I tell ya, I knew my morning wasn't going right. When I put on my shirt the button fell off, when I picked up my briefcase, the handle fell off, I tell ya, I was afraid to go to the bathroom.
— Rodney Dangerfield
Whopping Button Ups quotations
Life is like an elevator, a lot of ups and downs.
People pushing your buttons and getting jerked around.
Once you have missed the first buttonhole, you'll never manage to button up.
Art is the only thing you cannot punch a button for.
You must do it the old-fashioned way. Stay up and really burn the midnight oil. There are no compromises.
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.
I never meet a ragged boy in the street without feeling that i may owe him a salute, for I know not what possibilities may be buttoned up under his coat.
A grandparent will help you with your buttons, your zippers, and your shoelaces and not be in any hurry for you to grow up.
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.
If you really think about it, hitting the snooze button in the morning doesn't even make sense. It's like saying, 'I hate getting up in the morning-so I do it over... and over... and over again.'
Ma'am, when I got up this morning, I didn't want to be jackass. You just pushed my jackass button.
I'm not Catholic, but I gave up picking my belly button for lint.
I have the most perfect belly button.
When I stick my fingers in it, I feel a nerve in the center of my body shoot up my spine.
Much to popular disbelief, horses walking around during the elections with their tails straight up in the air are not showing off their Bush/Quale buttons.
Climb aboard life's elevator, hit the "up" button, and see where it takes you.
At school, there was an annual school disco and I'd be standing in my bedroom wondering what to wear for hours on end. Eventually I'd arrive at a decision that was just the most ridiculous costume you could have ever devised - I think it was probably knitted Christmas jumpers on top of buttoned-up white shirts.
I wear whatever makes me comfortable on stage, so that I feel confident.
Some days it's a plaid skirt with a button-up and other days it's jeans with a hockey jersey and platforms.
Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.
Political correctness is a bit like a granny, a maiden aunt arriving at a party when everyone's having a good time. And she comes in, they all start sort of buttoning up and becoming self-conscious and behaving properly and then when she leaves, you can have fun again.
If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.
Everybody is so hungry for referrals, for 'likes.
' I don't need to be liked. I don't need to be liked at all. I don't care if there's a button right there at the top of Drudge saying 'like' or 'dislike,' 'thumbs up,' 'thumbs down,' it doesn't mean anything.
I usually head up to the mountains or out into the desert.
Somewhere nobody is. There I can dig deep and find the core that got me where I am today. It's sort of like my reset button.
What goes down usually goes back up, if you're willing to be patient and don't hit the panic button.
Do you not know that King Kong the first was just three foot six inches tall? He only came up to Faye Wray's belly button! If God could do the tricks that we can do he'd be a happy man!
The universe is not short on wake-up calls. We’re just quick to hit the snooze button.
Someone invent a NO LIFE alert so you can push a button and tons of people show up and hang out with you.
His finger flicked open a button on my cardigan-then two, three, four.
It tumbled off my shoulders, leaving me in my camisole. He pushed up the hem, teasing and stroking his thumb across my stomach. My breath came in a sharp intake of air.
The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.
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!
Most of the drug CEOs I know, they're not themselves - they're what people want them to be. It's pretty obvious of the different drug executives. They're old white men, very buttoned up. They're appropriate, so to speak. I'm a little bit more irreverent, and I'm not going to change just because I have this job.
Celebrity is a national drama whose characters' parts and plots are written by the tabloids, gossip columnists, websites and interactive buttons. The famous don't actually have to turn up to their own lives at all.
Welcome to the psychiatric hotline: if you are obsessive compulsive press one repeatedly. If you are schizophrenic listen closely and a little voice will tell you which number to press. If you have borderline personality disorder hang up; you have already pushed everybody's buttons.
Is that the basis of friendship? Is it as reactive as that? Do we respond only to people who seem to find us interesting?... Do we all buzz or ring or light up when people press our vanity buttons, and only then? Can I think of anyone in my whole life whom I have liked without his first showing signs of liking me?
I think my style is classic - I like wearing jeans and a white button-up shirt.
Life needed a fast forward button. Because there were days you just don't want to live through, not again, but they kept coming around and you were powerless to stop time or speed it up or do anything to keep from having to face it.
When you think about Uber and Airbnb and the other companies that are turning things upside down, Uber isn't big 'cause they ran a lot of ads. They're big because someone took out their iPhone and said to their friend, watch this, and pressed a button and a car pulled up.