Pushing Your Buttons Quotes

#1. I don't like movies that are too manipulative. A lot of movies thrive on really pushing your buttons and making you hate the villain.

Michel Gondry

#2. Life is like an elevator, a lot of ups and downs. People pushing your buttons and getting jerked around.

LeCrae

#3. An (emotional) vampire goes in for the kill by stirring up your emotions. Pushing your buttons throws you off center, which renders you easier to drain. Of all the emotional types, empaths are often the most devestated.

Judith Orloff

#4. Now you're just being cruel.'
'I like pushing your buttons.'
'You'd enjoy it more if you undid them first.

Michelle Hodkin

#5. I never went to a psychologist or psychiatrist in my life. Never. You know, Italians are a little prejudiced against that kind of thing.

Francis Ford Coppola

#6. The thing I love about you the most, is that when you're sleeping, I can imagine what you will look like when you're dead.

Julieanne Lynch

#7. Insta-love never works, you know that.

Anne Eliot

#8. You can be intuitive when you've got a more expansive role. You can get into the poetry of telling the story rather than just pushing buttons.

Willem Dafoe

#9. I know I'm not the greatest singer or dancer, but that doesn't interest me. I'm interested in being provocative and pushing people's buttons.

Madonna Ciccone

#10. You could be a really great and fabulous person, but if your method of communication with a woman doesn't trigger her physical attraction by "pushing the right buttons," you will only ever be "just a friend" in her eyes.

Sahara Sanders

#11. Anything can be misinterpreted. People can look at Christ on a cross and think, This is an image of murder, this is violent, this has sexual imagery in it. And it just - I think it's my job as an artist to be out there pushing people's buttons and making them question everything.

Marilyn Manson

#12. And we've got to ask ourselves some very serious questions as to whether or not certain religious leaders, in terms of raising money - I hate to bring this up - are pushing hot buttons.

Tony Campolo

#13. I thought that all magic has its price.'
'Magic does,' Faey said. 'But let us consider this an exchange of knowledge. I'll tell you what you want to know and you'll tell me why you want to know it.

Patricia A. McKillip

#14. I am a great believer in not pushing each other's "buttons" just because we know where they are! That's part of trusting each other. We need to trust that our vulnerabilities and challenges are safe with the person we love.

Cathy Burnham Martin

#15. Hurts I have are my fault but I'm sure gonna learn from it and hopefully anyone reading this will too. the lesson: stay aware on a bicycle and look up the road in front of you at all times to make sure you can deal w/what's coming and the condition of the road you're gonna be rolling down!

Mike Watt

#16. He'd been so angry at her -always pushing his buttons, that girl. But then he'd taken her into his arms, and all that anger had blazed into a darker, hotly possessive need that had urged him to bend his head, bite down on the throbbing pulse in her neck, leave a mark.

Nalini Singh

#17. Let's just say there's only so much of life that can be taught by pushing a bunch of buttons and looking at a screen.

Katie Kacvinsky

#18. Rosa is pushing all the buttons.

Justine Larbalestier

#19. We can learn to trust our maternal selves and to have faith in the innate goodness and purity of our children - even when we feel overwhelmed and the kids are pushing all our buttons. we can support one another ... we can be understanding of each other and easier on ourselves.

Katrina Kenison

#20. Writers, good ones, don't tell stories.
Characters show stories.

Robert Newton Peck

#21. Road trips are fun. Come on. I'll let you control the music. I give you permission to put your hand on my knob." He laughed and I playfully hit him on the arm.
"There is no knob."
"Well, you are pretty good at pushing my buttons too.

Teresa Mummert

#22. There is no place on you I can't love, and love grants me entry ...

Eileen Wilks

#23. You'd better be careful. You might be mistaken for someone who's worried about me.

Susan Ee

#24. It's always been difficult to make a good record. To be perfectly honest with you, it's really about the person that's pushing the buttons. No matter what type of equipment you have, you still have to have a certain talent to be able to make a good record.

Dr. Dre

#25. I just need to do something new ... I've got the big remote control of life in my hands, and I'm ready to start pushing some buttons.

Cecelia Ahern

#26. Manet also had an argument with Degas, the end result being that they each returned paintings that they had previous given to each other.

Doris Lanier

#27. Has someone or something pushed your anxiety button? Answer it with prayer!

Evinda Lepins

#28. A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

William Bennett

#29. He spun round under her grip. She smelled so good, her touch so soft as she unhooked the buttons on his tunic. Pushing the shirt apart she frowned, her hands running over the thin scars through his tattoos. 'And you belong to him, too.

Jessica O'Toole

#30. In a way, you might say that David Duke is the son of Willie Horton. Duke is more overt, of course, but he's really just pushing the same buttons and sending the same coded messages that the Horton ads did so effectively for the Bush campaign last year.

Judd Rose

#31. I still think that I'm playing instruments, not just pushing buttons and there it goes. It's interactive and alive with the sound and the manipulation and it plays like instruments.

Ikue Mori

#32. I keep pushing buttons and trying to grow as a person and as a filmmaker.

Famke Janssen

#33. Humans cover themselves, and protect themselves, and when someone says, "You are pushing my buttons," it is not exactly true. What is true is that you are touching a wound in his mind, and he reacts because it hurts.

Miguel Ruiz

#34. Toxic people defy logic. Some are blissfully unaware of the negative impact that they have on those around them, and others seem to derive satisfaction from creating chaos and pushing other people's buttons.

Travis Bradberry

#35. Truly wealthy people develop the habit of "getting rich slow" rather than "getting rich quick." To assure this, they have two rules with regard to money. Rule number one: Don't lose money. Rule number two: If ever you feel tempted, refer back to rule number one, "don't lose money."

Brian Tracy

#36. The man upstairs is pushing the buttons, and if your name happens to be on that button, well, thank you.

Mario Andretti

#37. Everyone on the set has a mobile phone, and I found by pushing a few buttons, they could be programmed into different languages. I fixed Robbie's (Coltrane) to speak in Turkish.

Daniel Radcliffe

#38. Good music comes out of people playing together, knowing what they want to do and going for it. You have to sweat over it and bug it to death. You can't do it by pushing buttons and watching a TV screen.

Keith Richards