Poke Quotations

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.

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

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.

Most of us don't have to worry about being shot if we poke our noses outside. So we are comfortable, but the people I'm writing about are definitely not comfortable, and being shot while they're still inside is a good possibility.

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

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.

I want to poke holes in the erroneous beliefs about what fame provides. It won't raise your self-esteem, it won't create profound connection, it's not going to heal your childhood traumas, it's only going to amplify them. You're going to be subject to a lot of criticism and praise, both of which are violent in their own ways.

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

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

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

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

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

We appear before the Supreme Court - who in their right mind would want to poke their finger in the eye of the next chief justice? Based on what we know, this is not a nominee that we can let go by unopposed.

When the match is poised at 1-1, you know one mistake could be crucial and there is an understandable nervousness. We seem to want to score the perfect goal when I'd much rather see us get scruffy ones - a toe poke or a ricochet.

When the IMF lends you money it has all these strings attached. But if you don't owe the IMF money, the IMF can't poke its nose into your affairs even though IMF money is cheaper than the money that's available on the open market.

Online retailers continue to re-create the offline world on the Internet. People come out to the stores the day after Christmas looking for bargains. Now a natural part of shopping is to first poke around online. Some shoppers might see bargains online and decide they don't have to fight the crowds in the malls.

My aggression out there is my weapon, ... ... I think it's more letting them know that I'm not going to let them get away with something, and I'm not just going to kind of poke it back and be content to stay in rallies.

It boils down to how the guys play for you. That's the most important thing for me. I've done a good job getting my team ready to play every day. That is, as a manager, all you can do. The other stuff you can poke holes in. The main thing is I've learned a lot about the game.

I think that's a big key, at least knowing that they have to do something with the ball and I'm not just going to kind of poke it back and be content to stay in rallies.

I thought somebody was trying to put me on. Someone trying to poke fun at me. I'll tell you what, I didn't fall for it, though.

Penn State's defense was good; I think we had opportunities that we weren't willing to take half chances. I've got young players right now that want every goal to be a World Cup-quality goal. A toe poke counts just as much as a bicycle kick so we have to take chances and shoot the ball more.

My wife is French, and so I get to see America through her eyes, which informs a lot of little moments. It means I can poke fun at very particular things about us.

I was trying to poke check him a little bit and I missed the puck. It's mentally pretty hard.

I think he can poke fun at them and they can poke fun at him. I don't know if it was always like that but he's grown into it; he's learned to trust and respect and they've learned to trust and respect him.

I thought I had him with the poke check. But he got me 5-hole.

That would be a real poke in the eye with a sharp stick,

We'll do both sides, ... We just want to poke fun at how controversial it is. The room will be smoke-free and every 45 minutes we'll take smoke breaks on the patio to accommodate smokers.

Poke gave him life. Ender gave it meaning.

The play was set up because we didn't win a battle along the boards. Then, Samy tried to get (Wrigley) down low and let him go to the front where Terry could poke the puck away. Samy made his move too early and gave (Wrigley) too much room to work.

When I went back out there he tried to say he was sorry. I haven't watched it, but everybody else that has seen it tells me that it looked like his fingers were spread and he had a straight poke at it. So, I don't know.

Every time someone walks around the corner, you think they're coming in to poke you again.

This was a disappointing loss, no question. We did not do enough things that make us successful. We did some things that look good, but we did not play the way we need to play to be successful. It was too much of a poke and go hockey game. Now we have to come back tomorrow and get back to our game.

Don't forget, jeans are not allowed on match days or away trips. And if you're going to get pissed or poke a girl, do it before midnight.

There's never any intention to satirize the church or poke fun at religion in any way.

I see the cartoonist as contributing to the content, being critical, because we do poke holes in some of the dialogue and find new ways of seeing things.

They are a logical counterpoint to the endless sea of self-congratulations ... We take ourselves a little less seriously than the others awards groups. We're basically here to poke fun of everyone else. It's not so much a slap in the face as a banana peel on the floor.

The thought is not to poke this in the eye of Calgary, saying we're the homophobic center of the universe, and now we have to prove the opposite,

Normally I?m peeling away to be a third guy, but I saw his head down and saw I had a chance to poke it away from him and fortunately it went in the net.

You're looking at two little poke holes and a small incision to harvest the graft.

You're going to see good profit growth over the next several quarters, but it's not going to be as strong as it's been of late. Still, it will be better than a poke in the eye.

This is a way to poke fun that doesn't turn off voters. In 2006, when so many people are taping everything on TV and skipping commercials, this is a way to engage people.

There's always this sly grin underneath. He's willing to poke fun, to puncture pomposity at any time.

It's easier to poke holes in an idea than think of ways to fill them. And it's easier to focus on the 100 reasons you shouldn't do something rather than the one reason you should.

It's a sad day for everybody and I think for the country when we lose somebody who's as serious about legislation as Sonny Bono. A lot of people used to poke fun at him and maybe didn't think he was serious as a congressman here in Washington but he did a great job and we're going to miss him.

It's about time. I haven't been playing the way that I can. Once we established that we weren't going to allow them to push us around and poke us, they got a couple of quick fouls, and once that happens to you, you can't play as physical as you want. Once we saw that, we just took it to them more.

It's a great opportunity to poke fun at people,

I tried to poke it and the guy was too close to me. I got a little piece of it with the inside of my pad.

It was just one of those goals. We got the lead and then I don't really know what happened. I think it went over (defenseman Ethan) Graham's head. I like to be aggressive and tried to poke at it, but didn't get it.

This is just getting a little old. Ford has made its position very clear. It is a position that is respectful and acknowledging the diversity of its customers and employees. It's made a very principled decision on this matter. For that we can be very happy and they should be very proud. People who want to continue to poke sticks in these kinds of things and bully people don't serve anybody. There's nothing helpful, positive, or rational about people who want to continue to create controversy and an issue over this whole Ford matter.

Anyone walking through the typical Fortune 500 office today could just poke a head into a cube, grab a password and be in.

In 1969 I hung a Fifty Foot Brassiere on the US Treasury Building to poke fun at leering Wall Street workers and placed grotesque Statues of Liberty in Astor Place in the East Village as a war protest.

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

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

I didn't know whether it was going in or not, so I decided to poke out my stick and redirect it. It was a quick decision.

Chavez likes to poke the U.S., ... And he's been aligning himself with folks like Fidel Castro.

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

I don't think that's good enough. People don't poke around in the latest issue looking for conflict-of-interest statements.

He's not the type of kid that will go back and poke fun at anyone. He's really remorseful over this.

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.

Stop, stop, stop, you're going to poke someone's eye out!

Reject the tyranny of picked. Pick yourself.

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

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.

Their kids play all year round together. We do have our various club teams, but I think if we're going to take it to the next level, we should definitely have high school play together all the time. It's just those little ticks, like knowing when to cut when someone's got the ball, when to throw a poke check.

You don't have to poke a hole to find out the depth.

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.

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

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