#poking

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

— Zora Neale Hurston

#poking #prying #purpose #research

We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don't like federal agents poking around our libraries in the Red States. We coach Little League in the Blue States and have gay friends in the Red States. ↗

— Barack Obama

#around #awesome #blue #coach #federal

It would be ugly to watch people poking sticks at a caged rat. It is uglier still to watch rats poking sticks at a caged person. ↗

— Jean Harris

#people #person #poking #rat #rats

The biggest fool is one who minds the business of others rather than minding his very own ↗

— Amit Abraham

#foolishness #nose-poking #business

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. ↗

— Amanda Burton

#apart #around #because #cheap #could

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. ↗

— Brendan Gleeson

#business #give #i #job #people

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

— Alton Brown

#humor #i #i love #love #mean

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? ↗

— Joel Coen

#amount #amusing #because #behave #cares

I like poking my nose into other people's lives. ↗

— Helen Garner

#into #like #lives #nose #other

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. ↗

— Gavin MacLeod

#doing #fortunate #future #head #i