Top 100 The Button Quotes
#1. A photograph is a moment - when you press the button, it will never come back.
Rene Burri
#2. When I reached for the button on her jeans, she smacked my hands away. "I think I can do that," she said. "Are you sure?" I teased. "Because I'm here at your service and taking your jeans off is something I feel I'd be exceptionally wonderful at." Her lips twitched. "I'm sure you would be.
J. Lynn
#3. I want to press the button on her that controls that noise, that turns it up, that makes it music in my ears.
Lauren Blakely
#4. Sometimes, I'd take shots without aiming, just to see what happened. I'd rush into crowds - bang! bang! ... It must be close to what a fighter feels after jabbing and circling and getting hit, when suddenly there's an opening, and bang! Right on the button. It's a fantastic feeling.
William Klein
#5. When you hug someone you want it to be a masterpiece of connection, the way the button on his coat will leave the imprint of a planet in my cheek when I walk away.
Tess Gallagher
#6. Having choices is the problem. Everything would be easier if someone told me what to do: push the button, stop seeing Marcus, get over Jesse. The problem with choices is that I usually make the wrong ones
Shaun David Hutchinson
#7. In the business world, allegations of accounting irregularities is tantamount to yelling fire in a crowded theater, except, today, in our Internet world, instead of people running for the exit signs, they just push the button on their computer.
Jeffrey Skilling
#8. I don't take orders from you." Then Skelly looked out the landing bay entrance at Cynda. He winked. "I saved you, sweetheart!" He pushed the button.
John Jackson Miller
#9. 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
#10. People waiting for an elevator don't know what to do, standing with strangers. There is nothing to do. Its an uneasy time. Some press the button repeatedly as though it would help.
Andy Rooney
#11. She nodded, taking his pistol and showing him the button to release the empty clip.
"Where did you learn how to shoot?" he asked.
"I teach high school.
J.A. Konrath
#12. The fate of the entire human race was now tied to these slender fingers. Without hesitation, Ye pressed the button.
Liu Cixin
#13. It's Christmas at Ground Zero The button has been pressed The radio Just let us know That this is not a test Everywhere the atom bombs are droppin It's the end of all humanity No more time for last minute shoppin' It's time to face your final destiny.
Charles Sumner
#14. It's funny how you take things like electricity for granted. You hit the button that turns everything on and it just comes on. You get used to that and it just works every single time. So what happens when it suddenly doesn't? things very well could get messy.
Robin Burks
#15. Never hold anyone by the button or the hand in order to be heard out; for if people are unwilling to hear you, you had better hold your tongue than them.
Lord Chesterfield
#16. I have a Keurig coffee maker, which is really kind of a luxury. It was given to me by an ex. I realized when I'm feeling sentimental, I'll gently, tenderly press the button. Then when I remember he dumped me, I punch it.
Mo Rocca
#17. 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
#18. He releases the button on my coat with the snap of his fingers. The traitorous garment flips open, as if to say Help yourself, mister!
Sally Thorne
#19. There was pie on the table when Tugs returned. Pie in the Button family meant trouble.
Anne Ylvisaker
#20. Design isn't crafting a beautiful, textured button with breathtaking animation. It's figuring out if there's a way to get rid of the button altogether.
Edward Tufte
#21. I'm not going anywhere until you hear me out."
Oh, please no. Anything except having to listen to her lecture. I push the button that calls the nurse.
"Can we help you, Alex?" a voice bellows through the speaker.
"I'm bein' tortured.
Simone Elkeles
#22. If humans weren't here and we didn't care about anything that lives here, if this were a video game, I'd push the button and see what happens, because it'd be really exciting; but it's not a video game.
Richard Alley
#23. When I get to my room, the first thing I do is punch the button that operates the blind over the window. The room dims. Good. I want darkness. ~Amy
Beth Revis
#24. I thought you were disgusted by the people that come to my club." "They're still people." He presses the button again. "If you go outside, you will be killed. If you make noise, you will be sent outside. Don't piss me off." Just like that, Chester's goes completely silent.
Karen Marie Moning
#25. But now we got weapons
Of the chemical dust
If fire them we're forced to
Then fire them we must
One push of the button
And a shot the world wide
And you never ask questions
When God's on your side
Bob Dylan
#26. He couldn't get enough control to push the button. Suddenly there was a clank and a clanging and the squeal of metal above him and he looked up. The hatch door was closing.
James Dashner
#27. She pushed the button and like a miracle her head filled with the sound of Jerry Trupiano's voice ... and more importantly, with the sounds of Fenway Park. She was sitting out here in the darkening, drippy woods, lost and alone, but she could hear thirty thousand people. It was a miracle.
Stephen King
#28. For half a century photography has been the "art form" of the untalented. Obviously some pictures are more satisfactory than others, but where is credit due? To the designer of the camera? to the finger on the button? to the law of averages?
Gore Vidal
#29. Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.
Alfred Hitchcock
#30. If my father could have sat up in bed and said goodbye, I'd have pressed the button. I wouldn't have been able to see for crying, but I would have considered that a duty.
Terry Pratchett
#31. He could feel the Great Iron War coming to an end now, but he no longer had his finger on the button. The curtains of the world were about to close, and the play of life would soon be over. There would be no applause.
Dean F. Wilson
#32. Hello, IT ... Have you tried turning it off and on again? ... OK, well, the button on the side. Is it glowing? ... Yeah, you need to turn it on ... Err, the button turns it on ... Yeah, you do know how a button works, don't you? ... No, not on clothes ... I'm sorry, are you from the past?
Graham Linehan
#33. What is technology?" Cian pulled his brother inside, pushed the button for the next floor. "It's another god.
Nora Roberts
#34. I jumped out of the way and Monique skidded across the floor like a drunk monkey on a skateboard and landed face-first in the puke. I hoped that popping sound was just the button on her halter top and not an imploded implant. That was a mess I wasn't about to clean up.
Barbra Annino
#35. not a portal back to Danville. He pressed the button again and again
Megan E. Bryant
#36. As anyone who has covered the company for any length of time knows, Yahoo's record on major decision-making has been akin to a hippie commune - a lot of wrangling internally in a culture where everyone seems to have a voice and a reticence to push the button to launch.
Kara Swisher
#37. Your cousin Maureen just got a job at the button factory. They're probably still hiring.
Helen Plum
Janet Evanovich
#38. The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a philosophical hour, and thus a melancholy hour.
Ray Bradbury
#39. 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
#40. 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
#41. 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
#43. There is a real split today between those who push the button and those who do the dying.
Dale Spender
#44. I almost went to bed
without remembering
the four white violets
I put in the button-hole
of your green sweater
and how i kissed you then
and you kissed me
shy as though I'd
never been your lover
Leonard Cohen
#45. I get as much fun as the next man from whaling the ball as hard as I can and catching it squarely on the button. But from sad experience I learned not to try this in a round that meant anything.
Bobby Jones
#46. Chris reached for the button to raise the window, as if a thin layer of glass could ever protect him from Beckett.
Debra Anastasia
#47. Orgasm for women like coal( that takes lot of time to get heat) , and men like microwave..just push the button
Anshu
#48. Guys like you would try to shag the button hole in a fur coat.
Poppet
#49. Reached up to push the button that released liquid morphine into his veins.
Orna Ross
#50. 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
#51. 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
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. 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
#55. 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
#56. Bellona? is all the Sovereign can say before he presses the button.
Pierce Brown
#57. 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
#58. There should be a disconnect button you can push when someone leaves: you've fucked me over; therefore I no longer love you. I'm not asking for the button to be connected to an ejector seat that removes them from the universe, just one small button that removes them from your heart.
Cath Crowley
#60. (to Foaly) Captain Short's life is in danger, so push the button before I climb that tower and push it with your face!
Eoin Colfer
#61. Can we all admit that the sound of a kid squealing, even if it's with joy, sounds like squealing? I can angrily press the button on an air horn or I can press the button on an air horn with a sense of carefree fun and either way it sounds like an air horn.
Jen Kirkman
#62. Inside the mirrored elevator, Mulch used a telescopic pointer to push P for the penthouse. For the first few months he had jumped to reach the button, but that was undignified behavior for a millionaire. And besides, he was certain that Art could hear the thumping from the security desk.
Eoin Colfer
#63. If you can't make the image bigger or more important than what you see, then don't push the button
Ruth Bernhard
#64. It still, after all these years, puts frost into my blood to remember that men like LeMay and Powers had their fingers so close to the button.
Mal Peet
#65. I'm guessing you thought I was way off on your political philosophy but right on the button about the other two. Just think about that for a while.
John Scalzi
#67. The source of peace is within us; so also the source of war. And the real enemy is within us, and not outside. The source of war is not the existence of nuclear weapons or other arms. It is the minds of human beings who decide to push the button and to use those arms out of hatred, anger or greed.
Dalai Lama
#68. 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
#69. I didn't shoot any guns then or when we did the scene with Uncle Charlie [Matthew Goode] and Evie [Nicole Kidman] in the hall. I sort of pressed the button but there were no blanks or anything in there because I think it was always going to cut.
Mia Wasikowska
#70. Prolific irony - For 8 years, the finger on the button that could end the world belonged to a president who couldn't pronounce the word nuclear.
T. Rafael Cimino
#71. With one hand she popped the button on my pants. She dropped to her knees. I got hard instantly, knowing what was coming next.
Me.
Karina Halle
#72. Photography is the art of not pushing the button.
Frank Horvat
#73. Is the button white or orange or green or yellow? Does it say 'sell', or 'sell now', or 'on sale' or 'for sale'? You test, you test, you test and most of the ideas you try fail and so I would argue I failed my way to success.
Fabrice Grinda
#74. Press the button, pump the water, build the pressure, push the piston, press the button. It's the perfect job.
Tori Amos
#75. Life is a presentation on slideshow one moment it ends and we just press the button for to quit the slideshow!
Deyth Banger
#76. I most resemble Benjamin Button. I evolve. I attach myself to the heartbeat of whatever is going on at that particular time, or I just chart a new path.
J. B. Smoove
#77. To use an electronics analogy, closing a book on a bookmark is like pressing the Stop button, whereas when you leave the book facedown, you've only pressed Pause.
Anne Fadiman
#78. You're pulling 4-5G for a lot of the corners around the lap. We build up lactic acid because there are a lot of vibrations in the car, and you have to have strong legs to hit the brake pedal. We need to be fit to do every lap at 100%.
Jenson Button
#79. The bravest thing you'll ever do is walk into a booth every few years, where no one can see you, and press a button, to say which of two slave-masters you'd rather be owned by.
Larken Rose
#80. This all came of a conversation I had with [John] Steinbeck once when we were standing in a men's room somewhere. Steinbeck asked me why I didn't play the banjo any more and I told him that went out with the high-button shoes.
Eddie Condon
#81. Writers need to get over the fear of hitting the "publish" button.
Dan Alatorre
#82. The thing that was most interesting to me was getting my first prints back from the printer and realizing photography doesn't end with the click of a button, it starts there. Printing is so exciting.
Bryan Adams
#83. Do you know how much power I have over you? Yes, you, the one just sitting there hitting the f5 button day in and day out!
Andrew Hussie
#84. I want to push the fast-forward button until I get back to happy.
Terry McMillan
#85. I've always thought you should be able to freeze time. This way you could hit the Pause button at a really good point in your life so that nothing changes
Jennifer Niven
#86. The problem with the one button is that the one button shouldn't do the same thing for everyone,
Anonymous
#87. If I could have a Barbie body, which has no cellulite, I totally would. I would like to have a flatter stomach, but that won't happen either. That is never going to happen. No matter how much weight I lose, my stomach, below the belly button, always pooches out.
Holly Madison
#88. I hit the red END button on the phone. The word itself mocks me. Have I really destroyed any chance to be with Olivia? Do I really care if I have?
The answers are: I don't know and yes. In that order.
M. Leighton
#89. The damned cats like pushing the reset button on my computer.
Adam Rifkin
#90. I'm very happy to say goodbye to the three-button suits. I hate three-button suits. Some people can pull them off, but they're legitimately really, really skinny. Unfortunately, the only people who actually wear them are, like, Mr. Monopoly, and people like that.
Rich Sommer
#91. I would have done anything for an old fashioned phone right about now. Instead I have to suffice with pushing the End Call button really hard
Melissa Pearl
#92. When you think about Uber and Airbnb and the other companies that are turning things upside down, Uber isn't big 'cause they ran a lot of ads. They're big because someone took out their iPhone and said to their friend, watch this, and pressed a button and a car pulled up.
Seth Godin
#93. The least amount of buttons [in suit], the better. If you have to go with three, you can go three. But all that eight-button stuff? Nuh-uh, not a fan.
Chris Paul
#94. Check out the mouse on your computer the 2 button can be used as a "1" and as a "2" button which will mean it can do the both actions, so why do we have "1" and "2" as a buttons on the mouse??
Deyth Banger
#95. Bad sales managers push two buttons: 'more' and 'panic.' Great sales managers have one more button to push: the 'how'.
Chris Lytle
#96. I used to think the 109th bead was an emergency spare. Like the extra button on a fancy sweater, or the youngest son in a royal family.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#97. When I stub my toe it's like I pressed a button that plays all the curse words I know.
Demetri Martin
#98. When you read a book [The Hunger Games], you create that tonal bandwidth. You set a tone for yourself, as you're reading it, in which everything exists within the world of your imagination. In the book, it's great when she can push a button and food comes up, as per your order.
Nina Jacobson
#99. If I've been indulging in rich foods, a cleanse is a wonderful way to hit the reset button.
Salma Hayek
#100. One of the reasons for putting yourself on the line, is that life is not simply treading water ... I always felt that once you reach a certain point, you have to try and move ahead.
Dick Button
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