Hookey Quotes & Sayings

My only regret is that we didn't have more kids. I came from a family of four kids, but my wife and I just started too late. — John Lithgow

The majority of celebrities that come to the show actually don't come backstage. Because they don't know that they can. — Andrew Rannells

You're playing hookey for her? You met her, what, five minutes ago? And now she's what? Your girlfriend? Did you give her your varsity jacket? — Ally Blake

Those of us who follow Jesus Christ must seriously commit to praying for our leaders, never forgetting that even our greatest heroes are flawed individuals who need Jesus Christ, just like the rest of us. — Jonathan Falwell

Do not lose the enthusiasm of your youth. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Violence - look, we live in a violent world, man. This country was founded on violence. Who's kidding who? — Bruce Willis

He relished learning from the voice of a teacher and from books. Each day of merely learning something was a deep adventure to him. Sometimes he laughed and told himself that he was unnatural, for American boys are supposed to hate school. They followed a pattern of Redblooded Masculinity, set up by the traditions of hookey and Mark Twain. But he had no resistance whatever to his studies. He took them supine and with gusto, with the receptively of a girl whose desires have been aroused by loving blandishment. — John Horne Burns

I just like music. If it's hookey and good, I dig it. — Chris Daughtry

I meet people from really grand backgrounds who had horrible parents who took no interest in them, whereas I'm a working-class boy from Deptford who was worshipped by all my rellies. Everybody in my extended family helped to raise me, and I realise now how lucky I was to grow up among kind folk. — Jools Holland

Tom did play hookey, and — Mark Twain

Shooting this one was kind of like a two month party, we would literally play music between takes, and other movies that were shooting on our lot would play hookey, come over and hang out and stuff. We had a great time. — Mike Myers