Hook Quotes - page 7

I don't think there's anything wrong with not knowing how to play an instrument, but the rise of the non-musical producer has done away with musicianship and focused attention purely on the song's hook. (Moby)
I've got a good right hook. View quote
Julie Andrews
With comedy, you have no place to go but more comedy, so you're never off the hook. View quote
Steve Martin
The more books and articles on Ayodhya and on "communalism" I look into, the more I feel confirmed in my assessment that the Hindu presentation of their own case regarding Ayodhya is the single worst public relations job in world history. (...) Future books on the affair will certainly include a chapter on "the Ayodhya scandal": the unscrupled use of academic and media power positions by the secularists to suppress relevant evidence, and the gullibility of foreign scholars relying on hearsay from Indian colleagues whose bona fides is open to question. (...) Future scholars of political and communications science will study the reporting on the Ayodhya affair as an absolute classic of brilliantly successful disinformation. ... The buffoon of the affair is the Western class of India-watchers .... they have swallowed the anti-Hindu propaganda hook, line and sinker. View quote
Koenraad Elst
The first time I shot the hook, I was in fourth grade, and I was about five feet eight inches tall. I put the ball up and felt totally at ease with the shot. I was completely confident it would go in and I've been shooting it ever since. View quote
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other. View quote
Samuel Johnson
The phone's not ringing off the hook, but that's ok by me. I feel very fortunate, work to me has become a kind of hobby. View quote
Matt LeBlanc
BAIT, n. A preparation that renders the hook more palatable. The best kind is beauty. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
I'll be honest, I worry sometimes about what I've done. I have tied my whole person to my art and, whatever it takes to get that hook, I will go there and do it. View quote
Rufus Wainwright
The press is like a big bass, you just stick a hook in their mouth and they'll take it. View quote
James Woods
Fiction has subversive potential. People let it into their minds, like the Trojan Horse. They don't know what's inside. You hook them with the story, and God can work below the level of their consciousness. Fiction can be propaganda for evil or convey a theme that impacts people for good. (Randy Alcorn)
Opportunities, many times, are so small that we glimpse them not and yet they are often the seeds of great enterprises. Opportunities are also everywhere and so you must always let your hook be hanging. When you least expect it, a great fish will swim by. View quote
Og Mandino
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! View quote
Taylor Swift
I felt like my favorite writers have almost musical hooks in their work, whether it's poetry or a hook at the end of a chapter that makes you want to read the next one. And I think that my favorite writers definitely have something musical about what they do, in saying something so relatable and universal and so simple. View quote
Taylor Swift
You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him to a heavy load. View quote
Bear Bryant
I do think sometimes there's danger in guest appearance mania. I've seen too many examples that sound cool on paper, like 'Oh, get that guy to sing the hook on that guy's song,' and then that's all it is. It's a cool idea that sounds good on paper. View quote
Ezra Koenig
When I'm writing, I'm thinking about how the songs are going to play live. Fifty bars of rap don't translate onstage. No matter how potent the music, you lose the crowd. They want a hook; they want to sing your stuff back to you. View quote
Drake (entertainer)
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. View quote
Julie Burchill
Human memory, they say, is like a coat closet: The most enduring outcome of a formal education is that it creates rows of coat hooks so that later on, when you come upon a new piece of information, you have a hook to hang it on. Without a hook, the new information falls on the floor. View quote
Ursula Goodenough
Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fastly misled us as those that are not wholly wrong, as no timepieces so effectually deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right. View quote
Charles Caleb Colton
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. (Nicolas Cage)
It's fun to do a comedy and hook people in and then hoodwink them into watching a serious movie. I like to lead in with the comedy and then hit them over the head with a drama. View quote
Reese Witherspoon
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. View quote
Darius Rucker
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. View quote
Cindy Sheehan
I am often on guard over the Russians. In the darkness one sees their forms move like stick storks, like great birds. They come close up to the wire fence and lean their faces against it. Their fingers hook round the mesh. View quote
Erich Maria Remarque