Pushbutton Quotes & Sayings

I colour my hair mousy brown and I wear makeup only on stage. I use Laura Mercier - something called Biscuit, I think. I run one tiny sponge over my face and cover the red blotches. If I've got some rouge, I'll bung it on my mouth and cheeks. — Jane Birkin

Government has really been growing, a lot of largesse, but the people in the real world aren't. And that's what has to change. Government has no conformity at all with the real world. — Michele Bachmann

History does nothing, possesses no enormous wealth, fights no battles. It is rather man, the real, living man, who does everything, possesses, fights. It is not History, as if she were a person apart, who uses men as a means to work out her purposes, but history itself is nothing but the activity of men pursuing their purposes. — Karl Marx

If people stop being interested, it's because you haven't written a good enough album. Music will always be the most powerful thing. It doesn't matter what record labels or journalists say. It's the song. — Tom Odell

Id rather have a fake smile than a nasty stare. — Tamara Ecclestone

People can insert thoughts into your mind. This is more dangerous for psychic people. Use concentration exercises and read to combat this; boredom is an easy way to be drained. — Frederick Lenz

People are messy, unpredictable things. — Mary Roach

We're all tools in somebody's kit. But that doesn't mean we can't make tools out o other people. Or figure our interesting things to use ourselves for. — Orson Scott Card

In this age of remote-controlled pushbutton war, we must all try very, very hard to remain human beings. — Jane Fonda

I have a visual mind, so when I read a book, I get an instant picture in my head and it's very clear. — Richard C. Armitage

The state of unregeneracy is a state of impotency. — William Gurnall

The space elevator's not just another competitive technology, promoted by people who simply like the idea of diminishing the luster of the thrusters. It would open wide the doors to space. — Seth Shostak

Excellence is everything today, and most people aren't excellent. If you're not excellent - like truly excellent at what you do - you're toast. — Jason Calacanis

With you I understood that pleasure is not something you give or take. It's a way of giving yourself and calling forth the gift of self from another person. — Andre Gorz

Once, I dared to dare greatly. — Morgan Matson