Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Our evenings won't be the same without a bucket of toads to carry.

Ray Allen

People decide if they want to be led, they'll be led. If they decide they don't want to be part of the system, they'll buck it.

People, especially in Canada, have been making a big thing out of the fact that we are opposing each other as managers. Buck is a close friend of mine. Canadian fans might consider the U.S. to be friendly rivals, but there's certainly no rivalry between Buck and myself.

Some things are static. A 2-liter drink has been a buck or $1.19 for years.

Southbound Interstate 55 is really rough. I don't think $ 20,000 would have fixed it all, but it would've been a drop in the bucket towards getting it fixed.

One day there was a guy who came in with a five-gallon bucket of pennies to pay his taxes,

Defensively, their guards get out in the passing lanes, and with Ames in the middle, it makes it tough to go down to the bucket area.

Frank Pallone

AT&T should be required to provide a clear and straightforward system of calling time that will make it easier for our troops to call home, ... It disturbs me to think that companies are more interested in making a buck on our soldiers in Iraq than providing the quality services they have been paid to provide.

A concert like this for four bucks is unheard of. These guys usually get $20 to $40 for tickets.

Bill Snyder

All of our headsets went out. We had no communication whatsoever. Fortunately, we had a cell phone. That probably cost us about a thousand bucks in charges. Anyway, that's how we did it.

Roy Williams

They pay us the big bucks to make the big plays. That's what we've got to do.

They were just four hardworking citizens making a few bucks repairing cars in a garage.

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.

They dominated the Catholic League. They dominated Bucks County.

There were four or five times where a bucket here or there and we could have made a difference.

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.

Max Brooks

Zombies are so popular. There's a lot of chaff out there. For every one person who is legitimately passionate about zombies, there are a hundred people who are thinking, 'Hey, I can make a buck off of this.' The problem is that some of their stuff is so lame.

You're at the mercy of the hourly rate in studios, and you hope to be inspired at 40 bucks an hour, which is tough sometimes. The clock is always ticking.

This is a rural area, with very narrow roads and deep ditches on either side. It's going to cost major bucks to widen these roads.

Rumi

There is a fountain inside you. Don't walk around with an empty bucket.

Todd Duncan

Gaining trust is like filling a bucket one drop at a time.

Steven Pressfield

The highest treason a crab can commit is to make a leap for the rim of the bucket.

Jason Aldean

Entertainer of the Year, to me, there's never been any question that that's one on my bucket list that I want. I'm not going to sit here and lie to you. If there's one that I ever could get - I would trade all the rest of them in for that one.

As I started to turn round a guy tipped a bucket of farmyard muck over me and then threw the rest of it over me and the car.

Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water

We went on a good run there, but we couldn't get that one big bucket or big stop that we needed. I definitely can't fault our guys though, they fought hard.

Larry Coker

We're trying to get him back healthy. We really miss Buck, and you don't realize that, because Buck is not such a flashy player.

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.

We all know this company has been trying to sell itself for 65 bucks (a share) minimum, which was a pretty outrageous price given the earnings outlook.

Kathleen Blanco

We all know that there were failures at every level of government: state, federal and local, ... The buck stops here, and as your governor, I take full responsibility.