Poking Quotes

We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don't like federal agents poking around our libraries in the Red States. We coach Little League in the Blue States and have gay friends in the Red States. (Barack Obama)
We don't want other people poking into our artistic pie. View quote
Neville Marriner
Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose. It is a seeking that he who wishes may know the cosmic secrets of the world and they that dwell therein. View quote
Zora Neale Hurston
My alphabet starts with this letter called yuzz. It's the letter I use to spell yuzz-a-ma-tuzz. You'll be sort of surprised what there is to be found once you go beyond 'Z' and start poking around. View quote
Dr. Seuss
As far as I'm concerned ... the Universe is a junk yard, with everything overpriced. I am through poking around in the junk heaps, looking for bargains. Every so-called bargain ... has been connected by fine wires to a dynamite bouquet. View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
Once she was gone, I knelt next to Annabeth and felt her forehead. She was still burning up. "You're cute when you're worried," she muttered. "Your eyebrows get all scrunched together." "You aregoing to die while I owe you a favor," I said. "Why did you take that knife?" "You would've done the same for me." It was true. I guess we both knew it. Still, I felt like somebody was poking my heart with a cold metal rod. View quote
Rick Riordan
When you're a writer, sometimes you have to spend time poking at a part of yourself that normal, sane people leave alone. View quote
Vikram Chandra
I love poking fun at myself. I have a rather mean sense of humor. View quote
Alton Brown
I think that what comes through in Chicago humor is the affection. Even though you're poking fun at someone or something, there's still an affection for it. View quote
Bob Newhart
I could suddenly see the pressures all around; these endless magazines and cheap reality TV programmes poking at women, humiliating us for every flaw. It makes me so angry. I really wonder what it is we are doing to ourselves, because I do think women can be the worst ones for picking each other apart. View quote
Amanda Burton
I don't want people poking around in my private stuff. They've no business in it. My work is what I give to people, that's my job, and that's where it stops. (Brendan Gleeson)
The president's poking fun at himself over what goes down. I thought it was a good-natured performance. It made him look good. But he certainly doesn't disguise the record on weapons of mass destruction. And you feel like saying to people, Just get over it. View quote
Brit Hume
There are a lot of new opportunities that are poking their head up in my future. I've been very fortunate that way, but for right now, what I like is what I'm doing. View quote
Gavin MacLeod
Given the choice of Hollywood or poking steel pins in my eyes, I'd prefer steel pins. View quote
Mike Leigh
Grissom is a character who doesn't really want people poking around in his life. He likes to poke around in his work. View quote
William Petersen
I'm going to put it to you straight. Never mind about being chief engineer of a planet; these days even a farmer needs the best education he can get. Without it he's just a country bumpkin, a stumbling peasant, poking seeds into the ground and hoping a miracle will make them grow. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
Jack: [poking his head through the stage curtains] Bob, will you please give me my pants back? View quote
Jack Benny
Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose. View quote
Zora Neale Hurston
We had and incident. I took care of it." "Really." Jace's voice dripped sarcasm. "Do you even know how to use that knife, Clarissa? Without poking a hole in yourself or any innocent bystanders? View quote
Cassandra Clare
It is of course a magic carpet." Abdullah had heard that one before. He bowed over his tucked-up hands. "Many and various are the virtues said to reside in carpets," he agreed. "Which one does the poet of the sands claim for this? Does it welcome a man home to his tent? Does it bring peace to the hearth? Or maybe," he said, poking the frayed edge suggestively with one toe, "it is said to never wear out? View quote
Diana Wynne Jones
Adding a column of figures is a repetitive thought process, and it was long ago properly relegated to the machine. True, the machine is sometimes controlled by the keyboard, and thought of a sort enters in reading the figures and poking the corresponding keys, but even this is avoidable. (Vannevar Bush)
Some people have told me that I'm grumpy; it's not something that I'm aware of. It's not like I walk around poking children in the eye... not very small ones, anyway. View quote
Dylan Moran
Jezanna: Uh... lotta memories here, huh, dad? Albert: Remember this burn mark on the baseboard, from the time you stuck that piece of Erector Set in the outlet? You were always poking into something. Audrey: Mmm, girl! View quote
Alison Bechdel
I like poking my nose into other people's lives. View quote
Helen Garner
And I felt a sudden whirl in my head, knowing this leap was inevitable, that I wasn't just standing on the cliff, toes poking over, but already in mid-air. View quote
Sarah Dessen