Quotes About Hook

I was feeling fear. Not a wild, mortal fear, but something cold like a hook in my side.

Oh, how is it such a fantasy could get its hook so deep?

For a woman who can handle herself so well in a fight, I can't believe you got taken out by a defenseless doorjamb. (Ravyn) Given the size of my goose egg, I would argue the defenseless part. That doorjamb has a mean left hook.(Susan)

If pornographers can hook adolescents when their hormones are raging, they know they'll have an ongoing consumer base for life.

One cannot love dust. One might as well put the hook in one's heart oneself.

That's what I used to do; I would just go into the studio and just rap. But it's all about coming up with dope concepts and dope hooks.

I came up with new leads for game stories by being observant and clever, by using the many gifts of the English language to intrigue and hook a reader.

I want to make sure that my writing grips the reader from the word 'go.'

The first paragraph of my book must get me my reader. The last paragraph of a chapter must compel my reader to turn the page. The last paragraph of my book must ensure that my reader looks out for my next book.

It's important to begin a biography or any book or story with something to draw the reader in.

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.

I think it is important to begin with a statement in your speech that grabs the attention of the audience. I try to make my opening line 15 words or less.

A thriller needs to hold the interest of the reader from the very beginning. It needs to engage with them, hold them in rapt attention, and prevent them from putting down the book.

A fishing pole is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool on the other

A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other.

Last time I saw a mouth like that, it had a hook in it.

Purdue drilled its reps on two selling points. One, OxyContin was the first narcotic that wouldn't hook patients. And two, fewer than 1 percent of pain-management patients get addicted anyway.

What's another name for a zipper? A penis flytrap.

We like to crystallize something in the audience's brain that makes them say, 'Hey I really want to watch that. I'm really interested in it.'

When a newspaper columnist wants to write about a novel, the rule is that you're supposed to have a 'hook,' an excuse, a timely reason to bring up the book in question.

For decades, Big Oil ravaged our environment. They knew what they were peddling was lethal, but they didn't care. They used the classical Big Tobacco playbook of denial, denial, denial, and all the while, they did everything to hook society on their lethal product.

I often wonder what Einstein would have done in my position. At Peterson, I kept an Einstein poster in my room, the one that says 'Imagination is more important than knowledge.' Einstein was smart, maybe even as smart as Laserator, but he played it way too safe. Then again, nobody ever threw a grappling hook at Einstein. I like to think he would have enjoyed my work, if he could have seen it. But no one sees anything I do, not until it's hovering over Chicago.

Men go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook.

the investor would be on the hook for 10 percent of the loss.