Hook Quotes

The more hooks an idea has, the better it will cling to memory.

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

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.

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.

I’ve been here before, dreaming myself backwards, among grappling hooks of light. True to the seasons, I’ve lived every word spoken. Did I walk into someone’s nightmare?

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

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.

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

I'm terrified of saying the wrong thing on stage with bell hooks.

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.

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'!

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.

Let's hook up and just bring fiery death.

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

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.

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.

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

Peter Pan, prepare to meet thy doom.

Love. The black hook. The spear singing through the mind.

I didn't want to take the guitar solos down note-for-note, but more or less use them as a map, and keep all the hooks from the guitar playing, and let myself come through.

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

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

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

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

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

Character design, like story design, requires a hook to grab the reader’s attention.

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

'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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Gifts are like fish-hooks; for who is not aware that the greedy char is deceived by the fly which he swallows?

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

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

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

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

I've got a good right hook.

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.

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.

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.

Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness.

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

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.

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

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!

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.

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

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.