Button Quotes
438 quotes by 369 authors
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Since I have access to every, every crisis in the world because it's always blaring at me on cable television, that doesn't mean I have…
— Eric Schmidt
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What is the life of man! Is it not to shift from side to side? From sorrow to sorrow? To button up one cause of…
— Laurence Sterne
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Technology is supposed to make our lives easier, allowing us to do things more quickly and efficiently. But too often it seems to make things…
— James Surowiecki
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If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
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Some people hate funerals. I find them comforting. They hit the pause button on life and remind us that it has an end. Every eulogy…
— Regina Brett
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it occurred to me what a simple thing reality is, how easy it is to make it work. It's just reality. Just housework. Just a…
— Haruki Murakami
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Every human being on the face of the earth has a steel plate in his head, but if you lie down now and then and…
— Sue Monk Kidd
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You may turn into an archangel, a fool, or a criminal—no one will see it. But when a button is missing—everyone sees that.
— Erich Maria Remarque
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Arthur Dent: What happens if I press this button? Ford Prefect: I wouldn't- Arthur Dent: Oh. Ford Prefect: What happened? Arthur Dent: A sign lit…
— Douglas Adams
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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.…
— Khaled Hosseini
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i remember we all cried like the Missouri when my Uncle Sol's coffin lurched because somebody pressed a button (and down went my uncle Sol…
— E E Cummings
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It's supposed to be automatic, but actually you have to push this button.
— John Brunner
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Mother, whose heart hung humble as a button the bright splendid shroud of your son, Do not weep. War is kind.
— Stephen Crane
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It's so quiet this high up, the feeling you get is that you're one of those space monkeys. You do the little job you're trained…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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What is technology?" Cian pulled his brother inside, pushed the button for the next floor. "It's another god.
— Nora Roberts
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Okay, okay, okay. I understood that pushing the elevator button over and over again would not make the elevator appear sooner. But I couldn't help…
— James Patterson
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(to Foaly) Captain Short's life is in danger, so push the button before I climb that tower and push it with your face!
— Eoin Colfer
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He'd changed since the last summer. Instead of Bermuda shorts and a T-shirt, he wore a button-down shirt, khaki pants, and leather loafers. His sandy…
— Rick Riordan
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When people can do something simple to avoid conflict--say, hit a button or unlock a latch--they'll generally do it.
— Keith Ablow
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Well, at least I’m not a stubborn, button-pushing, Prius-driving, chip-on-your-shoulder-holding, ‘stay-at-home-mom’-is-the-eighth-dirty-word-thinking feminazi!
— Julie James
Who Wrote These Button Quotes
369 authors contributed a total of 438 Button Quotes, led by these top contributors: