Buttons famous quotes
05-13-2025
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Someone invent a NO LIFE alert so you can push a button and tons of people show up and hang out with you.
-- Adam Young -
Maybe I'll make a huge color tapestry from my belly button lint.
-- Al Yankovic -
That's why so much of the music today sounds so much alike, because there's no in-between. So it's kind of nice to still turn some buttons every now and then.
-- Alan Vega -
Yes, I sold buttons to earn living. But I took pictures to keep on living. Pictures are my life – as necessary as eating or breathing.
-- Alfred Eisenstaedt -
Climb aboard life's elevator, hit the "up" button, and see where it takes you.
-- Amy Dickinson -
People waiting for an elevator don't know what to do, standing with strangers. There is nothing to do. Its an uneasy time. Some press the button repeatedly as though it would help.
-- Andy Rooney -
Photographers feel guilty that all they do for a living is press a button.
-- Andy Warhol -
To use an electronics analogy, closing a book on a bookmark is like pressing the Stop button, whereas when you leave the book facedown, you've only pressed Pause.
-- Anne Fadiman -
I write everything as a wake-up call to myself and others, to anyone who may have gotten tired of hitting the snooze button.
-- Anne Lamott -
Youd just be amazed what people will do. You really would. And not crazy people. Ostensibly normal people. When the right person touches the right button in someone, you can get them to do almost anything.
-- Annie Parisse -
The whole world is covered in buttons, and not one of them is mine!
-- Arnold Lobel -
When I free my body from its clothes, from all their buttons, belts, and laces, it seems to me that my soul takes a deeper, freer breath.
-- August Strindberg -
The... promptitude with which many painters, on arriving at an entirely new and unfamiliar place, settle down to work at once, never fails to astonish me: it seems indecent, like button-holing a complete stranger.
-- Augustus John -
Well, the Internet is this miracle. It is an absolutely extraordinary idea that you can press a send button, and you are publishing to the world.
-- Barry Diller -
Comedy always pushes some buttons, because it wouldn't be comedy if it didn't.
-- Beth Behrs -
I would change policy, bring back natural grass and nickel beer. Baseball is the belly-button of our society. Straighten out baseball, and you straighten out the rest of the world.
-- Bill Lee -
I find it hard to relax around any man who's got the second button on his shirt undone.
-- Bill Nighy -
The universe is not short on wake-up calls. We’re just quick to hit the snooze button.
-- Brené Brown -
The thing that was most interesting to me was getting my first prints back from the printer and realizing photography doesn't end with the click of a button, it starts there. Printing is so exciting.
-- Bryan Adams -
Parents know how to push your buttons because, hey, they sewed them on
-- Camryn Manheim -
My wonder button is being pushed all the time.
-- Carl Sagan -
I have met Vladimir Putin, and I know his ambition will not be detoured by a gimmicky red, reset button.
-- Carly Fiorina -
I hate my stomach. It's impossible to get it flat, and the area around my belly button drives me crazy.
-- Carmen Electra -
I read a lot; fiction and non-fiction are the mediums I find most edifying and inspiring. I watch movies and listen to music and take lots and lots of walks. Nature is a nice reset button for me, it's how I get a lot of thinking done.
-- Carrie Brownstein -
There is no easy off button for your brain.It would be really really nice if there were.
-- Carrie Jones -
He's a bully. I love bullies. They have such big, shiny red buttons to push.
-- Carrie Vaughn -
I have siblings. And there are certain things I know that I can push their buttons. And they know they have certain things where they can push mine.
-- Catherine Zeta-Jones -
I knew, as sure as I knew my name, that tomorrow he would send me another coat, in a big fancy box, with a big bow on it. It would be the right size, it would be a top brand, and it would be warm. ............... It was cranberry red, with a removable liner, a detachable hood, and tortoiseshell buttons.
-- Charlaine Harris -
Snoopy (musing on his rooftop): Good Grief! Is it November already? My life is going by too fast. I think someone pushed the "Fast Forward" button.
-- Charles M. Schulz -
You have to take positions on bills. There is no button for maybe or possibly.
-- Charlie Dent -
I wear a lot of second hand clothes unless I have a concert and then I wear beaded and sequined second hand clothes. No stylist dresses me although I do have a woman that assists me with the buttons.
-- Chris Isaak -
Bad sales managers push two buttons: 'more' and 'panic.' Great sales managers have one more button to push: the 'how'.
-- Chris Lytle -
The least amount of buttons [in suit], the better. If you have to go with three, you can go three. But all that eight-button stuff? Nuh-uh, not a fan.
-- Chris Paul -
Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button.
-- Christopher Lasch -
Publishing isn't a job anymore. It's a button.
-- Clay Shirky -
When I'm looking for hot button answers to tough questions, I don't look to congressman or my mayor. I say, 'What would Miss U.S.A. have to say about this?'
-- Dane Cook -
Humans react to danger when it is immediate, immoral, visible... Global warming does not press any of those buttons.
-- Daniel Gilbert -
Everyone on the set has a mobile phone, and I found by pushing a few buttons, they could be programmed into different languages. I fixed Robbie's (Coltrane) to speak in Turkish.
-- Daniel Radcliffe -
A ship without Marines is like a garment without buttons.
-- David Dixon Porter -
Just pushing a button is taking a photo. Thinking, lighting, and lots of other things~that's making a photo.
-- David Doubilet -
Sometimes I’ve even wished there was a human pause button, where you could choose some point in your life where you could stay always.
-- Deb Caletti -
Patrick Kenzie asking a bemused waitress for a newspaper in smalltown USA. 'It's like a homepage without a scroll button?'
-- Dennis Lehane -
The wrap dress is the most traditional form of dressing: It's like a robe, it's like a kimono, it's like a toga. It doesn't have buttons or zippers. What made it different was that it was jersey; therefore, it was close to the body and it was a print.
-- Diane von Furstenberg -
Eyes wide and blank as the buttons on a first Communion coat.
-- Donald E. Westlake -
I am probably the last of a generation able to gain an education in country music by osmosis, by sitting in a '64 Ford banging the buttons on the radio.
-- Dwight Yoakam -
Taking photographs is not something that happens only in a moment I press the button. It is a full-time occupation. For me there is difference between leisure and work.
-- Edouard Boubat -
Design isn't crafting a beautiful, textured button with breathtaking animation. It's figuring out if there's a way to get rid of the button altogether.
-- Edward Tufte -
Every photograph that is made whether by one who considers himself a professional, or by the tourist who points his snapshot camera and pushes a button, is a response to the exterior world, to something perceived outside himself by the person who operates the camera.
-- Eliot Porter -
This is one of the benefits, as well as one of the difficulties of directing a member of your family. You know where the buttons are. You can push them if you want.
-- Emilio Estevez -
I'm not Catholic, but I gave up picking my belly button for lint.
-- Emo Philips -
It is as easy to create a castle as a button. It's just a matter of whether you're focused on a castle or a button.
-- Esther Hicks -
I keep pushing buttons and trying to grow as a person and as a filmmaker.
-- Famke Janssen -
If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright -
Once the buttons are undone, you know how it'll all end. It's all in the game, there are no miracles.
-- Gao Xingjian -
If the first button of one's coat is wrongly buttoned, all the rest will be crooked.
-- Giordano Bruno -
There's a button that goes On and I'm On. And when I go On, there is almost no me; there is just a character who is doing all this.
-- Gisele Bundchen -
Viva Italia! Goodbye to all poor peoples everywhere! ... Pusha da button!
-- Giuseppe Zangara -
...dreadful birds, dressed in red with breasts of silver buttons, and cocked heads and sharp mouths, looking for guilt like berries on a bush.
-- Hannah Kent -
I can make your girlfriend scream louder than you ever could just by pressing her follow button.
-- Harry Styles -
You can actually have a pitch button, you know, to get people on pitch.
-- Helena Bonham Carter -
In an era of magic conveniently available at the touch of a button, new music should on principle represent something akin to 'danger'...
-- Helmut Lachenmann -
There is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast.
-- Henry David Thoreau -
Weight is just not a hot button. In fact, during my life, it probably should have been on my radar screen a bit more. I look back at work photos and am shocked. Was I eating the people I was interviewing?! Good Lord, I was big.
-- Hoda Kotb -
If I could have a Barbie body, which has no cellulite, I totally would. I would like to have a flatter stomach, but that won't happen either. That is never going to happen. No matter how much weight I lose, my stomach, below the belly button, always pooches out.
-- Holly Madison -
You know boys, a nuclear reactor is a lot like women. You just have to read the manual and press the right button.
-- Homer -
I still think that I'm playing instruments, not just pushing buttons and there it goes. It's interactive and alive with the sound and the manipulation and it plays like instruments.
-- Ikue Mori -
Of course there are many ways we can reuse something. We can dye it. We can cut it. We can change the buttons. Those are other ways to make it alive. But this is a new step to use anything - hats, socks, shirts. It's the first step in the process
-- Issey Miyake -
I wear tweed jackets and button-down shirts. I am a 1955 graduate of Harvard University who drives a 1968 Mercedes.
-- J. Anthony Lukas -
Yes, we need euthanasia, for certain cases where people are in comas or too immobile to even press a button.
-- Jack Kevorkian -
Trying to make the presidency work these days is like trying to sew buttons on a custard pie.
-- James David Barber -
Not many get a chance to hit the career re-set button.
-- Jason Bateman -
Here is a very inexpensive costume idea. Wear a re-elect Obama button and go out as a journalist.
-- Jay Leno -
Listening is the hard part. Listening is the important part. The hot button is in the prospect's response.
-- Jeffrey Gitomer -
Trying to seduce Alec at all was a waste of time; he came preseduced anyway. Like a microwave entrée. You pressed his buttons, and he got hot.
-- Jennifer Crusie -
Words had become overnight just little coins, insignificant and unfreighted, to be exchanged for ribbons, buttons, for an apple or an egg.
-- Jo Baker -
Certain trifling flaws sit as disgracefully on a character of elegance as a ragged button on a court dress.
-- Johann Kaspar Lavater -
It's supposed to be automatic, but actually you have to push this button.
-- John Brunner -
Every important machine's got to have a big red button.
-- Joseph DeRisi -
An (emotional) vampire goes in for the kill by stirring up your emotions. Pushing your buttons throws you off center, which renders you easier to drain. Of all the emotional types, empaths are often the most devestated.
-- Judith Orloff -
When people can do something simple to avoid conflict--say, hit a button or unlock a latch--they'll generally do it.
-- Keith Ablow -
Belts with potbellies are pretty bad. I mean, what about an oversized shirt and a trouser? What about an oversized button-up shirt in linen and a trouser? Do us all a favor.
-- Kelly Cutrone -
Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it. - Amir
-- Khaled Hosseini -
Many of the male faeries had their shirts unbuttoned and chests bare. (How’s this for freaky: no nipples or belly buttons.)
-- Kiersten White -
I could see no reason why used tram tickets, bits of driftwood, buttons and old junk from attics and rubbish heaps should not serve well as materials for paintings; they suited the purpose just as well as factory-made paints It is possible to cry out using bits of old rubbish, and that's what I did, gluing and nailing them together.
-- Kurt Schwitters -
When you write a program for Android, you use the Oracle Java tools for everything, and at the very end, you push a button and say, Convert this to Android format.
-- Larry Ellison -
I eat till, honest, I felt every button on all my clo'es. The folks where we were stayin' were the old-fashioned hospitable kind; they didn't let you off till your jaws struck work and wouldn't wag no more.
-- Laura E. Richards -
Life is like an elevator, a lot of ups and downs. People pushing your buttons and getting jerked around.
-- LeCrae -
What plethora of material goods can possibly atone for a waking life so humanly belittling, if not degrading, as the push-button tasks left to human performers?
-- Lewis Mumford -
Jeez, someone needs to push the reset button on this planet.
-- Libba Bray -
Dropped a peanut in my belly button, do I eat it or....
-- Luke Hemmings -
Just as TurboTax simplified much of the tax process, so has the colossally scary legal process been reduced to a kinder, gentler series of mouse clicks and 'Continue' buttons by LegalZoom, the online leader that has become so prominent in its market that it's practically a generic.
-- Lynda Resnick -
One problem we discovered, for example, was that our "create a new account" button was in the wrong place...By simply moving it to the left side, mirroring the way people read, we saw a huge improvement in the way people used the site.
-- Marc Benioff -
Any situation that pushes our buttons is a situation where we don't yet have the capacity to be unconditionally loving.
-- Marianne Williamson -
What goes down usually goes back up, if you're willing to be patient and don't hit the panic button.
-- Mark Mobius -
Death is not complete annihilation. It is a pause. It is like pressing the pause button on a tape recorder.
-- Mata Amritanandamayi -
You may not like the humor, but that is why every radio has an on-off button.
-- Mel Karmazin
