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

  Fred Reed

  Thinking, Organization, May

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• When Christian pushes into the brick wall of the building catty-corner to the rear of BB&B—first left on the Dark Zone side—and disappears, I melt down in a fit of the giggles. I toss a rock at the spot where he vanished. It bounces off the brick and clatters to the cobblestone. I'm feeling twenty shades of Harry Potter's train station, especially when he pokes his head out of the wall and says impatiently, "Come on, lass. This is hardly my favorite place to be.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Christian, Wall, Dark

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• Did you ever see the way the clouds love a mountain? They circle all around it; sometimes you can't even see the mountain for the clouds. But you know what? ... The clouds never cover the head. His head pokes through, because the clouds let him; they don't wrap him up. They let him keep his head high, free.

  Toni Morrison

  Breakup, Clouds, Circles

  Toni Morrison (1987). “Sula”

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• We have to do what we have to do. Miracles happen. The life force of this planet is very strong. Dandelions poke through sidewalks. We don't know enough to give up. We only know enough to know that we have to try to change the course of human events.

  Elizabeth May

  Strong, Giving Up, Miracle

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

  J. K. Rowling

  Eye

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

  Orson Scott Card

  Girl, Stupid, Kind

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• 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.

  Derek Landy

  Ridiculous, Quiet, Kind

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• If the Dauntless knew about this, everyone would be getting in line to learn how to drive it,” he says. “Including me.” “No, they would be strapping themselves to the wings.” Christina pokes his arm. “Don’t you know your own faction?

  Veronica Roth

  Wings, Lines, Arms

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• You know the theory of cell irritability? If you take an amoeba cell and poke it a thousand times, it will change and then re-form into its original shape. And then, the thousandth time you poke this amoeba, the cell will completely collapse and become nothing. That's kind of what it's like being famous. People say hi, how are you doing, and after the thousandth time, you just get angry; you really pop.

  Bill Murray

  Cells, People, Acting

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Fire, Simplicity, Simple Life

  Charles Dudley Warner (1872). “Back-log studies and My summer in a garden”, p.2

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• In this age of inventive wonders all men have come to believe that in some genius' brain sleeps the solution of the grand problem of aerial navigation-and along with that belief is the hope that that genius will reveal his miracle before they die, and likewise a dread that he will poke off somewhere and die himself before he finds out that he has such a wonder lying dormant in his brain. We all know the air can be navigated-therefore, hurry up your sails and bladders-satisfy us-let us have peace.

  Mark Twain

  Lying, Believe, Sleep

  Mark Twain, John C. Gerber, Terry Firkins (1983). “Tom Sawyer Abroad ; Tom Sawyer Detective”, p.180, Univ of California Press

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• 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?

  Randy Newman

  Thinking, Two, Giving

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• The original 'Scream' is one of those classic things, but it totally pokes fun at itself too. It's never taking itself too seriously, which is why I think it's such a cult classic.

  Shenae Grimes

  Fun, Thinking, Classic

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• 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.

  Chris Matthews

  Fun, Boys, Night

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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

  Anne Sexton

  Winter, Clothes, Snow

  Anne Sexton (1975). “The Awful Rowing Toward God”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin

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• If you give the audience what they expect, they'll be bored. There are no rules: You do what you want while respecting the boundaries. You don't poke people in the eye; you do things they haven't seen before and make it accessible, funny and clever.

  Matthew Vaughn

  Clever, Eye, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Annie E. Clark

  Fun, Thinking, Littles

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• 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.

  Stephen Fry

  Country, Years, Pie

  "Stephen Fry: ‘I may well commit suicide’" by Daniel Martin, www.nme.com. June 3, 2011.

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• But it's clear to me that us slow-poke writers are a dying breed. It's amazing how thoroughly my young writing students have internalized the new machine rhythm, the rush many of my young writers are in to publish. The majority don't want to sit on a book for four, five years. The majority don't want to listen to the silence inside and outside for their artistic imprimatur. The majority want to publish fast, publish now.

  Junot Diaz

  Book, Writing, Years

  Interview with Gina Frangello, therumpus.net. September 30, 2012.

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• It really is great. Especially having people who we make fun every week come on and poke fun at themselves is really cool, I love that. No reality star has been mad at me yet for making fun of them. I'm sure that one day soon though, someone is going to take a swing at me.

  Joel McHale

  Stars, Fun, Reality

  "Tribute talks to Spy Kids star Joel McHale". Interview with Alexandra Heilbron, www.tribute.ca. August 8, 2011.

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• We like to make sure there is a plot at the center of it and that you care about the people but to poke fun of little things, like the toast restaurant in the pilot.

  Harry Elfont

  Fun, People, Plot

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I'm pleased because as a comic I live on the fringes of an extreme society. What could be better than satirizing this insanity. People are on edge, desperate and afraid. Those who aren't are soulless or living in extreme denial, locked in a magic kingdom of their own making. As a comic I get to poke at people's bubbles! Of course I'm pleased. I get to be their mouthpiece for their rage and fear! Tremendous fun.

  Eddie Pepitone

  Fun, People, Insanity

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• President Reagan was a master communicator. In this particular speech he did a brilliant job moving between the stately role of U.S. President and a national eulogist. The pain of the event was etched on his face. In 4 short minutes, he addressed five different audiences. He spoke to the collective mourners, families of the fallen, NASA employees, school children, and even took a poke at Russia. He communicated comfort and patriotism within a very short timeframe. That's not easy to do.

  Nancy Duarte

  Pain, Children, Moving

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I suppose authoritarians don't like being made fun of because authoritarian rulers have a very inflated sense of themselves and don't like being deflated, which makes it all the more important to continue to deflate them. These are very courageous people around the world who poke fun from inside these societies. So, we now have to broaden the definition of what we mean by "writer" to include bloggers, cartoonists, song writers, visual artists - all these people are, in different ways, quite brave.

  Salman Rushdie

  Song, Fun, Mean

  Source: pen.org

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• 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.

  Shane Claiborne

  Mean, Eye, Perfect

  Source: medium.com

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