Top 189 Poke Quotes & Sayings

I think people are tired of politicians trying to poke each other in the eye.

A man that ain't willin' to cheat for a poke don't want it bad enough.

Nobody trains 'eye poke defense.'

We can never be a nation of snobs so long as we are willing to poke fun at ourselves.

I wouldn't poke fun at someone if they were weak. I wouldn't bully somebody.

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."

I will not try to escape fights if someone tries to poke or trigger me.

Apparently wizards poke their noses in everywhere!

Respectfully, 'Awkward Black Girl' was never meant to be politically correct. We poke fun at ignorance.

You have to learn where people's funnybone is before you can start to poke fun and work out where that joy lies.

A man who wouldn't cheat for a poke don't want one bad enough. --Augustus "Gus" McCrae

Though he love not to buy the pig in the poke.

Aw, Poke, you poor, kind, decent, stupid girl. You saved me and I let you down.

A number of American colleges are willing to pay a tempting amount to pinch and poke an author for a day or two.

To poke a wood fire is more solid enjoyment than almost anything else in the world.

One should not poke their nose into the private life of other persons.

I just don't believe that being conservative means all you do is throw stones and poke people in the eye.

The ground has on its clothes. The trees poke out of sheets and each branch wears the sock of God.

You can't prove anything about a program written in C or FØRTRAN. It's really just Peek and Poke with some syntactic sugar.

There's something that doesn't make sense. Let's go and poke it with a stick.

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.

I always think the novelist should go to the culture's dark places and poke around. Pose a lot of hard questions.

Smile, it's better than a poke in the eye.

You know the theory of cell irritability? If you take an amoeba cell and poke it a thousand times, it will change and then re-form into its original shape. And then, the thousandth time you poke this amoeba, the cell will completely collapse and become nothing. That's kind of what it's like being famous. People say hi, how are you doing, and after the thousandth time, you just get angry; you really pop.

We have to be able to poke fun at ourselves.

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.

I'm like a snake sleeping on a rock. I won't bother you unless you poke a stick at me.

I think anything that you can't poke fun at is a little too precious.

But the scars are always there, waiting for something to poke them.

I am driven by ingredients. My Italian heritage and French training inevitably poke through as well, guiding my techniques.

The public is like a piano. You just have to know what keys to poke.

People always say, 'My family is so normal,' and when you poke into them, they never are.

I may think that hornets do not have an ideal social organization. But I know better than to poke their nest.

This is a business. I'm a professional athlete. This isn't, 'poke somebody and start a street fight.'

I never, ever see myself as a celebrity or famous, so I poke fun at that.

I check Style.com to look at the collections and love to poke around some of the other fashion blogs to see what's going on.

Remember, people who peek through keyholes have to expect an occasional poke in the eye.

Trolling taps into people's desire to poke fun, make trouble and cause annoyance.

I've never been bitten by a shark, though God knows I had to poke a lot of them in the nose.

Comic-Con is incredibly important to San Diego, but that doesn't mean we can't poke a little fun at it!

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.

Morfran thrust his axe straight up. He pretty much seemed to have one sign for everything: poke a hole in the sky.

There ought not to be anything in the whole universe that man can't poke his nose into-that's the way we're built and I assume that there's some reason for that.

The Disney tradition - number one, it's a great American classic tradition - and it's something where you don't want to go over certain lines. You want to poke fun, but you don't want to poke fun in a way that's hurtful.

I still think photographers should be lashed out at. They should be put in a cage where you can poke them with a stick for a quarter. But not in a hostile way, just for giggles. They really are on the attack against mankind; it's a disease. They should be helped somewhere. But I'd still like to poke them with a stick.

Life is a buzzer box. Poke it.

DJs used to mickey-take, have a real poke at Shakin' Stevens.

I've never been married, but I'm imagining what it's like: Sometimes Jack snores, and I get to poke him.

Let's Wrestle would rather poke fun than point fingers, even if there's a problem that needs fixing.

If you poke the Russian bear with a stick ,he will respond.

If I was wealthy I'd never do anything but poke around in ruined cities all over the world - and probably get snake-bit.

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man will poke out his eye to fit in.

I think the State shouldn't poke its nose into the sexual relations of consenting adults.

The only good imitations are those that poke fun at bad originals.

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?

She poked him in the center of his chest with two fingers to punctuate her words. “You are an unfeeling”—poke —“traitorous”—poke—“mistrusting”—poke—“rude”—poke —“booby!” Every poke turned him mortal, but Lord Maccon didn’t seem to mind it in the least. Instead he grabbed the hand that poked him and brought it to his lips. “You put it very well, my love.

One of my favorite ways to eat albacore is tuna poke.

When moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that's awfully hard not to poke.

Sometimes you have to poke holes in the darkness until it bleeds light.

For me, one of the privileges of being a writer is to poke your nose around and learn about worlds you don't know.