Zitat des Tages über Köder / Bait:
I developed an optical lure that imitates certain types of bioluminescent displays that I think might be attractive to large predators. The other way to do it is just use dead bait, but I think dead bait attracts scavengers, and we wanted to attract active predators.
I think the bait for doing something really is always the part.
Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase, as the moon, when she is fullest, is farthest from the sun.
Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.
During the run up to the Iraq War, Mike Farrell and I did get on television kind of frequently, but then they saw that that didn't work. They really couldn't bait us into being stupid, so they stopped. You know the mainstream media, corporate media, avoids ever giving anyone who has anything to say a platform, if they can possibly help it.
Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.
The finer the bait, the shorter the wait!
Our money is bait money, and bait money is not to be used.
Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.
There were a few youthful fishing trips, but I never enjoyed the experiences, partly because I didn't like hurting the bait.
In day-to-day commerce, television is not so much interested in the business of communications as in the business of delivering audiences to advertisers. People are the merchandise, not the shows. The shows are merely the bait.
When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
I'm fishing for men with a certain kind of bait, and the bait that I am offering is not a candy; it's a very specific thing that I'm offering, which is a deep gospel and a deep conversion.
I had to work on a Marlin boat, like gutting fish, like as the bait boy.
Music is the reason I started talking to people. When I started singing in bars and trains, I began to learn the behaviour of people. Music was the bait that helped me get something from them and give myself to them.
