Poking Quotes

79 quotes by 75 authors

I love poking fun at myself. I have a rather mean sense of humor. — Alton Brown
Governing a large country is like frying a small fish. You spoil it with too much poking. — Laozi
Climate is an angry beast and we are poking at it with sticks — Wallace Smith Broecker
People with the boat bug are never happier than when they are poking around marinas, fantasizing about owning other people's boats. It's a disease that… — Randy Wayne
Grissom is a character who doesn't really want people poking around in his life. He likes to poke around in his work. — William Petersen
The presidents poking fun at himself over what goes down. I thought it was a good-natured performance. It made him look good. But he certainly… — Brit Hume
As I would soon learn myself, cleaning up what a parent leaves behind stirs up dust, both literal and metaphorical. It dredges up memories. You… — Roz Chast
I don't want people poking around in my private stuff. They've no business in it. My work is what I give to people, that's my… — Brendan Gleeson
I could suddenly see the pressures all around; these endless magazines and cheap reality TV programmes poking at women, humiliating us for every flaw. It… — Amanda Burton
My dog does not care where heat comes from, but he cares that it comes, and soon. Indeed he considers my ability to make it… — Aldo Leopold
I love to keep poking and prodding at it. Iâ€™ve thought about it so much over the years that that fascination is bound to spill… — Douglas Adams
Governing a large country is like frying a small fish. You spoil it with too much poking. Center your country in the Tao and evil… — Laozi
I am showering, naked as a jaybird, and here comes Rahm Emanuel, not even with a towel wrapped around his tush, poking his finger in… — Eric Massa
Make time less precious. We are way too efficient, making use of every hour, every minute. When you were a kid, didnâ€™t you just spend… — Caterina Fake
Without much accuracy, with strangely little love at all, your family will decide for you exactly who you are, and they'll keep nudging, coaxing, poking… — Allan Gurganus
The journalists are poking me all the time. It's impossible for me to stop even I want to. — Yao Ming
Any man who barely sustains an armistice with himself has no business poking around in an alien soul. — Glen Cook
An accident, a random change, in any delicate mechanism can hardly be expected to improve it. Poking a stick into the machinery of one's watch… — Theodosius Dobzhansky
Given the choice of Hollywood or poking steel pins in my eyes, I'd prefer steel pins, — Mike Leigh
From behind a wooden crate we saw a long black-muzzled nose poking round at us. We took him out-soft, wobbly, tearful; set him down on… — John Galsworthy

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