Quotes About Hook

Every morning she pulled a delicate cup from its brass hook and filled it, hoping that it would be dark and deep and secret as a forest, and each morning it cooled too fast, had too much milk, stained the cup, made her nervous.

Intelligence without wisdom is like a hook without bait.

A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter.

Nash Kirkland considered it an amusing fact and an interesting hook. He spent a great deal of his time studying the supernatural. Vampires and werewolves and things that went bump in the night were a hell of a way to make a living. And he wouldn't have had it any other way.

The man with the handlebar mustache had a scar that dug from his lip to the middle of his cheek, as if he'd wriggled free from a fisherman's hook.

we [can] catch fish and just throw them back... it [doesn't] seem to hurt the fish much past a cut lip. But then... one [may] swallow the hook...[it'd be] a goner, whether we tried to pull it out or just cut the line. Because once you've swallowed the hook, there's no losing it. Me, I've swallowed it big time.

I always break people's noses with the uppercut, not the hook.

That Smathers is smart. He got ever'body off the hook. Even the company. An' he got us so tied in that there's nothin' we can say

You can talk to a fade but a hook won't listen.

The filmmakers who I'm pining to work for aren't ringing my phone off the hook.

The press is like a big bass, you just stick a hook in their mouth and they'll take it.

Don't forget that the only two things people read in a story are the first and last sentences. Give them blood in the eye on the first one.

If you're not interested in history, if you're living for the day, you need some sort of cliche hook. I certainly don't think of myself as a cult anything. It's a strange thing to even consider pursuing.

I love palm strikes because you have a longer reach. Normally, when you give a left hook and then a right straight, you are too close for the right straight. Why? Because the hook is shorter.

I always put myself in the audience's seat, whether it is a film like 'Judwaa 2' or 'Badlapur.' There has to be a message; the core story needs to have a hook, which should be out of the ordinary.

I paid attention how to land a big shot, like Oscar De La Hoya with the left hook.

The job of the first eight pages is not to have the reader want to throw the book at the wall, during the first eight pages.

There are cases where you can say a lot more in a hook than you can by making things more complex in a verse.

It wasn't until 9th grade that I got into music. This guy in school heard me singing around the hallway to girls and stuff. The girls liked it. One day, he was like, 'Come to my crib. I got a studio. Come and record a hook for me.' I recorded the hook on the 'Lovers & Friends' beat - Usher.

I write a lot of music in my time off and I compose most of the songs on guitar. I've actually gone into the studio and recorded a few things, but it's tough trying to sell a song. It's all about finding that hook, that melody.

I had seen 'Hook' growing up - it was one of my favorite films - and I had seen the version of 'Peter Pan' that Jason Issacs was in, and I had seen the older versions, obviously the Disney version.

Hook your editor with a strong opening sentence to bring attention to your writing.

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

The ultimate pitch for an era of short attention spans begins with a single word - and doesn't go any further.