Poke Quotes - Page 6

• My research for 'Adam' affected me profoundly, particularly the research into evil's underbelly. We tend not to think about evil until it pokes its head out of the air about us and then it tends to scare us silly. As well it should.

  Ted Dekker

  Silly, Thinking, Air

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• I think the State shouldn't poke its nose into the sexual relations of consenting adults.

  Rocco Buttiglione

  Thinking, Adults, Noses

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• 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.

  Delta Burke

  Fun, Thinking, I Can

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• My idea of government support was, you supply me with hospitals, schools and the environment to do well and that will do me fine. But do not poke your nose in my business.

  Alan Sugar

  School, Government, Ideas

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• I was always the hero with no vices, reciting practically the same lines to the leading lady. The current crop of movie actors are less handicapped than the old ones. They are more human. The leading men of silent films were Adonises and Apollos. Today the hero can even take a poke at the leading lady. In my time a hero who hit the girl just once would have been out.

  Ramon Novarro

  Girl, Hero, Men

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• There's a lot to do when you're a kid - spiders to catch, girls to poke in the eye - stuff to be getting on with.

  Alan Davies

  Girl, Kids, Eye

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• When you are relaxed about where you are at in life, things tend to flow more fluidly. It is as if you poke three holes in a bucket of water. The same amount of water is going to flow out the holes whether you let it flow or you shake the bucket. The difference is the amount of turmoil on the inside of the bucket!

  Jennifer O'Neill

  Differences, Water, Buckets

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• The mathematical question is "Why?" It's always why. And the only way we know how to answer such questions is to come up, from scratch, with these narrative arguments that explain it. So what I want to do with this book is open up this world of mathematical reality, the creatures that we build there, the questions that we ask there, the ways in which we poke and prod (known as problems), and how we can possibly craft these elegant reason-poems.

  Paul Lockhart

  Education, Book, Math

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• Semi-Tough pokes fun in rambling fashion, but it is vulgar in intelligent ways and almost always amusing in its perceptions of befuddled people who are perfectly healthy but often convinced they're not.

  Vincent Canby

  Fashion, Fun, Intelligent

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• After my husband died, I felt like one of those spiraled shells washed upon the beach... Poke a straw through the twisting tunnel, around and around, and there is nothing there. No flesh. No life. Whatever lived there is dried up and gone.

  Lynn Caine

  Beach, Husband, Tunnels

  Lynn Caine (1974). “Widow”

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• When we put the antlers on the model and then draped over it the lace embroidery that we had made, we had to poke them through a £2,000 piece of work. But then it worked because it looks like she's rammed the piece of lace with her antlers. There's always spontaneity. You've got to allow for that in my shows.

  Alexander McQueen

  Looks, Pieces, Embroidery

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• The point of poetry is to be acutely discomforting, to prod and provoke, to poke us in the eye, to punch us in the nose, to knock us off our feet, to take our breath away.

  Paul Muldoon

  Eye, Feet, Noses

  Princeton University Library Chronicle, Spring 1998.

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• We love to see any redness in the vegetation of the temperate zone. It is the color of colors. This plant speaks to our blood....What a perfect maturity it arrives at! It is the emblem of a successful life concluded by a death not premature, which is an ornament to Nature. What if we were to mature as perfectly, root and branch, glowing in the midst of our decay, like the poke!

  Henry David Thoreau

  Successful, Maturity, Roots

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• I'm prepared to concede that stupidity does not help survival. One must after all understand not to poke a tiger with a stick. But intelligence leads to curiosity, and curiosity has never been a quality that helps one pour his or her genes into the pool. The truth must lie somewhere between. Whatever the reason, it is clearly mediocrity, at best, that lives and breeds.

  Jack McDevitt

  Lying, Stupidity, Survival

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• A person is born form the deep conditions of the world. A person pokes up from the world and roll along like a wave. Until it's time to sink down again. Up, down. Person, wave.

  Ruth Ozeki

  World, Wave, Form

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• I like girls who are self-deprecating. I like girls who make fun of themselves. If you can't poke fun at yourself, what are you? I just want someone with a good soul. That's about it. The rest I'm really flexible on.

  Chris Evans

  Girl, Fun, Self

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• To me, that means getting back to the point where our Constitution means that you don't tap people's phones and poke into their e-mail and you don't arrest people and keep them hidden for a year and a half without charging them.

  Carol Moseley Braun

  Mean, Phones, Years

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• 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.

  Andy Roddick

  Thinking, Weapons, Kind

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• Most of us don't have to worry about being shot of 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.

  Octavia Butler

  Writing, People, Worry

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• Lorna was quite young when her mother died, and I think she's blocked out some of the memories. I talked to her a little bit about that, but I wasn't prepared to go around and poke and hurt her.

  Judy Davis

  Mother, Hurt, Memories

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• You can't prove anything about a program written in C or FØRTRAN. It's really just Peek and Poke with some syntactic sugar.

  Bill Joy

  Sugar, Program, Prove

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• I'm not looking for is the audience going to like it [the film during the first screening] or not. I want to hear somebody try to poke a hole in it. I want to hear why they saw the logic was flawed or why that scene was not believable.

  Lorenzo di Bonaventura

  Trying, Saws, Firsts

  Source: collider.com

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• Sometimes you have to poke holes in the darkness until it bleeds light.

  Margaret Feinberg

  Light, Darkness, Sometimes

  FaceBook post by Margaret Feinberg from Oct 07, 2015

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• In bringing the subject of religious oppression to a wider audience, I didn't just want to kick the Catholic Church but to poke a finger in the throat of theocracy and to let it be known that people shouldn't tolerate this anymore.

  Peter Mullan

  Religious, People, Catholic

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• You know, what I like about 'The Family Tree' is it's a kitchen sink movie; you can't think of anything that it doesn't either throw into the story for conflict or poke fun at or attack, even, so I like it.

  Dermot Mulroney

  Fun, Thinking, Tree

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