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  • If I fail, the film industry writes me off as another statistic. If I succeed, they pay me a million bucks to fly out to Hollywood and fart. -- George A. Romero
  • Buck up or stay in the truck. -- Sarah Palin
  • The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks. -- Rupert Murdoch
  • I'm just trying to make a buck like everyone else. -- Tom Waits
  • Don't blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive. -- John D. Rockefeller
  • I made 50 million bucks yesterday. That's a flameout I could get used to. -- Conrad Black
  • It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference. -- Tom Brokaw
  • People would say I really loved Buck Rogers until the Hawk guy came on. -- Gil Gerard
  • My iPod that was programmed by Peter Buck. It has 7,000 songs hand-picked for me by him. -- Michael Stipe
  • When we realize we can make a buck cleaning up the environment, it will be done! -- Dennis Weaver
  • And y'all scared I can tell That I'mma get Bucks like Milwaukee, cause like Sam, I ca' sell. -- Jadakiss
  • I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been. -- Sam Walton
  • And I try to give the best bang for the buck. I love performing more than anything else. -- Jimmy Buffett
  • The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses. -- G. M. Trevelyan
  • Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck. -- Raymond Chandler
  • Clint Eastwood is an extraordinary director because he knows the value of a buck. He knows where it will show on the screen. -- Angela Lansbury
  • I never trust an executive who tends to pass the buck. Nor would I want to deal with him as a customer or a supplier. -- James Cash Penney
  • I'm not playing for other musicians. We're trying to reach the guy who works all day and wants to spend a buck at night. We'll keep him happy. -- Nat King Cole
  • Before I moved to Brooklyn to pursue music, I was a high school dropout and speed freak who'd been living with her dealer boyfriend in Bucks County, Pennsylvania at 16. -- Britta Phillips
  • We saw very little of the real Jack Buck behind the microphone. He would touch people in ways that we will never know. Jack was much more than just an announcer. -- Ozzie Smith
  • Suddenly Star Wars came out while we were on hiatus, and we looked like the old Buck Rogers series, where they had cigarette smoke blowing out the back of the rocket ship. -- Gregory Harrison
  • At the state level, we must take a careful look at what went wrong and make sure it never happens again. The buck stops here, and as your governor, I take full responsibility. -- Kathleen Blanco
  • As it happened, I had a friend who was a good person who liked to present himself as a dreadful one. Using him as a role model, I created the first Buck Godot strip. -- Phil Foglio
  • The people I used to have around me from Nashville was showing love to the Cash Money clique on the strength of Buck trying to make it; making sure Buck gets to where he gots to go. -- Young Buck
  • Ken Heitz got drafted by the Bucks the same year I did. He went to their camp just for the experience, then dropped out to attend Harvard Law School. I always admired his combination of athleticism and brains. -- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential. -- Barack Obama
  • I wanted to be in a band that gave bang for the buck. I wanted to be in the band who didn't look like a bunch of guys who, you know, should be in a library studying for their finals. -- Gene Simmons
  • It's tempting to just write a comic called 'Everyone Mail Randall Munroe Twenty Bucks' - maybe it would work, and I could just close down the 'xkcd' store and sit on a beach and draw pictures and make snarky Reddit posts for the rest of my life. -- Randall Munroe
  • I've made upwards of a million bucks in the cops-and-robbers business. -- Broderick Crawford
  • The concept of loneliness and exile and self-sufficiency continually bucks me up. -- Christopher Hitchens
  • Our whole wedding cost 180 bucks. Afterward, we re-heated lasagna for everyone and set off fireworks. -- Larry the Cable Guy
  • I got a hundred bucks says my baby beats Pete's baby. I just think genetics are in my favour. -- Andre Agassi
  • To beat the market you'll have to invest serious bucks to dig up information no one else has yet. -- Merton Miller
  • Rocco paid me 35 bucks a week at Murray's Inn in South Jersey. People started asking Rocco to have me sing. -- Frankie Avalon
  • I was a telemarketer in my senior year at high school. I had to sell prosthetic limbs to paralysed veterans. I was making 150 bucks a week and it was horrible. -- Big Sean
  • Most disability charity hinges on that notion - that you need to send your money in quick before all these poor, pitiful people die. Peddling pity brings in the bucks, yo. -- Stella Young
  • If you don't like the President, it costs you 90 bucks to fly to Washington to picket. If you don't like the governor, it costs you 60 bucks to fly to Albany to picket. If you don't like me - 90 cents. -- Ed Koch
  • I also played with Jimi Hendrix. Jimi would come down and sit in with Retaliation and we would have a ball. He offered me the gig with him at 20 pounds a week, which at that point, was like 60 bucks. -- Aynsley Dunbar
  • If you go to a coffee shop or at the airport, and you're using open wireless, I would use a VPN service that you could subscribe for 10 bucks a month. Everything is encrypted in an encryption tunnel, so a hacker cannot tamper with your connection. -- Kevin Mitnick
  • How many actors have a shot at being a part of something that became a part of pop culture? It's been very rewarding. I'm not getting the 20 million bucks for the new movies, but at least I'm getting warmth and recognition from people wherever I go. -- Adam West
  • A blowtorch is a wonderful thing. You can get one of those for about 25 bucks at Home Depot. And there's a ton of things that you can use a blowtorch for, in browning a steak or touching up the browning of a chicken or making creme brulee. -- Nathan Myhrvold
  • You can have 10 bucks to 10 million bucks and if you got a crew, imagination and a lot of people willing to turn in some work next to nothing, you going to have a feature. But you can't get beyond how expensive marketing the movie is, it's so crushing. -- Kevin Smith
  • I was a guy who wanted to become famous. There was steam coming out of my ears, I wanted to be famous so badly. You want the attention, you want the bucks, and you want the best seat in the restaurant. I didn't think what the repercussions would be. -- Matthew Perry
  • My first real business was bootlegging T-shirts - I was just a dumb kid. You go to a concert and pay $25 for a cotton T-shirt that says 'Rolling Stones,' 'Lollapalooza,' or whatever. On the outside they're 10 or 15 bucks. We were the guys selling them for 10 or 15 bucks. -- Kevin Plank
  • Twelve-piece cookware sets for ninety-nine bucks are routinely hawked on late-night TV - often by friends of mine. But with a mere five pieces, you can do whatever you like - slay the dragon and then cook its tenderloin in the style of the duke of Wellington, if you want to. -- Mario Batali
  • I'd go to the farmers' market in Santa Barbara, and I'd put out my guitar case, and I'd test out these little ditty songs that I would write, and I would get a couple of avocados, a bag of pistachios, and, like, fifteen bucks. That was a lot of money for me. -- Katy Perry
  • No, don't learn at karate schools. They overcharge you for karate uniforms. They make you pay, like, fifty or seventy-five bucks just for a karate uniform, and you don't wear a uniform in everyday life, so why train in one? Most fights take place outdoors, not inside with perfect lighting and mats. -- Judah Friedlander
  • Kim Kardashian's marriage to Kris Humphries famously lasted 72 days, and was reported in the tabloids as being all about the big bucks paid by magazines for the bridal photos: it is a spectacle of a bride-to-be as entrepreneur, not as romantic heroine; the groom, in this scenario, is nothing but a prop. -- Naomi Wolf
  • There's a strange sense of accomplishment in making an independent film. Everything's against you; there's no time, and even less money - you bring a bottle of glue, chip in twenty bucks, and hope you all make it through the day. If you manage to finish it and it actually turns out to be pretty good, it's thrilling. -- Eric Stoltz
  • To shuck oysters, you'll need an oyster knife, a handy tool with a sturdy handle and a short, rigid blade which you can pick up for about ten bucks in a kitchenware shop or fish market. A quick trip online will yield any number of videos and slide shows with step-by-step instructions on how to shuck an oyster. -- Tom Douglas
  • I'd much rather see a world where, when you make some quirky comment on a blog or news story or you upload a video clip, instead of just a moment of fame for your pseudonym, you'll get 50 bucks. The first time that happens, you'll realise that you're a full-class citizen. You have the potential to make money from the system. -- Jaron Lanier
  • My breakdancing crew used to go to the mall and squat a piece of cardboard there; we had our jam box, and I'd spin on my head and make about forty bucks a day, which was pretty good back then. I was only 14 years old, so I would chase the girls around the mall and eat some pizza and have some change left over. -- Vanilla Ice
  • Two is company; three is fifty bucks. -- Joan Rivers
  • It's all about bucks, kid. The rest is conversation. -- Michael Douglas
  • I'm a natural. That's why I make the big bucks. -- Gabrielle Reece
  • Million bucks won't see you through a major health crisis. -- Jack Nicholson
  • I know the pundits, they get big bucks for . . . pundating. -- Fred Thompson
  • Midget wrestling on channel 3, it costs me 50 bucks a month. -- Al Yankovic
  • Country music has always been the best shrink that 15 bucks can buy. -- Dierks Bentley
  • Rick, I'll tell you what. Ten thousand bucks? Ten thousand dollar bet? -- Mitt Romney
  • Hey, maybe I can sing locally and earn a couple of bucks. -- Rene Marie
  • A tuna steak and a salad? Seventy bucks. Welcome to Los Angeles. -- Mark Zupan
  • Six bucks and my right nut says we're not landing in Chicago. -- John Candy
  • My first car was a '56 Ford station wagon - cost 100 bucks. -- Cheech Marin
  • Every person has the right to look and feel like a million bucks. -- Mehmet Oz
  • I like those fancy raincoats you bought. Really sprung for the big bucks. -- Mitt Romney
  • Women love money. You give them a couple thousand bucks and they're happy. -- Rob Ford
  • No one ever made a million bucks by being cautious or timid or reasonable. -- Eli Broad
  • IĆ¢??ve made upwards of a million bucks in the cops and robbers business. -- Broderick Crawford
  • If you buy a $28,000 car, in four years it will be worth about 11,000 bucks. -- Dave Ramsey
  • I still think that's successful, to make 50 bucks a day with your own music. -- Joseph Bruce
  • There's one site where you can buy pictures of me for five bucks a pop. -- Nicholas Lea
  • Keeping a guy in prison costs 50,000 bucks a year. Executing one costs a couple million. -- John Grisham
  • You know they say money can't buy happiness. Give me 50 bucks and watch me smile -- Bobby Heenan
  • Its easier to feel a little more spiritual with a couple of bucks in your pocket. -- Craig Ferguson
  • Fresh dress, like a million bucks, Put on the bally shoes and the fly green socks -- Slick Rick
  • The first guy who lays a finger on this blind old man is fined fifty bucks! -- Gene Mauch
  • They spent all week saving pennies and went out Saturdays to spend fifty bucks in three hours. -- Jack Kerouac
  • Today, I bought a pastrami sandwich: $13.75. Walked back out in the street - genuine Rolex watch: six bucks. -- Richard Jeni
  • Someone pays me a hundred bucks every Tuesday to DJ. I don't think I'll ever give that up. -- Shannyn Sossamon
  • The only way that entire car is worth 500 bucks is if there's a 300 dollar hooker sitting in it. -- Jimmy McGill
  • I'll eat a nugget of my own poop for 20 bucks. I'll pay you 20 bucks and I'll eat it. -- Tom DeLonge
  • People don't usually wanna kill me for one of my movies until after they've paid 12 bucks for it. -- Seth Rogen
  • If you want to earn a million bucks a year, eliminate mediocrity from your thinking and your life. -- John Assaraf
  • I got a hundred bucks says my baby beats Pete's baby. I just think genetics are in my favour -- Andre Agassi
  • You don't know what pressure is until you play for five bucks with only two bucks in your pocket. -- Lee Trevino
  • Look at the insane things the Jews believe. The Jews believe that Barbra Streisand is worth $1,000 bucks a ticket. -- Greg Giraldo
  • Pressure is when you've got thirty-five bucks riding on a four-foot putt and you've only got five dollars left. -- Lee Trevino
  • Say what you want about America - thirteen bucks can still get you a hell of a lot of mice! -- George Michael
  • I'm at best on stage. It's one of the only places where I actually can feel like a million bucks. -- Doseone
  • I'm happiest playing a match with my dad and a couple of college friends, taking a few bucks off them. -- Matt Kuchar
  • Right at the end of the big wall of vibrators, $29.95, big rubber fist. Thirty bucks! Just in time for mothers day. -- Doug Stanhope
  • He spoke in telegram-as if every word he used cost five bucks, and he only had a twenty in his wallet. -- Suzanne Brockmann
  • I told my wife 'hey honey come on, let's make love like the old days.' She asked me for 50 bucks. -- Rodney Dangerfield
  • Bad movies are when people go, 'oh, I wasted $10 bucks and 2 hours and I don't even want to go back again.' -- Barbara Broccoli
  • What's missing is the eyeballs in each of us, but it doesn't matter because you've got the bucks, the bucks, the bucks. -- Anne Sexton
  • If I cut an album now and sell it for ten bucks, I can put seven dollars and fifty cents in my pocket. -- Mickey Gilley
  • Oh, everything's too damned expensive these days. This Bible cost 15 bucks! And talk about a preachy book! Everybody's a sinner! Except this guy. -- Dan Castellaneta
  • Sport is increasingly played according to the tune, and rules, of those with the biggest bucks, whether their practices be legal or illegal. -- Martin Jacques
  • My cousin had a baby and I was watching her breastfeed for a couple of bucks, and I'll tell you ladies: it's amazing. -- Dave Attell
  • Insurance companies pay big bucks for procedures but next to nothing for patient consultations and preventive medicine, which is what most medicine is. -- Alex Gibney
  • There's only 10 guys making big bucks in wrestling, and the rest of them they're making good money, but they're not blowing it away. -- George Steele
  • Filmmaking is like playing in your imagination and getting paid to do it. I guess I'll ride this horse until it bucks me. -- Nicholas Ozeki
  • A lot of bands that reunite do it for the wrong reasons. They do it for the bucks and everybody can sense it. -- Glenn Tipton
  • I tried to log on to the Obamacare website today. I don't think I'm doing it right. I lost 300 bucks playing Texas Hold 'Em. -- Jay Leno
  • When you can sell [empty seats] at the gate for an upgrade for 500 bucks or 600 bucks... it makes all the sense in the world. -- David Neeleman
  • If I had a picture of two handcuffed criminals being booked, I would cut the picture in half and get five bucks for each. -- Weegee
  • I have ten bucks in my pocket - what to spend it on? French fries - ten dollars' worth of french fries, ultimate fantasy. -- Laurie Halse Anderson
  • Every single person that spent a few bucks to buy a book that I wrote deserves a big thank you from my whole family. -- Colleen Hoover
  • In 1995 I had $7 bucks in my pocket and knew two things: I'm broke as hell and one day I won't be. You Can Achieve Anything! -- Dwayne Johnson
  • If you can find a PS3 anywhere in North America that's been on shelves for more than five minutes, I'll give you 1200 bucks for it. -- Jack Tretton
  • I'm washing lettuce. Soon, I'll be on fries. In a few years, I'll make assistant manager, and that's when the big bucks start rolling in. -- Louie Anderson
  • There are certainly things labels can still provide that indie artists cant. They can pave the way to radio and pay big bucks for promotion. -- Sam Tsui
  • There are certainly things labels can still provide that indie artists can't. They can pave the way to radio and pay big bucks for promotion. -- Sam Tsui
  • I bet a guy at a bar 50 bucks that I was more dysfunctional than he was. He raped me. So I tipped him. I'm very competitive. -- Christopher Titus
  • If I didn't have to do it, I wouldn't have done it. If I had a million bucks in the bank, I wouldn't have done Playboy. -- Claudia Christian
  • I didn't have to do paper routes. I'd sing for 5 bucks a crack at weddings and church functions; I'd have four or five on some Saturdays. -- Len Cariou
  • How to become a media star: Be a Republican who bucks the party line. How to be ignored by media: Be a Democrat who bucks party line. -- John Nolte
  • What are you guys doing? If you anted me to take a shower, all you had to do was pay me ten bucks, like you usually do -- James Patterson
  • Knowledge and power doesn't come from an entity, it comes from within yourself. What can these things tell you, to put five bucks on Snowflake in the third race? -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
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