Hook Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Someone saved my life tonight, sugar bear, you almost had your hooks in me, didn't you dear?

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.

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.

Letting yourself off the hook takes the stress away.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Maybe if I prayed to Miss Marple, she’d hook me up with a clue

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.

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.

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

I don't stay in the genre because I just like all stories that have a smart hook in them and I can find a comic way through if it's a comedy or a suspenseful way through it if it's a drama.

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

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

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.

I hear melodies and hooks all day. I've always been that way, since I was a kid.

Beauty - a deceitful bait with a deadly hook.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

She heard pa shouting,"Jiminy crickets!It's raining fish-hooks and hammer handles!

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

And I also have a camera, a Web cam, and I have one at home, so I can hook up and talk to the girls, and they can see me while we're on the bus in the middle of nowhere.

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

The gods give no gifts without hooks embedded.

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.

You have to put these hooks in it, you know? You've got to make sure you got all that ear candy in it to get it through the gate.

I took one look and fell, hook and tumble.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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