“I had a soul above buttons.”

“I was gonna get a candy bar; the button I was supposed to push was "HH", so I went to the side, I found the "H" button, I pushed it twice. Fuckin'…potato chips came out, man, because they had an "HH" button for Christ's sake! You need to let me know. I'm not familiar with the concept of "HH."”

Mitch Hedberg (1968–2005) American stand-up comedian

“Above the vulgar flight of common souls.”

Arthur Murphy (1727–1805) Irish writer

“It was calling me, that button," he offered as his excuse. "I couldn't resist." -MULCH DIGGUMS ON A HIGHLY PRESS-ABLE BUTTON-”

Eoin Colfer (1965) Irish author of children's books

“I don't care. I'm Mr. Buttons.”

Bill Allred

“Don’t push the on-button if you don’t know where the off-button is.”

David Gerrold (1944) American screenwriter and novelist

“I had, at that moment, another soul – an almost divine soul, a creative and sacrificial soul.”

Octave Mirbeau (1848–1917) French journalist, art critic, travel writer, pamphleteer, novelist, and playwright

“Then she generated the light, and the sight of her room, flooded with radiance and studded with electric buttons, revived her. There were buttons and switches everywhere — buttons to call for food for music, for clothing. There was the hot-bath button, by pressure of which a basin of (imitation) marble rose out of the floor, filled to the brim with a warm deodorized liquid. There was the cold-bath button. There was the button that produced literature. and there were of course the buttons by which she communicated with her friends. The room, though it contained nothing, was in touch with all that she cared for in the world.”

E.M. Forster book The Machine Stops

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

Shirley Jackson book We Have Always Lived in the Castle

“I like pressing that emergency button on bus doors to escape.”

Russell Brand (1975) British comedian, actor, and author