“God seems to have left the receiver off the hook, and time is running out.”
The Ghost in the Machine (1967).
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Hungarian-British author and journalist 1905–1983Related quotes
“I would rather receive a Pap smear from Captain Hook than venture out on New Year's Eve.”
Source: The Tao of Martha: My Year of LIVING; Or, Why I'm Never Getting All That Glitter Off of the Dog
“The hooks have got to come off and I can wait. They are nothing but sore fingers.”
Charles Frederick Webber interviewed at a field hospital following the Battle of Gettysburg. He was holding his hand, from which the ends of four fingers had been shot off. He was smoking his pipe with with no sense of urgency and was allowing more wounded soldiers to go ahead of him. He died on July 19, 1863, 13 days after the wound, from the subsequent infection.
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Source: [The Wounded, New York Herald, https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/New_York_Herald/1863/The_Wounded, July 6 1863]
“A linebacker's job is to knock out running backs, to knock out receivers, to chase the football.”
As noted in "Ray Lewis finds motivation in disrespect" https://archive.is/yCnN8 (11 August 2005), by Jarrett Bell, USA Today.
2000s, 2005
“The vidphone company let me off the hook.”
Source: Lies, Inc. (1984), Chapter 12 (p. 132)
Introduction to S. Kip Farrington Jr., Atlantic Game Fishing (1937)
Interview http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJHq2aN9tYE by Penny Daniels (1989)
“The gods give no gifts without hooks embedded.”
Source: World of the Five Gods series, Paladin of Souls (2003), p. 157