Quotes About Hook

Pacing has become more important than ever, largely because of other media. I've always tried to start my stories out with a bang, something that will hook their attention.

If I improvise vocals at an early stage of the song, I just kind of listen to the roll, and then I kind of have a little vocal hook.

There's no reason my films can't work as hard as VR does to hook an audience and never let them go, so I think that that it turns the volume up a little bit on storytelling. The same way when I was doing commercials and then I went and shot 'Go,' and 'Go' has a level of pace that is unlike any of my other movies.

I'm a sucker for pop melodies, things you can't get out of your head.

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

dope-pushers hang around there. But taking dope is even dumber than smoking, so nobody's going to hook me! We live on

It was only the first stage, that was all. It was only the first knot in the snare, the first flick of the hook; the first hint of the spin in the arrow. The first letting of blood not his own.

I think the most-played record in our house was the 'Big Chill' Soundtrack - so Smokey Robinson, Aretha Franklin, the Temptations, Otis Redding. I think that's where I got my love for a good hook, a good soul hook - really smooth and warm and from the heart.

It looked like all the guys were going to end up matched with someone. Well, all except for Sam. I truly couldn't imagine anyone wanting to purposely hook up with my irritating brother.

A lot of people pretty much only listen to the chorus.

Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish. OVID

Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men are caught by it as fish by a hook.

Captain Hook's mother, who said to Little Hook, For God sakes, don't scratch it! Never got a dinner!

Desire for an idea is like bait. When you're fishing, you have to have patience. You bait your hook, and then you wait. The desire is the bait that pulls those fish in-those ideas.

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

Dentists tell you not to pick your teeth with any sharp metal object. Then you sit in their chair and the first thing they grab is an iron hook.

It's woman's power, food is. You be sure you know where'n the hook is before swallerin' it, Dru. You mind me, now.

I sit in happy meditation on my rock, pondering, while my line dries again, upon the ways of trout and men. How like fish we are: ready, nay eager, to seize upon whatever new thing some wind of circumstance shakes down upon the river of time! And how we rue our haste, finding the gilded morsel to contain a hook.

Cavanaugh's knife, Ernest Emerson's CQC-7W. The hook at the top opens the blade as the knife is drawn from a pocket. (Emersonknives.com)

Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.

A murdered author was a marketing hook to die for. Jane

Novelty is the universal cry - novelty by hook or by crook! It is an exceedingly common mania among people of inordinate wealth to exact incessantly new or so-called new dishes.

The easiest way I can describe what makes a pop song a pop song is that it's a song you want to hear over and over.

I love a good, poppy chorus.