Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Eli Broad

No one ever made a million bucks by being cautious or timid or reasonable.

Toni Tennille

In 1972 through '74, right before we hit it big, we were hauling our own equipment into the club and setting up and playing for, I don't know, a hundred bucks a night.

T. J. Thyne

I don't have a trainer. I have what I call 'the poor man's workout and the rich man's diet.' I run for 1 hour every day and do 500 sit-ups and 1000 crunches, and I lift weights at the Y for 28 bucks a month, even if it's 3 in the morning.

She just started competing. She has been skating about a year now, (and went to her) first competition in January in Bucks County. Needless to say, she likes it.

Broderick Crawford

I’ve made upwards of a million bucks in the cops and robbers business.

I was surprised at the extent of this problem. All you need is hundred bucks and Internet access.

Basically, what they would learn (at the seminar) is how to take a topographical map, an aerial photo, or both, and be able to look at that map and be able to pick out strategic funnels that mature bucks would use in moving around.

Mariano Rivera

My father is the man that, he will give you what he doesn't have, still. If he has 10 bucks and you need 10 bucks because you're sick or you don't have nothing to eat, he will give you 10 bucks. He will be at zero, but he will help you. That's the kind of man that my father is.

Jack Falahee

My favorite leather jacket I got for 40 bucks at the Fairfax Flea Market, like, eight years ago. Leather just gets better over time. There's something about a jacket that you have over years and years - just fits like a glove.

Kevin Smith

Now you've gotta spend two thousand bucks to stay at my house. And for five, I'll let you photograph my wife in the shower.

Obviously it's a source of great consternation for the Bucks as well as us.

I did it years ago and regretted it. Fifteen minutes later, it was like, 'Oh, man, I just got rid of a hat.' But then, in your mind, you start rationalizing it. It was worth it. You start to think, 'Now what are they going to do with these things?' You hope they give them to kids or to the less fortunate, somebody who can't spend 18 bucks on a cap. You'd like to think it's put to good use.

Judah Friedlander

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.

Brownie McGhee

Something is better than nothing. Doin' anything for a man, there's investments involved, there's time and production. It's better to give him ten bucks and get a record out than to never record the cat.

Patricia Clarkson

Two movies with a combined budget of under a million bucks is like yahoo!

Alex Gibney

Insurance companies pay big bucks for procedures but next to nothing for patient consultations and preventive medicine, which is what most medicine is.

There are a lot worse things you can do with all your bucks than giving them to even a mediocre mutual fund - such as, for example, giving them to a mediocre hedge fund. If supporting the lifestyle of a mediocre fund manager is your favorite charity, who am I to stop you?

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.

When most of us drive 200 to 300 miles one way for Thanksgiving, it's usually only means an extra 10 or 12 bucks from higher gas prices, which isn't a deal breaker.

Frankie Avalon

Rocco paid me 35 bucks a week at Murray's Inn in South Jersey. People started asking Rocco to have me sing.

John Cooper

We will need to expand at some point in the future. The ideal situation would be for that to be in Bucks County.

Big Sean

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.

We had an opportunity to sign Guerrero in January '04. I called him and literally in a minute I had a response from him. So it wasn't one of those things where you say, 'Hey, we're going to commit 70 million bucks here; let's go think about this.'

We're excited about it. It's a great opportunity for him. The Bucks have done some terrific things this summer.

John Grisham

Keeping a guy in prison costs 50,000 bucks a year. Executing one costs a couple million.

He gave us instant credibility. Those guys are paid big bucks for a reason. They're the heartbeat of a team.

I would rather put my 10 bucks into the community than put it into Wal-Mart.

I go through them too quick. For $120 to $140 bucks a pop, they go too quick.

Our father was a very giving, caring person and a well-respected man in the community. Many folks knew him from the camera shop he owned until his retirement, but he was also an institution in town as a long-standing member of the Bucks County Historical Society. As recent as two years ago, he partnered with someone at the Mercer Museum where they poured over volumes of pictures of people and places he donated to the museum. The collection, which was dedicated to a lifetime of achievement, resulted in his receiving the Henry Chapman Mercer Award. It was quite an honor and justly deserved.

Kevin Johnson

I went from being a guy who owned one house and a pool company. A thousand bucks was a lot of money. Now, I own all of these properties. I still look back and say, 'How did all of that happen?' I'm just a regular guy who ended up with all of these holdings. What is strange is it is working out.

I think there are some obvious ones. Everyone knows that Cleveland wanted him. Dallas had put an offer out on him a couple years ago. Everybody knows that George Karl (Nuggets and former Bucks coach) is still in this game. Reggie Miller is leaving Indiana, and he's a two (guard). Those are just four teams off the gate.

Peter Chernin

I think you'll see high-def DVDs come out a higher price point, ... I think we have an opportunity to win back a couple of bucks of (improved profit) margin on high-def DVDs.