Poking Quotes

79 Poking quotes by 74 unique authors

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose. — Zora Neale Hurston
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
And I felt a sudden whirl in my head, knowing this leap was inevitable, that I wasn't just standing on the cliff, toes poking over,… — Sarah Dessen
...poking a lump of red Jello that jiggles outrageously, like a breast I once knew. — Sara Gruen
Seth laughed when he saw me. “Hey,” I said, poking him with my foot, “be nice.” “I think this is the first time I’ve ever… — Richelle Mead
There are no 'ifs' in God's Kingdom. His timing is perfect. His will is our hiding place. Lord Jesus, keep me in Your will! Don't… — Corrie Ten Boom
Deliberately causing mayhem in Snape's Potions class was about as safe as poking a sleeping dragon in the eye. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Any more questions?" I ask, poking him gently in the ribs. "Do you still love me any?" Eliot asks, putting his hand over mine. "A… — Brad Barkley
Dad, one of my first memories is of sharing my worry with you about the space shuttle poking holes in the atmosphere and letting out… — Brent Weeks
In the classics section, she had picked up a copy of The Magic Mountain and recalled the summer between her junior and senior years of… — Elizabeth Berg
The universe was bad enough without people poking it. — Terry Pratchett
I saw you, Walt Whitman, childless, lonely old grubber,poking among the meats in the refrigerator and eyeing the grocery boys. I heard you asking questions… — Allen Ginsberg

Who Wrote These Poking Quotes

74 authors contributed a total of 79 Poking Quotes, led by these top contributors: