For me, one of the privileges of being a writer is to poke your nose around and learn about worlds you don't know.
A number of American colleges are willing to pay a tempting amount to pinch and poke an author for a day or two.
Goblin: [poking Ludo with a biting stick] Try this one on for size, you big hippie!
This is an addictive pastime. You take no real risk, touch the world, and it responds. Repeat.
There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth. Not going all the way, and not starting.” Siddhrtha Gautama
That's your opportunity--to approach your work in a way that generates unique learning and interactions that are worth sharing.
Are you just gonna stare at Jack or are we gonna go?" Milo asked, poking his head into the bedroom.
If you like good ol' fashion Southern soul food then, yes, I am a good cook! My specialty is chicken dumplings and poke salad.
Respectfully, 'Awkward Black Girl' was never meant to be politically correct. We poke fun at ignorance.
I still write the occasional short story, and poked at a novel once, but it's just not what I want to do.
Timmons: [John Dunbar tries to wake him by hitting him with a stick] Something poked me in the butt, was that you?
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'.
But they get some comfort out of the made up stories. And if that helps them get along maybe I should not poke fun.
Aw, Poke, you poor, kind, decent, stupid girl. You saved me and I let you down.
The result is ... that there's no room left in the world for the weird – though plenty for crude, contemptuous, wisecracking, fun-poking imitations of it.
The challenge, it turns out, isn’t in perfecting your ability to know when to start and when to stand by. The challenge is getting into the habit of
I define anxiety as experiencing failure in advance…and if you have anxiety about initiating a project, then of course you will associate risk with failure.
Carrie doesn't seem to talk about anything with sharp edges. Maybe she's afraid they might poke her and then she'd burst.
In bringing the subject of religious oppression to a wider audience, I didn't just want to kick the Catholic Church but to poke a finger in the throat of theocracy and to let it be known that people shouldn't tolerate this anymore.
If I hurt someone, if I were to accidentally poke someone's eye out, I would laugh. And then I'd say, 'I'm sorry, I really do feel bad,' but then I'm on the floor rolling.
The original 'Scream' is one of those classic things, but it totally pokes fun at itself too. It's never taking itself too seriously, which is why I think it's such a cult classic.
