Buttons Quotes · Page 9

Men are monopolists of "stars, garters, buttons and other shining baubles"- unfit to be the guardians of another person's happiness.

— Marianne Moore

Ma'am, when I got up this morning, I didn't want to be jackass. You just pushed my jackass button.

— Bill Engvall

Corporations [gained] direct access to what we may think of as our humanity, emotions, and agency but, in this context, are really…

— Douglas Rushkoff

The popcorn button on the microwave is a miraculous invention. More miraculous than even the microwave itself.

— Gary Gulman

I have a giant ego and terrible self-esteem, so I need to hit the re-set button fairly regularly - to get into…

— Anne Lamott

Women were wearing the men's button-downs so I added men's touches into women's shirts. They're basically the same - just sexier. They're…

— Tommy Hilfiger

This indie rock stuff, I mean I like it, too - it pushes all my buttons: sex appeal, dissonance. It's emotive, disenchanted.

— Ketch Secor

I wear tweed jackets and button-down shirts. I am a 1955 graduate of Harvard University who drives a 1968 Mercedes.

— J. Anthony Lukas

Since nostaglia is fueled by inflation, could it be that inflation is the result of a conspiracy by the people who are…

— Calvin Trillin

Everybody is so hungry for referrals, for 'likes.' I don't need to be liked. I don't need to be liked at all.…

— Matt Drudge

You can have these fake engagements, these virtual engagements that substitute for actual engagements. You don't have to participate, you can hit…

— David Frum

Rap is rock 'n' roll. Rock is when you push the buttons in the system; when you say, I'm not going along…

— Ice T

Think about it. Right now, a whole generation of young (customers) in the United States has been brought up to take computers…

— Andy Grove

I don't know why, but there's always the part of you, the part that hides in the shadows protecting the self-destruct button,…

— Anonymous

Donald Trump is sitting on the control deck of the starship Enterprise, and he can push a lot of pretty buttons, but…

— David Brooks

I used to do Civil War re-enacting between the ages of 15 and 19. I was part of a unit that was…

— Cary Fukunaga

One of the expressions of Western over-reliance on technology can be seen in the lack of patience in industrial society. When you…

— Dalai Lama

I know this is going to sound very self-serving, and I apologize for it, but if you can write comedy, you can…

— Steven Moffat

Dear Nintendo, We need a new Mario game, where you rescue the princess in the first ten minutes, and for the rest…

— Joey Comeau

But I guess the nice thing about driving a car is that the physical act of driving itself occupies a good chunk…

— Douglas Coupland

You and I both know, deep in your heart, you agree with me. And I will prove it with one hypothetical scenario:…

— Anonymous

With McQueen you have so much at your fingertips. That is what's so incredible about this place. Lee built an amazing house,…

— Sarah Burton

I think all writers are always collecting characters as we go along. Not just characters of course, we're collecting EVERYTHING. Bits and…

— Alexandra Sokoloff

What occurred to me on [‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’], and also with the passing of her mother, is that there's…

— Brad Pitt

Life is like an elevator, a lot of ups and downs. People pushing your buttons and getting jerked around.

— LeCrae

Let's go to Russia. She [Hillary Clinton] went to the Kremlin on her very first visit and gave them that stupid symbolic…

— Chris Christie

I can make your girlfriend scream louder than you ever could just by pressing her follow button.

— Harry Styles

Life would be perfect if: Some girls had mute buttons; Some guys had edit buttons; Hard times had fast forward buttons; And…

— Anonymous

When I'm looking for hot button answers to tough questions, I don't look to congressman or my mayor. I say, 'What would…

— Dane Cook

Menswear remains steady. It's a difference of a pleat versus flat-front pant or two buttons versus three in the jacket.

— Michael Bastian

I don't push buttons to push buttons. Throwing the rebel card out there is really cheap.

— Kacey Musgraves

The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a philosophical hour,…

— Ray Bradbury

Just pushing a button is taking a photo. Thinking, lighting, and lots of other things~that's making a photo.

— David Doubilet

The great test of faith is to wait on God. . . not expecting to push a button and get whatever we want now.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

If there were a button I could press, I would sacrifice myself without hesitating, if it meant millions of people would die.

— Pentti Linkola

In some hotels they give you a little sewing kit. You know what I do? I sew the towels together. One time…

— George Carlin

I have met Vladimir Putin, and I know his ambition will not be detoured by a gimmicky red, reset button.

— Carly Fiorina

What plethora of material goods can possibly atone for a waking life so humanly belittling, if not degrading, as the push-button tasks…

— Lewis Mumford

I have a weakness for buttons. I'm always collecting ornate and nicely decorated ones.

— Rila Fukushima

They say our mothers really know how to push our buttons - because they installed them

— Robin Williams