Buttons Quotations

Comedy always pushes some buttons, because it wouldn't be comedy if it didn't.

We all get so caught up in the moment of what we're doing every day, it's hard to hit that reset button and get pulled away from all that and see life from a different perspective.

My first proper job was as a commodities broker. I went off to work every morning in an '80s power suit. I couldn't afford a good one, so I'd buy nice buttons instead and make it look better than it actually was.

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

You push the button, we do the rest.

When I was in high school in the '50s you were supposed to be an Elvis Presley, a James Dean, a Marlon Brando or a Kingston Trio type in a button-down shirt headed for the fraternities at Stanford or Cal.

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.

That's why so much of the music today sounds so much alike, because there's no in-between. So it's kind of nice to still turn some buttons every now and then.

I love nothing better than to get all the nuts and bolts out of the way - show up on time, with lines learned, clear on what the director expects of me, with my buttons buttoned and my jewelry on correctly - and then I completely commit to play acting.

I find it hard to relax around any man who's got the second button on his shirt undone.

We go through the whole season working on next season's car and developing the car and making sure we fit in the car and all that sort of stuff. And we obviously give ideas of what we would hope next year's car would have even if it's small things like buttons on the steering wheel and different positions and whatever.

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

A label's typical plan would be to put something out that's safer and get fans, and then push buttons, but my idea is to push buttons first, scare off the people who are gonna be scared off, and then the right people will like you for who you really are, and stay with you.

Facebook and Google are battling over who will be our gateway to the rest of the Internet through 'like' buttons and universal logins - giving them huge power over our online identities and activities.

Just as TurboTax simplified much of the tax process, so has the colossally scary legal process been reduced to a kinder, gentler series of mouse clicks and 'Continue' buttons by LegalZoom, the online leader that has become so prominent in its market that it's practically a generic.

I don't push buttons to push buttons. Throwing the rebel card out there is really cheap.

This is one of the benefits, as well as one of the difficulties of directing a member of your family. You know where the buttons are. You can push them if you want.

The problems with kids having short attention spans is driven by entertainment, reset buttons on games, games having to do with getting somewhere and heads blowing up. Everything is 'cut to the chase, cut to the chase.'

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

I keep pushing buttons and trying to grow as a person and as a filmmaker.

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.

Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button.

It was actually a relief for me to play an actor who was scared, who didn't know where everything was, who didn't know what buttons to push, and for me to be able to play all that.

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

The truth is that I'm an idiot. I am. I don't do things by the rules sometimes. I say things that I probably shouldn't say. I push buttons. I deserve to be made fun of. And I feel like, as soon as you can make fun of something, it instantly removes the fear.

There's a button that goes On and I'm On. And when I go On, there is almost no me; there is just a character who is doing all this.

If I've been indulging in rich foods, a cleanse is a wonderful way to hit the reset button.

You can actually have a pitch button, you know, to get people on pitch.

We started to celebrate on the court, and he told us to act like we've been there before. Then we get to the locker room, and he rips his shirt off and buttons are flying everywhere. He just kind of did a Hulk Hogan impression. ... We all laughed and gave him a Gatorade bath.

You have to take positions on bills. There is no button for maybe or possibly.

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.

Never touch another man's button.

Sometimes I’ve even wished there was a human pause button, where you could choose some point in your life where you could stay always.

Patrick Kenzie asking a bemused waitress for a newspaper in smalltown USA. 'It's like a homepage without a scroll button?'

When I stub my toe it's like I pressed a button that plays all the curse words I know.

Humans react to danger when it is immediate, immoral, visible... Global warming does not press any of those buttons.

Not many get a chance to hit the career re-set button.

The universe is not short on wake-up calls. We’re just quick to hit the snooze button.

No reporter worth his buttons will let the facts intrude on a good story.

Maybe I'll make a huge color tapestry from my belly button lint.

So far when we've gotten down there, we haven't made the plays we needed to. I think every defense buttons up when they get down there in the red zone.

Since she was a college gymnast and because she's been through college gymnastics, she knows a lot about what's going on up there, what's going through your head. She knows what kind of things will better prepare us for meets.... She definitely knows what buttons to push.

My daughter and I used to play games with buttons. Buttons are a very good activity with children, teaching patterns and colors.

I am trying to push people's buttons and see how they respond to things, ... We are trying to create tension situations like in a game and trying to get guys to fight through some of that stuff.

I am struck by how much more personal and long-lasting a T-shirt is. It is not imaginable to me that people would be wearing campaign buttons one, two, or even three years ahead of a campaign. But people were buying Hillary T-shirts since 2004 or 2005.

Basically, the concern of NAPFA is the extraordinary expense often associated with these insurance policies, ... The problem with a lot of these high cost products is that they attempt to push hot buttons with consumers. They ask, 'do you want to pay taxes?' Obviously, you don't. But the NAPFA approach is to look at your overall financial picture and do it on an unbiased, non-partial basis.

I don't think it's merely a matter of pushing buttons and creating a market for baseball as with Starbucks.

He got up and headed, he was going to go to the computer, and I said, 'No, it's not the computer. I could see the big brass buttons reflecting light (through the front door). That's a sight I'll never forget. There's something inside of me that still says to this day, if we just hadn't opened the door.

He's a great choice. He's both smart and funny. He can be serious when the case demands. He can be silly. Knowing when to push those buttons is the key to being a good host.

Going out and doing focus groups to find out that your customer wants blue buttons on the screen instead of red buttons is useful. But it's much more useful to have your customers creating those buttons beside you.

is against any kind of principle of show business. If you install some buttons that one can press when decisions should be made at any point of a story, there would be no story.

Our principal, Bernard Rogers, approved the project after I presented him with the outline of what, how, where and to whom Gautier High School students would donate their items. Soon donations of books, bears and buttons (coats) started coming in. Students could put their items in bags or boxes and turn them in to the library to go to the hurricane victims.

Recipes are like a wizard that provides quick buttons for certain complex Photoshop actions. It tells you the step-by-step commands in Photoshop and gives you a one-click button to perform the action.

I think he felt like somebody might have pushed his buttons a little bit. I try to speak in generalities, because I don't want to ever communicate through the media. I think he felt like maybe I did that a little bit. I certainly don't ever want to do that.

He's a bully. I love bullies. They have such big, shiny red buttons to push.

You can go and you can listen and you can really push the buttons for kids to act and go and look at your family history and all those kind of things. Inside the museum, the eight galleries, the hands on, the classroom space, a foyer grand entry where the community can use for weddings and receptions -- the whole nine yards.

Winners will be announced during the (Dickens' musical). We're also selling buttons with each child's face for $10 each.

Which turned out to be no problem, ... Because we really did feel like sisters, and sisters can get pretty mean because they know each other so well. They know the buttons to push.

We have buttons now that have his picture and the phone number that you call in case you know anything.

U.S. gasoline may be rattling people's cages. We're going to see another steep draw. That, Nigeria and Iran are the market's three hot buttons right now.

We had some hot buttons we couldn't agree on. We gave the mayor too much power. The mayor would have veto power and sit on the council and vote. I was afraid that our city manager would feel like she was being micromanaged by the mayor.

Someone invent a NO LIFE alert so you can push a button and tons of people show up and hang out with you.

Eyes wide and blank as the buttons on a first Communion coat.

The trouble with real life is, there's no reset button.

Everyone on the set has a mobile phone, and I found by pushing a few buttons, they could be programmed into different languages. I fixed Robbie's (Coltrane) to speak in Turkish.

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)

Yes, I sold buttons to earn living. But I took pictures to keep on living. Pictures are my life – as necessary as eating or breathing.

People waiting for an elevator don't know what to do, standing with strangers. There is nothing to do. Its an uneasy time. Some press the button repeatedly as though it would help.

Publishing isn't a job anymore. It's a button.

Never trust anyone who buttons their top button.

We lose weeks like buttons, like pencils.

We have met the enemy, and he is us, ... We can all do better. We weren't in the positions to push the major buttons ... (during and after the storm), but we can all do better.

You have to get the casting right. You have to get the people behind it. Your director might not be the right director for the project. And then, it has to test and those people in that room, wherever they are, have to turn those buttons the right way at the right time.

Conscience is a kind of stored procedure which was planted in mankind's collective unconscious. Someone has the buttons to control it.

Congress doesn't have a right to be basically accusing my client of failing by not negotiating transactions on behalf of the company or pushing the computer buttons and sharpening the pencils.

Custom buttons go to the heart of the personalization we've done. We wanted a scalable way by which each user could customize the toolbar in meaningful way.

Each club knows what the hot buttons are in their market, ... aren't realistic when some clubs have suffered more than others under the past CBA.

The safety was big because that turns it into a two possession game. Grand Rapids pushed some buttons early on and got us fired up with some of their quotes and some things they do off the field and it may come back to haunt them.

I used to do Civil War re-enacting between the ages of 15 and 19. I was part of a unit that was considered very authentic. We would source the right wools, the right buttons for the costumes. We had the right look.

Antique buttons are more interesting, especially the 19th century buttons which depicted all sorts of activities.

This is an underground movement. The people most involved in the work-to-rule campaign are not wearing buttons and distributing literature...It's the dog that doesn't bark that bites.

There's a classic element that all good Disney movies have. It really comes down to the storytelling, I think. It manages to push all of these buttons inside of us; there's a sentimentality.

It's a sad thing that's happened. Sea Shepherd has been pushing buttons -- people react. People can only take so much.

It's a big box with gauges and buttons and a lot of air hoses, ... Air tanks can support the machine for an hour at a time, and there's a back-up supply for when the electricity goes out.

For anyone who has any doubts about or animosity toward the Catholic Church, Brown's book plays on these very well. This thing pushes buttons on an incredible level.

It's going to come. I'm not going to push any panic buttons yet. Our luck is going to change.

It's been a real challenge this year trying to find what buttons to push at the right time. I think we're ready. This is a winner-take-all situation, so if you have an off night, your season is over.

That really hurt us today. We were really limited in what we could do out there. It?s hard to push someone?s buttons when you don?t have everyone accessible.

It's clear (in the recorded interview) his comprehension (of English) is not that great. They had clay in their hands they could mold, certain buttons they knew they could push.

It was kind of funny, buttons were flying everywhere. We all laughed and gave him a Gatorade bath in there.

They did a great job in designing the iPod Nano. The face is the right size for the fingers and buttons are spaced apart well. I suppose you could break it if you accidentally sat on it while it was in your back pocket.

They did a great job in designing it. The face is the right size for the fingers and the buttons are spaced well. I suppose you could break it if you accidentally sat on it while it was in your back pocket.

In a way, you might say that David Duke is the son of Willie Horton. Duke is more overt, of course, but he's really just pushing the same buttons and sending the same coded messages that the Horton ads did so effectively for the Bush campaign last year.

I'll buy an old jacket and attach gold buttons and a couple royal patches. Or I'll find an old busted sweatshirt, tear out the zipper, and replace it with a $700 zipper. I make things my own.

I know everything that you can do with digital processing and digital editing inside and out, but I absolutely refuse to push the buttons and don't even want to know how to load and unload the files.

I really hated my nose. They (school children) used to call me pug nose, or buttons. Buttons was an early nickname and I hated it.

I never thought it was a dangerous prospect until journalists brought it up. It does get intense, because we know the maps of each others' heads, and we know where the self-destruct buttons are. But I feel more open with these guys. I can trust them. As for Charlotte, we have tunnel vision. We want to be together forever.

I never trusted badges or buttons or uniforms or titles after that, ... I really started thinking for myself, which isn't bad. But the worst thing is the loss of trust, especially those you're intimate with.

I just know how to deal with the players different now. You've got to learn as a coach, and especially first year with new players, which buttons to push, and how to push them, and when to push them.

Gamers have had years of practice with these controllers. Your fingers memorize where the buttons are. By using original controllers, you can play much better.