Poking Quotes
79 quotes by 74 authors
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We don't want other people poking into our artistic pie.
— Neville Marriner
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I was poking fun at myself most of all.
— Marcel Duchamp
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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose. It is a seeking that he who wishes may know the cosmic secrets…
— Zora Neale Hurston
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It would be ugly to watch people poking sticks at a caged rat. It is uglier still to watch rats poking sticks at a caged…
— Jean Harris
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I like poking my nose into other people's lives.
— Helen Garner
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There are a lot of new opportunities that are poking their head up in my future. I've been very fortunate that way, but for right…
— Gavin MacLeod
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They are hypocrites, they think the Church is a cage to keep God in, so he will stay locked up there and not go wandering…
— Margaret Atwood
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The jamaat was an almost silly mish-mash of people: Rude Dawud’s pork-pie hat poking up here, a jalab-and-turban there, Jehangir’s big Mohawk rising from a…
— Michael Muhammad Knight
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Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man's world.
— Barbra Streisand
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I tried to pretend that I was sitting in the stands with a buddy watching the game - poking him in the ribs when something…
— Curt Gowdy
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I have never felt like I was creating anything. For me, writing is like walking through a desert and all at once, poking up through…
— Stephen King
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As far as I'm concerned ... the Universe is a junk yard, with everything overpriced. I am through poking around in the junk heaps, looking…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
— Zora Neale Hurston
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We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don't like federal agents poking around our libraries in the Red States. We coach…
— Barack Obama
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The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with…
— Dan Rather
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Something was wrong with Luke," Annabeth muttered, poking at the fire with her knife. "Did you notice the way he was acting?" "He looked pretty…
— Rick Riordan
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Tourists came around and looked into our tipis. That those were the homes we choose to live in didn`t bother them at all. The untied…
— Russell Means
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My alphabet starts with this letter called yuzz. It s the letter I use to spell yuzz a ma tuzz. You ll be sort of…
— Dr. Seuss
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If I ever saw my muse she would be an old woman with a tight bun and spectacles poking me in the middle of the…
— Kerry Greenwood
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The result is ... that there's no room left in the world for the weird – though plenty for crude, contemptuous, wisecracking, fun-poking imitations of…
— Fritz Leiber
Who Wrote These Poking Quotes
74 authors contributed a total of 79 Poking Quotes, led by these top contributors: