“After my husband died, I felt like one of those spiraled shells washed upon the beach . . . Poke a straw through the twisting tunnel, around and around, and there is nothing there. No flesh. No life. Whatever lived there is dried up and gone.”
Lynn Caine
“Better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick”
Proverb
“Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.”
Zora Neale Hurston
“The public is like a piano. You just have to know what keys to poke.”
Al Capp
“Don't buy a pig in a poke”
“I didn't know whether it was going in or not, so I decided to poke out my stick and redirect it. It was a quick decision.”
Maris Ziedins
“We came out flat against Newport. The other thing is we poked (David) Kelley in the eye and that spurred him on.”
Ed Pepple
