Buttons Quotes - Page 21

• Negotiating techniques do not work all that well with kids, because in the middle of a negotiation, they will say something completely unrelated such as, 'You know what? I have a belly button!' and completely throw you off guard.

  Robert Foster Bennett

  Kids, Technique, Negotiation

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• Okay, okay, okay. I understood that pushing the elevator button over and over again would not make the elevator appear sooner. But I couldn't help myself

  James Patterson

  Pushing, Helping, Elevators

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• The moth settled onto the curtain and sat still. It was an astonishing creature, with black and white wings patterned in geometric shapes, scarlet underwings, and a fat white body with black spots running down it like a snowman's coal buttons. No human eye had looked at this moth before; no one would see its friends. So much detail goes unnoticed in the world.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Running, Eye, Black And White

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “Prodigal Summer”, p.140, Faber & Faber

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• We lose weeks like buttons, like pencils.

  Dave Eggers

  Week, Pencils, Loses

  Dave Eggers (2014). “A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius: Picador Classic”, p.55, Pan Macmillan

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• It's so quiet this high up, the feeling you get is that you're one of those space monkeys. You do the little job you're trained to do. Pull a lever. Push a button. You don't understand any of it, and then you just die.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Jobs, Space, Feelings

  Chuck Palahniuk (2005). “Fight Club: A Novel”, p.12, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I wanted to do with Antarctica was say let's hit the reset button on that and see what happens to your creative process. Let's go to the most remote place that you can imagine, set up a studio and see what music comes out of it.

  DJ Spooky

  Reset Button, Creative, Imagine

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Mother, whose heart hung humble as a button the bright splendid shroud of your son, Do not weep. War is kind.

  Stephen Crane

  Mother, War, Heart

  Stephen Crane (1899). “War Is Kind”, p.4, Library of Alexandria

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• A force field is basically an invisible shield. You push a button and all of a sudden a bubble forms around you which is impenetrable. It can stop bullets, it can stop ray gun blasts and we realized force fields are actually a little bit difficult to create.

  Michio Kaku

  Gun, Force Fields, Bullets

  Interview with Deepak Chopra, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 16, 2010.

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• I feel like people who are guarded and shut off, I feel like they should have to wear a button that says, "shut down", "guarded" or something.

  Marnie Stern

  Should Have, People, Feels

  Source: thequietus.com

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• [Nikola] Tesla is great! Tesla I actually deal with - I have this thing called the Cop Stopper that deals with Tesla's technology. It's like a Pokémon ball and you push the button.

  Kellan Lutz

  Technology, Balls, Tesla

  Source: www.twilightlexicon.com

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• I just recorded in studios, you know, people pressed the buttons for me. So I just started recording the bass lines and guitar parts with my voice, covering classical pieces, or just making up melodies so I could learn how to use it.

  Petra Haden

  Guitar, Voice, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Things are going to happen whether you are there or not, you still need someone to push the button on the camera and get it and know it's going to work of the story.

  Neil Berkeley

  Cameras, Needs, Stories

  Source: screenanarchy.com

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• Arthur Dent: What happens if I press this button? Ford Prefect: I wouldn't- Arthur Dent: Oh. Ford Prefect: What happened? Arthur Dent: A sign lit up, saying 'Please do not press this button again.

  Douglas Adams

  Saying Please, Arthur, Lit

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• i remember we all cried like the Missouri when my Uncle Sol's coffin lurched because somebody pressed a button (and down went my uncle Sol and started a worm farm)

  e. e. cummings

  Uncles, Coffins, Remember

  E. E. Cummings (1996). “Is 5”, p.11, W. W. Norton & Company

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• 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

  Children, Kids, Self

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• When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn't acting. It's following instructions. Anyone with the physical qualifications can do that. So the director's task is just that – to direct, to point the way. Then the actor takes over. And he must be allowed the space, the freedom to express himself in the role. Without that space, an actor is no more than an unthinking robot with a chest-full of push-buttons.

  James Dean

  Following Instructions, Order, Play

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• He'd changed since the last summer. Instead of Bermuda shorts and a T-shirt, he wore a button-down shirt, khaki pants, and leather loafers. His sandy hair, which used to be so unruly, was now clipped short. He look like an evil male model, showing off what the fashionable college-age villain was wearing to Harvard this year.

  Rick Riordan

  Summer, College, Hair

  Rick Riordan (2007). “The Sea of Monsters”, Disney-Hyperion

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• (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

  Towers, Fowl, Captains

  Eoin Colfer (2001). “Artemis Fowl”

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• When people can do something simple to avoid conflict--say, hit a button or unlock a latch--they'll generally do it.

  Keith Ablow

  Simple, People, Conflict

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• My perspective is hard because I look at wardrobe from very much a guy's perspective. You look at my closet and I have pairs of black jeans and five button-downs, but one's silk, one's cotton. They all are slightly different, so that's my perspective.

  Erin Wasson

  Jeans, Perspective, Guy

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• When I was 14, I thought I looked terrible. I wore these typical Slavic shoes with metal bottoms so you could always hear me coming and this really ugly princess skirt and blouse with the top button closed. I had a boy haircut, a baby face covered with pimples, and a really big nose.

  Marina Abramovic

  Baby, Princess, Boys

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• Now Coraline," said Miss Spink, "what's your name?" "Coraline," said Coraline. "And we don't know each other, do we?" Coraline looked at the thin young woman with black button eyes and shook her head slowly.

  Neil Gaiman

  Eye, Names, Missing

  Neil Gaiman (2013). “Coraline”, p.50, A&C Black

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• Drinking is a fast-forward button; it makes you feel close to a person so quickly.

  Alison Rosen

  Drinking, Feels, Persons

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Now everything is available at the push of a button, and that thrill of the search is gone. With vinyl albums and special edition releases, I feel like that's coming back.

  Mark Hoppus

  Special, Albums, Gone

  "A Different Spin with Mark Hoppus!". Interview, www.seventeen.com. September 8, 2010.

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• In my perfect imagination, with stern discipline I rise with the first bird, salute the dawn, have a healthy breakfast of fruits, wander over to my faux-oak desk, tap the On button on my Macbook Air, acknowledge the muse, and skip into the world where the story flows over the day and into the night.

  Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

  Night, Air, Discipline

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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