Quotes of Hook - somelinesforyou

“ Put simply, I want to treat my readers as partners and not crooks. There is no future in calling your most active promoters crooks. ”

- Cory Doctorow

“ Well, I'm not a crook. ”

- Richard Milhous Nixon

“ A soulmate is someone who has locks that fit our keys, and keys to fit our locks. When we feel safe enough to open the locks, our truest selves step out and we can be completely and honestly who we are; we can be loved for who we are and not for who were pretending to be… ”

- Richard Bach

“ 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

“ The United States is a farce controlled by dirty, hook-nosed circumcised Jew bastards. ”

- Bobby Fischer

“ Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook. ”

- Oliver Goldsmith

“ We have sat on the river bank and caught catfish with pin hooks. The time has come to harpoon a whale. ”

- John Hope

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

- Lee Trevino

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

- James Woods

“ Mine is a straight, nothing-fancy, down-and-in delivery with a small hook at the end. ”

- Dick Weber

“ If hooking a car battery up to a monkey's brain will help find the cure for AIDS and save somebody's life, I have two things to say… the red is positive and the black is negative. ”

- Nick Dipaolo

“ America: It's like Britain, only with buttons. ”

- Ringo Starr

“ Men build bridges and throw ra ilroads across deserts, and yet they contend successfully that the job of sewing on a button is beyond them. Accordingly, they don't have to sew buttons. ”

- Heywood Broun

“ I have six locks on my door all in a row. When I go out, I lock every other one. I figure no matter how long somebody stands there picking the locks, they are always locking three. ”

- Elayne Boosler

“ The wisdom of others remains dull till it is writ over with our own blood. We are essentially apart from the world; it bursts into our consciousness only when it sinks its teeth and nails into us. ”

- Eric Hoffer

“ We've been asked much more about, 'What's your preparation?' 'How's your backhand doing?'. ”

- Roger Federer

“ God seems to have left the receiver off the hook and time is running out. ”

- Arthur Koestler

“ Gifts are like hooks. ”

- Marcus Valerius Martialis

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

- Samuel Johnson

“ Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Ovid

“ You know, I'm sick of following my dreams, man. I'm just gonna ask them where they're going and hook up with them later. ”

- Mitch Hedberg

“ And they shall beat their swords into plough-shares, and their spears into pruning-hooks. ”

- Bible

“ Always have your hook baited, in the pool you least think, there will be a fish. ”

- Ovid

“ Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it. ”

- Thomas Jefferson

“ Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish. ”

- Ovid

“ Opportunity is ever worth expecting; let your hook be ever hanging ready, the fish will be in the pool where you least imagine it to be. ”

- Unknown

“ They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. ”

- The Holy Bible

“ It is a peculiar part of the good photographer's adventure to know where luck is most likely to lie in the stream, to hook it, and to bring it in without unfair play and without too much subduing it. ”

- James Agee

“ You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him to a heavy load. ”

- Paul Bryant
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