Top 186 Hooks Quotes & Sayings

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

'Jersey Shore' is one of the best shows of all time. They had so many hooks.

I'd call my music rock but with pop hooks.

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

The more hooks an idea has, the better it will cling to memory.

Letting go, it's so hard The way it's hurting now To get this love untied So tough to stay with this thing 'cos if I follow through I face what I denied I'll get those hooks out of me And I'll take out the hooks that I sunk deep in your side Kill that fear of emptiness, that loneliness I hide.

Gifts are like fish-hooks; for who is not aware that the greedy char is deceived by the fly which he swallows?

Once they get their hooks into you, you're a dead pigeon.

Art grows out of modes of perception that make you feel and think...that hooks on to something deep-running in our natures.

When a horse is feeling good, you can sense that, a lot like the tension a fisherman feels on his line when he hooks something.

That was the way illness appeared in a house, in the corners, in between floorboards, on the hooks in the closet, along with the sweaters and coats.

My raps be crazy, and my hooks are nasty.

Someone saved my life tonight, sugar bear, you almost had your hooks in me, didn't you dear?

Making vocal hooks is my favorite thing to do. That's what I love about songwriting - making catchy stuff.

High taxes on guns and strong restrictions on their availability are the only realistic hope for avoiding many more Sandy Hooks.

I'm used to producing all of my projects, doing all the beats, and writing all the hooks.

I was sick of waiting for people to jump on hooks for songs I produced. So I tried singing myself, and I haven't looked back.

Moloch merely shovels babies into the fire of productive capitalism. Mammon hooks them on the dead heroin of envy.

If you listen to the songs I write, they are the most ADHD songs ever. They have five hooks in one and it all happens in three minutes.

I like hooks and choruses, things people can sing to.

She heard pa shouting,"Jiminy crickets!It's raining fish-hooks and hammer handles!

Hooks need to be predictable and not predictable at the same time.

Diphthongs are indicated by combinations of hooks and circles.

Memory is not like a container that gradually fills up, it is more like a tree growing hooks onto which memories are hung. Everything you remember is another set of hooks on which more new memories can be attached. So the capacity of memory keeps on growing. The more you know, the more you can know.

Gifts are like hooks.

I don't pick up a project based on its success ratio. If it instinctively hooks me, then it hooks me.

The hooks didn't roll out any more sevens than my hands did before them.

Guitar Center hooks me up on a lot of stuff.

The gods give no gifts without hooks embedded.

I'm not a folk or jazz singer, more a hard-edged pop singer - with some rock, and song hooks.

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

Hope is the crystal meth of emotions. It hooks you fast and kills you hard.

I believe very strongly in having melodic hooks, whether they're short or intricate, that you really remember in a movie.

Instead of giving people fish, teach them how to use hooks.

I hear melodies and hooks all day. I've always been that way, since I was a kid.

Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver hooks.

I don't think people in America understand race, and how deep the hooks of whiteness there are in our consciousness.

Women in music have always been associated with pop - with prettiness, theatricality, melodic hooks and dance beats.

When we first hear [a] word, we start putting these associational hooks into it that make it easier to fish it back out at some later date.

I try to write catchy hooks but, at the same time, things that mean something that will provoke thought.

If you want to catch more fish, use more hooks.

You have to put these hooks in it, you know? You've got to make sure you got all that ear candy in it to get it through the gate.

Most of the time I write visually. I get a visual of me in the audience watching the concert. I usually come up with the hooks first. Like with 'Old School.'

When any kind of military action is popular it's because either there's been a very clear, direct threat to us - 9/11 - or an administration uses various hooks to suggest that American interests were directly threatened - like in Panama or Grenada. And sometimes, those hooks are more persuasive than others, but typically, they're not put before Congress.

In terms of melody, I am really into great 90's melodies. I feel like there was a great focus on melody in the 90's, like 90's pop-hooks and 90's R&B hooks; I just love them.

I write all my hooks.

I like old-school, riff-driven, hard rock music with big hooks!

My songs aren't built around choruses or hooks or anything like that. That's kind of how I write screenplays too.

I was a huge fan of Jon Lovitz, Dana Carvey, Jan Hooks, obviously Phil Hartman, and a very young Adam Sandler.

What we're most known for is the catchy choruses and the big hooks.

Think of Capt. Hook, and then put an 's' after it. Capt. Hooks. That's me.

Everyone hooks up with George Clooney. He's a genuinely cool guy. He's using his powers for good.

Charli XCX is able to write these really catchy, sexy, irreverent, fun hooks.

I love leg locks and heel hooks and kneebars. They're complex and hard to avoid.

What's the essence of the Go-Go's? Great melodies, guitar hooks, driving drums. All of that.

Who knows what the future holds but I think I'll always be that dude that can run hooks, and do hooks for other artists, and really know how to make a catchy hook.

I don't know what it is really... I think I'm just good with hooks.

I like having big hooks and big records and sing-a-longs.

I think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the closest one can come to being present at creation.

An enlightened entertainer, via story, casts her line into the souls of others, hooks their heart, and pulls their greater potential to the surface.