Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alexander McCall Smith

Serial novels have an unexpected effect; they hook the writer as well as the reader.

Charlie Sheen

Let's hook up and just bring fiery death.

Marcia Gay Harden

The people who stood out in the Sandy Hook incident, the heroes, were the normal, ordinary people who went to save those children.

Catherynne M. Valente

...her cry is a hook and it catches me in the throat.

We're stepping up negotiation with their captors so that they can be off the hook imminently.

Avicii

I always just sit down at the piano and make the main hook - what I want the track to be about melodically - and then I'll build everything else around that. But growing up, I did not play any instruments.

I keep a fiddle hooked up in the music - we've got a music room - and try to pick it up.

They were real nice people. They hooked me up with FEMA. From the time that I got here it was beautiful, everyone was real nice-they were superbly nice.

Michael McMillian

I'm hooked on 'Game of Thrones.' I'm a fan of the books and the show.

I just ran into one. I hooked it, like my 3-iron.

I am proud to say I know him. He's not getting off the hook because I am going to need him.

Laverne Cox

I'm terrified of saying the wrong thing on stage with bell hooks.

And likewise for the north side in length there shall be hangings of an hundred cubits long, and his twenty pillars and their twenty sockets of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver.

Ray hooked us up with that. The song is called 'Whole Lot of Nada,' and we're going to play it that night. We're in the works of shopping it around to some people for someone to sing it.

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

A lot of people say, I am so hooked on that pizza, that's all I want. I never was into it.

Ken Hitchcock

There were some penalties today that should have been called. We hooked and held, and that's what it is.

You sign up your kid and you don't realize you get hooked on it.

Leslie Jamison

Whatever we can’t hold, we hang on a hook that will hold it.

Sidney Blumenthal

If there were any clear investigation of 9/11, they wouldn't let Louie Freeh off the hook.

Talib Kweli

I met Mos Def around that time but I didn't hook up with him until I was about 17 or 18.

Sylvia Plath

I am inhabited by a cry. Nightly it flaps out Looking, with its hooks, for something to love.

Ovid

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

Rodney Dangerfield

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

Thomas Adams

Satan like a fisher, baits his hook according to the appetite of the fish.

Jean Chatzky

If you are able to settle, you'll be getting off rather easy. Debt settlement companies can sometimes get you off the hook for a large percentage of your debt - in many cases, up to 50% will be written off.

Esther Hicks

Tell everyone you know: “My happiness depends on me, so you're off the hook.

Horace

The cautious wolf fears the pit, the hawk regards with suspicion the snare laid for her, and the fish the hook in its concealment.

It's our hook to get people in, and hopefully they will learn something about this man.

It's an interesting sound to say the least. People get hooked by it.

Keith Carradine

This ["Sheriff John Taggart"] was an occasion where a studio was willing to spend a lot of money to make a film set in that time and place, but the hook was that they were also going to have aliens from outer space!

If I am using a telephone line to hook up to the Internet and then once I get on the Internet I'm using voice to communicate with you, how do you characterize the transmission of that data? Is it packets of information and is it (just another phone call)?" ()

I can't think of a time over the last 17 years where the phones have been ringing off the hook quite as much as they have recently.