Bear Bryant
Football Coach
"You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him to a heavy load."
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Hook
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Moliere
Playwright, Actor
"Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait."
Gabrielle Bernstein
Author, Speaker
"Forgiveness isn't about letting the other person off the hook - it's about releasing ourselves."
Roland Smith
Author
"a good writer should draw the reader in by starting in the middle of the story with a hook, then go back and fill in what happened before the hook. Once you have the reader hooked, you can write whatever you want as you slowly reel them in."
Laozi
Philosopher
"He who steals a hook shall be hanged; while he who steals the state shall be crowned as prince."
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"Satan like a fisher, baits his hook according to the appetite of the fish."
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"All you have to do is think one happy thought, and you'll fly like me."
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"Don't mess with me, man, I'm a lawyer!"
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"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."
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"Pleasure, like a kind of bait, is thrown before everything which is really bad, and easily allures greedy souls to the hook of perdition."
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"Luck affects everything; let your hook always be cast."
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"A song without a hook is like a train without rails. It skitters all over the place, bangs into everything. Boom! Crash! There goes Grand Central Station. Crushed by a train."
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"A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other."
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"You must use the hook of precepts to quickly remove it."
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"There is hook in every benefit, that sticks in his jaws that takes that benefit, and draws him whither the benefactor will."
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"When we search for something larger than our own selves to hook into, we can come through whatever life throws at us."
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"When a song gets its legs and begins to come to me, this is the euphoric hook that keeps me wanting to continue."
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"With comedy, you have no place to go but more comedy, so you're never off the hook."
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"I would like to hook up with one of the great Japanese filmmakers, like the master that made Ringu, and I would like to take 'The Wicker Man' to Japan, except this time he's a ghost."
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"If I am ever put to death on the hook, expect a very human performance."
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"Tell everyone you know: “My happiness depends on me, so you're off the hook."
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"Oh, no. To live... to live would be an awfully big adventure."
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"The bolt of Tash falls from above!' 'Does it ever get caught on a hook halfway?"
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"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."
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"I thought that if I accomplished enough, that somehow I would be let off the hook in the future. Like I didn’t have to keep striving and achieving because I had done that already, and it would add up to being enough."
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