Top 35 Poking Quotes

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.

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.

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 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.

The fundamental essence of science, which I think we’ve lost in our education system, is poking something with a stick and seeing what happens. Embrace that process of inquiry.

As women gain weight, they start judging themselves. But who cares! Embrace what you have. Say, ‘Belly, you might be poking out today, but I’m going to choose to love you and nurture you.’

I started out poking fun at this YouTube thing.

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?

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‘.

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.

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

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?’

My idea of a good time abroad is to visit someone’s house and hang out, poking into their cupboards if they will let me.

For reasons that aren’t quite clear I derive a weird and almost inappropriate pleasure from making a cake that looks like a decomposing log. Essentially, that’s what a Buche de Noel is supposed to look like, complete with meringue ‘mushrooms‘ poking out of the chocolate buttercream ‘bark.’

I’m not afraid of poking fun at myself.

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.

Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man‘s world.

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.

Given the choice of Hollywood or poking steel pins in my eyes, I’d prefer steel pins.

I love poking fun at myself. I have a rather mean sense of humor.

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.

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

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.

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

My mother was being hounded by a debt collector over a debt that she didn’t owe, and she eventually just paid it because she wanted the calls to stop. I was very surprised. It sounded so strange. I started poking around on the Internet and found this was extremely common.

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 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.

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.

My only memories of school are of being beaten, of being hit in the playground, of masters poking their fingers in my chest all day.

I was a crazy Pee-wee Herman fan when I was in my early teens. Before he had the kids‘ TV show, he had a nightclub show in L.A., and I had gotten a VHS copy of it. It was a kids’ show, but onstage in a bar, so it’s sort of poking fun at the kids’ show. And I was obsessed with that, and then ‘Pee-wee’s Big Adventure.’

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.

Washington is nothing if not an orchard of absurdities, and poking fun at power brokers is neither sex blind nor for the faint of heart.

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

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.