Poking People Quotes

#1. I could go around poking people in the eye with a sharp stick to keep them on their toes, but I'd probably be arrested sooner or later. Poetry is better. More lawful. Less bloody.

Frances Winkler

#2. When you're a writer, sometimes you have to spend time poking at a part of yourself that normal, sane people leave alone.

Vikram Chandra

#3. Those who cannot help ought also not advise: in an order where every mousehole has been plugged, mere advice exactly equals condemnation.

Theodor Adorno

#4. We don't want other people poking into our artistic pie.

Neville Marriner

#5. During these weeks there was a quality about Miss Amelia that many people noticed. She laughed often, with a deep ringing laugh, and her whistling had a sassy, tunefull trickery. She was forever trying out her strength, lifting up heavy objects or poking her tough biceps with her finger.

Carson McCullers

#6. Direction, not intention determines your destination.

Andy Stanley

#7. When I feel like every day when I get up I'm writing songs, that's the time to make a record.

Eric Church

#8. I like poking my nose into other people's lives.

Helen Garner

#9. Running hills breaks up your rhythm and forces your muscles to adapt to new stresses. The result? You become stronger.

Eamonn Coghlan

#10. Some people have told me that I'm grumpy; it's not something that I'm aware of. It's not like I walk around poking children in the eye ... not very small ones, anyway.

Dylan Moran

#11. The universe was bad enough without people poking it.

Terry Pratchett

#12. Poking fun at other people's beliefs, while it may seem frivolous and offensive, is a non-negotiable right. It is a principle that underpins free speech, the basis for progress.

Maajid Nawaz

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. I'm a great admirer of 'The Simpsons.' It's very surprising because it's backed by a right-wing television company in the U.S., and quite often it's poking fun at the people who would be its audience.

Peter Higgs

#16. 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 job, and that's where it stops.

Brendan Gleeson

#17. She turned to the first page, feeling vaguely prurient, like an eavesdropper or a peeping tom. Novelists spend a lot of time poking their noses into other people's business. Ruth was not unfamiliar with this feeling.

Ruth Ozeki

#18. The ideal for me is to mix it up. When I have a writing workshop, I like to have people that are anthropologists and people who are poking around in other fields, I like to have them all in the same workshop, and not worry about genre.

Sandra Cisneros

#19. It's only people that aren't goths that think the Cure are a goth band.

Robert Smith

#20. 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 person.

Jean Harris

#21. Ridiculous that some people feel superior to the gay minority. They're the only couples you'll ever find poking around for ceramics and candle holders in the winery gift shop and both parties really want to be there.

Richard Jeni

#22. I'm not a clever man, but I'm willing to listen to people who are, and I think you are. Just don't try poking me in the direction you want me to go. I don't like that Master Balwer.

Robert Jordan

#23. People think hermit crabs are cute, but I can't think of anything creepier. Some dead thing's shell, with legs poking out of it. Scuttling. Feeding on corpses. Living in a borrowed skin of death.

Nick Lake

#24. 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 costs more to cure than any other single common learning disability.

Randy Wayne

#25. The president's poking fun at himself over what goes down. I thought it was a good-natured performance. It made him look good. But he certainly doesn't disguise the record on weapons of mass destruction. And you feel like saying to people, Just get over it.

Brit Hume

#26. People who attempted to end their lives, no matter how amateurishly they might do so at first, often got better at it, with the result that on the third, fourth or sixth try, they ended up on a slab with a coroner poking around their remains.

David Baldacci

#27. I wanted to be a pariah, because all my heroes were cult artists, people who devoted their lives to poking into very narrow, very deep corners - Erik Satie, Alfred Jarry, Malcolm Lowry - people who suffered in order to express their vision of life.

Jim Woodring

#28. People should stop poking fun at other people and worry about themselves.

Pauly Shore