Hooks Quotes

Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver hooks. (John Donne)
Everyone hooks up with George Clooney. He's a genuinely cool guy. He's using his powers for good. View quote
William H. Macy
The gods give no gifts without hooks embedded. View quote
Lois McMaster Bujold
Hope is the crystal meth of emotions. It hooks you fast and kills you hard. View quote
Jennifer Donnelly
.. I tell you Dain is a splendid catch. I advise you to set your hooks and reel him in.” Jessica took a long swallow of her cognac. "This is not a trout, Genevieve. This is a great, hungry shark.” "Then use a harpoon. View quote
Loretta Chase
I didn't want to take the guitar solos down note-for-note, but more or less use them as a map, and keep all the hooks from the guitar playing, and let myself come through. View quote
Brian Setzer
It's a comedy thriller, brilliantly written and it's full of twists and turns at every page. When I was reading it I was desperate to get to the end to find out what happens, it really hooks you. View quote
Louise Jameson
I think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the closest one can come to being present at creation. View quote
Phyllis Theroux
That's the best way to feed the human mind. That's how Bob Marley did it. He never put it in your face. After you got the groove, you were just singing the hooks, because you thought it was cool. View quote
Wyclef Jean
I am inhabited by a cry. Nightly it flaps out Looking, with its hooks, for something to love. View quote
Sylvia Plath
The waters speak of love and the breeze and the branches and the little birds and the fish and the flowers and the grass, all together begging me always to love. But you, born in a happy hour, who call me from Heaven: by the memory of your untimely death you beg me to scorn the world and its sweet hooks. (Petrarch)
Something new is wanted. A new novel, perhaps. Something the ten-percenters don't have their hooks into yet. Those soul-fuckers should all be killed. View quote
Hunter S. Thompson
Your young military men, who want to reap the harvest of laurels, don't care (I suppose) how many seeds of war are sown; but for the sake of humanity it is devoutly to be wished, that the manly employment of agriculture and the humanizing benefits of commerce, would supersede the waste of war and the rage of conquest; that the swords might be turned into plough-shares, the spears into pruning hooks, and, as the Scripture expresses it, "the nations learn war no more." View quote
George Washington
The tap of hangers, swaying in the closet - unburdened hooks and empty drawers - and everywhere I tried to love you is yours again, and only yours. View quote
Joanna Newsom
And someone saved my life tonight, sugar bear. You almost had your hooks in me, didn't you dear? You nearly had me roped and tied, Altar-bound, hypnotized. Sweet freedom whispered in my ear, You're a butterfly. And butterflies are free to fly, Fly away, high away, bye bye. View quote
Elton John
Over the years I learned which hooks to use to catch which fish. View quote
Adolf Eichmann
Cruelty stares at me from the butcher's face. I tread amidst carcasses. I am in the presence of the slain. The death-set eyes of beasts peer at me and accuse me of belonging to the race of murderers. Quartered, disembowelled creatures on suspended hooks plead with me. I feel myself dispossessed of the divinity. View quote
Amos Bronson Alcott
We use the word God. God hooks all the other words up. I'm the pope. I'm ten times the pope. I'm fifty times the pope. But I'm the pope in the hills and in the mountains. View quote
Charles Manson
Memory is not like a container that gradually fills up, it is more like a tree growing hooks onto which memories are hung. Everything you remember is another set of hooks on which more new memories can be attached. So the capacity of memory keeps on growing. The more you know, the more you can know. View quote
Peter Russell
You've got to quit lowering your standards. Set your requirements up front so when a guy hooks you, he has to know this is business. View quote
Steve Harvey
Several years ago I saw a video of a seal hunt in Canada and was shocked. I just couldn't believe that sort of thing was still happening in the 21st century. But it was. The way seals are killed is so inhumane. They're clubbed then pulled across the ice with big hooks. I mean, I have a pretty strong stomach from being on ER all these years, but it still disgusts me. Once you see a video like that it's really hard to sit on the sidelines and say "Who cares." (Goran Visnjic)
Once they get their hooks into you, you're a dead pigeon. View quote
Bud Abbott
The hooks didn't roll out any more sevens than my hands did before them. View quote
Harold Russell
We have sat on the river bank and caught catfish with pin hooks. The time has come to harpoon a whale. View quote
John Hope
Diphthongs are indicated by combinations of hooks and circles. View quote
John Robert Gregg