Hook Quotes

• Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.

  

  Moliere
  • Beauty
  • Intelligence
  • Bait

• Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Hope
  • Hook
  • Bait

• President Obama was deeply and clearly affected by the Sandy Hook disaster.

  

  Irwin Redlener
  • President
  • Disaster
  • Hook

• Bait the hook well. This fish will bite.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Food
  • Fishes
  • Culinary

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

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Up
  • Time
  • Him

• 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.

  

  Darius Rucker Hootie & the Blowfish
  • Song
  • Dying
  • Rap

• Even when there's not a joke or a hook, the first line has to be good and snapem to attention. Songs ain't novels. You don't have 30 pages to slowly wrap somebody in. They're more like short stories or poems. If the first line hasn't grabbed them, you won't get to the second line. Once you've developed an audience, you may have some luxury and trust, so you don't have to knock 'em over the head with line one.

  

  Dan Bern
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Attention

• The visceral nature of hard rock music, the fact that you can have this sledge hammering sound - and that you can hook a lyric up and a feeling up to something and make the lyric jump into this machine that crushes. That has always been really attractive to me, that kind of power.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Kind
  • Feelings
  • Crush

• Jeff Foxworthy had that whole "You might be a redneck" thing; Larry the Cable Guy had "Git-R-Done." Some comics have that hook. Dane Cook had that super finger. So I just caught on early on. I ran with "Fluffy."

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Done
  • Guy
  • Redneck

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

  

  Sean Astin
  • Filmmaker
  • Phones
  • Pining

• You don't want to be on a show that no one wants to see, and then think your phone is going to be ringing off the hook to do other jobs. I'm not tethered to the fact that my demise may be reached this season or next season, or whatever.

  

  Isaiah Washington
  • May
  • Jobs
  • Facts

• When I'm drawing a bottle or a town or a market, I transport myself there. So I start drawing everything that I'm looking at while I'm there. Here's a guy selling the meat, and he will have a hook, and you start adding things, and it's a lot of fun.

  

  Sergio Aragones
  • Fun
  • Guy
  • Selling

• Tell everyone you know: "My happiness depends on me, so you're off the hook." And then demonstrate it. Be happy, no matter what they're doing. Practice feeling good, no matter what. And before you know it, you will not give anyone else responsibility for the way you feel-and then, you'll love them all. Because the only reason you don't love them, is because you're using them as your excuse to not feel good.

  

  Esther Hicks
  • Responsibility
  • Reason
  • Happiness

• 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.

  

  William Kent Krueger
  • Men
  • Mind
  • Boys

• I let people off the hook too easily.

  

  William Boyd
  • People
  • Hook

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

  

  Jack Roy
  • Time
  • Last Time
  • Like That

• 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.

  

  David Lee Roth Van Halen
  • Song
  • Train
  • Rails

• I'll stutter step, then drop the shoulder, a little pump, a little Kobe Game 7 fade-away, and the hooks coming too. And Malcolm [Subban] knows, he's got an inch on me but he can't defend that. He knows that.

  

  P. K. Subban
  • Game
  • Games
  • Littles

• I got the experience, I got the strength, I got the talent, I got the famous jump hook. That's my move.

  

  P. K. Subban
  • Experience
  • Moving
  • Famous

• 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'.

  

  Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
  • Writing
  • Rap
  • Beats

• 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.

  

  Carol Ann Tomlinson
  • Kids
  • Reality
  • Teacher

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

  

  Louise Erdrich
  • Mind
  • Love
  • Black

• A bull will try to outwit you. It will stop and hook when the last thing you expect from it is that it will stop and hook.

  

  Bette Ford
  • Stop
  • Hook
  • Bull

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

  

  Mona Eltahawy
  • Confusion
  • Hook

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