to take a punch in order for me to throw that hook. Votes: 0

Last time I saw a mouth like that, it had a hook in it. Votes: 0

He that will play with Satan's bait, will quickly be taken with Satan's hook. Votes: 0

Tell everyone you know: "My happiness depends on me, so you're off the hook. Votes: 0

By hook or by crook this peril too shall be something that we remember Votes: 0

He who holds the hook is aware in what waters many fish are swimming. Votes: 0

Whatever we can’t hold, we hang on a hook that will hold it. Votes: 0

If I am ever put to death on the hook, expect a very human performance. Votes: 0

If there were any clear investigation of 9/11, they wouldn't let Louie Freeh off the hook. Votes: 0

Forgiveness isn't about letting the other person off the hook - it's about releasing ourselves. Votes: 0

BAIT, n. A preparation that renders the hook more palatable. The best kind is beauty. Votes: 0

Keep thy hook always baited, for a fish lurks even in the most unlikely swim. Votes: 0

A poem is a hand, a hook, a prayer. It is a soul in action. Votes: 0

My phone has been ringing off the hook. I have like 17 cell phones and pagers. Votes: 0

The filmmakers who I'm pining to work for aren't ringing my phone off the hook Votes: 0

Serial novels have an unexpected effect; they hook the writer as well as the reader. Votes: 0

The filmmakers who I'm pining to work for aren't ringing my phone off the hook. Votes: 0

Big Poppa Pump is your hook up, and the next heavyweight championship of the world! Votes: 0

The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook. Votes: 0

I call intuition cosmic fishing. You feel a nibble, then you've got to hook the fish. Votes: 0

Now listen little pigs, I'm gonna let you off the hook if you open the door. Votes: 0

You fit into me like a hook into an eye a fish hook an open eye Votes: 0

With Saturday Night Live you're looking for any hook, any way to stay on the show. Votes: 0

With comedy, you have no place to go but more comedy, so you're never off the hook. Votes: 0

We cannot take the president off the hook for an illegal war that was based on lies Votes: 0

The bolt of Tash falls from above!' 'Does it ever get caught on a hook halfway? Votes: 0

I'm not trying to fall in love on the Jersey Shore. I'm just trying to hook up. Votes: 0

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it Votes: 0

People tell me it was a great left hook, but I wouldn't know. I never saw it Votes: 0

The goal is to be on the hook, not to let someone else do the scary parts. Votes: 0

A fishing pole is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool on the other Votes: 0

A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter. Votes: 0

I'm not going to emphasize the sky-hook as much as work with the specific skills of the guys. Votes: 0

My favorite sci-fi always uses its hook to amplify some bigger theme or idea - some emotional thrust. Votes: 0

Foursquare's adoption of a game dynamic when it launched is a particularly clever implementation of a social hook. Votes: 0

One of my complaints with American TV characters is that they all have a particular schtick, a hook. Votes: 0

A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other. Votes: 0

You can make a movie about anything, as long as it has a hook to hang the advertising on. Votes: 0

He who steals a hook shall be hanged; while he who steals the state shall be crowned as prince. Votes: 0

The press is like a big bass, you just stick a hook in their mouth and they'll take it. Votes: 0

Lyrics have got to be simple and catchy. A hook is more important than an overall concept or story. Votes: 0

I met Mos Def around that time but I didn't hook up with him until I was about 17 or 18. Votes: 0

If pornographers can hook adolescents when their hormones are raging, they know they'll have an ongoing consumer base for life. Votes: 0

I think we're all hooked, I feel my own hook-ness on immediate gratification you know. I want what I want. Votes: 0

What I've tried to do in my stage magic is to take a trick and give it an emotional hook. Votes: 0

Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men are caught by it as fish by a hook. Votes: 0

I feel like I just grabbed a big juicy worm with a right sharp hook in the middle of it. Votes: 0

A fisherman does not bait his hook with food he likes. He uses food the fish likes. So with boys. Votes: 0

I hate a hook. It nauseates me. I could vomit when I see one. It's like a rattlesnake in your pocket. Votes: 0

Gary Oldman is impossible to steal a movie from. He's such a great actor, he's off the hook. I love him. Votes: 0

I got a new song called "The Plug" and the hook says "I'm the plug/I'm connected to everything you love... Votes: 0

When I get back from this book tour, I'm planning to learn the internet. Maybe I can hook up in cyberspace. Votes: 0

Isn't it nice to know that you can put a worm on your hook and get a fish all charged up? Votes: 0

I don't work out too much. I just do some pushups when I feel the right hook is getting a lil weak. Votes: 0

There is hook in every benefit, that sticks in his jaws that takes that benefit, and draws him whither the benefactor will. Votes: 0

Why are you not where you belong? / A black hat on a hook says nothing. / Ashes mirror ashes / In a mirroring window. Votes: 0

Try and inject into every commercial you make a touch of singularity; a bird that will hook on to the consumers mind Votes: 0

Denmark and the UK are in agreement that our future prosperity depends on stimulating green growth, and getting off the oil hook. Votes: 0

It's woman's power, food is. You be sure you know where'n the hook is before swallerin' it, Dru. You mind me, now. Votes: 0

How do you expect to get us to the Moon if you people can't even hook us up with a ground station? Votes: 0

When a song gets its legs and begins to come to me, this is the euphoric hook that keeps me wanting to continue. Votes: 0

[Beauty is] a delicate bait with a deadly hook; a sweet panther with a devouring paunch, a sour poison in a silver pot. Votes: 0

Anybody that shoots a hook shot, whatever hand, I jump up and cheer because it's the easiest shot, it's the best tweener shot. Votes: 0

A real foolproof way to do it is play your stuff by hook or by crook and build up a grass roots following Votes: 0

This hook nose and crab meister attitude has gotten me every job I've ever had. And more divorces than I care to remember. Votes: 0

It’s hard to land a devastating jab/cross/hook/uppercut combo to your reader’s imagination when you’re telegraphing your punches. Votes: 0

And yet--it is not beauty that inspires the deepest passion. Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait. Beauty, without expression, tires. Votes: 0

A real foolproof way to do it is play your stuff by hook or by crook and build up a grass roots following. Votes: 0

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'! Votes: 0

The hook-nosed teacher looked past Quirrell's turban straight into Harry's eyes "” and a sharp, hot pain shot across the scar on Harry's forehead. Votes: 0

If you were to draw Bugs, the easiest way is to learn how to draw a carrot and then hook a rabbit onto it Votes: 0

Your brain forms roughly 10,000 new cells every day, but unless they hook up to preexisting cells with strong memories, they die. Serves them right. Votes: 0

Men go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook. Votes: 0

As the old fisherman remarked after explaining the various ways to attach a frog to a hook, it's all the same to the frog. Votes: 0

Pleasure, like a kind of bait, is thrown before everything which is really bad, and easily allures greedy souls to the hook of perdition. Votes: 0

I like producing beats, and I like rapping, too. I have a program for the PC, and I can hook my keyboard to it. Votes: 0

When you get older and you start dating, I want you to be able to say one thing, 'I can bait a hook.' Votes: 0

With any modern relationship between a man and a woman, everyone - including their own friends - assume that they're going to hook up. Votes: 0

The cautious wolf fears the pit, the hawk regards with suspicion the snare laid for her, and the fish the hook in its concealment. Votes: 0

The Democrats are as much a part of the war machine as the Republicans. We can't let Democrats get off the hook because they're Democrats. Votes: 0

I think it's very improtant and healthy to tell differnt stories than the corporatist narratives we are being asked to swallow hook, line and sinker. Votes: 0

I don't have to worry about any pop sensibility. I can write adult songs, and I don't have to worry about choruses and hook lines. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

'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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I'm going to let myself off the hook, because if there's one thing that is not my focus at the moment, it's how much I weigh. Votes: 0

I used to sort of take the phone off the hook, you know, put my feet up and watch the TV until it was all over. Votes: 0

What is an artist? He's a man who has antennae, who knows how to hook up to the currents which are in atmosphere, in the cosmos. Votes: 0

I attempted to fish in Scotland and I managed to hook a dog. It was a horrible moment but the dog turned out to be fine. Votes: 0

America has always fascinated me; it's a country where you can make it from one side to the other with no money, by hook or by crook. Votes: 0

A story does that: it will reach out and hook somebody and hold them for just a few moments while you unpack this story in their presence. Votes: 0

As history has shown, any new computing device capable of running a game will, by hook or by crook, soon have them available. (aka, the "Loguidice Law") Votes: 0

I like psycho chicks... Yeah, you hook up with a psycho, you're gonna learn something. First thing you learn is how to sleep with one eye open. Votes: 0

One of the things that I'm dying to do is to sing the hook on a big rap song. No one's ever called me to do that. Votes: 0

I was a university professor, I could talk on and on and on. Give me a podium and you have to drag me off with a hook. Votes: 0

As a writer, there are times when you have something to say, and yet no particular 'hook' upon which to hang the missive you are burning to release. Votes: 0

I think often times if a guitar riff is centered around the chorus or if it follows the chorus, then it often times turns into the actual hook. Votes: 0

If the character is really well-rounded, and it's a really strong character, and if the writing is just fantastic, that's the thing that will hook me in, certainly. Votes: 0

I'm a big fan of not letting the audience of off the hook, as they say. I like it when things feel real, and that's oftentimes not comfortable. Votes: 0

You're a solid person, Sage. You're easy on the eyes, if a little skinny, and your ability to memorize useless information is going to totally hook in some guy. Votes: 0

Never reduce a target. Instead, increase actions. When you start rethinking your targets, making up excuses, and letting yourself off the hook, you are giving up on your dreams! Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Satan, that great angler, hath his sundry baits for sundry tempers of men, which they all catch greedily at, but few perceive the hook till it be too late. Votes: 0

He doesn't necessarily have to learn the sky hook. He just has to learn how to be an effective post player. I think I can help him do that. Votes: 0

I'd like to do a completely off-the-wall collaboration. I would like one of my songs to be the hook to a rap song. That would be so much fun! Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The Big Valbowski is a lot like a Hakeem Olajuwan, either he's taking the hook shot from the outside or driving down the lane on the inside, he always scores! Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

You're doing it again. Using reason to argue faith. Can't be done. Like playing croquet with a crochet hook. Sounds something like the right tool for the job, but isn't. Votes: 0

Grooming oneself with all the crazed compulsion of an under-exercised lab rat in order to hook a rich man and obtain a lush lifestyle makes a certain (albeit seedy) sense. Votes: 0

The love of Jesus Christ covers your sins, and it also gives you the power to let other people off the hook. You've been forgiven, and you can forgive others. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Fishing, Danny boy, is purely a state of mind. Some men, when they are fishing, are after fish. Me, I'm after things you could never set a barbed hook in. Votes: 0

I've always wanted to learn how to hook rugs. A wonderful artist named Leslie Giuliani taught me how. The nice thing is you can change it as you go along. Votes: 0

If I can invent a phrase then this Democrat [Bernie] Sanders takes her [Hillary Clinton] off the hook on the emails. Could there still be an FBI indictment? Probably not. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

A song without a hook is like a train without rails. It skitters all over the place, bangs into everything. Boom! Crash! There goes Grand Central Station. Crushed by a train. Votes: 0

And angling too, that solitary vice, What Izaak Walton sings or says: The quaint, old, cruel coxcomb, in his gullet Should have a hook, and a small trout to pull it. Votes: 0

I found out this summer how to hook up my Xbox 360 in the hotel and get past security. It took me a while to figure out, but I got it now. Votes: 0

There is a way hook ups are serving young women. And it was important for me to always talk about how behaviours were serving girls, not just making them the victims. Votes: 0

Get the big point of your advertisement into your headline. Use your headline as a hook to reach out and catch the special group of people you are trying to interest. Votes: 0

Forgiveness is not about letting anybody 'off the hook.' Forgiveness actually has nothing to do with the person you are forgiving. It does, however, have everything to do with you. Votes: 0

Written truth is four-dimensional. If we consult it at the wrong time, or read it at the wrong place, it is as empty and shapeless as a dress on a hook. Votes: 0

If we can reawaken that fierce quality in a man, hook it up to a higher purpose, release the warrior within, then the boy can grow up and become truly masculine. Votes: 0

Blaming the system is soothing because it lets you off the hook. But when the system is broken, we wonder why you were relying in the system in the first place. Votes: 0

When I got old enough to date, I realized that Valentine's Day is just a commercial marketing scam to make men feel bad. So I let my boyfriends off the hook. Votes: 0

I remember hitting Sarah Michelle Gellar with a right hook during my first week on the job. It was awful. They usually pair actors with stunt doubles to avoid things like that. Votes: 0

I like to give clues - titles - that can give a simple, evocative hook into what picture or feeling welled up in my mind when I came up with the song. Votes: 0

There are a lot of girls that will try to hook up with you, then try to have your kid because they figure they're going to get all this money from you Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

There are so many different things out there trying to hook our attention, we writers have to be very selective and make certain that it is coming from inside out, not outside in. Votes: 0

When we talk about my gender as though it were a performance, we let the audience - with all their expectations, prejudices, and presumptions - completely off the hook. - Scott Turner Schofield Votes: 0

I was very fortunate to hook up with Jerry in the first place. The network was already committed to doing something with him, so I skipped a couple of hundred steps right there. Votes: 0

Once you find the truth, no one can hurt you. You can let them off the hook. That is hard! Until then, keep distance, preserve the peace. Eventually it's like you weren't hurt. Votes: 0

Differentiation is classroom practice that looks eyeball to eyeball with the reality that kids differ, and the most effective teachers do whatever it takes to hook the whole range of kids on learning. Votes: 0

I've made mistakes, I clearly did, but what I was hoping for was that some other dumbass would get on the front page and take me off the hook. I miss Lane Kiffin. Votes: 0

What I learned from Rockefeller that's off-the-hook important is: You need to know exactly where you stand in a business at all times. Measure everything, because everything that is measured and watched improves. Votes: 0

I'm an old-school, embarrassing Joni Mitchell fan. Her music made a hook in my soul and hasn't let go for all these years. I even sing her songs as lullabies to my kids. Votes: 0

We will not let governments off the hook. We will look to civil society to help us, to pin governments, to what they have committed to here. And we will report on it. Votes: 0

America is off-the-hook gay. I will not go all Ann Coulter on you and say, 'Our gays are better than their gays,' but as far as countries go, we are in-your-face gay. Votes: 0

Who knows what the future holds but I think I'll always be that dude that can run hooks, and do hooks for other artists, and really know how to make a catchy hook. Votes: 0

I'll be honest, I worry sometimes about what I've done. I have tied my whole person to my art and, whatever it takes to get that hook, I will go there and do it. Votes: 0

I don't think there's anything wrong with not knowing how to play an instrument, but the rise of the non-musical producer has done away with musicianship and focused attention purely on the song's hook. Votes: 0

It is hard to come up with ideas that are achievable on a scale that you know you are going to have for an indie film but it also have some kind of hook. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Desire for an idea is like bait. When you're fishing, you have to have patience. You bait your hook, and then you wait. The desire is the bait that pulls those fish in-those ideas. Votes: 0

Sexual energy becomes problematic if you use to enslave someone, to demoralize them, to hurt them, to wrap them up. The way most people use sexual energy is to hook somebody, to wrap them. Votes: 0

A lot of times when songwriters get together and write a song... somebody will come in with a hook and a lot of times they come out with something that sounds a little crafty. Votes: 0

To me, the hook of the riff is what makes a great guitar recording. It's the backbone of the whole song. When you have a strong riff, it's the rocket fuel for the track. Votes: 0

I most enjoy sitting down with the acoustic guitar and just fiddling around and trying to come up with something like a hook or some sort of melodic line. That's something that I do habitually. Votes: 0

You get hit by one of those right hands or an uppercut or a left hook by Mark Hunt, then you know that **** is on and that cage is locked, and there's nowhere to go. Votes: 0

My real name is Scott Thompson. I could have gone by that name, but when I started doing comedy I thought I needed to go by something that has a little more of a hook. Votes: 0

Young men are eager to "hook up" with women. And many say they have very good female friends. But some of the emotions circulating among guys make it difficult to form and sustain healthy relationships. Votes: 0

We shouldn't let the Republicans off the hook. Theodore Roosevelt, we learned from Jeff Cowan's new book, was just as bad as certainly [Louis] Brandeis was, or many Democrats were on the question of segregation. Votes: 0

I still have my old Nintendo 64 that works. And I hook it up, and I still play the original Goldeneye. Im that geek. I have an NBA Jam arcade machine in my office at SNL. Votes: 0