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Quotes About Hooks

Furlong shook his head but bought a bag of the Lemon's jellies hanging on one of the hooks behind her head, as he did not like to go back out with one arm as long as the other.
~ Unknown
Writing is like this -- you dredge for the poem's meaning the way police dredge for a body. They think it is down there under the black water, they work the grappling hooks back and forth.
~ Paul Engle
You don't much think it did," said Alvin Hooks. "Your opinion is otherwise, it appears. But on what do you base your opinion, sir? You have not denied that my scenario is plausible. You have not denied that this premeditated murder might have happened in precisely the fashion I have just described, have you, Mr. Gillanders—have you?" "No, I haven't," Josiah said. "But—" "No further questions," said Alvin Hooks.
~ David Guterson
For faster or deeper water, use a big fly tied on a size 8 to 12 hook, and weight it heavily with tungsten bead heads and/ or nontoxic wire. For slower or shallower water, use a small fly tied on a size 12 to 16 hook and weighted only with a bead head or only with wire.
~ Yvon Chouinard
Loss bites and pulls. It is a thing of hooks sunk into every part of you, parts that you would not think could feel loss like thumbs and lips, hooks moored to wind and memory so that slightest disturbance, the slightest act of recall, tugs at those fine lines. Red is the colour of loss and its smell is like burned roses.
~ Unknown
Pop is a little bit theatrical. That's the whole vibe. That's the point - is that it's great music, great melodies, great hooks. But, on top of it, it's a presentation. There's a showmanship about it. And that's why I wanted to be a pop star.
~ Adam Lambert
Marcus Valerius Martialis
~ Unknown
The world is made of rings. The hooks are all yours. Make your hooks straight and nothing can hold you.
~ Nisargadatta Maharaj
Hang it with gold hooks on four posts of acacia wood, overlaid with gold and standing on four silver bases.
~ Exodus 26:32
with twenty posts and twenty bronze bases, and silver hooks and bands on the posts.
~ Exodus 27:10
All the posts around the courtyard shall have silver bands, silver hooks, and bronze bases.
~ Exodus 27:17
with twenty posts and twenty bronze bases, and with silver hooks and bands on the posts.
~ Exodus 38:10
The bases for the posts were bronze, the hooks and bands were silver, and the plating for the tops of the posts was silver. So all the posts of the courtyard were banded with silver.
~ Exodus 38:17
with four posts and four bronze bases. Their hooks were silver, as well as the bands and the plating of their tops.
~ Exodus 38:19
With the 1,775 shekels of silver he made the hooks for the posts, overlaid their tops, and supplied bands for them.
~ Exodus 38:28
When the nations heard of him, he was trapped in their pit. With hooks they led him away to the land of Egypt.
~ Ezekiel 19:4
With hooks they caged him and brought him to the king of Babylon. They brought him into captivity so that his roar was heard no longer on the mountains of Israel.
~ Ezekiel 19:9
But I will put hooks in your jaws and cause the fish of your streams to cling to your scales. I will haul you up out of your rivers, and all the fish of your streams will cling to your scales.
~ Ezekiel 29:4
The double-pronged hooks, each a handbreadth long, were fastened all around the inside of the room, and the flesh of the offering was to be placed on the tables.
~ Ezekiel 40:43
The Lord GOD has sworn by His holiness: “Behold, the days are coming when you will be taken away with hooks, and your posterity with fishhooks.
~ Amos 4:2