Hooked Quotations

I started racing myself and once you get bitten by that bug you really are hooked.

The people who watched 'Dawson's Creek' when it originally aired aren't too old to enjoy 'Life Unexpected.' And then you've got the whole next generation that's hooked on the 'Dawson's reruns seeing this show, so it's perfect for them.

I am such a 'True Detective' fan. I was anticipating it each Sunday as it came. I'm kind of a sci-fi fan. I was really hooked on the 'Battlestar Galactica' series. I think I owned every box set of 'Battlestar Galactica.' I also really love 'Bob's Burgers.'

I was 17, still in school, and my manager saw me in school, and then we hooked up, and after that, I went straight into making music.

By that time I was hooked on a career in academic research instead of one in the pharmaceutical industry that I had originally considered in deciding to get a PhD.

My favorite team is the Bengals. In Idaho, we didn't really have a home team. But my parents are from Ohio, and when I was a little kid, my aunts and uncles would send me Boomer Esiason T-shirts and Ickey Woods mini-footballs, so I got hooked on those guys.

I went to Catholic school, and there was this teacher, a Brother, who saw I could go either way, good or bad. He took an interest in me and got me to do a play. I got hooked on acting, and it gave me something constructive to do. I had a lot of energy.

I never intended to be a teacher, but once I started teaching, I found that junior high kids are easy to get hooked on, and I stayed for nearly twenty years.

Writers and readers are still trying to work out unresolved problems between men and women, and that is why millions of women around the world are hooked on romantic fiction. So am I.

I think the reason why I'm an actress is because I got hooked on the feeling of studying for an audition, going to the audition, and then getting that phone call.

January 14, 2000, was my first time on stage, and I've been hooked ever since. I got discovered nationally in Seattle by the now-defunct HBO Comedy Festival, and that led to an appearance on 'Jimmy Kimmel Live' and a path to a professional comedy career.

There's a growing consensus that the best way to defeat communism in Cuba is to get its citizens hooked on American goods.

I do listen to some music, but I don't technically have one band I'm absolutely hooked on.

I became hooked on 'In Treatment,' which was so finely written and performed. Such a simple idea, and yet it delved into very complex territory with real grace and humanity.

I really hate the term 'historical novel' - it reminds me of bodice-rippers. But I'm hooked on research, and I really, really enjoy it.

I was 10 years old, taking the train by myself to see Saturday matinees, something you'd never let a kid do now. I got very hooked on it.

I started playing in '98, but I got hooked by playing celebrity golf tournaments. Tiger had a lot to do with it - his passion, the way that he plays. He's unique and different, and he inspired a lot of my passion. It's a sport you can't master. If you're an athlete, you can do almost anything, but golf is not like that.

It was quite a surprise when I realized that with a single wormhole you could have time hook up towards the future or towards the past and that you can actually manipulate the wormhole and change how time hooked up.

I love to win, honestly... If you love to win, you should say it. And honestly, I'm hooked on it.

I love the house we're in, but at the same time, I'm hooked on the romance of house-hunting.

Oh, I was completely hooked on movies and plays and theater from the time I was a day old - I was very, very early on in love with movies and I loved plays.

When I was a child, my father used to take me for walks, often along a river or by the sea. We would pass people fishing, perhaps reeling in their lines with struggling fish hooked at the end of them. Once I saw a man take a small fish out of a bucket and impale it, still wriggling, on an empty hook to use as bait.

How many times have you been watching an episode of 'South Park' and thought, 'I'd like to be able to watch this on my television while hooked into my mobile device, which is being controlled by my tablet device which is hooked into my oven, all while sitting in the refrigerator?'

When I came down south, I went to one of the early Wigan Challenge Cup victories at Wembley, and I was totally hooked from then.

I would love to do Broadway the rest of my life! Because it's challenging, because it makes me grow as an actor, as an entertainer, as an artist, and that's what I need; that's what I'm hooked on.

I've stated my position, and that is that we do not need a contraption to play the game of golf. I would hope that we'd play under one set of rules, and those rules would include a ban on the long putter hooked to the body in some way, shape or form.

I'm hooked on food competition shows. It's unique, different... I definitely understand the importance of strategy.

I was hooked in before hacking was even illegal.

I was at Lake Poway, and I was 7 years old, ... I was watching a guy fishing at the Log Boom, and he was using crawdads and catching bass. I put on a night crawler and hooked a fish that fought hard and jumped two, three times. It was a bass, and that did it for me. I've been a bass fisherman ever since.

One of the first things was these little tape measures. Advertising tape measures that I picked up at a garage sale for a quarter apiece, ... and they brought $22. And that hooked me right there.

Only than the villains of the Hierarchy will turn their face to the man hooked by millennia of self treason and will realize that they are on the top of that pyramid due to the one they, the elites, have humiliated and brutalized elites who became what they are due to this MAN! They will realize that they are nothing without this man and only then they will know that they are no longer elites, but people!

My high school English teacher in junior year, Dr. Robert Parsons, assigned us some Poe stories, including 'The Black Cat' and 'The Purloined Letter.' Being an animal person, I had trouble with 'The Black Cat!' I got hooked instead by 'The Purloined Letter,' a Poe story with detective C. Auguste Dupin.

One of my first favorite books was 'The 12 Days of Christmas,' and I would just go up to people and say, 'I can sing 'The 12 Days of Christmas,' and I would make them sit through me reciting it, and I'd go all the way, each time. I've always hooked into lyrics.

My first foray into Evan's late-career albums, and it's even better than I had hoped for. Eddie Gomez on bass, and Evans even plays electric piano on a couple of bonus tracks. But the real meat is the original album. It's heading where it needs to be, but there are moments of surprisingly upbeat swinging, as well - and a nice take on 'Theme From M*A*S*H' ('Suicide Is Painless'). Once you've gone through the original trio recordings, you're going to be hooked for all you can get by Evans.

My interest in acting came from seeing Broadway shows on summer trips to New York as a child. It was the original production of 'A Chorus Line' in an easy tie with the first 10 -15 minutes of Dustin Hoffman in 'Tootsie' that hooked me on the romantic idea that the impossible, difficult life of a struggling actor was for me.

I got hooked up with a lot of contractors. I sent business their way and now they're sending business my way.

I'd met Sterling during a trip to Nashville. I invited him to the Super Bowl and he invited me to Daytona. I was in the pits when Sterling won his first race here that day it was the most exciting thing I've ever seen. I've been hooked ever since.

I have had to come to terms with the fact that I am hooked on Twitter. Not good.

Most slot players don't realize the machines are all hooked to a network computer in some manner. We've been very successful in placing the back-end systems.

She hooked up with the wrong guy. He was a smooth talker. You could tell he had a lot of control over her.

She was hooked up to an ECMO (extracorporeal membrane oxygenation) machine to keep her alive, and so they said that transplant was the only option.

She was hooked up to an ECMO machine to keep her alive and so they said that transplant was her only option.

She was coming to a jump. She hooked a tip, and that caused her to go into a jump off-balance, and she crashed off the jump.

I feel like we were hooked to the paddle wheel of steamboat. Just when you thought it was done, you got another slap. But you can weather storms when you have good people, and that starts at the top. At Marshall there are great people at the top. There are great boosters and a great Huntington community that instills these things. We all got to learn life lessons and that's what it's all about.

I am completely and utterly hooked to all the great shows on A&E and Court TV that are about small town murder.

If you are hooked onto a kind of lipstick, or any other kind of cosmetic, you will go back to that store again and again. And once you do, you're exposed to all the other things that the store carries.

I got a station tour and I was hooked all over again.

If it wasn't for my brother, I probably would have never wrestled. He got me hooked on it back in the sixth grade. I've fallen in love with it since.

I hated to see that caution come out inside five to go because I was hooked up with (teammate Kevin Hamlin) we were pushing really good and we were coming to the front. I would have at least liked to have gotten in the top 10, but for my first speedway race for me to come home 12th and my truck in one piece and just a little minor damage on the right side, I'm happy.

I believe that he really feels that everybody isn't hooked yet into the whole concept. You make it affordable, at a reasonable price, so they can learn about it. It's not an unreasonable position.

I don't know why (the referee) gave him a penalty shot. It says in the rule book that if he gets a shot off, even if he's hooked or whatever, it should be just 2 minutes.

China is an enormous market of advanced users. Once the Chinese government approves its version of 3G, take-up will increase still further. People are getting hooked on having a connected device.

I have a girlfriend now, and she's down with the program, ... But before we hooked up, if I had a date with someone, I'd eat dinner beforehand, then order something light on the date, like a salmon fillet, so she wouldn't think I was a total pig.

Have I done more business-related things to help my career grow? Yeah. I took the business end more seriously, hooked up with a manager, got some help, because at a certain point, you get frustrated when you go do auditions, and people say you did a great job, and then you don't get he part.

He remains sedated and hooked up to life support at Harrisburg Hospital, and we, Harrisburg police, much to our chagrin, have to provide around-the-clock security until Indianapolis police can take him back there.

When he was at Louisville, I ran into him at the airport one time when we were going opposite directions and we kind of reunited and hooked back up.

He's a big-time gambler. He cannot help himself. He is hooked on it.

I lost about 15 pounds in the hospital. I couldn't eat for five days and I was hooked up to IV the whole time. I had no appetite.

We match up our corners vs. wide receivers in everything we do. If it falls out that those two are hooked up, that's what it'll be. They move around so much and they put their guys in a lot of different positions.... They've got playmakers.

We made some phone calls and e-mails back and forth. They hooked us up with Jeff Hendricks (an adaptive physical education teacher at Douglas) and we went from there.

If that advisor or instructor is not there year in and year out, the kids really don't get hooked into the program. That's what I pretty much ran into there (Weiner) and I pretty much built the program.

He hooked her, stabbed her, beat her over the head.

He hooked me up with tickets and helped me get some stuff signed. He's a great guy, very down to earth.

I'm always asked when the lights will go on. My estimate is it will be several weeks before the very last customer at the end of some line will be hooked up.

The people that make above a dollar a day, under three dollars a day, generally have some electricity. They've got television sets that run on car batteries, or they will have a little generator. Everywhere there is a flicker of a TV screen is a target for putting one of these PlayStation things hooked to a satellite.

He got hooked on the loving nature of the people.

My wife loves 'Scandal,' and I'm hooked on 'Homeland.' Sometimes I ask news makers, off the record, what rings true about those shows and what's ridiculous.

My observations are that you hooked up with Jorge Chico' Hernandez because you decided you were going to make some easy money, ... I do believe you went up there with the intent to help Chico get his money. I don't think you had any trouble with participating in a robbery to get that money.

My thoughts are I better be on my game. I think Game 4, the last time we hooked up in the World Series, he certainly was on his, and he beat us.

I went back to work after a month, ... Dr. Womack got me a computer and hooked me up to wireless Internet. My mother's dining room became my office.

Stephen King is a true literary master. We are thrilled beyond words to have him join Marvel on this exciting project. The millions of Dark Tower fans are in for a real treat, and I'm sure many more will soon be hooked on this epic series through this historic comic project.

I thought I would be a serious actor. But I soon realized that doing comedy gave me what I needed out of acting. I got hooked on both the sound of laughter and that kind of flirtatious rapport with the audience. Drama just doesn't have that type of punch for me.

I talked to Reverend James Lawson, that was a close ally to Martin Luther King ... and they all told me it was a bit selfish of me to not want him hooked up,

I swore I'd never do another hour show... until I read the first page of this script and I just hooked into Lily's character so much and the writing.

Our philosophy is if it's been done before, we'd better do it better. We think people will be hooked when they see things like the six-sided ring, the Six Sides of Steel matches and Ultimate X matches. (Our guys) can do things you've never seen.

I was hooked by the love story in Pearl Harbor. Believe it or not, I have a really soft heart and I can be sappy.

I was hooked up to IVs, and they tried to get my chemical balance up.

I think he had problems with the irons. He told me that almost all the balls hooked to the left. I think everyone is tired.

I thought our guys gave a really great effort. They were hooked up and ready to go.

It hooked me and the rest of the school and was our impetus to really push into the technology area.

I was a hunter and he was a fisherman and he got me hooked on fishing.

I thought we swung the bat well tonight. We hit the ball right at people and hooked a couple, which means we need to keep it fair.

I wasn't really driven to be an actor or anything, but in college I decided to study acting, much to my parents' disappointment. I attended Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers where Bill Esper was, and that is where I really got hooked on the art of acting, and, almost, the chemistry of acting.

Time could be wasted when (the individuals operating the AED) are getting machine hooked up, when the individual doesn't need an AED.

That whole thing was a setback, and we went a whole year without any singles, but we had the other songs and we could use them to continue to stay busy on the road. We then hooked up with Teddy Gentry of Alabama and Josh Leo who produced so many Alabama hits. The Alabama stamp on anything is just great and it really helped us.

When it comes to salt, what was really staggering to me is that the industry itself is totally hooked on salt. It is this miracle ingredient that solves all of their problems. There is the flavor burst to the salt itself, but it also serves as a preservative, so foods can stay on the shelves for months.

Yesterday we put the skeleton together. Today we hooked up the first parts of the nervous system.

We hooked up with the military. They're the only people that know what they're doing. We rescued about 25 people that day.

We're asking kids to get hooked on kindness, not killing,

We have his PlayStation hooked up. We are trying to keep him as comfortable as possible.

Hooked on Phonics worked for me

I'm hooked on email. That's right, kids, I'm one of you.

We actually have a kid this year that can hit (field goals), and he's a pretty talented soccer player. He kicked for us a little bit as a sophomore. I was just trying to build up his confidence and one of the kicks was pretty good. It just hooked a little bit.

The experience factor is big this year. If we all can get hooked up, we're going to be tough. And if we get hooked up at the right time, we're going to be hard to beat.

What we're trying to do is get ahead of the curve, find out who the suppliers are and kids who are already hooked on this into rehab.

I am a print addict. I have an ebook and a computer but I remain hooked on print.

The really dangerous American fascists are not those who are hooked up directly or indirectly with the Axis. The FBI has its finger on those.

We've been able to point people in the right direction and get them hooked up with locations, crews, whatever they need.

Until power is hooked back up, until there are places where you can go get gas and you can go get something to eat, I'm better off being here.

Years ago, when I was doing the show Southern Expressions, Scott had just come to work here. Scott was the shooter for the event. He hooked up the camera to the back of the truck, and then he had the truck tow the car I was in, and he shot the scene through the windshield. From that moment, I thought this guy has got something going. He's something special.