Hook Quotes - Page 4

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.

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

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

My poems always begin with a metaphor, but my way into the metaphor may be a word, an image, even a sound. And I rarely know the nature of the metaphor when I begin to write, but there is an attentiveness that a writer develops, a sudden alertness that is much like the feel of a fish brushing against a hook.

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

Oh, no. To live... to live would be an awfully big adventure.

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

I would like to hook up with one of the great Japanese filmmakers, like the master that made Ringu, and I would like to take 'The Wicker Man' to Japan, except this time he's a ghost.

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

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.

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

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

I've got a good right hook.

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.

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)

To be impatient is to be hooked on the future.

If security were all that mattered, computers would never be turned on, let alone hooked into a network with literally millions of potential intruders.

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.

Hooked on Phonics worked for me.

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

Philosophy, most broadly viewed, is the critical survey of existence from the standpoint of value.

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

Friend, you're HOPELESSLY hooked!

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

Gifts are like hooks.