Pushing Quotes - page 15

The man upstairs is pushing the buttons, and if your name happens to be on that button, well, thank you. (Mario Andretti)
Yes, I would agree that America, just like Spain was in the 17th Century, is the main empire of the world and they are the ones who, on the surface, are the most pushy: pushing their language, pushing their culture - or what there is of it - pushing by force their system on others. View quote
Viggo Mortensen
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. View quote
Madonna (entertainer)
The faster I write the better my output. If I'm going slow, I'm in trouble. It means I'm pushing the words instead of being pulled by them. View quote
Raymond Chandler
He that is pushing his predecessors into the gulf of obscurity, cannot but sometimes suspect, that he must himself sink in like manner, and, as he stands upon the same precipice, be swept away with the same violence. View quote
Samuel Johnson
I'm always pushing for human responsibility. Given that chimpanzees and many other animals are sentient and sapient, then we should treat them with respect. View quote
Jane Goodall
From time to time there will be some complaints that we are pushing our people too hard. I don't give a good Goddamn about such complaints. I believe in the old and sound rule that an ounce of sweat will save a gallon of blood. The harder we push, the more Germans we will kill. The more Germans we kill, the fewer of our men will be killed. Pushing means fewer casualties. I want you all to remember that. View quote
George S. Patton
Pushing means fewer casualties. I want you all to remember that. View quote
George S. Patton
Would I if I could by pushing a button would I kill five thousand Chinamen if I could save my brother from anything. Well I was very fond of my brother and I could completely imagine his suffering and I replied that five thousand Chinamen were something I could not imagine and so it was not interesting. One has to remember that about imagination, that is when the world gets dull when everybody does not know what they can or what they cannot really imagine. View quote
Gertrude Stein
You can be intuitive when you've got a more expansive role. You can get into the poetry of telling the story rather than just pushing buttons. View quote
Willem Dafoe
One chord is fine. Two chords are pushing it. Three chords and you're into jazz. (Lou Reed)
I've had the time to go through all the life phases with my parents, from being a bratty teenager, pushing them away, to saying later on, 'Oh my God, I can't believe what you did for me - thank you. I love you so much.' View quote
Marcia Cross
Female performers have been doing this for years - pushing the envelope about sexuality - and the minute a man does it, everybody freaks out. View quote
Adam Lambert
I want completing the single market to be our driving mission. I want us to be at the forefront of transformative trade deals with the US, Japan and India as part of the drive towards global free trade. And I want us to be pushing to exempt Europe's smallest entrepreneurial companies from more EU directives. View quote
David Cameron
When you don't have people in your life pushing you, can you push yourself? View quote
Tori Amos
The inner me was always under attack by authority, by the way my parents wanted me to be brought up, by these English schools I went to. So I've always felt this kind of anti-authoritarian strain in me, pushing to express itself despite the obstacles. View quote
Edward Said
Performing is the craziest workout for me, because I feel like, on the first day of tour, I'm going nuts. Halfway through, I'm just so tired but obviously you keep pushing yourself because you have fans watching you. View quote
Hayley Williams
I danced a lot when I was younger, and I've always had decent, shapely legs and thought it's now or never. I mean, when you're pushing 40, are you really going to wander around in a dress that's midthigh length? View quote
Kate Winslet
I would never encourage my children to be athletes - first because my children are not athletes and second because there are so many people pushing to get to the top in sports that 100 people are crushed for each one who breaks through. This is unfortunate. View quote
Bill James
Social Security's future has gotten worse, and each year we delay reform adds to the cost we are pushing off onto our children. View quote
John Goodman
When you look at someone like Sacha Baron Cohen, you have to really respect the boundaries he is pushing as Bruno or Borat. (Will Ferrell)
They're pushing me to do Howard. Howard's a trip. My friend made me watch the Lesbian Love Connection and I was like, Oh God, get me out of here. View quote
Sherilyn Fenn
I'm a real 'go, go' person... I'd make myself crazy by pushing too hard. It's important to pull pack the reins a little bit and get in touch with what's inside. View quote
Shelley Long
Feminism is teaching. I've gotten a lot of pleasure pushing younger writers that I've met and worked with. View quote
Erica Jong
I have a real interest in pushing some of the limits of things that studios don't want to make. View quote
George Clooney