Top 100 Button Quotes
#1. The average person pushes an elevator button 6 or 7 minutes before realizing it's not working. I did a study on this, you know.
Don Rickles
#2. No protests in the streets, just a button marked 'like
Pleasefindthis
#3. This was music that had not only escaped, but had robbed a bank on the way out. It was music with its sleeves rolled up and its top button undone, raising its hat and grinning and stealing the silver.
Terry Pratchett
#4. One of the things I've learned with doing 'xkcd' is that you sort of give people, 'Here's the thing, and here's the button you can press to get another thing.' Sometimes that can be more easy to digest than, 'Here's a long page of things.'
Randall Munroe
#5. and wasn't it an awful dangerous thing, a text message, because once you pressed that little send button, that was it. Like pulling a trigger of a shotgun and sending a pellet into a little rabbit's brain as he sniffed the sweet spring air. You couldn't undo it. You couldn't ever take it back.
Donal Ryan
#6. Suddenly, the brave warriors parading to combat with bugles and bayonets were replaced by the push of a button.
Maggie Young
#7. And I hear nothing because it's like the volume button has been turned down on our lives and nobody has anything to say anymore."
"I want to be an adjective again. But I am a noun.
Melina Marchetta
#8. Every child's dream is to push a button and kill imaginary friends.
Cameron Jace
#9. By day, it was merely the Lane That Time Forgot; perfect for a bygone age when a pony and trap might have trotted merrily down to the village and back, but less suited to modern requirements and any car without a 'thin' button.
Christine Stovell
#10. 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
#12. I'd have to say that Nixon feels like the public figure who most dominated my life - from the time I went to fourth grade wearing a Nixon-Lodge button in the fall of 1960, through my college years, which overlapped with Kent State, Cambodia, the China trip and all the rest.
Thomas Mallon
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. There was a machine in the kitchen which could extract the juice of two hundred oranges in half an hour, if a little button was pressed two hundred times by a butler's thumb.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#16. The decision to trigger Article 50 is in the hands of the next prime minister. If that is me, I will make a judgement as to when is right for Britain, and I won't be hurried or hassled by anyone into pressing that button or triggering that article until I believe it is right for this country.
Michael Gove
#17. There are three things about Barack that really stand out for me: strength, moral authority, and wisdom ... He has pressed the reset button on the moral authority of the entire free world.
David Cameron
#18. 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
#19. I realized everyone around me was wearing a uniform. Black pants, white button-down shirts, green ties. Gotta love the smell of institutional equality in the morning.
Francesca Zappia
#20. Seeing her shiver, I want to take her into my coat and button it around her. I want to warm my face against her neck and steam her up like a mirror and write my name on her with my fingertip.
Laini Taylor
#21. Revolutions are not push button affairs; rather, they evolve only if there exists a reservoir of hope and grievance that can be galvanized into popular action.
Michael Parenti
#22. I came to college to study, Cass, not to whore myself out to drunken frat boys!"
She gaffawed. "Whatever, darlin', you won't be thinking of studying when your ankles are wrapped 'round some stud's neck as he wears you like a necklace, tickling your belly button from the inside!
Tillie Cole
#23. Life takes twists and turns that lead us on an unplanned journey. With our own wishes tucked away in our pockets we button our spiritual coat and trudge through the storms of reality. We follow fate. Karen Kelly Boyce, "In the Midst of Wolves" Chapter 2
Karen Kelly Boyce
#24. Just as you can feel connected to your line of human mothers through your belly button, you can feel an ultimate connection to the Earth mother on whom all of our lives depend.
Ilchi Lee
#25. Bellona? is all the Sovereign can say before he presses the button.
Pierce Brown
#26. Sometimes I wish I had a rewind button for my mouth.
Belle Aurora
#27. 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
#28. On George W Bush: That man sits at that desk in the White House with the button that can end the world. My father's younger than him and we don't give him the controls for the television.
Billy Connolly
#29. Here is a very inexpensive costume idea. Wear a re-elect Obama button and go out as a journalist.
Jay Leno
#30. Mind was crafted to preserve some and forget some. We have to decide when to choose delete button.
Shikha Kaul
#31. I gave them their chance," she said. "And my give-a-shit button's broken, baby.
Thea Harrison
#32. I stroke a finger over my own top button, undo it, then let my hand drop with an exaggerated sigh. "It's not quite the same," I declare, "ripping my own clothes off.
Kate Tough
#33. Death is not complete annihilation. It is a pause. It is like pressing the pause button on a tape recorder.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#34. The images evoked by words being independent of their sense, they vary from age to age and from people to people, the formulas remaining identical. Certain transitory images are attached to certain words: the word is merely as it were the button of an electric bell that calls them up.
Gustave Le Bon
#35. Squeal like a cheerleader named prom queen, aging retiree placing the game-winning bingo button, frenzied fan finding Johnny Depp in her supermarket.
Dennis Vickers
#36. 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
#37. Denim miniskirt. Tight white T-shirt. Scooped neck. Extraordinarily olive skin. Legs that make you care about legs. Perfectly coiffed curly brown hair. A laminated button reading ME FOR PROM QUEEN. Lacey Pemberton. Walking toward us.
John Green
#38. I mean if someone you know pushes a button you're gonna strike back out.
Brande Roderick
#39. Feeling the inevitable claim of the this desert, he experienced a desire to throw off his civilized costume, hurl himself upon Josephina, either succumb, or return to Guadalajara, where men could only complain of having too many buttons to button or unbutton...
Warren Eyster
#40. You will not solve global climate change by hitting the delete button.
Tom Brokaw
#41. Jenson Button is the real deal. It just takes the right environment, the right time - don't doubt he has all the talents to win Grands Prix and challenge for championships.
David Coulthard
#42. THERE ARE TOO MANY OF THEM. Reyna wondered bitterly how many times she'd said that in her demigod career. She should have a button made and wear it around to save time. When she died, the words would probably be written on her tombstone: There were too many of them.
Rick Riordan
#43. I like to work with people who have a sense of putting a song over, and can sing in tune, and with passion. With technology you can polish a turd, but there's still no button you can press for passion.
Tony Visconti
#44. Patrick Kenzie asking a bemused waitress for a newspaper in smalltown USA. 'It's like a homepage without a scroll button?
Dennis Lehane
#45. Only cowards push a button from thousands of miles away, or tens of thousands of feet up, to kill people who can't possibly fight back.
Bill Maher
#46. Well, what does Dr. Spock know? Come here, little beauty; give Daddy a kiss for being so precocious." He lifted the soft little body, encased in its snug pink sleep-suit, and kissed her button of a nose. Brianna sneezed, and we both laughed.
Diana Gabaldon
#47. Well," I said. "If we keep running, maybe we'll find a big red button that says PRESS HERE IN CASE OF ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE." "Oh, good," Sig said. "I was afraid you hadn't thought this through either.
Elliott James
#48. I really thought Reagan was going to push the button and blow us all up. It was scary. So when they did the 1998 American Godzilla film, Hollywood didn't understand what Godzilla was.
Brad Warner
#49. I feel like people who are guarded and shut off, I feel like they should have to wear a button that says, "shut down", "guarded" or something.
Marnie Stern
#50. For all her cute-as-a-button-ness, Bree had a laugh that reminded me of the noise Charly had made that time she shredded her fingertips on the cheese grater.
Jessica Martinez
#51. I just saw a girl who said she saw John Lennon walking down the street in New York wearing a button that said, "I love Paul." She asked him: "Why are you wearing an 'I love Paul' button?", and he said: "Because I love Paul.
Harry Nilsson
#52. People would say I never censor. As Billy Crystal says, 'I don't have that button.'
Robin Williams
#53. I tell ya, I knew my morning wasn't going right. When I put on my shirt the button fell off, when I picked up my briefcase, the handle fell off, I tell ya, I was afraid to go to the bathroom.
Rodney Dangerfield
#54. Archer pressed a preset button on my car radio. An old Britney Spears song blared, and I sung along to every word, bopping in my seat. Archer just looked at me.
"Oh, come on!" I said. "Who doesn't sing along to Britney?
Elise Allen
#55. How many snapshots in the world were actually just-after shots, the moment that elicited the shooter to press the button never captured; instead, the detritus just following, the laughter, the reaction, the ripples.
Reif Larsen
#56. 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
#57. Reese Witherspoon is as cute as a button on Raggedy Ann's overalls, but irresistible raw sex appeal is not one of her qualities.
Roger Ebert
#58. Ms. Whitlock stands in front of her desk in her patented white button-down shirt, gray pencil skirt and dark-rimmed glasses.
Katie McGarry
#59. Oddly, no matter which way I positioned my finer over the little button, it wouldn't read my fingerprint
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#60. even though I would've preferred E's kiss there instead. Naturally that particular memory flooded my mind's eye. Until then, I hadn't been properly introduced to my magic button.
Lora Ann
#61. When I was working on 'Freddie,' I had been trying to write it on a computer for many, many years, but that delete button just won't let anything go forward.
Lynda Barry
#62. Occasionally a red taxi or Mercedes-Benz would squeeze by along the iron fence and burst free, the driver holding down the horn button so furiously that he might detonate the air bag.
Neal Stephenson
#63. One of the great things about the sci-fi genre is that you can kind of get away with a bit more when talking politics, making social references or dealing with very hot-button topics because it is sci-fi.
Rachel Nichols
#64. You push a button and it goes all over the world and on Sunday people are saying, 'Oh, I binge watched all 10 of them. Where's more?' and you go oh, the world has changed. It's not my dad walking to the television set and turning a knob to Ed Sullivan.
Jeffrey Tambor
#65. Jumped and spun around. Man, my nightmares were making me jumpy. I hit the off button. It's time for school. Ugh. School was so my
Jessica Sorensen
#66. That's true," the male officer said. "Stew Mitchum is as cute as a button."
I tried to think of buttons I'd seen that liked to torture small animals, but I couldn't.
Lemony Snicket
#67. Reached up to push the button that released liquid morphine into his veins.
Orna Ross
#68. Guys like you would try to shag the button hole in a fur coat.
Poppet
#69. None of his brothers dared to throw out a grumble, because the protocol button had been punched: If they were around outsiders, they treated him as their sovereign lord and king. Which meant no fucking around and no insubordination.Maybe they needed visitors more often in the fucking house
J.R. Ward
#70. Every time you see your belly button, remember that your life is connected with the life of the planet,
Ilchi Lee
#71. 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 myself
James Patterson
#72. Though it does seem like I have written an immense amount of work, over the years I have pushed the pause button. I have poems that I haven't sent out for publication, mostly based on political/social issues.
Denise Duhamel
#73. I don't think of God as an old white man with no belly button, nor even an old black woman with no belly button. But I agree that God is something eternal. Something cannot come out of nothing. I believe God is Everything. And I believe in infinity.
Pete Seeger
#74. Orgasm for women like coal( that takes lot of time to get heat) , and men like microwave..just push the button
Anshu
#75. The path of peace is not a passive journey. It takes incredible strength not to open a can of 'whoop-ass', justifiably, when ones button is pushed.
T.F. Hodge
#77. YouTube offers the best solution by running an ad before showing the video, but also offering a 'skip ad' button that you can click after five seconds to go directly to the video if you are not interested in the ad. Now, that's what I call consumer sovereignty!
Mark Skousen
#78. He's wearing a white button down, black pants, and suspenders. He's not my type, but the getup is pretty sexy. Like, put your brother in suspenders and he might become hot too. Okay, that was too far, and I need to stop watching Game of Thrones. Kit
Tarryn Fisher
#79. We need to push the reset button on climate change.
Judith Curry
#80. Chris reached for the button to raise the window, as if a thin layer of glass could ever protect him from Beckett.
Debra Anastasia
#81. When I was in high school in the '50s you were supposed to be an Elvis Presley, a James Dean, a Marlon Brando or a Kingston Trio type in a button-down shirt headed for the fraternities at Stanford or Cal.
Robert Hass
#82. When we were growing up, our mother taught us never to have your belly button exposed.
Mary-Kate Olsen
#83. I think privacy is valuable. You don't have to share everything, and it's healthy to occasionally hit the pause button and ask yourself if you're oversharing. But at the end of the day, if you're not doing anything wrong, you don't have anything to hide.
Ashton Kutcher
#84. The prime reason the Google homepage is so bare is due to the fact that the founders didn't know HTML and just wanted a quick interface. In fact, it was noted that the SUBMIT button was a long time coming and hitting the RETURN key was the only way to burst Google into life.
Marissa Mayer
#85. The search button on the browser no longer provides an objective search, but a commercial one.
Tim Berners-Lee
#86. Once let the black man get upon his person the brass letter, U.S., let him get an eagle on his button, and a musket on his shoulder and bullets in his pocket, there is no power on earth that can deny that he has earned the right to citizenship.
Frederick Douglass
#87. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it.
Khaled Hosseini
#88. I have been known to buy e-versions of my books because I was in a hotel room and I needed one right away to look up something in it; very handy for that - you can have it just the next minute; you can press the button and just have it.
Margaret Atwood
#89. I captured her cheeks, pulling her back to my hungry mouth. Man, I couldn't get enough of her taste, of how she gave it right back to me on all fronts. Her hands went to the button on my jeans.
There was a cracking sound in the house. Most likely something had just went up in flames.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#90. Today, Leslie writes at least a thousand words a day on DC Metro orange line trains. Most of them perish behind the delete button.
Leslie Welch
#91. The great thing about working on a genre show is that you can basically have a season finale where every character is left destroyed, and then hit the reset button and come back for the next season.
Julie Benz
#92. I'm a grafter, I like working, but like for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, the film company only paid me for the shooting schedule, which was supposed to last six months. But it lasted 11 months and you don't get paid for extra shooting.
Jason Flemyng
#93. It is unfair that life doesn't come with a rewind button; an undo button that can reset time after you make a terrible mistake.
Melissa Ford
#94. All my life I have battled the alarm clock, pummeling the snooze button over and over with mounting self-loathing until the shame is finally strong enough to lever me upright.
Isaac Marion
#95. I have learned that I must push the pause button occasionally and retreat into that private place in my soul where it is only me and God!
Peggy Toney Horton
#96. Whatever a man's age, he can reduce it several years by putting a bright-colored flower in his button-hole.
Mark Twain
#97. Most of what I say is complete truth. My edit button is broken.
Myra McEntire
#98. Xav tugged Yves off me and handed me the call button. You'll be needing this, Phee, when my irritating little squirt of a brother bothers you again. Just press and the nurses will come running. One of them looks like a pro-wrestler, so she'll make short work of him.
Joss Stirling
#99. air and the rain. Approaching the side of the car, I bend over and knock on the window on the driver's side. He has a pair of binoculars in his hand. As he presses the button to open the window, he tries to hide it out of sight but he's not quick enough. 'Sorry,' I say. 'Do you need any help?
Carla Vermaat
#100. She barely understands her dreams of belly button rings and other kind of things. Symbolic of change, but the thing that is strange, it that the changes occur, and now she's just a part of the herd.
Jack Johnson
