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Source: John Lyly 'Euphues: the Anatomy of Wit' and 'Euphues and His England': An Annotated, Modern-Spelling Edition

“Even as a child back in Indiana, whenever I took a Butterbelly off the hook I used to ask myself, "Does this fish think?" I would even ask others, "Do you suppose this Butterbelly can think?" And all I would get in reply was a look. At the age of eighteen, I left the state.”

Thinking Looks Children Doe States Age Used Asks Left Fishes Hook Eighteen Indiana

Author:Will Cuppy

“Satan, that great angler, hath his sundry baits for sundry tempers of men, which they all catch greedily at, but few perceive the hook till it be too late.”

Men Late Perceive Satan Too Late Temper Hook Bait Anglers

Book:A woman's inner world: selected poetry and prose of Anne Bradstreet

Source: A woman's inner world: selected poetry and prose of Anne Bradstreet

“I think it's very improtant and healthy to tell differnt stories than the corporatist narratives we are being asked to swallow hook, line and sinker.”

Thinking Stories Lines Healthy Narrative Hook

Author:John Cusack

“The ultimate proof of total forgiveness takes place when we sincerely petition the Father to let those who have hurt us off the hook—even if they have hurt not only us, but also those close to us.”

Ifs Father Hurt Ultimate Proof Hook Sincerely Petitions

Book:Total Forgiveness: When Everything in You Wants to Hold a Grudge, Point a Finger, and Remember the Pain—God Wants You to Lay it All Aside

Source: Total Forgiveness: When Everything in You Wants to Hold a Grudge, Point a Finger, and Remember the Pain—God Wants You to Lay it All Aside

“I used to love going fishing. I think it was really about the clothes. Nothing says real man like a vest with 38 pockets and a mesh hat with hooks in it.”

Thinking Men Real Used Clothes Hats Pockets Fishing Hook Real Men Vests Used To Love Mesh

Author:Craig Ferguson

“When you use an excuse for not accomplishing something or not completing a project, you are actually giving power to someone or something outside of yourself. Regardless of what happens today, absolutely refuse to use an excuse to get off the hook.”

Giving Use Happens Today Projects Refuse Excuse Hook Completing Accomplishing Something

Author:Bob Proctor

“We can't constantly explain to our voters that taxpayers have to be on the hook for certain risks, rather than those who make a lot of money taking those risks.”

Certain Money Responsibility Risk Economics Voters Lots Of Money Hook Taxation Taxpayers

Author:Angela Merkel

“Human memory, they say, is like a coat closet: The most enduring outcome of a formal education is that it creates rows of coat hooks so that later on, when you come upon a new piece of information, you have a hook to hang it on. Without a hook, the new information falls on the floor.”

Humans Fall Memories Pieces Information Endure Outcomes Formal Coats Closets Hook Formal Education New Information

Book:The Sacred Depths of Nature

Source: The Sacred Depths of Nature

“Here's a news flash--writers are selfish people. Truth is, creative types like me are driven by one impulse--to make up a world in which we get to control everything and everyone. We decide who enters and who exits, what the weather will be, who will hook up with whom, who will win and who will lose. It makes us feel powerful and, in all honesty, has relatively little to do with thinking about what will make anyone else happy.”

Source: What's A Ghoul to Do?: A Ghost Hunter Mystery

“Election officials say that in 2016, it may be possible to vote for the president on your smartphone. Can you imagine that? With one swipe you can choose a president and at the same time tell him or her where you want to hook up.”

Want May President Imagine Vote Election Officials Imagine That Hook Smartphones Hook Up

Author:Conan O'Brien

“Hillary Clinton could use one of these Apple Watches. She could hook it up to her secret email account. If you want to contact Hillary, she's at [email protected].”

Ifs Want Use Secret Watches Accounts Clinton Contact Apples Hook Email Apple Watch

Author:David Letterman

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

Hope Hook Bait

Author:Oliver Goldsmith

“Massage therapists, and others in the holistic arts ... seem to be a particularly gullible bunch. And there are a lot of people who have seized upon that, and marketed their products, their classes, their modalities, and their wild claims to us ... and many of us have fallen for it, hook, line and sinker ... and unfortunately, gone on to convince our clients to buy into it, as well. ... Our profession has turned into the snake oil medicine show.”

“A fish, which you can't see, deep down in the water, is a kind of symbol of peace on earth, good will to yourself. Fishing gives a man ... some time to collect his thoughts and reaarange them kind of neatly, in an orderly fashion. Once the bait is on the hook and the boat is anchored, there's nothing to interfere with thinking except an occasional bite”

Thinking Men Giving Kind Earth Water Sea Fashion Rivers Fishes Boat Symbols Lakes Fishing Bites Interfere Hook Good Will Occasional Peace On Earth Deep Down Orderly Bait

Author:Robert Ruark

“What I had mastered was fly-fishing Rule # 1: Remove all hooks from soft tissue under water, where near-freezing temperatures anesthetize exposed nerve endings and you can't hear your fellow anglers' hysterical laughter.”

Water Sea Laughter Rivers Fellows Fishes Boat Lakes Remove Fishing Nerves Exposed Hook Temperature Tissues Hysterical Fly Fishing Freezing Anglers

Author:Jessica Maxwell

“A sly old fish, too cunning for the hook.”

Sea Rivers Fishes Boat Lakes Fishing Hook Cunning Sly

Book:The Poetical Works of George Crabbe. With Life. Eight Engravings on Steel

Source: The Poetical Works of George Crabbe. With Life. Eight Engravings on Steel

“From high Meonia's rocky shores I came, Of poor decsent, Acoetes is my name, My sire was measly born: no oxen ploughed, His fruitful fields, nor in his pastures lowed, His whole estate within the waters lay' With lines and hooks he caught the finny prey; His art was all his livelehood, which he Thus with his dying lips bequeathed to me: In streams, my boy, and rivers take thy chance; There swims', said he, Thy whole inheritance.”

Art Said Whole Names Water Born Lines Chance Poor Boys Sea Dying Fields Rivers Lays Lips Caught Fishes Boat Streams Lakes Fishing Swim Shore Estates Hook Inheritance Prey My Boys Pastures Oxen

Author:Ovid

“Give me mine angle, we'll to th' river: there, My music playing far off, I will betray Tawny-finned fishes. My bended hook shall pierce Their slimy jaws; and as I draw them up, I'll think them every one an Antony, And say, 'Ah, ha! are caught!'”

Thinking Giving Sea Mines Draws Rivers Give Me Caught Fishes Boat Lakes Fishing Betray Angle Hook Pierce Antony

Author:William Shakespeare

“'Twas merry when You wagered on your angling, when your diver Did hang a salt fish on his hook, which he With fervency drew up.”

Sea Rivers Fishes Boat Lakes Fishing Salt Hook Merry Angling

Book:Antony and Cleopatra

Source: Antony and Cleopatra

“As the old fisherman remarked after explaining the various ways to attach a frog to a hook, it's all the same to the frog.”

Way Sea Rivers Fishes Various Boat Lakes Fishing Hook Explaining Frogs Fisherman

Book:Mountain Time: A Yellowstone Memoir

Source: Mountain Time: A Yellowstone Memoir

“As much as anything, the anglers will clue you in to the midge hatch. You will see them hunched over in concentration like herons. The better ones will be in as close as they can get to the dimpling trout. What you'll notice is the rythmic flicking of casts toward a porpoising trout and the lack of any other motions. The only exception will be the gentle tug that sets a very small hook attached to the leader by a very delicate tippet. The playing of the trout, if it is a good one, will be a cat-and-mouse sort of ecstacy.”

Ifs Leader Sea Rivers Cat Casts Fishes Boat Gentle Lakes Exception Fishing Concentration Delicate Mice Clue Hook Trout Anglers Herons Cat And Mouse Midges

Author:Ed Engle

“When I was a young girl salmon fishing with my father in the Straits of Juan de Fuca in Washington State I used to lean out over the water and try to look past my own face, past the reflection of the boat, past the sun and darkness, down to where the fish were surely swimming. I made up charm songs and word-hopes to tempt the fish, to cause them to mean biting my hook. I believed they would do it if I asked them well and patiently and with the right hope. I am writing my poems like this. I have used the fabric and the people of my life as the bait.”

“I definitely think there's a lot of pressure for teenaged girls and guys to hook up on prom. I think it comes with the belief that you have to lose your virginity before you go to college. It's a coming of age thing. I think it's really sad because it has nothing to do with what you want and everything to do with peer pressure. But it comes with the territory of prom. Thankfully more and more kids are knowing their limits, and I think we're raising kids to be really good people, and they're realizing that they don't need to do it just because.”

“People who are extremely inside their head, like he was, are caught in a neurosis that goes round and round. Then something will hook them and take them to their end and they can't control it.”

People Ends Rounds Caught Hook Neurosis

Author:Vincent D'Onofrio

“We criticize mothers for closeness. We criticize fathers for distance. How many of us have expected less from our fathers and appreciated what they gave us more? How many of us always let them off the hook?”

Mother Father Appreciate Distance Parenting Expected Criticize Hook Appreciated Our Father Long Distance Closeness

Book:At Large

Source: At Large

“I started doing shows in places that I couldn't pronounce, didn't know existed, and I've seen people that didn't speak English or Spanish rapping to every lyric and singing to every hook. I said, "This is the type of music that I want to do."”

People Knows Want Said Shows Speak Type Singing Rap Hook Speak English

Author:Pitbull

“I think when I feel fear, thats often a cue that I should do something. If I begin to feel fear, thats a strong sign, psychologically, that something has its hooks in me somewhere deep.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Should Strong Hook

Author:Robin Weigert

“When Pa was at home the gun always lay across those two wooden hooks above the door. ... The gun was always loaded, and always above the door so that Pa could get it quickly and easily, any time he needed a gun.”

Two Home Doors Needed Gun Lays Hook Loaded

Book:Little House in the Big Woods

Source: Little House in the Big Woods

“Beauty, devoid of grace, is a mere hook without the bait.”

Grace Mere Hook Bait

Author:Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

“Possibly everyone now dead considered his own death as a freak accident, a mistake. Some bad luck caused it. Every enterprising man jack of them, and every sunlit vigorous woman and child, too, who had seemed so alive and pleased, was cold as a meat hook, and new chattering people trampled their bones unregarding, and rubbed their hands together and got to work improving their prospects till their own feet slipped and they went under themselves ... Every place was a tilting edge.”

People Men Children Hands Together Mistake Alive Feet Cold Luck Edges Bones Accidents Meat Freak Improving Hook Vigorous Bad Luck Prospects Enterprising Hands Together

Book:The Annie Dillard reader

Source: The Annie Dillard reader

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

Fishes Greedy Hook Deceived

Author:Martial

“Myths hook and bind the mind because at the same time they set the mind free: they explain the universe while allowing the universe to go on being unexplained; and we seem to need this even now, in our twentieth-century grandeur.”

Needs Mind Seems Universe Century Goes On Myth Allowing Hook Twentieth Century Grandeur Unexplained Mind Free

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“Autism is a neurological disorder. It's not caused by bad parenting. It's caused by, you know, abnormal development in the brain. The emotional circuits in the brain are abnormal. And there also are differences in the white matter, which is the brain's computer cables that hook up the different brain departments.”

“It is not that fathers are better or worse, not that they are more loved or criticized, but rather that they are viewed with far less intensity. There is no Philip Roth or Woody Allen or Nancy Friday who writes about fathers with a runaway excess of humor, horror ... feeling. Most of us let our fathers off the hook.”

Writing Feelings Father Horror Intensity Excess Hook Friday Our Father Woody Nancy Philip Runaway

Book:At Large

Source: At Large

“I think a lot about Big Mind-Small Mind, expansive, wide-lens consciousness and contracted, introverted consciousness. I have moments-we all do-when just being alive is a pleasure and a miracle. They feel like moments when the shutters of the mind are open so I can look out. It also feels as if those same shutters have no hooks to fix them in an open position. One small wind and bang-they slam shut.”

Source: Pay Attention, for Goodness' Sake: Practicing the Perfections of the Heart--The Buddhist Path of Kindness

“Bait the hook well. This fish will bite.”

Wells Food Cooking Fishes Culinary Bites Hook Bait

Book:The plays of William Shakespeare

Source: The plays of William Shakespeare

“It's not always expected of filmmakers to do stereotyped stories. But one has to be willing to travel to festivals and hook up with people, engage people intellectually about your passion and the kinds of films that interest you, and sooner or later you find people that have the same affinity that you have.”

People Kind Stories Film Passion Interest Willing Expected Filmmaker Sooner Or Later Hook Festivals Affinity Hook Up

Author:Haile Gerima

“If pornographers can hook adolescents when their hormones are raging, they know they'll have an ongoing consumer base for life.”

Ifs Knows Rage Consumers Adolescence Hook Pornography Ongoing Hormones

Author:Donna Rice Hughes

“Denmark and the UK are in agreement that our future prosperity depends on stimulating green growth, and getting off the oil hook.”

Growth Depends Green Climate Change Prosperity Oil Agreement Our Future Hook Denmark Future Prosperity

Author:Chris Huhne

“Why are you not where you belong? / A black hat on a hook says nothing. / Ashes mirror ashes / In a mirroring window.”

Black Grief Window Mirrors Hats Ashes Hook Mirroring Where You Belong Black Hats

Book:Elegy: poems

Source: Elegy: poems

“I still have my old Nintendo 64 that works. And I hook it up, and I still play the original Goldeneye. Im that geek. I have an NBA Jam arcade machine in my office at SNL.”

Stills Play Office Machines Originals Nba Hook Geek Jam Snl Nintendo Arcades

Author:Taran Killam

“Ironically, white America will catapult books about race to the top of the best-seller list, even as racism remains a national open wound. Obsession ain't solution, however, because reading even at its most intense and verisimilitudinous is vicarious, and once you close the book you're off the hook.”

Book America Reading White Race Racism Solutions Remains Lists Wounds Intense Obsession Hook Sellers Best Sellers Vicarious Catapults

Book:Skin Deep: Black Women & White Women Write About Race

Source: Skin Deep: Black Women & White Women Write About Race

“Dentists tell you not to pick your teeth with any sharp metal object. Then you sit in their chair and the first thing they grab is an iron hook.”

Firsts Humor Funny Objects Picks Teeth Chairs Iron Metals Hook Dentist

Author:Bill Cosby

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

Regard Fishes Suspicion Hook Pits Cautious Hawks Snares Concealment

Author:Horace

“To me, the hook of the riff is what makes a great guitar recording. It's the backbone of the whole song. When you have a strong riff, it's the rocket fuel for the track.”

Whole Song Strong Guitar Track Fuel Hook Rockets Backbone

Author:Dwight Yoakam

“What would the world be like without men and music?”

Men World Music Hook Joyfulness

Book:Betty Wales, Freshman: A Story for Girls

Source: Betty Wales, Freshman: A Story for Girls

“I think after Sandy Hook, when Obama went out, and he talked a lot about gun control and met with the parents, there was a sense that something was going to happen. But then, I guess, the power of special interests was greater than public sentiment.”

Thinking Happens Parent Interest Greater Special Mets Gun Sentiments Gun Control Hook Special Interests Sandy Sandy Hook

Author:Doris Kearns Goodwin

“What I've tried to do in my stage magic is to take a trick and give it an emotional hook.”

Giving Magic Stage Emotional Tricks Hook

Author:David Copperfield

“Ninety percent of the coaches in the NBA are guards, and there arent very many big men people coaching, I happen to be one of them and when I coached, everybody on my team, including the guards, had a hook shot, so that it was their bail out shot.”

People Men Bigs Happens Team Percent Shots Including Coaches Coaching Nba Hook Ninety Bail

Author:Tom Heinsohn

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