The Button Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. A photograph is a moment - when you press the button, it will never come back.

Rene Burri

#6. 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

#7. Writers need to get over the fear of hitting the "publish" button.

Dan Alatorre

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. I want to push the fast-forward button until I get back to happy.

Terry McMillan

#12. 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

#13. The problem with the one button is that the one button shouldn't do the same thing for everyone,

Anonymous

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. The damned cats like pushing the reset button on my computer.

Adam Rifkin

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. 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

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

Chris Lytle

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. When I stub my toe it's like I pressed a button that plays all the curse words I know.

Demetri Martin

#27. 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

#28. If I've been indulging in rich foods, a cleanse is a wonderful way to hit the reset button.

Salma Hayek

#29. 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

#30. A lot of people think Formula One isn't a sport because everyone drives a car when they go to work in the morning. But we're pulling up to six G on a corner or during breaking, which is almost like being a fighter pilot. So we have to do a lot of work on our neck muscles.

Jenson Button

#31. We all get so caught up in the moment of what we're doing every day, it's hard to hit that reset button and get pulled away from all that and see life from a different perspective.

Tony Stewart

#32. Feel your connection with the Source of life through a simple touch of your belly button.

Ilchi Lee

#33. I take my dog to the vet a lot because he's old and sick, and I always step on the scale when I'm there. Let's just say shirts that were once button-able are no longer. I'm constantly being roasted by my wife.

Ike Barinholtz

#34. Writing it was the best part, but clicking the enter button was the most difficult.

Ali Shams

#35. I believe that if you want to be president of the United States, you run for president. You don't run for president with some eject button in the cockpit that allows you to go on an exit ramp if it doesn't work out.

Marco Rubio

#36. I've done a fair amount of that stuff ... when we did Lord of the Rings the transformation sequence from Smeagol to Gollum was a 19-hour make-up job. You have to have a kind of zen button that you press and allow the mind to be focused in a certain way.

Andy Serkis

#37. Every photograph that is made whether by one who considers himself a professional, or by the tourist who points his snapshot camera and pushes a button, is a response to the exterior world, to something perceived outside himself by the person who operates the camera.

Eliot Porter

#38. So painting your nails tonight, desperately alone?" Lucky guess on his part?
"Yes. Masturbating and crying into your pillow, Doctor Joshua?" He looks at the top button of my shirt.
"Yes. And don't call me that.

Sally Thorne

#39. 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

#40. 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

#41. Jeez, someone needs to push the reset button on this planet.

Libba Bray

#42. You should never hit the snooze button when life gives you a wake up call.

Rob Liano

#43. US government button specifications run to twenty-two pages. This fact on its own yields a sense of what it is like to design garments for the Army.

Mary Roach

#44. The room is in shocked silence. Can this really be true? Can the authorities kill off everyone at the press of a button?

Siobhan Davis

#45. 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

#46. Dear Madame Morgenstern,
As absurd as it sounds, I've been thinking of you since we parted. I want to take you into my arms, tell you a million things, ask you a million questions. I want to touch your throat and unbutton the pearl button at your neck

Julie Orringer

#47. If I could press a button and have all of Sequoia Capital on the Midas List, I would choose to do that over a honoring a single individual.

Douglas Leone

#48. And what a man he is. Tall, but not too tall. Five o'clock shadow. Late twenties, early thirties. Piercing blue eyes. Short, brown hair that juts forward, matching his angular face. He's wearing an untucked, button-down white shirt and dark-grey slacks. He looks disheveled in the best way possible.

Samantha Riley

#49. 'Le Mans' is the only racing movie that is totally realistic.

Jenson Button

#50. What goes down usually goes back up, if you're willing to be patient and don't hit the panic button.

Mark Mobius

#51. Since I have access to every, every crisis in the world because it's always blaring at me on cable television, that doesn't mean I have to worry about every one of them. This is also known as knowing where the off button is.

Eric Schmidt

#52. 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

#53. Travis was still asleep, surrounding me with both his arms and his legs. I maneuvered an arm free to reach over and pound the snooze button. Wiping my face, I looked over at him, sleeping soundly two inches from my face.

Jamie McGuire

#54. I haven't got the yacht any more. The cost of running it was crazy. But it was so much fun while I had it. I don't regret it.

Jenson Button

#55. And in his button-hole he stuck a narcissus, hoping it would attract Mary's notice, so that he might have the delight of giving it her.

Elizabeth Gaskell

#56. I eat till, honest, I felt every button on all my clo'es. The folks where we were stayin' were the old-fashioned hospitable kind; they didn't let you off till your jaws struck work and wouldn't wag no more.

Laura E. Richards

#57. 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

#58. If you're wearing a jacket, as I always am, the sweater vest always needs to be buttoned, with the exception of the bottom button. But if you're going sans jacket, you can leave it open.

Tim Gunn

#59. I'd rather be alone with the bills, she thought as she pushed the elevator button. At least you know where you stand.

Katherine Pancol

#60. Despite what you might guess, when monitoring your breathing, your body doesn't care whether you're inhaling enough oxygen. It cares only whether you're expelling enough carbon dioxide - that's the gas that sets off the panic button when you're suffocating.

Sam Kean

#61. If you die in an elevator make sure you press the UP button.

50 Cent

#62. I keep my weight low, although you need to be able to move your weight around the race car to change the balance. I'm 6ft and I'm 70kg so I haven't much fat on me.

Jenson Button

#63. We all drive differently and have different styles. For me I need a car I can develop beneath me and feel comfortable in. If the car feels neutral and unbalanced it doesn't work for me.

Jenson Button

#64. I think TV remotes should have a button that allows you to kill the person on the screen.

George Carlin

#65. In the Bob Hope Golf Classic, the participation of President Gerald Ford was more than enough to remind you that the nuclear button was at one stage at the disposal of a man who might have either pressed it by mistake or else pressed it deliberately in order to obtain room service.

Clive James

#66. All this technology has not changed the way NFL Films does business and our process. Yes, with one touch of a button now you reach millions of people but it is still the same approach that my father and I started out with.

Steve Sabol

#67. Until recently, the question was 'Why can't a woman be more like a man?' It should have been changed to 'Why can't both sexes be more like the best parts of each other?' Instead, the pendulum swung to the 1960s feminist lapel button Adam Was a First Draft. True enough. So are we all.

Warren Farrell

#68. The Internet, I'm trying to point out, is a kooks' paradise. Anybody with a keyboard and a modem can spread fear, loathing, and just plain asinine ideas among hundreds of thousands of people with the click of a button. Discouraging, but true.

David F. Emery

#69. Do you know how sexy you are when you dress in these suits? Especially when you button up your shirt, then slot in the cuff links. Watching you is like having a waking erotic dream."
Kaleb smiled inwardly. "Yes, I know.

Nalini Singh

#70. I could do it," Listen boasted. "Show me how and I could run the whole damn planet."
"You can't even reach the on button," said Cienfuegos.

Nancy Farmer

#71. Snoopy (musing on his rooftop): Good Grief! Is it November already? My life is going by too fast. I think someone pushed the "Fast Forward" button.

Charles M. Schulz

#72. 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

#73. 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

#74. You're the best," Rachel cheered. Her hands drifted to his chest and started tugging at the top button. "I am going to text her as soon as I am done with you," she winked, and then pushed him towards the bedroom.
- Liberty Stone, Crossing a Line

Liberty Stone

#75. I wanted this to be a movie on TV so I could press the off button and make it all go away.

Michelle Rowen

#76. I don't exactly fit well in leather pants, so I don't rock that look. I lost my hair a long time ago, so no hair-metal look, either. I had hair down to my belly button at one point, but I think that was the '90s.

Brian Posehn

#77. If someone was making a movie about F1 in the last six months, they wouldn't need to add a Hollywood ending. If they do make that movie, it's got to be 'The Curious Case Of Jenson Button,' where I've lived my life backwards. I'd like Johnny Depp to play me but he wouldn't be quite right.

Jenson Button

#78. Only true remorse and "Will you forgive me?" can press the reset button.

Andy Andrews

#79. I would change policy, bring back natural grass and nickel beer. Baseball is the belly-button of our society. Straighten out baseball, and you straighten out the rest of the world.

Bill Lee

#80. The intercom buzzes while you're changing your shirt. You push the Talk button: "Who is it?" "Narcotics squad. We're soliciting donations for children all over the world who have no drugs.

Jay McInerney

#81. Kylie watched as his shirttail upward, exposing a very hard abdomen. The hem of his shirt inched higher, and she took in the cutest inny belly button she'd ever seen. And then his chest. Solid. Hard. A few drops of water glistened against his skin. Hear heart beat to the sound of passion again.

C.C. Hunter

#82. The fate of the entire human race was now tied to these slender fingers. Without hesitation, Ye pressed the button.

Liu Cixin

#83. I need to develop a car and engineer a car in a position that feels comfortable for me, and I don't think anyone can do a better job than I can in that position. The problem for me is if I can't get the car there I do struggle more than some.

Jenson Button

#84. When irrational terror takes to itself the fiat of moral goodness somebody has to die ... No man lives who has not got a panic button, and when it is pressed by the clean white hand of moral duty, a certain murderous train is set in motion.

Arthur Miller

#85. A stack overflow error caused cabin fever and the reset button was Pattaya.

Owen Jones

#86. For me, triathlons were something that was down to me and my fitness. Now, I really enjoy the pain in the triathlon of chasing someone down. It's a bit like chasing down Nico Rosberg in the last few laps at Silverstone - it makes you feel alive.

Jenson Button

#87. Put the 'off' button on.

George W. Bush

#88. I guess the one thing that people don't know about me is, I had my belly button pierced but not anymore.

Joanne Froggatt

#89. There are major challenges, when it comes to making a film in the Arctic. When you're filming wildlife and that wildlife doesn't necessarily take direction, you can spend a lot of time waiting, where you're debating whether or not you should press the record button because it costs a lot of money.

Greg MacGillivray

#90. 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

#91. I think fans of the sport have a good understanding now of how fit Formula One drivers need to be.

Jenson Button

#92. Everything that is dead quivers. Not only the things of poetry, stars, moon, wood, flowers, but even a white trouser button glittering out of a puddle in the street ... Everything has a secret soul, which is silent more often than it speaks.

Wassily Kandinsky

#93. As I pressed the doorbell button it popped off the wall and hung by two colored cords. Obviously it didn't work, so I knocked.

Elle Klass

#94. Yeah, I'm the Brit who isn't Lewis Hamilton that woke up and realised he was good. I got that tag because I was young, flying around in jets and driving fast cars. I always took my driving seriously, but I suppose I enjoyed life ... But I'm not a playboy.

Jenson Button

#95. It's time to press the Reset button! Reset the vibration. Change your words to change the vibration.

Michael Losier

#96. 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

#97. 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

#98. Though our skin colors may be different, though our languages may be different, as we look at the belly button, the symbol of our ultimate connection, we should remember that we are one family that has come from the same Source of life.

Ilchi Lee

#99. The thing is, once something bad happens, there's no way to undo it. There's no erase button on life

H.M. Ward

#100. Getting bogged down in old stories stops the flow of learning by censoring our perceptions, making us functionally deaf and blind to new information. Once the replay button gets pushed, we no longer form new ideas or conclusions - the old ones are so cozy.

Martha Beck