Poke Quotes

Poke Quote of the day

Even when people are rich and successful on TV shows, there's always some trouble - you have to poke holes in them, throw them out of a job, put a pie in the face.

Don't you think I would be a worthy replacement for you, Madam Prime Minister? You have a long nose. So have I. But I don't poke my nose into other people's affairs.

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

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

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.

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

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

I check Style.com to look at the collections and love to poke around some of the other fashion blogs to see what's going on.

If your opponent is at a distance, kick him in the groin. If he gets close, poke him in the eyes, bring up your knee, pop him with an elbow, dig a corkscrew punch to his stomach.

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

The blankets had fallen off and I stared down at her white back, the shoulder blades sticking out as if they wanted to grow into wings, poke through that skin. Little blades. She was helpless.

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

The point of poetry is to be acutely discomforting, to prod and provoke, to poke us in the eye, to punch us in the nose, to knock us off our feet, to take our breath away.

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

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

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

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man will poke out his eye to fit in.

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

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.

There ought not to be anything in the whole universe that man can't poke his nose into-that's the way we're built and I assume that there's some reason for that.

A stranger stabs you in the front; a friend stabs you in the back; a boyfriend stabs you in the heart, but best friends only poke each other with straws

The only good imitations are those that poke fun at bad originals.

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

You can't prove anything about a program written in C or FØRTRAN. It's really just Peek and Poke with some syntactic sugar.

Lorna was quite young when her mother died, and I think she's blocked out some of the memories. I talked to her a little bit about that, but I wasn't prepared to go around and poke and hurt her.

Sanguine felt the ridiculous urge to reach out and poke him, just to see if he’d react, but he’d seen that kind of anger before. It was the quiet kind. The dangerous kind.

I feel I would love to close down for a number of years in some way and just be in the country making pork pies and chutneys and never have to poke my head out of the parapet.

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

You can poke fun at some pretty difficult circumstances, and it's just a way to pop the bubble. I don't do that thing onstage usually, but offstage sometimes I might.

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

I poke around in the pile, about to settle on some cod chowder, when Peeta holds out a can to me. “Here.” I take it, not knowing what to expect. The label reads LAMB STEW.

My idea of government support was, you supply me with hospitals, schools and the environment to do well and that will do me fine. But do not poke your nose in my business.

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

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

There is nothing else for people to do. They do not think. They feel no passion, no hatred, no sadness; they feel nothing but fear, and a desire to control. So they watch, and poke, and pry.

Because you can poke someone's eye out legally doesn't mean you should and that it's right. The Bible teaches us a more perfect justice.

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

Poke gave him life. Ender gave it meaning.

If I hurt someone, if I were to accidentally poke someone's eye out, I would laugh. And then I'd say, 'I'm sorry, I really do feel bad,' but then I'm on the floor rolling.

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?

Women never reason, or, if they do, they either draw correct inferences from wrong premises, or wrong inferences from correct premises; and they always poke the fire from the top.

Life is a buzzer box. Poke it.

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

I pride myself on being fairly polite on a set so it's kind of a guilty pleasure to poke others on the set.

Though he love not to buy the pig in the poke.

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

It's fun for someone to poke fun at himself.

In the world of late-night comics, Letterman made us feel any hometown boy from Indianapolis could poke fun at celebrities and politicians and do it right to their faces.

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

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.