Buttons Quotes

• Buttons are the fossils of the sartorial world, enduring long past the garments they were designed to hold together.

  Martha Stewart

  Past, Clothes, Long

  Martha Stewart (2005). “The World According to Martha”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• You push the button, we do the rest.

  George Eastman

  Inspirational, Photography, Kodak

  "Picture of a pioneer" by Nicholas Bannister, www.theguardian.com. June 2, 2000.

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• Parents know how to push your buttons because, hey, they sewed them on

  Camryn Manheim

  Parent, Hey, Know How

  Camryn Manheim (1999). “Wake Up, I'm Fat!”, Broadway

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• A ship without Marines is like a garment without buttons.

  David Dixon Porter

  Military, Marine, Usmc

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• We made the buttons on the screen look so good you'll want to lick them.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Best Job, Looks

  "Fortune" Magazine, January 24, 2000.

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• Trying to make things work in government is sometimes like trying to sew a button on a custard pie.

  Hyman Rickover

  Work, Government, Pie

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• If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Technology, Men, Computer

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• America: It's like Britain, only with buttons.

  Ringo Starr

  Funny, America, Britain

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• What is the life of man! Is it not to shift from side to side? From sorrow to sorrow? To button up one cause of vexation! And unbutton another!

  Laurence Sterne

  Life, Men, Sorrow

  Laurence Sterne (1817). “The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman”, p.313

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• Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.

  Mark Twain

  Fashion, Inspiration, Men

  Autobiography vol. 1 (1924)

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• You may not like the humor, but that is why every radio has an on-off button.

  Mel Karmazin

  Humor, May, Radio

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• Belly buttons are cool!

  Lauren Graham

  Belly Buttons, Belly

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• Good music comes out of people playing together, knowing what they want to do and going for it. You have to sweat over it and bug it to death. You can't do it by pushing buttons and watching a TV screen.

  Keith Richards

  Knowing, Sweat, People

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• Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Toasters, Television, Pops

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• There is no rewind button for life.

  Nam June Paik

  Rewind

  Nam June Paik, Hong-hŭi Kim (2007). “Nam June Paik and Korea, from fantasy to hyperreality”

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• If you die in an elevator, be sure to push the Up button.

  Sam Levenson

  Funny, Death, Clever

  Sam Levenson (2016). “You Don't Have to Be in Who's Who to Know What's What: The Choice Wit and Wisdom of Sam Levenson”, p.60, Open Road Media

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• All photography is Pop, and all photographers are crazy... they feel guilty since they don't have to do very much - just push a button.

  Andy Warhol

  Photography, Crazy, Photographer

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• Never touch another man's button.

  Blake Shelton

  Men, Another Man

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• It usually takes two people a little while to learn where the funny buttons are and testy buttons are.

  Matt Lauer

  Two, People, Littles

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• A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb.

  W. H. Auden

  Writing, Men, Dragons

  "Best Quotes of '54, '55, '56". Book edited by James Beasley Simpson, 1957.

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• The two hot issues are the gay issue and the abortion issue. These are the two defining issues in the evangelical community these days. I'm sure that these hot buttons will be pushed, time and time again.

  Tony Campolo

  Gay, Two, Issues

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• Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss.

  Eric Roth

  Life, I Hate You, Emotional

  "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button". www.imdb.com. 2008.

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• The man upstairs is pushing the buttons, and if your name happens to be on that button, well, thank you.

  Mario Andretti

  Men, Names, Pushing

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• Yes, we need euthanasia, for certain cases where people are in comas or too immobile to even press a button.

  Jack Kevorkian

  People, Needs, Euthanasia

  "LOS ANGELES TIMES INTERVIEW : Jack Kevorkian : Defending Assisted Suicide Right Up to the End". Interview With Jack Lessenberry, articles.latimes.com. December 12, 1993.

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• I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.

  Eric Roth

  Inspirational, Short Life, Tough Times

  The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, www.imdb.com. 2008.

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