The best thing to ever happen to marriage is the pause-live-TV button.
We futurists have a magic button. We follow every statement about a failed forecast with 'yet.'
Few of us boggle - though we should - at the fact that Louis Armstrong sang and played trumpet with similar panache, or that Leonard Bernstein and Benjamin Britten were equally adept as composers, conductors and pianists.
Every new generation of smartphone just has a different-shaped button. It's embarrassing.
Drinking is a fast-forward button; it makes you feel close to a person so quickly.
God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things.
The blues singers were talking about everyday life, and they pushed a button.
We spent a month in LA using a pool of musicians, a string arranger called Benjamin Wright, some great backing singers, and it gave tracks like Dynamite, which was written there, that kind of flavour.
I think my style is classic - I like wearing jeans and a white button-up shirt.
The man upstairs is pushing the buttons, and if your name happens to be on that button, well, thank you.
Certainly my parents were Dr. [Benjamin] Spock-driven parents. So they were tolerant.
I've been lucky enough to support some absolute legends and incredible songwriters over the years, including Hozier, Daughter, Willy Mason, Catfish and the Bottlemen, Nick Mulvey, and Benjamin Francis Leftwich.
I don't watch a lot of comedy. For relaxation and escape, I watch shows about how people survive bear attacks. Or old episodes of 'Law and Order,' the Benjamin Bratt/Jerry Orbach era.
If I've been indulging in rich foods, a cleanse is a wonderful way to hit the reset button.
I think my new iPhone 5S is broken. I pressed the home button and I'm still at work
Climb aboard life's elevator, hit the "up" button, and see where it takes you.
Benjamin Franklin once said, 'A people who would trade liberty for security deserve neither.' I think we can have both. We can keep our liberties. We can have our security.
Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button.
But if you could make that mistake and press the send button and the entire world sees it forever.
Benjamin Franklin maintained that every star is a sun, and every sun nourishes a 'chorus of worlds' just like ours.
Viva Italia! Goodbye to all poor peoples everywhere! ... Pusha da button!
Benjamin Franklin went through life an altered man because he once paid too dearly for a penny whistle. My concern springs usually from a deeper source, to wit, from having bought a whistle when I did not want one.
I'm so proud of myself. I thought, 'I've got to learn about American history.' I literally took two months off and watched every documentary known to man. I really didn't know Benjamin Franklin was so cool.
Maybe I'll make a huge color tapestry from my belly button lint.
An old American patriot described today’s situation very well. As America fought for its independence, Benjamin Franklin said, “we must all hang together, or assuredly, we shall all hang separately.”
You will not solve global climate change by hitting the delete button.
I mean if someone you know pushes a button you're gonna strike back out.
For years, I've had a hankering for the portrait of Benjamin Franklin by Joseph Duplessis. Franklin is credited with so many inventions: the postal system, lightning rods, the constitution. He was a rock star before there was such a thing.
Walter Benjamin has this notion of the angel of history and in a way that's paradoxical itself. We don't have angels in history anymore. We don't believe in these mythical creatures anymore.
The ultimate promise of technology is to make us master of a world that we command by the push of a button.
What must it be like, I wonder, to live in a world where food appears at the press of a button?
Only true remorse and "Will you forgive me?" can press the reset button.
Benjamin Franklin performed a beautiful experiment using surfactants: on a pond at Clapham Common, he poured a small amount of oleic acid, a natural surfactant which tends to form a dense film at the water-air interface.
I like shirts and sweaters that fall off the shoulder or plaid button-ups.
I'm trained to button scenes and round things off, and I get rewarded for doing that.
I wanted this to be a movie on TV so I could press the off button and make it all go away.
Some of the most productive people in history have been self-confessed 'muck-middens,' as my husband would say: Agatha Christie, Benjamin Franklin and even Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, to name a few.
Benjamin Franklin refused to have one of his children vaccinated against smallpox. The four-year-old boy died, and Franklin wrote later of how mistaken he was to expose him to the needless risk.
I have big hands. I can't do the touch-screen thing. I'm a button guy. I want to press buttons.
Americans understand that one of our great national strengths is innovation. Great innovators - Benjamin Franklin, Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and others - are household names.
If you can't make the image bigger or more important than what you see, then don't push the button
I know the one thing that will reset my button is getting up and running a fast mile.
I want to shine a spotlight on showing how dangerous Trump and his Twitter button can be.
I went to the city, behind my mom's back, and got my belly button pierced.
A photograph is a moment when you press the button. It will never come back.
Anytime you write about priests or cops, they're hot-button professions.
I want to push the fast-forward button until I get back to happy.
Those who think in Britain they can push the Brexit button and not have a bill to pay are seriously mistaken.
I love suits for formal engagements. But I also like to wear jeans and button-ups.
To me, Arnold was a pioneer in the spirit of Thomas Edison or Benjamin Franklin, while Tiger is a pioneer in the spirit of Bill Gates.
I was a litigation lawyer, following the crowd off the proverbial cliff, when I pressed the pause button.
Walter Benjamin used to think that languages expand their register thanks to translation, because translation forces ways of using words and structures that were alien to the original speaker of the target language.
I hate ready-made suits, button-down collars, and sports shirts.
When I stub my toe it's like I pressed a button that plays all the curse words I know.
If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.
You may not like the humor, but that is why every radio has an on-off button.
Historically, when Americans don't know what to do next, they go to Paris. Benjamin Franklin is like: 'What am I going to do now? I'll go to Paris!'
Do you remember stormy winter?Well button up your coat, one's comin' soon
People would say I never censor. As Billy Crystal says, 'I don't have that button.'
The universe is not short on wake-up calls. We’re just quick to hit the snooze button.
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