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• I am now a mother and a grandmother, and I do not recall that I have ever ignored the claims of the nomadic button and the ceaseless call for sympathy, and the greatest demand on time and patience. My children and their children have been my closest thought, but from the first days of dawning individuality, I have longed unceasingly to make pictures of people... to make likenesses that are biographies, to bring out in each photograph the essential temperament that is called, soul, humanity.

  Gertrude Kasebier

  Mother, Children, People

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• When I'm looking for hot button answers to tough questions, I don't look to congressman or my mayor. I say, 'What would Miss U.S.A. have to say about this?'

  Dane Cook

  Tough Questions, Missing, Hot

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• The wrap dress is the most traditional form of dressing: It's like a robe, it's like a kimono, it's like a toga. It doesn't have buttons or zippers. What made it different was that it was jersey; therefore, it was close to the body and it was a print.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Zippers, Dresses, Different

  "Diane von Furstenberg On Wrap Dresses And The Joys Of Aging Gracefully". Interview with Amanda Christine Miller, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 28, 2008.

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• Reese Witherspoon is as cute as a button on Raggedy Ann's overalls, but irresistible raw sex appeal is not one of her qualities.

  Roger Ebert

  Cute, Sex, Quality

  Roger Ebert (2012). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2013: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.597, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• I've lived through deaths in my family and I've lived through separations in my family so those are the big ones. Those are the ones that press the biggest buttons in human beings' lives.

  Charlotte Rampling

  Separation, My Family, Bigs

  "Charlotte Rampling Talks Taking on '45 Years'". Interview with Julie Kosin, www.harpersbazaar.com. December 22, 2015.

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• When it kind of went to 'Street Fighter', where you had to push 13 buttons with all 13 of your fingers and ripped the spine out of somebody, you know, violent games lost the women. Complexity lost the casual gamer.

  Nolan Bushnell

  Games, Fighter, Gamer

  "Pong: The Ping Heard 'Round the World". Interview with Liane Hansen, www.npr.org. December 2, 2007.

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• 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

  Book, Looks, Rooms

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• I bargain now. I offer buttons for his love.

  Leonard Cohen

  His Love, Offers, Bargains

  Leonard Cohen (2010). “Book of Mercy”, p.1, McClelland & Stewart

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• There is no snooze button on life - Tara Daniels

  Jill Shalvis

  Snooze Button

  Jill Shalvis (2015). “Lucky Harbor Collection 1: Simply Irresistible, The Sweetest Thing, Head Over Heels”, p.194, Hachette UK

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• Trying to seduce Alec at all was a waste of time; he came preseduced anyway. Like a microwave entrée. You pressed his buttons, and he got hot.

  Jennifer Crusie

  Trying, Hot, Waste

  Jennifer Crusie (2010). “Trust Me on This”, p.198, Bantam

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• I'll never understand how a man can live his life With his finger on the self-destruct button, Holding it there day after day, Blinded by an obsession to press it But lacking the conviction to do even that.

  Neal Shusterman

  Men, Self, Obsession

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• It's a long story. Want a refill?" "No, let's start the steak. Where's the button?" "Right here." "Well, push it." "Me? You offered to cook." "Ben Caxton, I will lie here and starve before I will get up to push a button six inches from your finger" "As you wish." He pressed the button. "But don't forget who cooked dinner.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Lying, Long, Wish

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.29, Penguin

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• 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

  Book, Use, Analogies

  Anne Fadiman (2011). “Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader”, p.39, Macmillan

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• Henry, this isn't about us. I mean it is, but they don't define you by the button you wear. They define you by what you do, by what your actions say about you. And coming here, despite your parents, says a lot to them- and me. And they're Americans first. They don't see you as the enemy. They see you as a person.

  Jamie Ford

  Mean, Parent, Enemy

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• Long ago in China, knot-makers tied string into buttons and frogs, and rope into bell pulls. There was one knot so complicated that it blinded the knot-maker. Finally an emperor outlawed this cruel knot, and the nobles could not order it anymore. If I had lived in China, I would have been an outlaw knot-maker.

  Maxine Hong Kingston

  Long Ago, Order, Rope

  FaceBook post by Maxine Hong Kingston from Dec 10, 2012

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• I've missed you, Sebastian." "Have you, love?" He unfastened the buttons of her robe, the light eyes glittering with heat as her skin was revealed. "What part did you miss the most?" "Your mind," she said, and smiled at his expression. "I was hoping for a far more depraved answer than that." "Your mind is depraved," she told him solemnly. He gave a husky laugh. "True.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Eye, Light, Expression

  Lisa Kleypas (2008). “A Wallflower Christmas: A Novel”, p.157, Macmillan

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• Many of the male faeries had their shirts unbuttoned and chests bare. (How’s this for freaky: no nipples or belly buttons.)

  Kiersten White

  Males, Nipples, Shirts

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• Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything. Yes, murmured Lord Henry, settling his button-hole in his coat; and when they grow older they know it.

  Oscar Wilde

  People, Lord Henry, Coats

  Oscar Wilde (2005). “Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.36, Prestwick House Inc

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• The reason I want you to put a shirt on is, well, because, um..." "You've never seen a guy with his shirt off?" "Ha, ha. Very funny. Believe me, you don't have anything I haven't seen before." "Wanna bet?" he says, then moves his hands to the button on his jeans and pops it open. Isabel walks in at that exact moment. "Whoa, Alex. Please keep your pants on.

  Simone Elkeles

  Believe, Moving, Hands

  Simone Elkeles (2011). “Perfect Chemistry”, p.139, Simon and Schuster

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• Miss Leefolt sigh, hang up the phone like she just don't know how her brain gone operate without Miss Hilly coming over to push the Think buttons.

  Kathryn Stockett

  Thinking, Phones, Missing

  Kathryn Stockett (2009). “The Help”, p.204, Penguin

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• It seems to be extensively believed by photographers that meanings are to be found in the world much in the way rabbits are found in downs, and all that is required is the talent to spot them and the skill to shoot them... But those moments of truth for which the photographic opportunist waits, finger on the button, are as great a mystification as the notion of autonomous creativity.

  Victor Burgin

  Creativity, Skills, Waiting

  Victor Burgin, Alexander Streitberger (2009). “Situational Aesthetics: Selected Writings by Victor Burgin”, p.64, Leuven University Press

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• A photograph is a moment when you press the button. It will never come back.

  Rene Burri

  Moments, Photograph, Presses

  "Photographer René Burri's best shot". Interview with Andrew Pulver, www.theguardian.com. March 24, 2010.

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• Photography is the art of not pushing the button.

  Frank Horvat

  Photography, Art, Pushing

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• And so everything I see in this world, it all moves backward and forward at the same time, like a black-smith's bellows, like everything in my press, turning into its opposite at the command of the red and green buttons, and that's what makes the world go round.

  Bohumil Hrabal

  Moving, Opposites, Black

  Bohumil Hrabal (1992). “Too Loud a Solitude”, p.35, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I'm not talking about a "show me other walls of this thing" button, I mean a "stumble" button for wallbase.

  William Wordsworth

  Wall, Mean, Talking

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