Magic Button Quotes

#1. Everyone's so timid and afraid to insult anybody, but in the end, it's like we're all trying to please everyone. In the end, we please no one.

Olivia Munn

#2. You see the button with the guy with the tray, and you push it, AND HE ARRIVES WITH A SANDWICH! ... And you think: "Yes! Yes! I control sandwich monkey! I live in magic land, magic land, magic land"

Dylan Moran

#3. Sex is like an atom bomb. A potent weapon which fascinates and frightens. We're afraid to let it loose, yet we all have our finger on the button.
Zeena Schreck, Cuir Underground: Sado-Magic for Satan Interview, 1998

Zeena Schreck

#4. O Alaah, i haven't worshiped you because of lusting of heaven or fearing of hill. I've worshiped you because you deserve to be worshiped.

Ali Ibn Abi Talib

#5. A very beautiful honey blonde, Sharon Tate, looked into the eyes of the man who the evidence shows just four and a half months later would order her tragic and violent death.

Vincent Bugliosi

#6. If you have people do some magic, impossible thing by stroking a talisman or praying to a tree, it's fantasy; if they do the same thing by pressing a button or climbing inside a machine, it's science fiction.

Orson Scott Card

#7. On the other hand, for the whole human being who wills, feels, and represents, external reality is given simultaneously and with as much certitude as his own self.

Wilhelm Dilthey

#8. For those who seek to understand it, death is a highly creative force. The highest spiritual values of life can originate from the thought and study of death.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#9. My little self-analysis is that consumer technology is the closest thing we have to magic. You push a button and something happens at your command. The things that get me fired up the most have always been the things that seem the most magical.

David Pogue

#10. For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean. 9. Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts.

Anonymous

#11. There is therefore a tremendous mystery in the fact that God may be united with man and the man with God.

Michael Servetus

#12. I've learned that by doing things, things get done

Ray Bradbury

#13. Daydreaming of the past and longing for the future may provide comfort but will not take the place of living in the present.

Thomas S. Monson

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. Within chaos lies opportunity.

P.C. Cast

#17. Fiction is burdened for me with a sense of duty.

John Updike

#18. I mean, you tell me I got a magic button up my ass that'll make me come my brains out, of course I'm curious. But I'm never gonna go there, because gross.

Amy Jo Cousins

#19. I am myself an empiric in natural philosophy, suffering my faith to go no further than my facts. I am pleased, however, to see the efforts of hypothetical speculation, because by the collisions of different hypotheses, truth may be elicited and science advanced in the end.

Thomas Jefferson

#20. Millions of American families affected by debilitating diseases have new hope today after the U.S. House passed legislation to support potentially life-saving stem cell research.

Nancy Johnson