Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kevin Hall

To me, $2 million a year is a drop in the bucket for Measure C.

The reason for the declaration was primarily for the protection of citizens in that part of the state. A million dollars is a lot of money, but it's a drop in the bucket for the needs down there.

We have to continually buck the tide of increasing costs.

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 South Carolina real estate market continues to buck national trends.

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.

Raymond Chandler

Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck.

Rachael Ray

Make big pots of soups, stews and chilis - they stretch a buck, and you can live off them for days!

Sam Walter Foss

Just drop your bucket where you are.

Robert Jordan

A weeping woman is a bucket with no bottom.

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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.

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.

It might have rushed our shots on offense to try to force a bucket and score.

It's just a couple of bucks cheaper, but you won't have to stand in line if you have the pass.

It was fun playing there and it was fun coaching there. The Bucks do a nice job with this.

It seemed like there was a lid on the bucket for a while.

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

It's frustrating to us because we have to see him like this. He's just stagnant now. It's like a bucket of water sitting there after the rain.

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).

A hundred bucks for a comic book? Who drew it, Michaelmelangelo?

You're unlikely to see Dell moving up 3 bucks in a day.

Barry Ritholtz

Every buck that they are forced to spend elsewhere is that much less money (spent) on other issues. With technology it may not fall dollar-for-dollar, but you have to think that it's going to pinch a little bit.

Every bucket they got, every offensive rebound they got, it seemed like they were a result of him. He controlled the whole game.

It's kind of got a bucket look to it.

It's a low-risk effort to experiment online but it's low reward right now. This is not big bucks yet.

He puts a lot of onus on the players. He's a players coach but he demands a lot. You can tell by the personality of our team. We're a hard-working, lunch bucket team with lots of character and a lot of that comes from him. I've had a lot of coaches and he's done a great job for us this year. It's not a surprise he's mentioned up there.