“What is technology?" Cian pulled his brother inside, pushed the button for the next floor. "It's another god.”

“It's supposed to be automatic, but actually you have to push this button.”

“Jeez, someone needs to push the reset button on this planet.”

“If you die in an elevator, be sure to push the up button.”

“He pushed her in. And then he pulled her out. All her life, Lydia would remember one thing. All his life, Nath would remember another.”

“A line cannot control pictorial space absolutely. A line may flow freely in and out space, but cannot independently create the phenomenon of push and pull necessary to plastic creation. Push and pull are expanding and contracting forces which are activated by carriers in visual motion. Planes are the most important carriers, lines and points less so... the picture plane reacts automatically in the opposite direction to the stimulus received; thus action continues as long as it receives stimulus in the creative process. Push answers with pull and pull with push. … At the end of his life and the height of his capacity Cézanne understood color as a force of push and pull. In his pictures he created an enormous sense of volume, breathing, pulsating, expanding, contracting through his use of colors.”

“(to Foaly) Captain Short's life is in danger, so push the button before I climb that tower and push it with your face!”

“It's so quiet this high up, the feeling you get is that you're one of those space monkeys. You do the little job you're trained to do. Pull a lever. Push a button. You don't understand any of it, and then you just die.”

“The words fill my head, and fall to the floor, that if God's on our side, he'll stop the next war.”

“To lead is neither to push or pull.”