Top 100 Poke Quotes
#1. People could push and pull at you, and poke you, and probe as deep as they could go. They could even tear you apart, bit by bit. But at the heart and root and soul of you, something would remain untouched.
Lauren Oliver
#2. They heard the click of the mail slot and flop of letters on the doormat.
"Get the mail, Dudley," said Uncle Vernon from behind his paper.
"Make Harry get it."
"Get the mail, Harry."
"Make Dudley get it."
"Poke him with your Smelting stick, Dudley.
J.K. Rowling
#3. 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
#4. For the lesson was clear-one did not poke around at night, not unless one wanted to see ghosts.
Anna Godbersen
#5. Be in the world but not of the world.' The words are from Jesus. But I have not the slightest idea how to accomplish that or even if it's possible. The world will always poke you in the chest with its index finger.
Francisco X Stork
#6. I am standing here in the shed, and I'm waiting to see if my seeds are going to poke out ofthe dirt. I don't know if it's too early to look for signs of life or if, this time, winter has claimed my family for good.
Maggie Stiefvater
#7. Can you burn me up with holy water? Poke me to death with your crucifix? Pelt me with communion wafers?
MaryJanice Davidson
#8. You can poke fun at some pretty difficult circumstances, and it's just a way to pop the bubble. I don't do that thing onstage usually, but offstage sometimes I might.
Brian Regan
#9. I love being around my family. I am very close to my mum, my brother, my grandmother, my aunts - we constantly poke fun at each other, but it's all done out of love.
Jourdan Dunn
#10. Firstly: don't touch the hands of your cuckoo-clock heart. Secondly: master your anger. Thirdly: never, ever fall in love. For if you do, the hour hand will poke through your skin, your bones will shatter, and your heart will break once more.
Mathias Malzieu
#11. But the scars are always there, waiting for something to poke them.
Tammara Webber
#12. I don't know. I mean we haven't talked about it. He literally left afterwards, and all he's done since then is poke me with his pen." "Probably because he wants to poke you with something else," she said dryly
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#13. A man who wouldn't cheat for a poke don't want one bad enough.
Augustus "Gus" McCrae
Larry McMurtry
#14. If a tiny bud dares unfold to a wakening new world, if a narrow blade of grass dares to poke its head up from an unlit earth, then surely I can rise and stretch my winter weary bones, surely I can set my face to the spring sun. Surely, I too can be reborn.
Toni Sorenson
#15. If my ex-husband could move on, I could, too. I would search for my gardener, someone who would help me to grow and bloom, but who would recognize the fragility of a new flower just starting to poke out of the ground.
If I was lucky, he'd have a long cultivator.
Tracy H. Tucker
#16. I just don't believe that being conservative means all you do is throw stones and poke people in the eye.
James Lankford
#17. When moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that's awfully hard not to poke.
Barbara Kingsolver
#18. A one-eyed man with a knife in hand, looking for someone else's eye to poke out.
Veronica Roth
#19. I strongly recommend the therapeutic application of fuzzy-chested vampire to grief. It works miracles." "I am sincerely glad to hear that. But if you keep talking, I will poke your eyes out with a toothpick.
Chloe Neill
#20. IT'S EASY to poke fun at nonsensical office speak. For one thing, it sounds exhausting: a colleague might "reach out," "drill down," and promise to "circle back" in a single e-mail. But by signaling membership in a white-collar tribe, meaningless jargon can be quite powerful.
Anonymous
#21. I wonder if it's because I haven't been able to poke my nose outdoors for so long that I've grown so crazy about everything to do with Nature?
Anne Frank
#22. I decide that we could always indulge ourselves later. First, I had a soul-eating stone of power to poke with a stick.
Lisa Shearin
#23. I think the State shouldn't poke its nose into the sexual relations of consenting adults.
Rocco Buttiglione
#24. What do we care, if the world is a joke? We'll give it a big kiss, we'll give it a poke. Death wears a big hat cause he's a big bloke.
Elvis Costello
#25. A man that ain't willin' to cheat for a poke don't want it bad enough.
Larry McMurtry
#26. Because when you got right down to it, humans were still just curious monkeys. They still had to poke everything they found with a stick to see what it did.
James S.A. Corey
#27. All great programmers learn the same way. They poke the box. They code something and see what the computer does. They change it and see what the computer does. They repeat the process again and again until they figure out how the box works.
Seth Godin
#28. Stupid young people, what did they expect to achieve by rummaging around like this? Those who poke around in the past will get a stick in the eye. A beam would be better, though.
Sofi Oksanen
#30. A number of American colleges are willing to pay a tempting amount to pinch and poke an author for a day or two.
John Updike
#31. Our story opens where countless stories have ended in the last twenty-six years: with an idiot
in this case, my brother, Shaun
deciding it would be a good idea to go out and poke a zombie with a stick to see what happens.
Mira Grant
#32. The two of them had discovered it was all right to open the closets ... as long as you didn't poke too far back in them. Because things might still be lurking there, ready to bite.
Stephen King
#33. You don't know what you're doing," Mitchell says. "Poking a stick into a den of snakes." "Poke-poke, motherfuckers." Atlanta pulls the trigger.
Chuck Wendig
#34. 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
#35. The best thing about the Earth is if you poke holes in it oil and gas comes out." - Republican U.S. Congressman Steve Stockman, 20131
Naomi Klein
#36. If your opponent is at a distance, kick him in the groin. If he gets close, poke him in the eyes, bring up your knee, pop him with an elbow, dig a corkscrew punch to his stomach.
Bruce Lee
#37. You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
Ram Kapoor
#38. Doesn't matter how much you fights with your loved once, in the end still you tries to poke for more aruements.
H.G. Mewis
#39. DRAGON-GAGGERS: Instead of swords, some heroes wield toothbrushes, say they are there to "brush the dragon's teeth," and then they poke the toothbrush into the back gaggy part of its hot tongue.
Amy Leach
#40. You're drunk."
"That's right I am. I'm fifty-three and I'm as wild as a Welshman with a leek up his arse. Fifty-three. Old slag Gail. What right has she to poke her nose into your shining armour? That's what you're thinking isn't it honey?
Jeanette Winterson
#41. New Rule: Stop talking about "the gas prices under Obama." As if he's the guy out there changing the numbers on the sign with that long pole. And while they're at the gas station, Republicans who still think human activity doesn't affect air quality should poke their heads in the men's room.
Bill Maher
#42. Facebook people are finding me that I don't really know. People poke you on Facebook. I'm like, 'Why? Why are you poking me?'
Bridget Kelly
#43. It's fun for someone to poke fun at himself.
Chris Kattan
#44. The blankets had fallen off and I stared down at her white back, the shoulder blades sticking out as if they wanted to grow into wings, poke through that skin. Little blades. She was helpless.
Charles Bukowski
#45. here's the thing: However attractive the idea of a writer's retreat may sound, having all day to poke around on a novel actually hampers productivity.
Chris Baty
#46. To poke a wood fire is more solid enjoyment than almost anything else in the world.
Charles Dudley Warner
#47. If there's such a thing as love at first sight, then I certainly did not fall prey to its mystical power the moment my eyes met his. I only felt a poke of wonder, as if seeing a book with a unique title. Nothing instant and extreme feeling I felt. My heart was in one piece.
Kia Amazona
#48. Carrie doesn't seem to talk about anything with sharp edges. Maybe she's afraid they might poke her and then she'd burst.
Lisa McMann
#49. This one guy's wife is such a pretty brown thing, that I'm liable to give her a poke or two. Whaddaya think of that?
Randy Newman
#50. He was too perfect, so I had to poke at it. Our relationship worked too well, so I had to see if I could break it. Not really break it, but see how far it would bend. I had to test it, because what good was something that couldn't be tested?
Laurell K. Hamilton
#51. Though ye loue not to bye the pyg in the poke,Yet snatche ye at the poke, that the pyg is in,Not for the poke, but the pyg good chepe to wyn.
John Heywood
#52. Only people with one short life want to go tearing out into the great unknown with nothing more than a flashlight and a stick to poke the rattlers with.
Peter F. Hamilton
#53. 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
#55. Sometimes you have to poke holes in the darkness until it bleeds light.
Margaret Feinberg
#56. There's something that doesn't make sense. Let's go and poke it with a stick.
Steven Moffat
#57. Anyway, I don't trust those people who poke around sad people's minds and tell them how interesting it all is up there. It's not interesting.
Ottessa Moshfegh
#58. I may think that hornets do not have an ideal social organization. But I know better than to poke their nest.
Fred Reed
#59. All he's done since then is poke me with his pen." "Probably because he wants to poke you with something else," she said dryly. My eyes bugged. "I can't believe you said that.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#60. But then, of course, there are always unanswered questions. Those questions lead to more questions, with the circularity of the endless inquest, keeping people like me in business. We can and should always poke at the questions of motivation. And we will. There never is a final draft of history.
Bob Woodward
#61. The wise man doesn't poke a sleeping bear with a stick.
Stephen King
#62. The public is like a piano. You just have to know what keys to poke.
Al Capp
#63. 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
#64. This is the Presley and Zachary of old times. Two hot-headed and emotional people. Yes, he's sweet and loving, but he has an angry side. When you poke the bear, he roars loud. Funny thing is that I'm the same. He's pissed me off by coming here yelling at me.
Corinne Michaels
#65. I see the cartoonist as contributing to the content, being critical, because we do poke holes in some of the dialogue and find new ways of seeing things.
Jonathan Shapiro
#66. It's easier to poke holes in an idea than think of ways to fill them. And it's easier to focus on the 100 reasons you shouldn't do something rather than the one reason you should.
Wendy Kopp
#67. If I don't poke my head out of my shell and show people who I am, all anyone will ever think I am is my shell.
Shonda Rhimes
#68. One of Spenser's rules of detection is: Never poke around on an empty stomach. So I unpacked, got my gun, and went down for a club sandwich and
Robert B. Parker
#69. Seriously, Palta ... " He was honestly puzzled, "I haven't got a clue what you're talking about. What about your ears is supposed to be so bizarre?"
"Um ... You'd have to be blind to miss them," I replied sarcastically. "If you're not, you will be when you poke your eye out on one of them.
M.A. George
#70. Well, I think I speak for everyone when I say that 'Alice Faye picked a peck of pepper for the poor, piping pig in the purple poke.' Wait - is that not what we're talking about here?
Elle Lothlorien
#71. The thinness of contemporary life. I can poke my finger through it.
Don DeLillo
#72. wanted to know." "It's better not to know. It's better never to know. Better to leave things as they are. Not push and pry and poke." "You want beauty," said Hercule Poirot. "Beauty at any price. For me, it is truth I want. Always truth." Michael
Agatha Christie
#73. 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
#74. You can see with the proliferation of magazines, you know, that just focus entirely on that. So it just - it seems like there (was) a lot of fodder and a lot of stories and fun things to poke fun at and highlight.
Debra Messing
#75. When I felt a sudden sharp poke in my rear, and turning round, was horrified at the apparition of Captain Peleg in the act of withdrawing his leg from my immediate vicinity. That was my first kick.
Herman Melville
#76. Time becomes very weird. Sometimes it seems as if the hours are rushing by in a blur, the moment of performance hurtling toward me. Other times the clock seems to poke along like a sloth with chronic fatigue syndrome.
Bruce Coville
#77. When you're really close to someone, they can make fun of you a lot and get away with it. But they sort of poke you in all of the right places.
Ian Somerhalder
#78. If I was wealthy I'd never do anything but poke around in ruined cities all over the world - and probably get snake-bit.
Robert E. Howard
#79. I want trees that are three hundred feet tall, black bear that poke around my stuff, deer that eat out of my hand, and a view that almost brings me to my knees every morning. I want to work just hard enough to afford my life.
Robyn Carr
#80. If there is any reason to single out artists as being more necessary to our lives than any others, it is because they provide us with light that cannot be extinguished. They go into dark rooms and poke at their souls until the contours of our own are familiar to us.
Phyllis Grissim-Theroux
#81. But of course these are scientists. Tell them to leave something alone, and all they want to do is poke it with a stick.
Beth Revis
#82. Like having death poke his stinking mug into your face to make you think about things.
Douglas Preston
#83. I wanted to pull out his toenails and poke them in his eyeballs.
Nicole Peeler
#84. All kinds of weird stuff going down, whisperings in corners, significant matches struck and blown out. The whores, unoccupied, were drinking heavily. The police, occupied were drinking even more heavily. The grass in the corner wanted to drink most heavily, but lacked the poke.
Iain Sinclair
#85. They want a race war. We must be peaceful people. They are gonna poke and poke and poke, and our government is going to stand by and let them do it. We must be - we must take the role of Martin Luther King, because I do not believe that Martin Luther King believed in, Kill all white babies.
Glenn Beck
#86. A purring noise woke him. Something furry was curled on his chest. Jarby opened one eye slowly. Something black, white, buff, and lemon-smelling. He glared at her and groaned. Stupid wytzl. Buffi chirruped and fluttered away to Poke.
Ellen Dawn Benefield
#87. You want a poke in the eye with a sharp stick?" Sully offered. "You don't have a stick," Will pointed out.
Richard Russo
#88. They were handy to have around, Nate's little gang. They were that wonderful combination of talented and noble. The former was useful, while the latter made it so incredibly easy to poke them with a metaphorical stick.
Keith R.A. DeCandido
#89. Ash, ash - -
You poke and stir.
Flesh, bone, there is nothing there
A cake of soap,
A wedding ring,
A gold filling.
Herr God, Herr Lucifer
Beware
Beware.
Out of the ash
I rise with my red hair
And I eat men like air.
From the poem Lady Lazarus
Sylvia Plath
#90. Trolling taps into people's desire to poke fun, make trouble and cause annoyance.
Rob Manuel
#91. Buddy, I don't mean to poke my nose in where it don't belong, but that there is a dame to kill for. Why'd you let her go?
Frank Miller
#92. No, I might be able to poke fun at the Quran for its childishly imperious content, but not for its style.
Rabih Alameddine
#93. Comic-Con is incredibly important to San Diego, but that doesn't mean we can't poke a little fun at it!
Steve Breen
#94. Quite casually I wander into my plot, poke around with my characters for a while, then amble off, leaving no moral proved and no reader improved.
Thorne Smith
#95. Don't you think I would be a worthy replacement for you, Madam Prime Minister? You have a long nose. So have I. But I don't poke my nose into other people's affairs.
Sam Manekshaw
#96. Dangerous? Do you remember what Xavier's power is? Teleportation. Limited Teleportation, They guy can move about 10 feet. Worst thing he could do to me? Poke me in the eyes, and go "Nyuk, Nyuk, Nyuk" and Zip away before I can smack him," - Elena
Kelley Armstrong
#97. If we could only use other folks' experience, this here world would be heaven in about three generations, but we're so constructed that we never believe fire'll burn till we poke our own fingers into it to see. Other folks' scars don't go no ways at all toward convincin' us.
Myrtle Reed
#98. To poke its umbrella tip in the mud of the electric light
Andre Breton
#99. The resurrection tells us it is never too late. Every so often we will be surprised. We must believe that the stone will be rolled back, and we must be ready to poke out our timid heads, take off the linen bindings of death, and walk free for a time, breathing resurrection air.
Ronald Rolheiser
#100. When you got right down to it, humans were still just curious monkeys. They still had to poke everything they found with a stick to see what it did. The
James S.A. Corey
