#hook

Assure a man that he has a soul and then frighten him with old wives' tales as to what is to become of him afterward, and you have hooked a fish, a mental slave. ↗

— Theodore Dreiser

#become #fish #frighten #him #hooked

Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertaker book. ↗

— Joe Frazier

#boxing #brain #get #money #name

Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

#bait #covers #hook #hope #such

Diphthongs are indicated by combinations of hooks and circles. ↗

— John Robert Gregg

#combinations #hooks #indicated

For whatever reason, we relate to anything godlike with an English accent. The English are very proud of that. And with anything Roman or gladiators, they have an English accent. For an audience, it is an easy trick to hook people in. ↗

— Chris Hemsworth

#anything #audience #easy #english #godlike

It's a comedy thriller, brilliantly written and it's full of twists and turns at every page. When I was reading it I was desperate to get to the end to find out what happens, it really hooks you. ↗

— Louise Jameson

#comedy #desperate #end #every #find

Here hyacinths of heavenly blue, shook their rich tresses to the morn. ↗

— James Montgomery

#heavenly #here #morn #rich #shook

He had a broad face and a little round belly, that shook, when he laughed, like a bowlful of jelly. ↗

— Clement Clarke Moore

#broad #face #had #jelly #laughed

I became hooked on the idea of being able to shoot an image and process it myself, and end up with a product. ↗

— Leonard Nimoy

#became #being #end #hooked #i

I mean, the death in the late eighties and early nineties really shook out a lot of hacks. The pond just sort of dried up for a lot of really bad comedians. ↗

— Patton Oswalt

#comedians #death #dried #early #eighties