Quotes About Bait

Intelligence without wisdom is like a hook without bait.

Bait, no matter how big, is useless if fish do not desire it.

But always when I was without a book, my soul would at once become disturbed, and my thoughts wandered. As I read, I began to call them together again and, as it were, laid a bait for my soul

Each thing had a value and as the value changed, everything else changed also. A broken calabash was worth less than one that held its water, a hook that kept its catfish more prized than one that relinquished its bait. In America the quirk was that people were things.

Crisis management, he'd learned, generally balanced on getting others to focus on a different crisis, one of his choosing. Bait and switch, sleight of hand, a gentle tap to send the news cycle into a different spin.

Christine Blacklaw paled. She knew he was right. Loch Merse and its surrounding area was a terrible death trap, human beings the bait, the crustaceans lurked nearby, waiting to move in for one of the most terrible slaughters in the history of Mankind.

People say, 'Burt Reynolds is so good-looking.'... I used to set him up for bait. I'd send him to the student union, and he'd come back with a beautiful girl and an ugly one. But his ugly girls were better than anything I'd get on my own. With his looks and my car, we'd kill 'em in Tallahassee.

Isn't it nice to know that you can put a worm on your hook and get a fish all charged up?

Tom sliced off the end of the night crawler and forked it up. But just as

I often went fishing up in Maine during the summer. Personally I am very fond of strawberries and cream, but I have found that for some strange reason, fish prefer worms. So when I went fishing, I didn't think about what I wanted. I thought about what they wanted. I didn't bait the hook with strawberries and cream. Rather, I dangled a worm or a grasshopper in front of the fish and said: "Wouldn't you like to have that?

Professor Langdon?' A male student at the back raised his hand, sounding hopeful. 'Are you saying that instead of going to chapel, we should have more sex?' Langdon chuckled, not about to take the bait. From what he'd heard about Harvard parties, these kids were having more than enough sex.

The four rules were clear: (1) Unblock revenue. (2) Minimize up-front cash. (3) Faster is better than best. (4) Use what you've got. These rules, taken together, ensured that cash wouldn't be consumed unless it was being used as bait for more cash. Spend a little, make a little more.

In day-to-day commerce, television is not so much interested in the business of communications as in the business of delivering audiences to advertisers. People are the merchandise, not the shows. The shows are merely the bait.

There's always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby.

Beauty, alone, may please, not captivate; if lacking grace, 'tis but a hookless bait.

Shane said, Don't worry. I'll protect you. Claire hit him in the shoulder. I don't need you to protect me. Then why am I going first? So you can take the first punch while I throw the second? So I'm bait? Ouch. You've been in Morganville way too long, girl.

I'm not much for parties. Sometimes you have to wear a funny hat, sometimes they expect you to eat sushi, which is like eating bait. And there's always some totally drunk girl who thinks you're smitten by her, when what you're really wondering is if she'll vomit on your shirt or instead on your shoes.

If I am ever forced to cover guys playing video games, I will retire and move to a rural fishing village and sell bait.

I mean, if having a family was ever going to be part of your life, the transition had to happen somewhere, and likely that meant somewhere on your many travels something would change the way you saw things. Unless you got sick of adventuring and decided to up and go home and cast your bait in the pond there." She snorted, wrinkled her nose. "Casting my bait? Ew." "Well, what do you expect from a cattle baron pirate?

Darth Vader is only interested in Luke's friends as bait. Maybe we can create a situation where they become friends, with Han and Leia and Vader all sitting down to dinner together—the evil Count having dinner with his enemies.

Truth is: In order for us to be free and live up to our full potential we must free ourselves from that bait which trapped us and is holding us back.

I guess a man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, and then steps in it.

Please try not to need me. That's the worst bait of all to a lonely man.

You wouldn't lay a trap for me? Lee asked. My wish isn't as strong as it once was. I'm afraid I could be talked out of it or, what would be worse, I could be held back just by being needed. Please try not to need me. That's the worst bait of all to a lonely man.