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.
It is not caving in to the bees to stop poking a stick into their hive.
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 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.
Once she was gone, I knelt next to Annabeth and felt her forehead. She was still burning up. "You're cute when you're worried," she muttered. "Your eyebrows get all scrunched together. " "You are not going to die while I owe you a favor," I said. "Why did you take that knife?" "You would've done the same for me. " It was true. I guess we both knew it. Still, I felt like somebody was poking my heart with a cold metal rod.
I was poking fun at myself most of all.
Grissom is a character who doesn't really want people poking around in his life. He likes to poke around in his work.
As you get older, your mind gets a little more set. And it needs the poking and prodding and breaking through of stereotypes that I think young people provide.
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'.
Athletes don't have much use for poking around in their childhoods, because, introspection doesn't get you anywhere in a race.
I still have this deep-down fear that if I go poking into the bushes I might find a dead body.
Deliberately causing mayhem in Snape's Potions class was about as safe as poking a sleeping dragon in the eye.
My friend taught me this one. You take the heel of your hand, you can shove someone's nose right through their brain. I can't even watch someone blow their nose. If I'm in a fight, I'm not gonna be shoving or poking, I'm gonna be running or begging - that's my two choices, right there.
Climate is an angry beast and we are poking at it with sticks
Even when I begin with a situation that's basically funny or sad, I like to keep poking around in it. I like to get into the middle of a relationship, to explore the subtle places.
The batsman's technique was like an old lady poking her umbrella at a wasp's nest.
The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus and a chair that's not obtained from Craigslist that keeps poking into his back.
There are no 'ifs' in God's Kingdom. His timing is perfect. His will is our hiding place. Lord Jesus, keep me in Your will! Don't let me go mad by poking about outside it.
Dad, one of my first memories is of sharing my worry with you about the space shuttle poking holes in the atmosphere and letting out all of Earth's air.
Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
