Hook Quotes

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.

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.

It's a little like casting out hundreds of fishing lines into the audience. You start getting little bites, then more, then you hook a few, then more. Then you can start reeling them in and that's a loveliest feeling - the whole audience laughing with you.

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'.

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.

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

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

I've got a good right hook.

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

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

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

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

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?

I write a lot of music in my time off and I compose most of the songs on guitar. I've actually gone into the studio and recorded a few things, but it's tough trying to sell a song. It's all about finding that hook, that melody.

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

We, being the Western world, wouldn't let Russia off the hook on debt. So there were demands on debt servicing in the early days until they ran out of reserves. There was no real aid program, just a fictional aid program.

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

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.

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

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

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

Technology is like water; it wants to find its level. So if you hook up your computer to a billion other computers, it just makes sense that a tremendous share of the resources you want to use - not only text or media but processing power too - will be located remotely.

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.

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

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

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

They keep the song as street as it needs to be. It's got a good catchy hook where it can do what it needs to do on the radio, but they keep the song street where it will keep credibility in the hood.

Autism is a neurological disorder. It's not caused by bad parenting. It's caused by, you know, abnormal development in the brain. The emotional circuits in the brain are abnormal. And there also are differences in the white matter, which is the brain's computer cables that hook up the different brain departments.