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Quotes About Buttons

It's assumed that 'user experience' is all about a beautiful screen and making sure the buttons are in all the right places. But that has almost nothing to do with getting the experience of using the software right—in the real world where clinicians use it. You can't do design requirements in a conference room. You have to get out in the wild and live it.
~ Clayton M. Christensen
the buttons of his dark blue uniform allude to an ongoing border dispute with his soft belly.
~ Colson Whitehead
The veterinarian looked at Buttons for a few seconds, and then he looked up at Karen. He cleared his throat. He said, "Ma'am, I don't know how to tell you this, but—Buttons—Buttons isn't a dog.
~ Laura Kasischke
Belly buttons are cool!
~ Lauren Graham
Buttons and patches and the cold wind blowing, The days pass quickly when I am sewing.
~ Author Unknown
Parents know best how to push our buttons because they installed them.
~ Author Unknown
Man, I hated school. I'd stare at the buttons on the teacher's shirt the whole class.
~ John Prine
A little girl was sitting beside him, with huge, doomy eyes, a bear suit with all the buttons done up in the wrong buttonholes, and very dark, straggly hair that stuck straight out of her head at odd angles. She seem to read his mind. Shh, said the little girl. A lot of her teeth had recently fallen out and she was very serious for such a small person. We're not allowed to talk about the Lost. It's bad for morale.
~ Cressida Cowell
The lapels of Sprat's many-buckled jacket were covered with buttons. Most of them belonged to bands, but a few were pretty funny. Like the one that read 'MY FAMILY'S A FREAKSHOW WITHOUT A TENT' and the one that boldly proclaimed 'I (HEART) BEING AWESOME'. Vlad pointed to the one that read 'I'M SO GOTH PEOPLE ASK ME TO AUTOGRAPH BOXES OF COUNT CHOCULA' and smirked.
~ Heather Brewer
I bargain now. I offer buttons for his love.
~ Leonard Cohen
At some point, Alice slipped one arm and then the other into the coat's sleeves, she buttoned its buttons, starting at the top. Silas had followed her, still not seeing what an emblem of defeat, shame, loss, hopelessness, the coat was. With such gaps in his understanding, he saw very clearly how the boy he'd been had grown up to be the man he was.
~ Unknown
What say you to young Master Fenton? he capers, he dances, he has eyes of youth, he writes verses, he speaks holiday, he smells April and May: he will carry't, he will carry't; 'tis in his buttons; he will carry't.
~ William Shakespeare
Priests tell you that temptation slides into sin and you cannot put a hair between. But surely that is not true. Surely not. There is a room to be crossed and buttons to be undone. You don't sleepwalk into it. You don't fornicate inadvertently.
~ Hilary Mantel
Jewels, lies, slips of paper, dried flowers, memories of thing long past, useless quotations, idle hands, beads, buttons, and mischief.
~ Holly Black
Even when it comes to zippers and buttons, Italy reigns supreme. The luxury market is ours, as demonstrated by the voracity with which various foreign conglomerates are buying up the jewels of our manufacturing sector.
~ Lapo Elkann
Trying to seduce Alec at all was a waste of time; he came preseduced anyway. Like a microwave entrée. You pressed his buttons, and he got hot.
~ Jennifer Crusie
It was black (of course), but it was different shades of black. The fabric was charcoal black and the trim was metallic black and the lining was obsidian black and the buttons were tiny silver raven skulls with even tinier twinkling black eyes. The sleeves were swooping and edged with black lace, but because Pins knew how Witches were, the lace could be tied back out of the way and there were very practical tight black sleeves underneath.
~ Unknown
I say, if you believe what you read in the comic strips, then you believe that mice run around with little gold buttons on their red pants and drive cars.
~ Mort Walker
Facebook even builds shadow profiles on Internet users who aren't Facebook users, by using the Facebook buttons included on web pages. All the incentives are for Novi to use a "Pay with Novi" web page button to collect data on non-users, in the same way, and there's nothing to stop them.
~ David Gerard
her white blouse with the little buttons bo-peeping down the front.
~ Unknown
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.
~ Nolan Bushnell
Shifting from one hip to the other in his lumbering, elephantine fashion, Ignatius sent waves of flesh rippling beneath the tweed and flannel, waves that broke upon buttons and seams. Thus
~ John Kennedy Toole
Soon your ashes fly to the veterans' cemetery at Arlington, where once a Confederate general would have counted you among his mules and pigs. This poet's coat is your last poem. I want to write a poem like this coat, with buttons and pockets and green cloth, a poem useful as a coat to a coughing man.
~ Martín Espada
Long ago in China, knot-makers tied string into buttons and frogs, and rope into bell pulls. There was one knot so complicated that it blinded the knot-maker. Finally an emperor outlawed this cruel knot, and the nobles could not order it anymore. If I had lived in China, I would have been an outlaw knot-maker.
~ Maxine Hong Kingston