Top 35 Poking Quotes

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 now, what I like is what I’m doing.

I like antagonizing the audience, poking at them.

Despite being a classical musician, I keep poking my nose in other genres of music.

Among the many things that I loved about playing football was sitting around the locker room with teammates and poking fun at each other with sophomoric slams, each one more ridiculous than the next.

I like poking my nose into other people’s lives.

I think for us – and for a lot of people in the Church of Satan – we definitely like ruffling people’s feathers and poking fun at organized religion a little bit.

I was on paper earning more money and having more success than I’d ever had. And it was also the most miserable I’ve ever been. When those things collided, I realised something was off. That’s when I started poking around to figure out what was wrong.

I think that what comes through in Chicago humor is the affection. Even though you’re poking fun at someone or something, there’s still an affection for it.

I still love Delhi but get scared of the madness sometime. I know that my fans love me. But it gets a bit tough to handle when, in their excitement, they start touching and poking you to see if you’re for real.

I had a stunt double for ‘The Bronze.’ She’s literally the most amazing human being I’ve ever seen. She’s NCAA women’s gymnastics champion. She was incredible. I would poke her thighs, and my nail would break because it was like poking a rock.

My fibula was cracked in half to where it was a clean break, and it was poking at the skin, to where it could have been a compound fracture. My Achilles tendon was crushed like a soda can, the whole top of my foot was ripped off the bone, and the ankle was lodged up into my shin, on both sides.

In showbiz sometimes, we’re a little disgruntled our budgets are low, sometimes our buildings aren’t that great and the sets aren’t so cool, and all of a sudden you have these security teams showing up poking around on set and you’re on high alert.

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 a sharp stick called ‘truth’.

Grissom is a character who doesn’t really want people poking around in his life. He likes to poke around in his work.

I guess there’s a certain amount of poking fun at certain characters, but that’s because there is something amusing about them or about the way they behave, so I guess you can say that that’s poking fun at the character. But the character is your own invention, so who cares?

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.

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.

I have nothing wrong with comics and writers poking fun at the President, as long as it’s funny. When it’s the same retread jokes with predictable punchlines, that’s when it’s offensive.

I wanted to write ‘In Harm’s Way’ from the young men’s point of view of being in a raft, or hanging in a life vest with just their nose poking above the water.

In the media, I always seemed to come across as someone who was poking fun at the Scots and their football. I guess the Scottish public needed someone to blame for their international defeats, and I fitted the bill perfectly.

Since the very beginning, Emeril’s had a sense of humor about me calling him names and poking fun at him.

Like most women, I thought it would be easy once I decided to start a family. I was surprised that Mother Nature kept poking me in the eye, saying, ‘Nope, nope, nope.’

You always have to have a bit of fun if somebody is dead in a scene. That’s a red rag to a bull for an actor. You do a little poking. You do things to annoy the actor. It’s your job. You have to utilize the opportunity. You have to get through the day.

I’m not afraid of poking fun at myself.

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

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.

People who like my stuff and know what my agenda is have never mistaken me for being racist or poking fun at the wrong thing.

Even when someone fails, there’s never an underlying nastiness or cruelty. We’re an affectionate show and we’re not poking fun at anyone. Strictly’ is feel-good television at its finest.

We don’t want other people poking into our artistic pie.

I could suddenly see the pressures all around; these endless magazines and cheap reality TV programmes poking at women, humiliating us for every flaw. It makes me so angry. I really wonder what it is we are doing to ourselves, because I do think women can be the worst ones for picking each other apart.

I think my admiration is really for Belichick more than anything. As a coach, that’s the guy. He’ll go down as probably the best in the history of the game. I like poking fun at him and all that stuff, but there’s no coach I respect more than him.

I started out poking fun at this YouTube thing.

I enjoy upsetting the right people. I love poking fun at earnest censors. I want to push the bounds of what can be said on the Internet.

In general, I probably have a shy nature. So the idea of poking out with my music is probably not something I want to do.

It might be a bad thing to be first , if you stop and think about it. It might be better to be second or third because then you can enjoy it and disappear – return to the society you came out of without someone always poking you in the side and saying you were first.