Poke Quotes - Page 4

• 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

  Moving, Eye, Feet

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• Porque, ¿quién querría acercarse a otra persona si supiera lo difícil que es dejarla marchar? En tu corazón sólo mueren un poco cada vez, ¿no? Como una planta cuando te vas de viaje y te olvidas de pedirle a un vecino que la riegue de vez en cuando con la vieja regadera, y es tan triste...

  Stephen King

  Letting Go, Heart, Going Away

  Stephen King (2016). “Lisey's Story: A Novel”, p.332, Simon and Schuster

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• Comedy just pokes at problems, rarely confronts them squarely. Drama is like a plate of meat and potatoes, comedy is rather the dessert, a bit like meringue.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Drama, Humor

  "The Guardian profile: Woody Allen" by Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. August 22, 2004.

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

  Ilona Andrews

  Sky, Straight Up, Holes

  Ilona Andrews (2008). “Magic Burns”, p.233, Penguin

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• After a lifetime's independence– yes, selfish independence as my daughter would rightly claim – I am terrified of being reduced to childhood once more, to helplessness, to seas of confusion from which the cruel lucid intervals poke up like rock shoals.

  Rosie Thomas

  Fear, Selfish, Rocks

  "Iris and Ruby: A Novel".

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• 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

  Brother, Years, Ideas

  Mira Grant (2010). “Feed: The Newsflesh Trilogy:”, p.8, Hachette UK

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• El orgullo y la curiosidad son los dos flagelos de nuestras almas. La segunda nos incita a meter las narices en todo, y la primera nos prohíbe dejar nada sin resolver y sin decidir.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Pride, Two, Soul

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Essays”

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• You are going to end up as one of those sad old men who poke around in rubbish bins.” “I’m going to end up in a hole in the ground... And so are you. So are we all.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Men, Rubbish, Holes

  J. M. Coetzee (1999). "Disgrâce", Random House (Reino Unido)

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• And then he drew a dial from his poke, And looking with lack-lustre eye, Says very wisely, 'It is ten o'clock: Thus we may see', Quoth he, 'how the world wags: 'Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, And after one hour more 'twill be eleven; And so from hour to hour we ripe and ripe, And then from hour to hour we rot and rot.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, World, May

  William Shakespeare (2010). “As You Like It”, p.47, Palgrave Macmillan

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• 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

  Doe, Way, Computer

  Seth Godin (2015). "Poke The Box: ¿Cuándo fue la última vez que hiciste algo por primera vez?", p.11, Penguin

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• 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

  Wings, White, Skins

  Charles Bukowski (2014). “Charles Bukowski Fiction Collection”, Harper Collins

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• When in doubt, poke the beehive with a stick to see if anything interesting flies out. I clapped my hands. 'I had no idea Pit teams had such pretty cheerleaders. Can you do it again, but with more spirit this time?

  Ilona Andrews

  Cheerleading, Team, Hands

  Ilona Andrews (2009). “Magic Strikes”, p.58, Penguin

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• Desmond, don't poke the baby!'... 'I'll get you next time-' Don't threaten the baby either!'.

  Derek Landy

  Baby, Next, Next Time

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• En realidad, considero Facebook un enorme aburrimiento, pero no puedo abstenerme de participar en él. Supongo que anhelo la sensación de esperanza que me da pensar que hoy será diferente de ayer, que encontraré un comentario o un poke o un vídeo interesante, y en la rarísima ocasión en que eso ocurre, me emociono.

  Roseanne Barr

  Thinking, Yesterday, Giving

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• Even when people are rich and successful on TV shows, there's always some trouble - you have to poke holes in them, throw them out of a job, put a pie in the face.

  Drew Carey

  Jobs, Successful, Tv Shows

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• Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very suspicious of outsiders, so there's a sort of 'us versus them' situation. They're easy to poke fun at.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Country, Fun, Southern

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• Hurgo en el montón, a punto de decidirme por un poco de sopa de bacalao, cuando Peeta me tiende una lata. "Toma." La cojo, sin saber qué esperar. En la etiqueta pone LAMB STEW.

  Suzanne Collins

  Saber, Etiquetas, Corderos

  Suzanne Collins (2010). "Sinsajo (Los juegos del hambre, Libro 3)", p.293, Scholastic Inc.

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• Si Myrnin asoma su loca cabeza antes de eso, llámame e intenta mantenerlo, ya sabes, estable'. "¿Es inestable?" "No lo sé, ¿cómo puedo saberlo? Eres la susurradora de locos". Tenía razón. Claire no pudo evitar sonreír.

  Rachel Caine

  Loco, Intentar, Ayudar

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• And a refrigerator may hold a basket of strawberries, which would be important if a maniac said to you, "If you don't give me a basket of strawberries right now, I'm going to poke you with this large stick." But when the two elder Baudelaires and Quigley Quagmire opened the refrigerator, they found nothing that would help someone who was wounded, dying of thirst, or being threatened by a strawberry-crazed, stick-carrying maniac.

  Daniel Handler

  Two, Giving, Important

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• 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

  Winter, Waiting, Looks

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)”, p.413, Scholastic Inc.

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• Shut up," I hissed. Ticked that he was taller than me, I stepped up onto a nearby coffee table. "I'm not in a cage anymore," I said, keeping enough presence of mind not to poke him in the chest with a finger. His face went startled, then cloric. "The only thing between your head and my foot becoming real close and personal right now is my questionable professionalism. And if you ever threaten me again, I'll slam you halfway across the room before you can say number-two pencil. Got it, you tall freak of nature?

  Kim Harrison

  Real, Coffee, Presence Of Mind

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• Can you burn me up with holy water? Poke me to death with your crucifix? Pelt me with communion wafers?

  MaryJanice Davidson

  Water, Holy, Communion

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• It's fun for someone to poke fun at himself.

  Chris Kattan

  Diversión

  Interview with Vicki Hogarth, www.askmen.com. August 6, 2009.

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• What's wrong with lust? You fancy your neighbor's husband so what are you supposed to do? Poke your eyes out so that you can't see him anymore? Acting on it is maybe a sin ... but my God, just lusting after someone? Is that so bad?

  Emma Goldman

  Husband, Eye, Lust

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• Just begin a story with such a phrase as 'I remember Disraeli - poor old Dizz! - once saying to me, in answer to my poke in the eye,' and you will find me and Morpheus off in a corner, necking.

  Dorothy Parker

  Eye, Phrases, Stories

  Dorothy Parker (1970). "Un mes de sábados: treinta y una piezas célebres de "Lector Constante"".

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