Poked Quotes

64 quotes by 60 authors

I do not believe that the government should have its long nose poked into the private consensual relationships between people. — John Anderson
Most people who went about saying a ghost had poked them with a brolly would be locked up somewhere. — Pamela Stephenson
When people ask me which I would rather give up, writing or medicine, it's like being asked which eye I'd prefer to have poked out… — Chris Adrian
Notions of property, value, ownership, and the nature of wealth itself are changing more fundamentally than at any time since the Sumerians first poked cuneiform… — John Perry Barlow
O sweet spontaneous earth how often have the doting fingers of prurient philosophers pinched and poked thee ,has the naughty thumb of science prodded thy… — E E Cummings
You can really get poked in the back and not feel it very much, but just a feather around your lips and you really do… — Helen Fisher
A pale sun poked impudent marmalade fingers through the grizzled lattice glass, and sent the shadows scurrying, like convent girls menaced by a tramp. — Vivian Stanshall
You have two choices, [Plouffe] told Obama. You can stay in the Senate, enjoy your weekends at home, take regular vacations, and have a lovely… — John Heilemann
What if every seemingly isolated object was actually just where the continuous wave of that object poked through into our world? — Reuben Heyday Margolin
It was lucky that the linesman wasn't stood in front of me as I would have poked him with a stick to make sure he… — Ian Holloway
Development of the space station is as inevitable as the rising of the sun; man has already poked his nose into space and he is… — Wernher von Braun
I think it is valuable to be poked at and I think - and this is obviously where things are headed. It's going to be… — Phil Vischer
It perhaps has a chance, a commercial chance, this film. It's funny, it's charming, the idea is original, it's unusual and it makes fun of… — Mark Rydell
We don't differ with the government on the demands [on Iran], but we totally reject how Bibi is handling it. Bibi sacrificed good relations with… — John F. Kerry
Facebook is like jail, you sit around and waste time, you write on walls and you get poked by people you don't know — Will Ferrell
I didn't know that there was such a thing as butter carving. But then, I poked around a little bit. A quick Google search will… — Ty Burrell
Sometimes I get so wrought up being brushed, poked and pinned all day. — Carol Alt
There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the… — Robert A. Heinlein
Father, bless me for I have sinned, I did an original sinâ€¦ I poked a badger with a spoon. — Eddie Izzard
Walking over to Iggy, he poked him with his shoe. "Does anysing on you vork properly?" Iggy rubbed his forehead with one hand. "Well, I… — James Patterson

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