Lures Quotes

The many magazines, ranging from pulp to slick, that used to serve as both farm teams for writers and lures to readers, with hundreds of short stories every month, don`t exist. Most of the doors for new people have been sealed.

(One study involved killer whales at Marineland in Niagara Falls in Ontario, Canada. An inventive male devised a brand new way to catch birds, and passed the strategy on to his tank-mates. The 4-year-old orca lures gulls into his tank by spitting regurgitated fish onto the water`s surface. He waits below for a gull to grab the fish, then lunges at it with open jaws.) They are in a way setting a trap, ... They catch three or four gulls this way some days.

(One study involved killer whales at Marineland in Niagara Falls in Ontario, Canada. An inventive male devised a brand new way to catch birds, and passed the strategy on to his tank-mates. The 4-year-old orca lures gulls into his tank by spitting regurgitated fish onto the water`s surface. He waits below for a gull to grab the fish, then lunges at it with open jaws.) They are in a way setting a trap, ... They catch three or four gulls this way some days.

Anyone whose goal is `something higher` must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.

Just because something isn`t illegal doesn`t make it right. These are lollipops that are clearly targeted at kids, ... As parents, you spend an enormous amount of time and energy saying to kids, `Don`t smoke, don`t drink, don`t do drugs.` Anything the glamorizes or lures them into these destructive behaviors shouldn`t be promoted.

I was lucky. In 1997, I walked into a sporting goods store to buy some lures and saw an ad that someone was looking for someone to manage a fishing lodge. I was hired and the man who was my boss was a former professional fisherman. That gave me a 9-to-5 income but also gave me time off work to fish events.

It is a man`s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.