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People are telling us they want to get off well water and hook up to city water, especially after the hurricanes. When our customers lose electricity, they still have water. People want their showers.

Adrian Cronauer: You know, you're very beautiful. You're also very quiet. And I'm not used to girls being that quiet unless they're medicated. Normally I go out with girls who talk so much you could hook them up to a wind turbine and they could power a small New Hampshire town.

Some dogs take longer to mature. They're kind of freaked out by their first experience. You need to have patience and give them another chance. But some people aren't patient. They'll hook up dogs, take them out and if they don't perform the way they want them to in the first or the second run, they're done with them. They'll just get another dog.

Once you hook them up and they start pulling that sled, they just want to go and go and go. The hard part is to reel them in.

As a writer, I'm convinced that encouraging children to write fiction, to hook into that marvelous machine called the imagination, has to be good for everyone.

That's my boy right there. Every time I go home, we hang out, we hook up and we put it down at the crib in Tampa.

Your brain forms roughly 10,000 new cells every day, but unless they hook up to preexisting cells with strong memories, they die. Serves them right.

This is one night we can hook 'em and hold down the little finger, because we're No. 1.

This first phase of systems integration is the biggest hurdle. It's a must for the bank that the systems hook up properly.

They tried to surround me. They put a lot of guys around me. I felt like my hook was barely missing. I don't feel like it's been there the last three or four games.

Always have your hook baited, in the pool you least think, there will be a fish.

They had a strong running game. They prepared for us very well. Their ball control killed us. It was quite obvious that they wanted it more. Red Land had all the momentum. They were able to hook us on the outside and when we tried to make an adjustment, they ran up the middle.

They are going to call that. I think it's more important than ever that you play strong positionally. If you are out of position, you can't hook a guy or tug a guy to get back in position.

This mind of mine went formerly wandering about as it liked, as it listed, as it pleased; but I shall now hold it in thoroughly, as the rider who holds the hook holds in the furious elephant.

It seems that now Arafat may have an incentive to sign the agreement. Before, he was concerned that it would give Netanyahu the image of a peacemaker and would get him off the hook of international pressure. But now it seems such a thing won't happen even if Netanyahu does sign a Hebron agreement.

It was awesome. My phone has been ringing off the hook ever since. People I haven't heard from in years are calling me. It's wild.

It was a tale of two halves. We had a chance to grab control of the game and we didn't finish the first half well. We kind of let them off the hook a little bit. They came out and dominated the second half. They overpowered us inside.

It's a blind draw, it's just one of those deals. If both guys win two matches, they'll hook up. But both of them have a lot of work to do before that.

It's about staying inside the ball and that's what Rod has been doing. He's thinking a little more left-center rather than down the line. If you're thinking down the line, that's when you hook balls foul a lot of times. He's in a good position and seeing the ball well. The hand speed and the reactions are there for him, and he's trusting in the approach that he takes to the plate.

For him to say that is the equivalent of me saying Ronnie Musgrove helped hook our kids on crystal methamphetamine because he didn't oppose a 40-percent cut in the state Bureau of Narcotics drug enforcement budget,

For comparison, there was a nation over there and all they had was a grappling hook and a line, ... When they found something they would have to drag it to see if it would blow up. Whereas at the other end of the spectrum, we had the remote control robot that could take pictures and has all kinds of weapons attached to keep the operator himself from having to touch it.

It's more positional play now. Before, if you got beat, your first instinct was to grab and hook and in most cases, you were allowed to get away with that, especially when you were short-handed. Now, if you do that, they call it, and you're down five on three. Your body position has to be a lot better.

It's a logo and a hook for everything we plan to do under arts education. It's a catchy way to say arts are important in your life.

It's a very competitive sports market. You need to position your product in the most attractive way. We're on the hook to pay out almost $6 million to these schools.

It's beautiful when two titans hook up. None of us have ever had the experience of selling a horse for $16 million or anywhere near that in our lifetime. That was fantastic, that was wonderful, and that was extraordinary.

It's our hook to get people in, and hopefully they will learn something about this man.

That's that hook I'm talking about. Why would you not hold on to the potential for that for as long as you possibly can? ... These guys, the way they played last night, tells me they're holding onto that.

That first jumper I took, that hook shot, it felt kind of good. After that, I had a little jumper in the short corner and I knew I was feeling it, the energy inside me, that I could score down low.

It seemed like he just couldn't handle the curveball, so we just kind of went changeup, slider, changeup, slider, and all of a sudden we dropped the hook in there and it froze him.

It was an invisible hook you hang pictures with, ... The Museum of Modern Art came in to the hardware store and asked him to design a hook that could hold heavy pictures and not be seen. He hand-tooled them in the back of his store.

It was more of a marketing tool to hook you in. If you wanted to continue you needed private lessons. And I was hooked. I loved it.

It's very hard to get access to those trailers, and very few people want to hook them up in their driveway and live next to the shell of their house.

It was 1980-'81, ... and I was booking bands for the George Street Grocery. I heard him play once, and he was great. I always tried to hook Sam up with a band.

They are more popular than they once were. They are gaining market share. I think consumers have gotten it ? they recognize value. If they've got a hook to get someone in there, they've got a very good chance of making that person a member for life.

They are usually off the hook financially. But what they are going to have to endure is far worse than having to pay the impostor's bills.

They are usually off the hook financially, ... But what they are going to have to endure is far worse than having to pay the impostor's bills.

They want to move to a state where they're taking a view of their risk ... on an ongoing basis, supported by technology. Today, you hear them talking about too much manual intervention. They want to see more tools emerge that they can hook onto their networks, onto their applications, that will perform the monitoring for them.

They were the ones who were pushing us to do more in construction supplies. We didn't want to lose our construction base. Now we have contractors from further away hearing about us and trying to hook up with us.

They keep the song as street as it needs to be. It's got a good catchy hook where it can do what it needs to do on the radio, but they keep the song street where it will keep credibility in the hood.

They learn about Windows and how to turn on the computer and hook it up when they get home. They learn to send and receive emails and how to write a word document.

It was just a couple of Army tents then. We would just hook up a few lights, and that was it.

The message is still very bleak for the UK High Street and the MPC is not off the hook yet for rate cuts,

The Fed will deal with (the housing-jobs mix) by hiking in January and March and hoping that the housing softening will be sufficient to get them off the hook by May, though I think that's a close call.

I'm going to run and get my head to the outside and try to reach whoever the contain man is. If he plays so far outside that you can't hook him, then you've just got to kick him outside as far as you can to spread the hole.

I'm excited to be participating in the T-Mobile All Access program, ... I can't wait to hook up with some of my fans and hang out backstage. Performing in New York City is always special, and I am really excited to play at the Hammerstein Ballroom.

I love it though, I take it to every class and every time I go back home I hook it up to the adapter and I play it through the radio. I listen to music all the time.

In bass fishing there are about 10 different lures and hook-set techniques that can be good. Clay is an expert in the techniques that don't require a strong hook set, and some days he gets on a roll and doesn't lose any fish.

I most enjoy sitting down with the acoustic guitar and just fiddling around and trying to come up with something like a hook or some sort of melodic line. That's something that I do habitually.

I'm just entirely too honest to hide it completely. I try to do plays on words; I try to say things that sound like I'm saying one thing but change the words a little bit. I try to use different terminology that I hear. I'm not scared to use the wrong kind of English. That's normally a hook to me. If you listen to a lot of older songs, if the English wasn't correct, that's normally how you get a hook in a song.

If Luke gets to play, Luke's a good passer and he can make his hook shot. He knows how to play and he knows what we're doing. In limited minutes he's gotten, he hasn't hurt us or himself.

I had this pile of documents that exposed how this industry was trying to hook people to killing themselves and to make a profit, and then I was seeing this incredibly tangible way to fight back and prevent the tobacco industry from leading people to their deaths.

I'm not trying (to hit home runs). I promise I'm just not trying to do too much, and it's yielded some pretty good results. When I go up there and try to swing hard, if I do hit it, I'll hook it foul.

I know Castillo is going to come forward. But Corrales absolutely made the first fight by doing that. He's been known to box a lot more and control the tempo a little more. But he walked right in against Castillo and made the left hook the punch of choice. If he does that again, it becomes more of an exciting fight for the fans.

I hit Damian Fuller with a left hook that left him laid out for 30-45 minutes. They brought oxygen to him, they couldn't wake him up, he was out cold. The television station kept having to take breaks, he was out so long. It was unbelievable. That was the best one-shot I've ever done in my life.

I haven't gotten the sense that people are using the parties as a way to hook up.

In order for us to stay in the game, we had to figure out how to slow them down. The first thought was defensive transition. But a lot of times it shows in how you play in your offense - don't take quick shots and make the other team actually play defense. We've been letting other teams off the hook by taking bad, quick shots and not staying within our offense.

In 40 years of fishing I've never seen a straight halibut bite like the one we've had. Back in the back bay there's usually lots of spotted bay bass. But to strictly get halibut and never get one with a hook mark in it, it's just been some incredible fishing.

His best move is sort of like the up-and-under, where he drops you and then fakes the hook. A lot go for that hook fake because it's realistic. When they go for that, he clears them out and goes back up. It works every time.

Before, the seed tank was on wheels and I pulled it behind the planter. But mounting makes it easier for turning corners. I also attached hydraulic connectors to the seed box so I can hook it up to the seed tender when filling the box. It's just more convenient.

By no means should people take this short-term motion as being let off the hook here. I don't want people to say, 'Whew, this one's going out to sea.' There's still a possibility that it could loop back.

Hook helped us get on top. From there it was all pitching and defense.

Tell everyone you know: “My happiness depends on me, so you're off the hook.

Myths hook and bind the mind because at the same time they set the mind free: they explain the universe while allowing the universe to go on being unexplained; and we seem to need this even now, in our twentieth-century grandeur.

I think we're all hooked, I feel my own hook-ness on immediate gratification you know. I want what I want.

We shouldn't let the Republicans off the hook. Theodore Roosevelt, we learned from Jeff Cowan's new book, was just as bad as certainly [Louis] Brandeis was, or many Democrats were on the question of segregation.

If you are able to settle, you'll be getting off rather easy. Debt settlement companies can sometimes get you off the hook for a large percentage of your debt - in many cases, up to 50% will be written off.

The cautious wolf fears the pit, the hawk regards with suspicion the snare laid for her, and the fish the hook in its concealment.

Someone saved my life tonight, sugar bear, you almost had your hooks in me, didn't you dear?

By hook or by crook this peril too shall be something that we remember

If I am using a telephone line to hook up to the Internet and then once I get on the Internet I'm using voice to communicate with you, how do you characterize the transmission of that data? Is it packets of information and is it (just another phone call)?" ()

I can't think of a time over the last 17 years where the phones have been ringing off the hook quite as much as they have recently.

I approached them because I?d read that they?d bought the Landmark Theatre chain. They control all the forms of distribution for their own product - now?s the time to try this idea of simultaneous release. You really need someone who?s into each of those pies to pull it off. And so I called Todd and said, ?Let?s hook up and have lunch and talk about this. Don?t you feel - don?t we all feel - like this is where it?s going?

I don't want to make this sound bad, but he plays wherever he wants to. He does step out and shoot the 3. It's kind of nice to have a 6-6 junior to help on the boards. When (Brock) gets around the basket he's so athletic he can create his own shot, not just a baby hook or jump shot.

I don't think they are taking away the hitting or the battles. They don't want anybody to hold and hook and use their sticks. It's something we adapted to during the season, and they're reinforcing it in the playoffs to make sure the game is still played the same way.

He's my man here. Every time I'm in Houston he comes out and checks out the game and I hook him up with stuff.

I could never control myself enough that I could hook somebody and intentionally try to hurt somebody, ... I was running for my life to make that play. That's truly what happened. I was just trying to do my job.

I don't look at this as being off the hook just because there aren't planes coming here.

He can hit any shot and he's got a deft touch around the greens. Ask him on the range to hook a wedge 30 yards and he can do it. Or cut his 2-iron or hit a high driver. He's got all of those shots.

[Peter Pan] has never broken his terrible habit of eavesdropping. So, maybe that wasn't the rustle of pages you heard while this story lasted, but Peter Pan himself, listening in. In exchanged for a story of yours, he might show you his most prized possession: James Hooks' map of Neverland. In exchange for a smile, he may show you Neverland itself.

I don't stay in the genre because I just like all stories that have a smart hook in them and I can find a comic way through if it's a comedy or a suspenseful way through it if it's a drama.

In every work environment, there will be politics. If you really want to rise to the top, you need to figure out what those politics in your workplace are. Then, you hook it in. You decide what conforms and what does not conform to your personal code.

Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.

[Sylvester] Stallone and I were in a meeting for Rocky Balboa. We were laughing about something, and he looks at my mouth and says to the casting director, "Wow, your lip even hooks down like mine does." Then he looked at the casting director and nodded, and I guess that was the nod of saying, "Hire this kid." So yeah, I have a really crooked mouth. They don't work, but I can feel everything.

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!

You fit into me like a hook into an eye a fish hook an open eye

I'm a dude who likes to create music with good feeling. I live like a chameleon through music. It all depends on what the beat tells me to do; that's why you're always gonna get passionate hooks, because I'm feeling the beats and the emotion behind the drums and melodies.

I call intuition cosmic fishing. You feel a nibble, then you've got to hook the fish.

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.

Red Hook Road made me happy, and happy to be alive. It took me out of my home on the coast of South Carolina, placed me in the town along Red hook Road, and changed me the way good books always do.

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.

The goal is to be on the hook, not to let someone else do the scary parts.

Blaming the system is soothing because it lets you off the hook. But when the system is broken, we wonder why you were relying in the system in the first place.

Marethyu stretched out his right hand and Aten took it in his. "Let me tell you this," the hook-handed man said. "We will meet again,you and I,in a different place and a different time." "You know this to be true?" "I do." "Because you have seen the future?" "Because I have been there.

I got a new song called "The Plug" and the hook says "I'm the plug/I'm connected to everything you love...

JOY in the LORD puts our mouths out of taste for the pleasures with which the tempter baits his hooks.

I'm terrified of saying the wrong thing on stage with bell hooks.

She heard pa shouting,"Jiminy crickets!It's raining fish-hooks and hammer handles!

People hook up. People don't hook up. I don't judge.

You could be on the hook for something awful. The dangerous part about New Year's is a lot of times there's one person who is ordering (drinks) for a lot of people.

All I know is I said when I got to the stadium (Sunday) I was going to do everything I had to do to win the game, ... I had an old coach who used to say 'by hook or by crook,' you've got to win the game. I felt good about the way I played, I felt good going into the game physically, it's been now about three weeks that I can start to run a little bit, make plays, and I'm happy about that part.