“I used to sort of take the phone off the hook, you know, put my feet up and watch the TV until it was all over.” KnowsUsedWatchesFeetTvsPhonesHook Author:Nick Lowe
“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.” KnowsEarsGatesHookCandy Author:Mark Ronson
“I feel like I just grabbed a big juicy worm with a right sharp hook in the middle of it.” FeelsBigsMiddleHookWormsJuicy Author:Lyndon B. Johnson
“Pledge Allegiance was a pretty generic name back in the day. In the 80's I was the promoter for all the punk rock shows and I'd book Black Flag, Dead Kennedy's, Minor Threat etc and I'd hook them up with places to stay if needed so it's hard to keep track of it all.” IfsBookHardShowsNamesBlackRocksNeededThreatTrackEtcFlagsPunkMinorsHookPledgeAllegiancePunk RockBack In The DayGenericPromotersGeneric Name Author:Reed Mullin
“I'm a big fan of not letting the audience of off the hook, as they say. I like it when things feel real, and that's oftentimes not comfortable.” FeelsRealBigsAudienceFansComfortableHook Author:John C. Reilly
“The best thing to do is to write about what you know, and if you write about what you know you can always pull those nice little tidbits that hook people, that shows that you know about this world and can bring people into a world that they may not know nothing about.” PeopleIfsKnowsWorldWritingMayLittlesShowsNiceThis WorldBest ThingsThings To DoHook Author:Ice Cube
“I drag my husband out of bed, hook him up to a coffee to stay awake and make him listen to my plotting and any issues I may be having. I *need* his head-nodding (he's an expert head-nodder).” NeedsMayIssuesBedHusbandCoffeeAwakeExpertsMy HusbandDragHookNodding Author:Violet Duke
“Gary Oldman is impossible to steal a movie from. He's such a great actor, he's off the hook. I love him.” ActorsImpossibleStealingHookGreat ActorsI Love HimGary Author:Kevin Bacon
“When you get a chance to play with people - informally is one thing, but when you hook up and make something that's going to last or mean something to someone, I take it very seriously.” PeopleMeanPlayLastsChanceOne ThingHookHook Up Author:Mark Lanegan
“Young men are eager to "hook up" with women. And many say they have very good female friends. But some of the emotions circulating among guys make it difficult to form and sustain healthy relationships.” MenFormYoungGuyDifficultEmotionHealthyMen And WomenFemaleVery GoodYoung ManHookHealthy RelationshipHook UpFemale Friends Author:Michael Kimmel
“The biggest thinker that's influenced my feminism is definitely Bell Hooks, who's a feminist cultural critic, because of her accessibility but also just because she's a genius.” FeminismGeniusCriticsFeministThinkerBellsHookAccessibility Author:Jessica Valenti
“There is a way hook ups are serving young women. And it was important for me to always talk about how behaviours were serving girls, not just making them the victims.” WayImportantYoungGirlVictimServingBehaviourYoung WomenHookHook Up Author:Peggy Orenstein
“In some ways for many years I was off the hook.When my niece was born after that their attention was focused on that and she did that. You know, that was in our family that's what she did. I went off and chased this dream and this career that very other few people in our, you know, in my family, but even culturally were doing.” PeopleKnowsWayYearsDreamBornAttentionCareersMy FamilyFocusedOur FamilyHookNieceMy Niece Author:Aasif Mandvi
“We shouldn't let the Republicans off the hook. Theodore Roosevelt, we learned from Jeff Cowan's new book, was just as bad as certainly [Louis] Brandeis was, or many Democrats were on the question of segregation.” BookRepublicanDemocratHookSegregationNew BooksTheodoreLouis Brandeis Author:Jeffrey Rosen
“You get hit by one of those right hands or an uppercut or a left hook by Mark Hunt, then you know that **** is on and that cage is locked, and there's nowhere to go.” KnowsHandsLeftMarkLockedCagesHookHuntsNowhere To Go Author:Bill Goldberg
“I feel that the term "new age" is used by basically hostile media to diminish and marginalize a conversation that is very significant. It's held in place by journalists who are constantly looking for hooks and sound bites to keep them from having to make the effort of a deeper understanding and a more profound level of communication with the public.” FeelsAgeUsedUnderstandingSoundTermLevelsEffortMediaCommunicationConversationProfoundDeeperSignificantJournalistBitesHookDiminishHostileNew AgeSound BitesDeeper Understanding Author:Marianne Williamson
“I got a new song called "The Plug" and the hook says "I'm the plug/I'm connected to everything you love.” SongConnectedHookPlugsNew Songs Author:MC Hammer
“If I can invent a phrase then this Democrat [Bernie] Sanders takes her [Hillary Clinton] off the hook on the emails. Could there still be an FBI indictment? Probably not.” IfsStillsI CanClintonDemocratPhrasesHookEmailFbiIndictment Author:Joe Biden
“Every thought, feeling, and emotion creates a molecule known as a neuropeptide. Neuropeptides travel throughout your body and hook onto receptor sites of cells and neurons. Your brain takes in the information, converts it into chemicals, and lets your whole body know if there's trouble in the world or cause for celebration. Your body is directly influenced as these molecules course through the bloodstream, delivering the energetic effect of whatever your brain is thinking and feeling.” IfsThinkingKnowsWorldWholeFeelingsBodyCoursesCausesEmotionBrainKnownTroubleEffectsInformationYour BodyCellsChemicalsCelebrationSiteHookFeelings And EmotionsEnergeticMoleculesDeliveringNeurons Author:Deepak Chopra
“This ["Cowboys & Aliens"] 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!” FilmSpaceWillingStudiosAliensOccasionsLots Of MoneyHookOuter SpaceFilm SetSheriffsTaggart Author:Keith Carradine
“I'm drawn to a lot of first-time directors. One of the great common denominators in these small independent films is that there's a person, or two people, who have an absolutely monomaniacal passion to get these films made. That's what makes them happen. Sometimes, it takes years and years to finally get it done, but by never backing down, by never giving up, they get these films to the screen by hook or by crook.” PeopleGivingYearsFirstsPersonsMadeTwoSometimesDoneHappensFilmPassionCommonDirectorsGiving UpFirst TimeIndependentScreensHookNever Giving UpIndependent FilmGet It DoneCommon DenominatorCrooksBacking Down Author:William H. Macy
“I always have to start with a character that I can really hook into, and then build from there. I have writer friends who start from a world, an object or some kind of concept that they then hone and widdle into a story. But, for me, it has to be a character that I can really sink my teeth into and live with, for months and months.” WorldKindI CanCharacterStoriesObjectsMonthsConceptsTeethHook Author:Katie Wech
“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.” FeelsTermFocusPopsMelodyHook Author:Thomston
“I feel like when I'm writing for other people, when I'm doing rap hooks, it's kinda like playing dress up for me...” PeopleFeelsWritingDressesRapHookPlaying Dress Up Author:PJ Harvey
“[Sylvester] Stallone and I were in a meeting for Rocky Balboa. We were laughing about something, and he looks at my mouth and says to the casting director, "Wow, your lip even hooks down like mine does." Then he looked at the casting director and nodded, and I guess that was the nod of saying, "Hire this kid." So yeah, I have a really crooked mouth. They don't work, but I can feel everything.” FeelsLooksDoeI CanKidsLaughingMinesDirectorsMouthsYeahMeetingsLipsWowHookCastingCrookedCasting Directors Author:Milo Ventimiglia
“I'm not going to go in and get some hooks from some niggas who don't know me, or know what I'm about.” KnowsKnow MeHook Author:Donnis
“I've got my girl records that are real feel-good and could be a radio crossover. But it's not me going in that direction, and being like, "We need this huge pop crossover record where we need this girl on the hook."” NeedsFeelsRealGirlRecordsHugeRadioPopsFeel GoodHookMy GirlThis GirlCrossover Author:Donnis
“On one hand we encourage and allow major pharmaceutical companies to openly hook vast sectors of our population on narcotics, and then we cut them off and throw them in jail, and moralize about it. It is clearly a huge, huge, and growing problem. It's devastating. We need to treat it as a health crisis, which it is, and stop moralizing.” NeedsProblemHandsCompanyCuttingGrowingHugeMajorsTreatsCrisisPopulationJailHookPharmaceuticalNarcoticsPharmaceutical CompaniesMoralizing Author:Anthony Bourdain
“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.” IfsSometimesAbleEasyCompanyCasesWrittenDebtSettlingHookPercentagesSettlementDebt Settlement Author:Jean Chatzky
“It's one of those things where the book has all these stars that burn really bright that you hang onto and they're all saying, 'This is The Girl on the Train experience.' All those stars or hooks needed to be in the film, but sometimes they needed to be a bit different. It's important when adapting such a popular book to hit all those points but also break out expectations without slaughtering the book. And that was, for me, the joy of adapting the book.” ImportantBookDifferentSometimesFilmJoyGirlStarsBitsBreakNeededExpectationsTrainHookBreak OutAdaptingPopular Book Author:Erin Cressida Wilson
“My songs aren't built around choruses or hooks or anything like that. That's kind of how I write screenplays too.” WritingKindSongBuiltHookScreenplaysChorus Author:Billy Bob Thornton
“When I got old enough to date, I realized that Valentine's Day is just a commercial marketing scam to make men feel bad. So I let my boyfriends off the hook.” MenFeelsEnoughMarketingI RealizedValentineHookValentine's DayMy BoyfriendScams Author:Evangeline Lilly
“Google has you at a very specific mental state that is, looking for something. And what they've always been able to say is, we deliver your message at the exact time someone is, say, looking for fishing hooks or looking for marriage counseling or looking for a lawyer for a particular problem. And here we have our customers telling you what is in their heart and soul. It's something that, you know, advertisers have wanted for decades.” KnowsHeartSoulStatesProblemAbleWantedParticularMessagesCustomersDecadesLawyerFishingGoogleHookHeart And SoulCounselingAdvertisers Author:Tim Wu
“Sometimes I'll have a scene that strikes me, I just feel like writing a scene, a mini-story that seems like it might lead somewhere. But that is such a tentative, fishing-hook way to go about it that these days I've found it's easier to kind of at least have your concept and start attaching things to a skeleton. So I try to find the armature, the kind of backbone of it first that you can start to hang those scenes on.” WayFeelsWritingTryingFirstsKindSometimesStoriesSeemsMightFoundEasierSceneConceptsStrikesThese DaysFishingHookBackboneSkeletons Author:Shane Black
“When the feminist movement was at its zenith in the late 60's and early 70's, there was a lot of moving away from the idea of the person. It was: let's talk about the ideas behind the work, and the people matter less. It was kind of a gimmicky thing, but lots of feminist women were doing it. Many of us took the names of our female ancestors - bell hooks is my maternal great grandmother - to honor them and debunk the notion that we were these unique, exceptional women. We wanted to say, actually, we were the products of the women who'd gone before us.” PeopleKindPersonsIdeasMatterWantedMovingNamesBehindsGoneMovementProductsHonorLateUniqueFemaleNotionFeministGrandmotherAncestorBellsHookExceptionalMoving AwayFeminist MovementZenithGreat Grandmother Author:Bell Hooks
“No one thinks that young adults read hooks for YOUNG ADULTS, books for young adults are read by kids.” ThinkingBookKidsYoungAdultsYoung AdultHook Author:Terry Pratchett
“I'm just different. There are a handful of different types of genre of music that I would love to just jump into and people don't realize that I'm really good at those things. They just know me as Tony Sunshine, the guy that sang the hooks for Terror Squad.” PeopleKnowsDifferentGuyRealizingTypeTerrorGenreSunshineKnow MeHookHandfulSquadGenres Of Music Author:Tony Sunshine
“When we had ideas that earned there way in [Austin Powers], it began to get okay. The hook for me was 'Mini-Me.' We only auditioned one guy - Verne Troyer - and at the time I said, 'we have to get this guy, get him life insurance, whatever he needs' because there was no other way or actor to do it. It was amazing to me just to talk to him...he was Mini-Me.” WayNeedsSaidIdeasGuyActorsOkayHookThis GuyAustinMini Me Author:Jay Roach
“I don't work out too much. I just do some pushups when I feel the right hook is getting a lil weak.” FeelsToo MuchWeakWork OutHook Author:Rakim
“A story does that: it will reach out and hook somebody and hold them for just a few moments while you unpack this story in their presence.” DoeMomentsStoriesReach OutHook Author:Max Lucado
“If you mess up the performance on stage, you do it again the next night. You're like alright, you let yourself off the hook, and you've got to go back in there. Whereas, with a film, I would go home and be like, "Well, I've ruined the arc of the character forever. That scene is never going to work. I know because I can never shoot it again." So, it's all miserable, but in different ways.” IfsKnowsWayWellsI CanDifferentCharacterHomeFilmNightNextForeverStageScenePerformancesMessMiserableDifferent WaysRuinedHookGoing To WorkBecause I CanAlrightArcs Author:Emma Stone
“My career in Congress is a story of before Sandy Hook and after Sandy Hook.” StoriesCareersCongressHookSandySandy Hook Author:Chris Murphy
“I will consider my time in the Senate a failure if we don't pass some meaningful legislation to reduce the likelihood that Sandy Hook ever happens again.” IfsHappensMeaningfulMy TimeSenateLegislationHookLikelihoodSandySandy Hook Author:Chris Murphy
“I was listening to Tommy Chong talking about how he feels like there is like a creative flow happening and how certain people just know how to hook into the pipe. He played music with Jimi Hendrix and felt that he was personally connected to some higher intelligence or creativity.” PeopleKnowsFeelsCertainFeltTalkingCreativityKnow HowCreativeListeningHigherHappeningsFlowConnectedHookPipeHendrix Author:Judd Apatow
“With couture you have faithfulness - people are faithful to you. In couture, you will see that the cut looks like a lace dress from a distance, but it's only when you get nearer you understand that it's layers of lace, hand stitched in a certain shape, all the work - the zips, the buttons, the hooks... it goes on.” PeopleLooksHandsCertainCuttingGoes OnShapesDressesDistanceFaithfulHave FaithLayersButtonsHookFaithfulnessLaceZipsCouture Author:Riccardo Tisci
“I'm a big fan of Kiss. Gene Simmons, he's all into marketing and branding. You name it, there's some type of product with Kiss' name on it. Studying people like that, you see guys have hooks and there are reasons people are successful.” PeopleReasonBigsGuyNamesStudySuccessfulFansProductsTypeKissingMarketingGenesBrandingHook Author:Gabriel Iglesias
“Jeff Foxworthy had that whole "You might be a redneck" thing; Larry the Cable Guy had "Git-R-Done." Some comics have that hook. Dane Cook had that super finger. So I just caught on early on. I ran with "Fluffy."” DoneWholeMightGuyFingersCaughtCooksRanHookCablesRedneckLarryFluffy Author:Gabriel Iglesias
“Prasadam's a good little hook in this age of commercialism. When people want something extra, or they need to have something special, prasadam will hook them in there. It's undoubtedly done a great deal toward getting a lot more people involved in spiritual life.” PeopleWantNeedsLittlesDoneAgeSpiritualDealsSpecialInvolvedExtrasSpiritual LifeHookWant SomethingSomething SpecialCommercialism Author:George Harrison
“I got the experience, I got the strength, I got the talent, I got the famous jump hook. That's my move.” MovingTalentHook Author:P. K. Subban