Buttonhole Quotes

#1. Mrs. Stubbs, and she pointed dramatically to the life-size head and shoulders of a burly man with a dead white rose in the buttonhole of his coat that made you think of a curl of cold mutting fat. Just below, in silver

Katherine Mansfield

#2. The business of funding digging journalists is important to encourage. It cannot be replaced by bloggers who don't have access to politicians, who don't have easy access to official documents, who aren't able to buttonhole people in power.

Andrew Marr

#3. What came to me as a revelation was the use of rhythm in developing an overall structure in music.

Philip Glass

#4. Remember the metallic sound and taste of all of it. And the outrage.

Shirley Jackson

#5. People moved in across the street and are immediately cutting down a huge tree. Their toothbrushes will know my buttonhole.

Rob Delaney

#6. For outdoors, he wears a mantle fastened at the shoulder with a clasp or chain; although buttons are sometimes used for decoration, the buttonhole has not been invented.

Joseph Gies

#7. Management," according to the neorealists, means maintaining the conflict as "a low intensity confrontation" - which means the loss of local, human lives, without any damage to the mediating superpower.

Noam Chomsky

#8. A really well-made buttonhole is the only link between Art and Nature.

Oscar Wilde

#9. I am utterly, consummately intense, wearing sunflowers and poppies and dahlias in my buttonhole.

Harry Graf Kessler

#10. I just lost a buttonhole.

Steven Wright

#11. But at other times, I sit here reading in the afternoon, a myrtle in my buttonhole, and there are such beautiful passages in the book that I think I have become beautiful myself.

Lydia Davis

#12. Don't you think I was made for you? I feel like you had me ordered - and I was delivered to you - to be worn. I want you to wear me, like a watch-charm or a buttonhole bouquet.

Zelda Fitzgerald

#13. Men grow to the stature to which they are stretched when they are young.

Antony Jay

#14. If you miss the first buttonhole, you will not succeed in buttoning up your coat.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#15. Men really prefer reasonably attractive women; they go after the sensational ones to impress other men.

Mignon McLaughlin

#16. Religion was (is) always steps ahead of science; because religion lies and science can't.

M.F. Moonzajer

#17. It does not matter how many novel's you have out there. Even if it is one, you have accomplished something that will last forever.

J.C. Brennan

#18. Once you have missed the first buttonhole, you'll never manage to button up.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#19. [T]he history of science has proved that fundamental research is the lifeblood of individual progress and that the ideas that lead to spectacular advances spring from it.

Edward Victor Appleton

#20. The people who influence us most are not those who buttonhole us and talk to us, but those who live their lives like the stars in heaven and the lilies in the field, perfectly simply and unaffectedly. Those are the lives that mould

Oswald Chambers

#21. Reciter and listener of the Qur'an are alike in prize and reward.

Ali Ibn Abi Talib

#22. From "Famous"
I want to be famous the in the way a pulley is famous,/or a buttonhole,not because it did anything spectacular,/but because it never forgot what it could do.

Naomi Shihab Nye

#23. Two armies are two bodies which meet and try to frighten each other.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#24. I don't want to be married. I don't know - it sounds crazy, but in my mind, it's all connected. You get married, you have kids, you grow old, then you die. Somehow, it seems to me, if you didn't get married, you wouldn't die.

John Burns

#25. When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole.

William Makepeace Thackeray

#26. In November I received a ransom note telling me exactly what to do if ever I wished to see my uncle Theobald alive again. I do not have an Uncle Theobald, but I wore a pink carnation in my buttonhole and ate nothing but salads for the entire month anyway. In

Neil Gaiman

#27. I would love to be able to read minds. How cool would it be to get inside peoples' heads and figure out what they're thinking? I guess that's a good and a bad thing.

Kelli Berglund

#28. Never a button without a buttonhole.

Coco Chanel

#29. I think the idea of the lone tormented artist - which we can apply to others - I think that it needs to be revisited. Jack Kerouac needs to be seen in the context of a lot of other artistic activity.

Anne Waldman

#30. The audacious telegraph operator took the flower from his buttonhole and said to her: I give you my life in this rose.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez