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