Buttons Quotes - Page 22

• Though it does seem like I have written an immense amount of work, over the years I have pushed the pause button. I have poems that I haven't sent out for publication, mostly based on political/social issues.

  Denise Duhamel

  Years, Issues, Political

  Source: therumpus.net

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• You see these actor/director relationships in the celebrity world and you understand why. The director knows which buttons to push and it makes it so much more familiarized.

  Michelle Glick

  Directors, Actors, World

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The question I have is out of all these commencement speeches that are happening, what`s the really worthwhile advice that a 21, 22 year old person will walk away from the speech and say, I can apply this maybe five years, 10 years later. How many speeches actually push the button like that, other than yours?

  David Corn

  Years, Advice, Speech

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I see you're looking at my cuff buttons." I hadn't been looking at them, but I did now.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Cuffs

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2007). “The Great Gatsby”, p.100, Broadview Press

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• There are a lot of nice details that are exclusive to C. Wonder, which are the status C. Wonder gold buttons and the tassels. We want the customer and the loyal client to just really know that when they come to C. Wonder they're getting something that's super wearable but is also really luxurious.

  Brad Goreski

  Nice, Gold, Clients

  Source: www.elle.com

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• J.D. cleared his throat and pushed the button on the intercom. “Uh, Payton, hi. It’s J.D.” Dead silence. Then another crackle. “Sorry. Not interested.” Cute. But J.D. persisted. Again with the button. “I want to talk to you.” Crackle. “Ever hear of a telephone, asshole?” Okay, he probably deserved that.

  Julie James

  Cute, Sorry, Silence

  Julie James (2009). “Practice Makes Perfect”, p.125, Penguin

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• I don't want to have the threat of the sky falling on my head or some idiot pushing some button that sets off World War Three.

  Steve Ignorant

  War, Fall, Sky

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Well, at least I’m not a stubborn, button-pushing, Prius-driving, chip-on-your-shoulder-holding, ‘stay-at-home-mom’-is-the-eighth-dirty-word-thinking feminazi!

  Julie James

  Mom, Dirty, Home

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• Heart may still be the fire in hearth but I'm suddenly too cold to continue, and besides, there's no hearth here anyway and it's the end of June. Thursday. Almost noon. And all the buttons on my corduroy coat are gone. I don't know why. I'm sorry Hailey. I don't know what to do.

  Mark Z. Danielewski

  Sorry, Heart, Fire

  Mark Z. Danielewski (2000). “Mark Z. Danielewski's House of leaves”

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• It's supposed to be automatic but actually you have to press this button.

  John Brunner

  Technology, Zanzibar, Supposed To Be

  "Stand on Zanzibar". Book by John Brunner, 1968.

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• We now demand glamour and fast-flowing dramatic action. A generation of Christians reared among push buttons and automatic machines is impatient of slower and less direct methods of reaching their goals...The tragic results of this spirit all all about us: shallow lives, hollow religious philosophies...the glorification of men, trust is religious externalities....salesmanship methods, the mistaking of dynamic personality for the power of the Spirit. These and such of these are the symptoms of an evil disease.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Religious, Philosophy

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• ... [a] girl one day flared out and told the principal "the only mission opening before a girl in his school was to marry one of those candidates [for the ministry]." He said he didn't know but it was. And when at last that same girl announced her desire and intention to go to college it was received with about the same incredulity and dismay as if a brass button on one of those candidate's coats had propounded a new method for squaring the circle or trisecting the arc.

  Anna Julia Cooper

  Girl, School, College

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• I'm finding that everything sells. I've been toying with the fact that I have this big giant glass jar with the metal screw lid on it that's full of ribbons and memorabilia from conventions and stuff. I've got buttons and I have all of my Walt Disney Mickey Mouse credit cards. I'm wondering in my old age if anyone would pay for a credit card with Mickey Mouse on it issued to me. I wonder if anyone would pay anything for that?

  Mike Royer

  Glasses, Age, Giants

  "Interview: Mike Royer Talks Classic Cartoons, Jack Kirby and Much More". Interview with Bryan Stroud, comicsbulletin.com. January 30, 2015.

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• Traffic counting was very boring and cold to sit out on the streets of New Haven in five pairs of pants - well, that's an exaggeration; it was three pairs of pants - in November for hours and hours clicking buttons counting which cars go left, right, and forward.

  John Hodgman

  Car, Three, Pants

  "Bewildered Maine resident John Hodgman takes another crack at our 11 Questions". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. September 3, 2015.

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• Men like phones with lots of buttons. It makes them feel important.

  Rita Rudner

  Funny, Humor, Men

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• Men don't feel the urge to get married as quickly as women do because their clothes all button and zip in the front. Women's dresses usually button and zip in the back. We need men emotionally and sexually, but we also need men to help us get dressed.

  Rita Rudner

  Funny, Humor, Men

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• 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

  Sweaters, Vests, Needs

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. February 11, 2014.

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• 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

  Funny, Father, Humor

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• 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

  Funny, Humor, Thinking

  "Monster". Documentary, Comedy, 2004.

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• I have a giant ego and terrible self-esteem, so I need to hit the re-set button fairly regularly - to get into presence, and humility, and being right-sized.

  Anne Lamott

  Self Esteem, Humility, Ego

  "Anne Lamott on 'Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers'". Interview with Lois Alter Mark, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 21, 2012.

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• Children are the first thing I see in the morning and the last thing I see at night. It hurts me to be away from them for a few hours. It really does. I love them and they're girls, so they know how to push my buttons. But I've learned a lot and I have to thank my wife for that.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Girl, Hurt, Morning

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• When I see a news story on a site, about a movie that I'm interested in, it's like the mouse going for the pleasure button and I click it. But then, when I see the movie, it's like, "Oh, I would have enjoyed the movie that much more, if I hadn't known that."

  Rian Johnson

  News Stories, Pleasure, Site

  Source: collider.com

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• 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

  Eight, Fans, Three

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• 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

  Men, White, Hands

  Arthur Miller (2016). “Collected Essays: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.157, Penguin

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• When you know too much information and you acquire it too easily, you tend to either use it in disagreeable ways, out of vanity, or you tend to be indiscriminate about it. I mean, in the old days, it was tricky, you had to go to various encyclopedias, you had to go to the library, maybe spend a day there, whatever. But in the end, if you found something, it was really exciting. Now you hit a couple of buttons and you get some information. Which, by the way, is almost always presented in that same goddamn mediocre style that characterizes the Internet for me. It is slightly deadening.

  Norman Mailer

  Couple, Mean, Vanity

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