Poking Quotations

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?'

I was a crazy Pee-wee Herman fan when I was in my early teens. Before he had the kids' TV show, he had a nightclub show in L.A., and I had gotten a VHS copy of it. It was a kids' show, but onstage in a bar, so it's sort of poking fun at the kids' show. And I was obsessed with that, and then 'Pee-wee's Big Adventure.'

I guess there's a certain amount of poking fun at certain characters, but that's because there is something amusing about them or about the way they behave, so I guess you can say that that's poking fun at the character. But the character is your own invention, so who cares?

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.

I'm a great admirer of 'The Simpsons.' It's very surprising because it's backed by a right-wing television company in the U.S., and quite often it's poking fun at the people who would be its audience.

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.

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.

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

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.

I was on paper earning more money and having more success than I'd ever had. And it was also the most miserable I've ever been. When those things collided, I realised something was off. That's when I started poking around to figure out what was wrong.

I still love Delhi but get scared of the madness sometime. I know that my fans love me. But it gets a bit tough to handle when, in their excitement, they start touching and poking you to see if you're for real.

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

She was very smart, a really sharp kid -- she could have done anything she put her mind to. We called her 'Pokey' because she was always poking her little nose into everything. One thing about Diane was she was always trying to help someone else -- someone always had a bigger problem than her.

Poking fun at other people's beliefs, while it may seem frivolous and offensive, is a non-negotiable right. It is a principle that underpins free speech, the basis for progress.

I'd been poking my head out for days. I haven't had food in 2 or 3 days. I wasn't scared, but I was nervous. I trust in God. He wanted me to hang in there.

He was poking the screen with it, over and over until he ripped it. But he didn't say anything about it, and then he actually incorporated it into his explanation of the next slide.

I think we're going to be harder to play against. We're going to be more physical, and there's going to be more of a price to pay to come into our zone. Players won't be poking around our net as much as they did last year trying to get rebounds because I think we can make them pay. And we didn't have that last year -- we haven't had that for awhile -- so that's going to really help us. I think our strength is going to be on the back end.

I was out poking around about another job, and Clay come in.

We were just poking around and we're barely making wages.

We are on pins and needles here with some dangerous levels in the euro. This area was thought to be resistance and we are poking our head above it.

When the tunnel went through, it was like poking a hole in the bathtub, ... Half of (the tribe's) land was rendered useless. You can't use it for anything.

We believe in a holistic spa. We don't believe in stuff that's intrusive to the skin, or poking and prodding the skin. We really believe in using the hands and using natural products.

They are both independent, rather ferocious while poking their finger in the eye of people with power or people who think they have power.

They realize that we're poking fun at the stereotype, ... I've talked with several British people and interviewers, and they all had a really positive take on the movie. I think that they're confident enough in themselves. Everybody seems to be enjoying it.

There's a lot of poking and prodding going on. And a bunch of guys are sitting there watching it, just scribbling all these notes. It's pretty awkward.

It was a punch to the face. There are other ways to block people. He said it was an accident, so I'll have to take him at his word. But it's dangerous to go at somebody's head to stop them. You can end somebody's career by poking them in the eye. But I'll be okay.

It's a blessing to be able to play college football and not guessing how fast you have to run in the 40 drills or whether you were good enough in the shuttle drills, having guys poking at you.

It's going to be a lively discussion. It's like poking a beehive. It's got folks riled up.

That's the beauty of it. When we used the auction house, the crowds were dwindling and it was becoming harder and harder to have the right person in the crowd who wanted the item. But when you have such a wide audience, a guy in his living room in Wisconsin may find an antique from 1943 that his grandfather used to have, but he's not going to be poking around in an auction house in Monterey. So around here it can sell for $10, but this guy is going to pay $50 for it.

That's terrific if you're a BellSouth shareholder ... but there are too many negatives poking at the market right now.

It was a bit lackluster. They seemed to be countering the government on small items, poking holes in specific claims, but they were not telling a bigger story.

It took us six months of dabbling, poking at it, deciding what was wrong and what was right. The dill put us over the top.

This is coming from Mr. Altman's diary. I don't remember it, but I will say to you that I wouldn't want anybody poking around in 20 years of my life.

I knew that I wanted to be an actor; how to go about it was the question. I went to Australia for my studies; from there I told my dad that I also want to do a course in performing arts, but my father refused. So I completed my studies and came back. But I kept poking him, saying that acting is something that I want to do.

The damages are really the big issue. Are you just poking around, checking your e-mail, or are you doing it on a regular basis and affecting this person's bandwidth?

The fundamental essence of science, which I think we've lost in our education system, is poking something with a stick and seeing what happens. Embrace that process of inquiry.

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!