Don't Push My Buttons Quotes

#1. I tell you, mister, if there's anything good about being a hot-tempered bitch, it's knowing right well what buttons to push in others seeing as they're the same ones what get your own back up.

J.D. Jordan

#2. I like to say what I think, and if it happens to push buttons, sorry.

Miranda Lambert

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. I know everything that you can do with digital processing and digital editing inside and out, but I absolutely refuse to push the buttons and don't even want to know how to load and unload the files.

Tom Scholz

#6. 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

#7. And a six-week cap on the relationship was perfect. He could enjoy the getting-to-know-you sex and the know-you-well-enough-to-push-the-right-buttons sex, but be gone before the I'm-falling-in-love-with-you-Mitch sex.

Shannon Stacey

#8. Parents know how to push your buttons because, hey, they sewed them on.

Camryn Manheim

#9. You see these actor/director relationships in the celebrity world and you understand why. The director knows which buttons to push and it makes it so much more familiarized.

Michelle Glick

#10. It's sometimes said that I'm rebellious and I do things to push people's buttons, but I just like the challenge.

Marc Jacobs

#11. Many of us think in terms in parental determinism: 'If I push all the right buttons my kids are going to turn out OK.' I want to instill in myself and my people a wonderful dose, not of carelessness, but of God's sovereignty. He knows the hairs on your kids' heads.

Kevin DeYoung

#12. Miss Leefolt sigh, hang up the phone like she just don't know how her brain gone operate without Miss Hilly coming over to push the Think buttons.

Kathryn Stockett

#13. I have no connections here; only gusty collisions,
rootless seedlings forced into bloom, that collapse.
...
I am the Visiting Poet: a real unicorn,
a wind-up plush dodo, a wax museum of the Movement.
People want to push the buttons and see me glow.

Marge Piercy

#14. He's a bully. I love bullies. They have such big, shiny red buttons to push.

Carrie Vaughn

#15. Push my buttons, and I'll push you off a bridge.

Karen Quan

#16. If you can't make the image bigger or more important than what you see, then don't push the button

Ruth Bernhard

#17. Rap is rock 'n' roll. Rock is when you push the buttons in the system; when you say, I'm not going along with what you're saying. That's rock, whether it's done with guitars, or it's done with just beats.

Ice-T

#18. When it kind of went to 'Street Fighter', where you had to push 13 buttons with all 13 of your fingers and ripped the spine out of somebody, you know, violent games lost the women. Complexity lost the casual gamer.

Nolan Bushnell

#19. Our job is unconditional love. The job of everyone else in our life is to push our buttons.

Byron Katie

#20. Imagine what Masaccio or Leonardo would have done if they had an instrument with which they could point, push a button, and get an image.

Thomas Roma

#21. There's a classic element that all good Disney movies have. It really comes down to the storytelling, I think. It manages to push all of these buttons inside of us; there's a sentimentality.

Mandy Moore

#22. You don't push the button that says "Now I will write something that resonates in time." You don't know. It's what happens after a play is finished.

John Guare

#23. It was actually a relief for me to play an actor who was scared, who didn't know where everything was, who didn't know what buttons to push, and for me to be able to play all that.

Sigourney Weaver

#24. 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

#25. All photography is Pop, and all photographers are crazy ... they feel guilty since they don't have to do very much - just push a button.

Andy Warhol

#26. 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

#27. The conundrum that I face on a daily basis is that I have two sons who have grown up watching 'The Simpsons,' so they know exactly what buttons to push. They know how Bart irritates Homer, and they use these lines against me to tell me that I'm not funny anymore.

Matt Groening

#28. Children are the first thing I see in the morning and the last thing I see at night. It hurts me to be away from them for a few hours. It really does. I love them and they're girls, so they know how to push my buttons. But I've learned a lot and I have to thank my wife for that.

Sylvester Stallone

#29. Our siblings push buttons that cast us in roles we felt sure we had let go of long ago - the baby, the peacekeeper, the caretaker, the avoider ... It doesn't seem to matter how much time has elapsed or how far we've traveled.

Jane Mersky Leder

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

Kacey Musgraves

#31. Push the buttons. Pull the levers. Pretty soon, reality just flows off and away.

Haruki Murakami

#32. Will I like it Jake? In your place?'
'I hope so, hon.'
'Is it very different?'
I smiled. 'People pay more for gasoline and have more buttons to push. Otherwise, it's about the same.

Stephen King

#33. The truth is that I'm an idiot. I am. I don't do things by the rules sometimes. I say things that I probably shouldn't say. I push buttons. I deserve to be made fun of. And I feel like, as soon as you can make fun of something, it instantly removes the fear.

Ashton Kutcher

#34. I knew Knotcher was trying to push my buttons. Unfortunately, he'd pushed the big red one first.

Ernest Cline

#35. A label's typical plan would be to put something out that's safer and get fans, and then push buttons, but my idea is to push buttons first, scare off the people who are gonna be scared off, and then the right people will like you for who you really are, and stay with you.

Kacey Musgraves

#36. The faith of Christ offers no buttons to push for quick service. The new order must wait the Lord's own time, and that is too much for the man in a hurry. He just gives up and becomes interested in something else.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#37. Bad sales managers push two buttons: 'more' and 'panic.' Great sales managers have one more button to push: the 'how'.

Chris Lytle

#38. I wanted to play with death, like a child with a new toy, I wanted to push all the buttons and see what would happen.

Holly Hood

#39. You can push my buttons all you want. Just don't pull any of my levers.

Carroll Bryant

#40. ...we eat not so much for pleasure as we do to ward off an awful feeling...The fear of hunger is deeply rooted, and food manufacturers know well how to push the buttons that evoke this fear.

Michael Moss

#41. I learned at an early age that using the third person will push some buttons.

Craig Kilborn

#42. I think kids like chaos, in an interesting way. I think kids like to push buttons in adults. They like to antagonize and cause trouble. I think it's the kid-like spirit that kids respond to.

Jason Lee

#43. Not that incentives are always so easy to figure out. Different types of incentives - financial, social, moral, legal, and others - push people's buttons in different directions, in different magnitudes. An incentive that works beautifully in one setting may backfire in another.

Anonymous

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

Robin Williams

#45. Some people like to push my buttons!!! I just wish they would give them back ...

Neil Leckman

#46. Behind every powerful man is a woman who knows how to push his buttons. Good

Robert Bryndza

#47. Some things just push a man's buttons. This goes beyond what we say-and into how we say it.

Shaunti Feldhahn