Poke Quotes

• 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.

  Ian Somerhalder

  Fun, Get Away, Right Place

  FaceBook post by Ian Somerhalder from Jan 15, 2014

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

  Larry McMurtry

  Men, Gus, Want

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

  Steven Moffat

  Sticks, Make Sense, Doctor Who

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• All Presidents start out to run a crusade but after a couple of years they find they are running something less heroic and much more intractable: namely the presidency. The people are well cured by then of election fever, during which they think they are choosing Moses. In the third year, they look on the man as a sinner and a bumble and begin to poke around for rumors of another Messiah.

  Alistair Cooke

  Running, Couple, Men

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• 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.

  Ashley Olsen

  Inspirational, Fashion, Style

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

  Al Capp

  Music, Keys, Piano

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• Reject the tyranny of picked. Pick yourself.

  Seth Godin

  Mind Your Own Business, Tyranny, Rejects

  Seth Godin (2015). “Poke The Box: When Was the Last Time You Did Something for the First Time?”, p.21, Penguin

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• Please stop waiting for a map. We reward those who draw maps, not those who follow them.

  Seth Godin

  Funny, Waiting, Maps

  Seth Godin (2015). “Poke The Box: When Was the Last Time You Did Something for the First Time?”, p.27, Penguin

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• Smile, it's better than a poke in the eye.

  Douglas Horton

  Happiness, Smile, Laughter

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

  John Heywood

  Love, Pigs

  John Heywood (1562). “The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood ...”, p.97

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• Remember, people who peek through keyholes have to expect an occasional poke in the eye.

  Gary K. Wolf

  Eye, People, Remember

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• She poked him in the center of his chest with two fingers to punctuate her words. “You are an unfeeling”—poke —“traitorous”—poke—“mistrusting”—poke—“rude”—poke —“booby!” Every poke turned him mortal, but Lord Maccon didn’t seem to mind it in the least. Instead he grabbed the hand that poked him and brought it to his lips. “You put it very well, my love.

  Gail Carriger

  Hands, Two, Rude

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• Today, not starting is far, far worse than being wrong. If you start, you've got a shot at evolving and adjusting to turn your wrong into a right. But if you don't start, you never get a chance.

  Seth Godin

  Adjusting, Today, Chance

  Seth Godin (2015). “Poke The Box: When Was the Last Time You Did Something for the First Time?”, p.41, Penguin

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• Stand-up comedy and comedy in general is the ultimate form of free speech, because you get to poke holes in all the pretentious bubbles politicians and pundits and popes and pretenders try to float over our heads.

  Denis Leary

  Trying, Speech, Comedy

  Denis Leary (2008). “Why We Suck: A Feel Good Guide to Staying Fat, Loud, Lazy and Stupid”, p.58, Penguin

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• 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.

  Lauren Oliver

  Passion, Sadness, Thinking

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.365, Hachette UK

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• Life is a buzzer box. Poke it.

  Seth

  Buzzers, Life Is, Boxes

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• If there is aught of good in the style, it is the result of ceaseless toil in rewriting. Everything comes out wrong with me at first; but when once objectified in a crude shape, I can torture and poke and scrape and pat it till it offends me no more.

  William James

  Style, Toil, Firsts

  "The Letters of William James".

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• If you like good ol' fashion Southern soul food then, yes, I am a good cook! My specialty is chicken dumplings and poke salad.

  Dolly Parton

  Fashion, Southern, Soul

  "Andy Warhol’s Interview Interview: Dolly Parton" by Andy Warhol, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 12, 2014.

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

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Ignorance, Air, Hot

  Barbara Kingsolver (2010). “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating”, p.223, Faber & Faber

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• Poke gave him life. Ender gave it meaning.

  Orson Scott Card

  Ender

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “Ender's Game Boxed Set I: Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow, Shadow of the Hegemon”, p.331, Macmillan

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• We can never be a nation of snobs so long as we are willing to poke fun at ourselves.

  Edgar Wilson Nye

  Fun, Humility, Pride

  The Century magazine, 1892.

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• Good humor pokes fun at the powerful — not the weak.

  Mitali Perkins

  Fun, Powerful, Weak

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• Poor Petey. I’d like to say I could almost feel a tender spot for poor Petey, but the truth is I’d rather feel at the tender spot on his head and give it a poke.

  Franny Billingsley

  Giving, Truth Is, Poor

  Franny Billingsley (2013). “Chime”, p.112, A&C Black

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• During the winter, you head out into the darkness for a run. When spring comes, and the first crocus pokes up its head...you know it was worthwhile.

  Nina Kuscsik

  Sports, Fitness, Running

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• Billy, in one of his nice new sashes, Fell in the fire and was burnt to ashes; Now, although the room grows chilly, I haven't the heart to poke poor Billy.

  Harry Graham

  Nice, Heart, Fire

  Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless Homes (1899) "Tender-Heartedness"

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