Top 303 Buttons Quotes & Sayings

Writing is like sewing together what I call these 'buttons,' these bits and pieces.

but their eyes were as cold blue glass buttons.

I think the reason that swearing is both so offensive and so attractive is that it is a way to push people's emotional buttons, and especially their negative emotional buttons. Because words soak up emotional connotations and are processed involuntarily by the listener, you can't will yourself not to treat the word in terms of what it means.

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

People push my buttons, so I'm going to react.

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

I have a weakness for buttons. I'm always collecting ornate and nicely decorated ones.

I have a couple of what I call "buttons" - fears or anxieties that when tweaked can cause me to be vulnerable. Fear of failure, not being good enough, and abandonment are my main buttons. However, they have diminished greatly over the years as I have really confronted those fears in order to work through them.

To think I should have lived to be goodmorninged by Belladonna Took's son, as if I was selling buttons at the door!

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

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

Well, mi amore, this is awesome news! Let's get right on that," said Kami, and began to undo the buttons of her blouse. She looked down at the red buttons slipping out one by one from the black fabric of her shirt. She only had eight buttons, and there went the fourth. Jared sucked breath out of a horrified void and shouted, "stop that!" He angled himself to protect her from the eyes of a crowd that was not there. He hesitated, possibly because now he had a view directly down into shadows and curves.

Man, I hated school. I'd stare at the buttons on the teacher's shirt the whole class.

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

I have big hands. I can't do the touch-screen thing. I'm a button guy. I want to press buttons.

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

As kids, we traded 'I like Ike' and 'All the way with Adlai' buttons in elementary school.

I'm a bit of a geek: I just love being able to play with dials and buttons.

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 key to writing for Richard (Pryor) was to just push his buttons and then know when to push the buttons on your cassette recorder. You'd get him started, then surreptitiously start recording when he got inspired and started walking around the room and improvising in character. Then you'd get it all transcribed and take credit for it.

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

: There are only two on-buttons for fear, in any permutation you want. One is when something that shouldn't be is, meaning a presence. And, the other one is an absence.

When you have empathy toward your opponents, it helps you destroy them quicker. Because you understand exactly who they are. You understand what buttons to push. You understand if they're insecure, if they fear embarrassment. And you can really hit those buttons to strike a nerve.

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

Abortion and gay marriage are the political hot-buttons of the day. There are lot of things going wrong in the world, hate is running amok, so why just focus on these two hot-buttons and not everything else?

I always loved the piano because it's just a bunch of buttons. I like to push buttons.

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

I have two belly buttons.

Belly buttons are cool!

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

It's a shame that humans don't come with reset buttons.

I get off on pushing people's buttons sometimes.

There are dark black buttons tattooed on my heart. I’ll carry them for the rest of my days.

Never trust anyone who buttons their top button.

The whole world is covered with buttons, and not one of them is mine!

I know I'm not the greatest singer or dancer, but that doesn't interest me, I'm interested in being provocative and pushing people's buttons.

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

A man should have two wives: one to love and one to sew on his buttons.

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

Once the buttons are undone, you know how it'll all end. It's all in the game, there are no miracles.

I tried to play 'Barracuda' on 'Guitar Hero,' and because you have to anticipate and push buttons, it's really counterintuitive.

I don't know why people think I'm polished - I often leave the house with buttons missing and ladders in my tights.

I can't cut out a piece of cloth and make a lovely dress, but I can mend tears in shirts and sew on buttons.

Donald Trump is sitting on the control deck of the starship Enterprise, and he can push a lot of pretty buttons, but those buttons aren't connected to anything. And so nothing is happening.

What else does a manager do but push buttons? He doesn't hit, he doesn't run, he doesn't throw, and he doesn't catch the ball. A manager has twenty-five players, or twenty-five buttons, and he selects which one he'll use, or push, that day. The manager who presses the right buttons most often is the one who wins the most games.

We have a family dynamic - more like brothers and sisters than friends. So there can be a bit of competition, but there's also love and respect. But there's a thing to not push each other's buttons. You know what the buttons are, so don't push them.

As athletes, when you find something that gets to someone you have to press their buttons.

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

In the end when we're on stage, we push buttons, but when we're in the studio we're actually creating music that we play in gigs.

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?"

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

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

I like to say what I think, and if it happens to push buttons, sorry.

Buttons, for me, are very sculptural things, and they are so fascinating.

It's sometimes said that I'm rebellious and I do things to push people's buttons, but I just like the challenge.

I can't really deal with buttons. And that's what I keep saying, "Okay, I can't push buttons, because that means I have to take my hands off the keyboard or the buttons or whatever. Don't you understand!" .

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.

I wanna know how many buttons I'm going to get at meet and greets now.

I bargain now. I offer buttons for his love.

I learned at an early age that using the third person will push some buttons.