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You don't know what you're doing," Mitchell says. "Poking a stick into a den of snakes." "Poke-poke, motherfuckers." Atlanta pulls the trigger. — Chuck Wendig

One of my favorite ways to eat albacore is tuna poke. — Tom Douglas

I did not need to see that ... I mean I really did not need to see that. Jenna, honey, grab one of my daggers and poke out both my eyes. — Dianne Duvall

To poke a wood fire is more solid enjoyment than almost anything else in the world. — Charles Dudley Warner

What do we care, if the world is a joke? We'll give it a big kiss, we'll give it a poke. Death wears a big hat cause he's a big bloke. — Elvis Costello

The public is like a piano. You just have to know what keys to poke. — Al Capp

A number of American colleges are willing to pay a tempting amount to pinch and poke an author for a day or two. — John Updike

I think the State shouldn't poke its nose into the sexual relations of consenting adults. — Rocco Buttiglione

I like sporks. They're like spoons, but you can poke people with them. — Ed Robertson

Oh, honey. You picked the wrong bear to poke. — Codi Gary

Can you burn me up with holy water? Poke me to death with your crucifix? Pelt me with communion wafers? — MaryJanice Davidson

It's easy to poke fun at the world and think yourself clever, but it's much harder to stand silent and endure. — Jessica Cluess

When moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that's awfully hard not to poke. — Barbara Kingsolver

The only good imitations are those that poke fun at bad originals. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

To poke its umbrella tip in the mud of the electric light — Andre Breton

He looked like a bored boy deciding whether to poke a dead fish. — R. Scott Bakker

Sorry," he muttered as he pulled it away. "Sure," I said faintly. "Sure." I wondered how to go about asking him to poke me with his sword again. — T.J. Klune

It stings to clean a wound, to poke it and prod it until certain that any contagions have been excised, but we want to heal. — Bromleigh McCleneghan

I think anything that you can't poke fun at is a little too precious. — Annie E. Clark

We yearn for a stranger to poke around in our heart. Such an irrational thing it is. Flutter once and lunacy behold. — H.S. Crow

I just don't believe that being conservative means all you do is throw stones and poke people in the eye. — James Lankford

Desmond, don't poke the baby!' ... 'I'll get you next time-' Don't threaten the baby either!' ... — Derek Landy

But they get some comfort out of the made up stories. And if that helps them get along maybe I should not poke fun. — Kaye Gibbons

I poke fun of everybody and everything. And who's easier to make fun of than your mother? — Alexis Stewart

But of course these are scientists. Tell them to leave something alone, and all they want to do is poke it with a stick. — Beth Revis

The ground has on its clothes. The trees poke out of sheets and each branch wears the sock of God. — Anne Sexton

No, I might be able to poke fun at the Quran for its childishly imperious content, but not for its style. — Rabih Alameddine

I may think that hornets do not have an ideal social organization. But I know better than to poke their nest. — Fred Reed

Stop, stop, stop, you're going to poke someone's eye out! — J.K. Rowling

A man that ain't willin' to cheat for a poke don't want it bad enough. — Larry McMurtry

I'll do humor about myself, I'll poke fun and everything, but that's me and I can do it to me. I think it's cruel to do it to somebody else. — Delta Burke

It's fun for someone to poke fun at himself. — Chris Kattan

It's better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick! — Elizabeth Delisi

I wanted to pull out his toenails and poke them in his eyeballs. — Nicole Peeler

This one guy's wife is such a pretty brown thing, that I'm liable to give her a poke or two. Whaddaya think of that? — Randy Newman

A one-eyed man with a knife in hand, looking for someone else's eye to poke out. — Veronica Roth

I wonder if it's because I haven't been able to poke my nose outdoors for so long that I've grown so crazy about everything to do with Nature? — Anne Frank

I decide that we could always indulge ourselves later. First, I had a soul-eating stone of power to poke with a stick. — Lisa Shearin

Grissom is a character who doesn't really want people poking around in his life. He likes to poke around in his work. — William Petersen

Like having death poke his stinking mug into your face to make you think about things. — Douglas Preston

For the lesson was clear-one did not poke around at night, not unless one wanted to see ghosts. — Anna Godbersen

Smile, it's better than a poke in the eye. — Douglas Horton

Life is a buzzer box. Poke it. — Seth

Though ye loue not to bye the pyg in the poke,Yet snatche ye at the poke, that the pyg is in,Not for the poke, but the pyg good chepe to wyn. — John Heywood

We can never be a nation of snobs so long as we are willing to poke fun at ourselves. — Edgar Wilson Nye

Quite casually I wander into my plot, poke around with my characters for a while, then amble off, leaving no moral proved and no reader improved. — Thorne Smith

One of Spenser's rules of detection is: Never poke around on an empty stomach. So I unpacked, got my gun, and went down for a club sandwich and — Robert B. Parker

If I was wealthy I'd never do anything but poke around in ruined cities all over the world - and probably get snake-bit. — Robert E. Howard

Redder than a turkey's rump in poke berry time. — Vance Randolph

A man who wouldn't cheat for a poke don't want one bad enough.
Augustus "Gus" McCrae — Larry McMurtry

I don't think I'm too mean to celebrities. I poke fun, but I think in the end, they always win. — Shane Dawson

The pen is mightier than the sword, if you know where to poke it. — Jeremy C. Shipp

Though he love not to buy the pig in the poke. — John Heywood

If you like good ol' fashion Southern soul food then, yes, I am a good cook! My specialty is chicken dumplings and poke salad. — Dolly Parton

Poke gave him life. Ender gave it meaning. — Orson Scott Card

Remember, people who peek through keyholes have to expect an occasional poke in the eye. — Gary K. Wolf

Morfran thrust his axe straight up. He pretty much seemed to have one sign for everything: poke a hole in the sky. — Ilona Andrews

If I don't poke my head out of my shell and show people who I am, all anyone will ever think I am is my shell. — Shonda Rhimes

I never, ever see myself as a celebrity or famous, so I poke fun at that. — Kendra Wilkinson

You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too. — Ram Kapoor

If one wishes to elicit a reaction from the elusive species known as 'reservus quietgirlius,' one must poke. — Jules Barnard

There's a lot to do when you're a kid - spiders to catch, girls to poke in the eye - stuff to be getting on with. — Alan Davies

Facebook people are finding me that I don't really know. People poke you on Facebook. I'm like, 'Why? Why are you poking me?' — Bridget Kelly

Respectfully, 'Awkward Black Girl' was never meant to be politically correct. We poke fun at ignorance. — Issa Rae

Carrie doesn't seem to talk about anything with sharp edges. Maybe she's afraid they might poke her and then she'd burst. — Lisa McMann

But the scars are always there, waiting for something to poke them. — Tammara Webber

Sometimes you have to poke holes in the darkness until it bleeds light. — Margaret Feinberg

The best thing about the Earth is if you poke holes in it oil and gas comes out." - Republican U.S. Congressman Steve Stockman, 20131 — Naomi Klein

If you come within two feet of this curtain, I will poke out your eyes while you sleep. — Jamie McGuire

I have an air mattress. It's great because if someone tries to suffocate me in bed I can just poke a hole in it and use it to stay alive. — Demetri Martin

Doesn't matter how much you fights with your loved once, in the end still you tries to poke for more aruements. — H.G. Mewis

There's something that doesn't make sense. Let's go and poke it with a stick. — Steven Moffat

It. I don't mean to poke the bear, but I've got one nerve left, and Maddox is dry-humping it. So, could you all move it along? — Jamie McGuire

I always think the novelist should go to the culture's dark places and poke around. Pose a lot of hard questions. — Dana Spiotta

Apparently wizards poke their noses in everywhere! — J.K. Rowling

Keep poking things with your stick and it'll be okay. — Maggie Stiefvater

Being a comedy writer gives you permission to be an outsider and poke fun at what people think about other people. — Michael Patrick King

The needles they poke you with leaves a hole that closes in. But unkind words can make a hole that will never mend. — Stanley Victor Paskavich

here's the thing: However attractive the idea of a writer's retreat may sound, having all day to poke around on a novel actually hampers productivity. — Chris Baty

Aw, Poke, you poor, kind, decent, stupid girl. You saved me and I let you down. — Orson Scott Card

I think people are tired of politicians trying to poke each other in the eye. — Mark Warner

Buddy, I don't mean to poke my nose in where it don't belong, but that there is a dame to kill for. Why'd you let her go? — Frank Miller

Comic-Con is incredibly important to San Diego, but that doesn't mean we can't poke a little fun at it! — Steve Breen

When you're really close to someone, they can make fun of you a lot and get away with it. But they sort of poke you in all of the right places. — Ian Somerhalder

You want a poke in the eye with a sharp stick?" Sully offered. "You don't have a stick," Will pointed out. — Richard Russo

It's fun to invent systems and meanings and then poke holes in them. — Marty Rubin

It is no wiser to taunt a man with words than to poke a wildcat with a stick. — Amanda Scott

Trolling taps into people's desire to poke fun, make trouble and cause annoyance. — Rob Manuel

The thinness of contemporary life. I can poke my finger through it. — Don DeLillo

For me, one of the privileges of being a writer is to poke your nose around and learn about worlds you don't know. — Gavid Hood

I once went to a wedding and old people started to poke me and say that i'm next, so I started to do the same to them at funarals — Google Images

Anyway, I don't trust those people who poke around sad people's minds and tell them how interesting it all is up there. It's not interesting. — Ottessa Moshfegh

You poke at evil with a stick," Valerie had said, offering chilling advice they'd never forget. "Never use your fingers. — Gregg Olsen

Use your beak energy not to blab but to poke through the eggshell. — N

The wise man doesn't poke a sleeping bear with a stick. — Stephen King