I kept asking God for help, and after a while I realized something -- that Josh was not enjoying this either. He was just trying to take care of himself, and I made the radical decision to let him off the hook.
A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other.
Foursquare's adoption of a game dynamic when it launched is a particularly clever implementation of a social hook.
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.
I let people off the hook too easily.
The more hooks an idea has, the better it will cling to memory.
The hardest part was getting the window net hooked back. I didn't think I was ever going to get it hooked. I finally got it hooked. If I'd known that I wouldn't have tried to hook it.
People hook up. People don't hook up. I don't judge.
I feel like I just grabbed a big juicy worm with a right sharp hook in the middle of it.
I am inhabited by a cry. Nightly it flaps out Looking, with its hooks, for something to love.
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.
Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him to a heavy load.
You know, they always say that the photographer is a hunter of images. That is a flattering image, the idea of a hunter, it's virile, acquired power. Actually though, it isn't that. We are really fishermen with hooks and lines.
I use the hook to carry coffee.
I do think sometimes there's danger in guest appearance mania. I've seen too many examples that sound cool on paper, like 'Oh, get that guy to sing the hook on that guy's song,' and then that's all it is. It's a cool idea that sounds good on paper.
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.
What does it mean when you hook up your work to that of a late modernist giant working in a reductive vein - Ad Reinhardt, Agnes Martin, Robert Ryman, Ellsworth Kelly, Frank Stella, or Donald Judd, for example - like a caboose? I am not talking about engaging directly with another artist's work or ideas, but of perpetuating a look or, in the case of Wade Guyton, the various monochromatic, striped and geometric surfaces we associate with Minimalism.
This ["Sheriff John Taggart"] 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!
The Democrats are as much a part of the war machine as the Republicans. We can't let Democrats get off the hook because they're Democrats.