Famous Quotes & Sayings

The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association is considerably under funded in the event a major hurricane makes landfall in Galveston or Corpus Christi. Last year TWIA had a $130 million deficit as a result of losses caused by Hurricane Rita and that would be a drop in bucket had the storm hit Galveston.

Jon Daniels

The sense of urgency is always there. Whether we made 20 moves or one, Buck will have these guys prepared to play hard everyday. I get paid to have a short- and a long-term perspective. Every night at 7:05, Buck and the team have a three-hour perspective.

The strengthening trend is very much intact. I'd be very reluctant to buck the trend. It's very much driven by the commodities, with platinum approaching $1,000.

The buck stops here. I take full responsibility.

The buck stopped at his desk, but from too many directions.

Jack Hanna

The buck has to stop here - from what I've seen, the new elephant exhibit is phenomenal.

We've got a lot of confidence. We know when we need a bucket or a defensive stop, we can get that. We can count on each other. That's definitely a good thing to have at this point in the season.

John Hall

Those things all even out. It's like when you loan someone 20 bucks and you never get it back. Somewhere down the line, you're going to get that 20 bucks from somebody.

Those that can run it were running it and making a pretty good buck off it.

You have to watch the local clubs. I'll have kids come to me and say, 'I have a membership at (a local health club). I'll just lift there all summer.' I just tell them, 'No, no. You are going to do it in front of us. I want to see you do the work.' I don't even like the personal trainers. You just don't know what's going on. There's always some guy out there who is looking to make a quick buck off a rich teenager.

What this shows is that a small percentage of us kill a whole lot of bucks. And many hunters continue to harvest bucks - primarily young bucks - even when they have opportunity to harvest a legal doe.

E. O. Wilson

There's no doubt the equipment manufacturers want to make a buck out of the upgrade.

We have to continually buck the tide of increasing costs.

I'm going to be Pennington. I'm not going to get my hair cut though. Then again, if somebody gives me 100 bucks to do it, I might.

Matt Kuchar

I'm happiest playing a match with my dad and a couple of college friends, taking a few bucks off them.

I know that the Bucks have established a winning tradition. I wanted to come here because the team is in the playoffs every year and has a chance to win.

Ralph Klein

I know that in this province, the buck would have stopped with me, ... I would first of all, if they could track me down, I would be hung. And if they couldn't, I would have to find a place far enough away in the world to hide.

I'm really happy because I've been working hard overseas the last couple of years to get back to the NBA. The last time I was in the league, it was a learning experience, but now I'm ready to contribute and to help the Bucks win.

It's pretty much like a good, old bucket brigade.

It's outrageous. It's a 50-cent parking violation that costs me 40 bucks a pop. It gets frustrating. It is my fault they are delinquent. I just let them pile up.

Its pretty difficult to spend 40 or 50 bucks on a tank of fuel when I can get it for free,

It's probably good. I'd say, get back on the horse that bucks you off.

Nothing really came too easy. We had to work for every bucket we got.

That is so not true. In a restaurant, people know how to cook things. They know how to cook a rabbit or a duck. If we have a recipe, it's for a bucket of sauce. Or we'll have notes written down on stained and tattered pieces of paper.

After that, they've got to use common sense, because there is always somebody trying to make a quick buck by trying to scam someone.

It's all about knowing the terrain and knowing the woods, ... For example, I don't like to hunt on top of the ridges, as that's not where the big bucks are likely to be. They're going to be off down the side of the mountain, in the thick stuff, 50 to 75 yards on one side of the ridge or the other.

Schoolboy Q

I kept buying bucket hats. Next thing I knew, I felt like I didn't look right without one.

John Morrill

Eighty thousand bucks is a fortune for this food bank.

Everybody is very happy. No doubt Buck could have signed for more elsewhere, but what a statement he made (by returning).

It was like a big old bucket and I was just hitting them like they were free throws. I just felt relaxed.

Oh my God, it felt like someone poured a bucket of hot water on me. I realized I was literally 200 miles south of the Mongolian border.

There's about $6 trillion in single-family mortgage debt outstanding, and total home value is about $13 trillion, which means there's about $7 trillion in home equity outstanding. Last year was a big year for liquefying home equity -- about $100 billion. That's a drop in the bucket compared to $7 trillion.

Roger Taylor

This is the third year we've done it. The first year we did this we had a five-gallon bucket full of dead mosquitoes. Last year wasn't as successful, but it was still a hit.