Buttons Quotes - Page 19

• Certain trifling flaws sit as disgracefully on a character of elegance as a ragged button on a court dress.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Character, Dresses, Flaws

  "Aphorisms on man. Translated from the original manuscript of the Rev. John Caspar Lavater, citizen of Zuric. ; [One line from Juvenal]" by Johann Kaspar Lavater, 1790.

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• [Hospitalized and pressing the nurse's button before dictating letters to her secretary:] This should assure us of at least forty-five minutes of undisturbed privacy.

  Dorothy Parker

  Nurse, Letters, Privacy

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• 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

  Sex, Men, Should Have

  "Why Men Are the Way They Are". Book by Warren Farrell, 1986.

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• If you read social media, you can see how immigration is such a hot-button debate and [a hotbed] of ignorance. You know there's guys that say immigrants come here, and they create so much crime and they take jobs. There's multiple sides to every story.

  George Lopez

  Jobs, Ignorance, Media

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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• "Community" came to be seen as a chat-group: you switch on as long as your pleasure lasts, then push another button and switch off. Very easy to go in and out, join and leave.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Long, Community, Groups

  Interview with Marcelo Dimentstein, Alberto Senderey, Andy Spokoiny and Shira Shnitzer, leatid.org. February 2009.

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• If we really want children to grow into independent and resourceful adults, we should stop pouring their milk as soon as they have learned to pour it themselves and stop fastening their buttons as soon as they can fasten them without help.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Independent, Adults

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• The declared meaning of a spoken sentence is only its overcoat, and the real meaning lies underneath its scarves and buttons.

  Peter Carey

  Real, Lying, Scarves

  1988 Oscar and Lucinda, ch.43,'Leviathan'.

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• When you saw the movie "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," that was Michael [Jackson]'s story write large. Born as an elderly person, Benjamin Button was, in the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel and in the film starring Brad Pitt, he dies as a newborn child. Michael Jackson's childhood was one of enormous, prodigious production.He was a child prodigy, he was a wunderkind.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Children, Writing, Elderly

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Men who marry for gratification, propagation or the matter of buttons or socks, must expect to cope with and deal in a certain amount of quibble, subterfuge, concealments, and double, deep-dyed prevarication.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Men, Matter, Subterfuge

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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• Dialogue is not just quotation. It is grimaces, pauses, adjustments of blouse buttons, doodles on a napkin, and crossings of legs

  Jerome Stern

  Legs, Napkins, Grimace

  Jerome Stern (2011). “Making Shapely Fiction”, p.14, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I have met Vladimir Putin, and I know his ambition will not be detoured by a gimmicky red, reset button.

  Carly Fiorina

  Ambition, Reset Button, Red

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• I just saw a girl who said she saw John Lennon walking down the street in New York wearing a button that said, "I love Paul.” She asked him: “Why are you wearing an 'I love Paul' button?”, and he said: “Because I love Paul.

  Harry Nilsson

  Girl, New York, Saws

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• The camera's dumb, it don't [sic] care who's pushing the button. It doesn't know.

  Garry Winogrand

  Dumb, Cameras, Care

  Source: www.zinzin.com

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• I'm a good craftsman and I can have this particular intention: let's say, I want a photograph that's going to push a certain button in an audience, to make them laugh or love, feel warm or hate or what - I know how to do this.

  Garry Winogrand

  Hate, Laughing, Want

  Source: www.zinzin.com

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• If you really think about it, hitting the snooze button in the morning doesn't even make sense. It's like saying, 'I hate getting up in the morning-so I do it over... and over... and over again.'

  Demetri Martin

  Morning, Hate, Thinking

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• Many people put a green button on their collar and feel good, just like a lot of people put an American flag on their lapels and feel patriotic. It's not enough.

  Frank Gehry

  Patriotic, People, Feel Good

  Interview with David Sheff, www.playboy.com. March 1, 2011.

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• Growing up in the days when you still had to punch buttons to make a telephone call, I could recall the numbers of all my close friends and family. Today, I'm not sure if I know more than four phone numbers by heart. And that's probably more than most.

  Joshua Foer

  Growing Up, Heart, Phones

  Joshua Foer (2011). “Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything”, p.100, Penguin

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• Hillary Clinton has gotten every foreign policy challenge wrong. Hitting the reset button with Vladimir Putin - recall that she called Bashar Al-Assad a positive reformer and then she opened an embassy and then later she said, over, and over, and over again, "Bashar Al-Assad must go." Although she wasn't prepared to do anything about it.

  Carly Fiorina

  Reset Button, Challenges, Hitting

  5th Republican debate transcript, annotated: Who said what and what it meant, www.washingtonpost.com. December 15, 2015.

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• 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

  Son, Two, Use

  "Matt Groening, Grabbing for Laughs in the Darkness". Interview with Steve Inskeep, www-s4.npr.org. July 26, 2007.

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• With couture you have faithfulness - people are faithful to you. In couture, you will see that the cut looks like a lace dress from a distance, but it's only when you get nearer you understand that it's layers of lace, hand stitched in a certain shape, all the work - the zips, the buttons, the hooks... it goes on.

  Riccardo Tisci

  Distance, Cutting, Hands

  Source: www.dazeddigital.com

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• There are similarities between being an editor and a tailor. Tailors have a vast supply of fabrics, buttons and thread at their disposal and put it together to make a whole. That's what an editor does - looks at society at a given time and pulls together the interesting aspects into a single issue each month.

  Graydon Carter

  Editors, Issues, Interesting

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• In the past, missionaries have traveled to far countries with the message of the gospel - with great hardship and often with the loss of life. In contrast, we can reach millions instantly from the comfort of our homes by merely hitting the 'send' button on our computers, or with iPads, or phones.

  Ray Comfort

  Country, Home, Loss

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• 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

  People, Challenges, Sometimes

  Interview With Calvin Klein, www.harpersbazaar.com. August 10, 2010.

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

  Salma Hayek

  Reset Button, Way, Wonderful

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• I suppose "giving without expecting anything in return" isn't something new, but it always pushes your happy button when you do it or see it.

  Misha Collins

  Giving, Return, Something New

  Interview with Gina Murdock, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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