Buttons Quotes - Page 25

• Some people hate funerals. I find them comforting. They hit the pause button on life and remind us that it has an end. Every eulogy reminds me to deepen my dash, that place on the tombstone between our birth and our death.

  Regina Brett

  Hate, Tombstone, People

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• I have siblings. And there are certain things I know that I can push their buttons. And they know they have certain things where they can push mine.

  Catherine Zeta-Jones

  Brother, Sibling, Certain

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• What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself. All day long, the mill of his brain is grinding, and his thoughts, not those of other things, are his history. These are his life, and they are not written. Everyday would make a whole book of 80,000 words -- 365 books a year. Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man -- the biography of the man himself cannot be written.

  Mark Twain

  Real, Book, Men

  Autobiography vol. 1 (1924)

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• 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

  Mean, Knowing, Worry

  "The Charlie Rose Show", charlierose.com. March 6, 2009.

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• it occurred to me what a simple thing reality is, how easy it is to make it work. It's just reality. Just housework. Just a home. Like running a simple machine. Once you learn to run it, it's just a matter of repetition. You push this button and pull that lever. You adjust a gauge, put on the lid, set the timer. The same thing, over and over.

  Haruki Murakami

  Running, Home, Simple

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• Our great problem, is that children now know whatever they want to know - at the press of a button they can discover all horrors of the adult world. They know very early on that the world is sometimes a very dark, difficult and complex place, and the literature they read must reflect that. Otherwise we're just entertaining them to pass the time.

  Michael Morpurgo

  Children, Dark, Adults

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• I'm very tech-forward. However, I also think hitting the pause button is not a bad thing, and really connecting with people one-to-one viscerally, having a connection with someone, is really important.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Thinking, People, Important

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• Technology is supposed to make our lives easier, allowing us to do things more quickly and efficiently. But too often it seems to make things harder, leaving us with fifty-button remote controls, digital cameras with hundreds of mysterious features and book-length manuals, and cars with dashboard systems worthy of the space shuttle.

  James Surowiecki

  Book, Technology, Space

  "Feature Presentation". www.newyorker.com. May 28, 2007.

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• I shall weave a suit of leaves. At once. With acorns for buttons.

  Shirley Jackson

  Acorns, Suits

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• Our parents, our children, our spouses, and our friends will continue to press every button we have, until we realize what it is that we don't want to know about ourselves, yet. They will point us to our freedom every time.

  Byron Katie

  Family, Children, Parent

  Byron Katie (2010). “Question Your Thinking, Change the World”, p.80, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• She's kind of funny looking. Her face is out of balance--broad forehead, button nose, freckled cheeks, and pointy ears. A slammed-together, rough sort of face you can't ignore. Still, the whole package isn't so bad. For all I know maybe she's not so wild about her own looks, but she seems comfortable with who she is, and that's the important thing.

  Haruki Murakami

  Balance, Important, Together

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• One day the stars will be as familiar to each man as the landmarks, the curves, and the hills on the road that leads to his door, and one day this will be an airborne life. But by then men will have forgotten how to fly; they will be passengers on machines whose conductors are carefully promoted to a familiarity with labelled buttons, and in whose minds knowledge of the sky and the wind and the way of weather will be extraneous as passing fiction.

  Beryl Markham

  Stars, Men, Curves

  Beryl Markham (1994). “The Illustrated West with the Night”, Stewart, Tabori, & Chang

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• I want to be sitting in front of my computer, where you can press a button to block out your junk mail. These two are my junk mail.

  Melina Marchetta

  Block, Two, Junk

  Melina Marchetta (2010). “Jellicoe Road”, p.29, Harper Collins

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• Unfortunately, every time someone said “debriefing,” the entire flock had one image: someone’s tighty-whities disappearing in a flash. We were smothering our giggles, but it was getting harder. Coupled with the whole “naval this, and naval that,” with its undeniable belly-button connotations, we were essentially turning into a sugar-jacked, sleep-deprived flock of incoherent, silly, recombinant-DNA goofballs. This was not going to end well.

  James Patterson

  Silly, Sleep, Dna

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• Being a dad, I certainly know what it feels like to give lots of love and understanding, and I also know what it feels like to be antagonized or to have my buttons pushed, at midnight when one of my kids just will not go to sleep. You've gotta just let them be what they are, ultimately.

  Jason Lee

  Dad, Sleep, Kids

  Source: collider.com

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• What occurred to me on [‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’], and also with the passing of her mother, is that there's going to come a time when I'm not going to get to be with this person anymore. I'm not going to get to be with my children anymore. Or friends, people I love and respect. And so, if we have a flare-up, it evaporates now. I don't want to waste time being angry at someone I love.

  Brad Pitt

  Mother, Children, Flare Up

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• I've done everything. Selling door-to-door fire extinguishers... In bars, I used to repair those machines that have 10 different buttons on them to spray club soda and seltzer.

  J. B. Smoove

  Fire, Doors, Different

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• 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

  Heart, Benjamin Button, Path

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• Suicide is like the ejector button in the cockpit of an F-15. If life goes into a permanent tail spin, it's nice to know the option is there.

  Dov Davidoff

  Suicide, Nice, Tails

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• The popcorn button on the microwave is a miraculous invention. More miraculous than even the microwave itself.

  Gary Gulman

  Popcorn, Invention, Microwaves

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• Real artists find answers. The knowledge of the artisan is within the confines of his skills. For example, I know a lot about lenses, about the editing room. I know what the different buttons on the camera are for. I know more or less how to use a microphone. I know all that, but that's not real knowledge. Real knowledge is knowing how to live, why we live, things like that.

  Krzysztof Kieslowski

  Real, Artist, Skills

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• If women were once permitted to read Sophocles and work with logarithms, or to nibble at any side of the apple of knowledge, there would be an end forever to their sewing on buttons and embroidering slippers.

  Anna Julia Cooper

  Education, Women, Apples

  Anna Julia Cooper (2016). “A Voice from the South”, p.20, Courier Dover Publications

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• The images evoked by words being independent of their sense, they vary from age to age and from people to people, the formulas remaining identical. Certain transitory images are attached to certain words: the word is merely as it were the button of an electric bell that calls them up.

  Gustave Le Bon

  Independent, People, Atheism

  Gustave Le Bon (1947). “The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind”, p.57, Lulu.com

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• Opinions are like belly buttons; everybody has one. I never knock a man for his opinion.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Men, Nba

  Shaquille O'Neal (2014). “Shaq Talks Back”, p.168, St. Martin's Press

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• One thing I like about the United States, and I kind of miss about the United States, is there's an election coming up here in England, but no one's going to have a sign in front of their house. Nobody's going to wear buttons. And in France, same thing. In America I like that people have signs and buttons and bumper stickers. Sometimes you'll smile at someone from a distance, then you'll get up close and you'll see their pin, and you're like, "Oh my god. I wasted a smile on you?"

  David Sedaris

  Distance, America, People

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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