Poking Quotes: top 64 famous quotes about Poking

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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

Living in a small town [in India] was like living in a glass house! — Mallika Nawal

People should stop poking fun at other people and worry about themselves. — Pauly Shore

The journalists are poking me all the time. It's impossible for me to stop even I want to. — Yao Ming

His will is our hiding place. Lord Jesus, keep me in your will! Don't let me go mad by poking about outside of it! — Corrie Ten Boom

The biggest fool is one who minds the business of others rather than minding his very own — Amit Abraham

Wore out from all that, I did what we call shilly-shally. Poking round up to no good. — Sue Monk Kidd

Deliberately causing mayhem in Snape's Potions class was about as safe as poking a sleeping dragon in the eye. — J.K. Rowling

He was verbally poking a bruise. — Gillian Flynn

My only memories of school are of being beaten, of being hit in the playground, of masters poking their fingers in my chest all day. — Michael Gambon

My idea of a good time abroad is to visit someone's house and hang out, poking into their cupboards if they will let me. — Laurie Colwin

She keeps poking at my marriage like a toothpick. Almost done! — Rainbow Rowell

I looked down at America, who was now poking her cheeks with her fingers, seemingly just so she could see how it felt. — Kiera Cass

Quantum reality is a nest of snakes, Clavain, and we are already poking it with a very sharp stick. — Alastair Reynolds

Any man who barely sustains an armistice with himself has no business poking around in an alien soul. — Glen Cook

I tried to pretend that I was sitting in the stands with a buddy watching the game - poking him in the ribs when something exciting happened. — Curt Gowdy

It is not caving in to the bees to stop poking a stick into their hive. — Llewellyn Rockwell

Athletes don't have much use for poking around in their childhoods, because, introspection doesn't get you anywhere in a race. — Lance Armstrong

How can you expect something to heal if you keep poking? — Maggie Stiefvater

I was limply poking about in the garbage saying probably, for at that age I must still have been capable of general ideas, This is life. — Samuel Beckett

This man," Dorian said, poking Kylar's chest, "and this one - " he poked Kylar's forehead - "are on their way to madness. Take it from one who knows. — Brent Weeks

Revitalizing General Motors is like teaching an elephant to tap dance. You find the sensitive spot and start poking. — Ross Perot

I know that Southern redhead type, Bruno said, poking at his apple pie. — Patricia Highsmith

There is thin line between fun and disrespect to a language. Poking once or twice is fun but excess is disrespect. — Pankaj Gupta

He remembers looking up in his jail cell and seeing a needle of sunlight poking through, and trying to cradle that tiny pinhole of light in his hands. — Robert Jackson Bennett

At the counter, she winced at what the poking cost — Nora Roberts

Since the very beginning, Emeril's had a sense of humor about me calling him names and poking fun at him. — Anthony Bourdain

Given the choice of Hollywood or poking steel pins in my eyes, I'd prefer steel pins. — Mike Leigh

Even the best psychiatrist is like a blindfolded auto mechanic poking around under your hood with a giant foam "We're #1" finger. — Dennis Miller

I love poking fun at myself. I have a rather mean sense of humor. — Alton Brown

It would be ugly to watch people poking sticks at a caged rat. It is uglier still to watch rats poking sticks at a caged person. — Jean Harris

If what you believe doesn't depend om what you see, you've been blinded as effectively as by poking out your eyeballs. — Eliezer Yudkowsky

I'll drive. But don't you be turning into a dragon while you're in the car. I don't want those claws poking holes in my nice upholstery. — Katie MacAlister

Governing a large country is like frying a small fish. You spoil it with too much poking. — Laozi

The universe was bad enough without people poking it. — Terry Pratchett

You cannot go poking skeletons in the closet without making maggots wriggle." - Springfield Road — Salena Godden

I wondered how they could know so much about my brain without lifting open my skull and poking through it. — Nova Ren Suma

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

Alice was standing in the gloom, with just the toes of her pointy shoes poking out into the sunlight. — Joseph Delaney

Stop poking your nose around where it doesn't belong, someone cuts it off. There's something else going on around you, like a storm. — Kendare Blake

You're not going to go around poking at the fire and straightening up the room again, are you? — Dashiell Hammett

I like poking my nose into other people's lives. — Helen Garner

Are you just gonna stare at Jack or are we gonna go? Milo asked, poking his head into the bedroom. — Amanda Hocking

I collect flickering stars
in old pickling jars,
poking holes in the lids
so they can breathe. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

So curious you must be. Like little calves poking their heads through the fence with big eyes and a headful of curiosity. — Carew Papritz

I believe in love. Unfortunately, it doesn't believe me. Lust, on the other hand, is a nagging wife poking constantly at my DNA. — Carroll Bryant

You are always digging in the past or poking at the future, but rarely do you rest in this moment. — Elizabeth Gilbert

I was poking fun at myself most of all. — Marcel Duchamp

Your hard dick is poking me in the ass. I can no more ignore it than if you slapped me in the face with it. — Kristen Callihan

Climate is an angry beast and we are poking at it with sticks — Wallace Smith Broecker

Bits of exultation kept peeping out, and Lucia kept poking them back. — E.F. Benson

We don't want other people poking into our artistic pie. — Neville Marriner

To enter the past is like poking a baseball bat into a spiderweb: it can't be done subtly or delicately. — Robert Silverberg

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

Liquid heat blasts into me and I can feel it all the way to my navel, feeling him so deep inside me it's almost like he's poking at my heart. He — Gemma Rice

The batsman's technique was like an old lady poking her umbrella at a wasp's nest. — John Arlott

There are some laws of nature you just know. You don't go poking lions with sticks. — Talia Vance

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose. — Zora Neale Hurston

Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man's world. — Barbra Streisand

When you're a writer, sometimes you have to spend time poking at a part of yourself that normal, sane people leave alone. — Vikram Chandra

poking around in this dump, as it would be — Jane Smiley

Go on," he said in a low tone that was a dare. "Keep on poking the hungry wolf, see how naked it gets you. — Nalini Singh

Poking a lump of red Jello that jiggles outrageously, like a breast I once knew. — Sara Gruen

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