Famous Quotes & Sayings

The play was a buck sweep. They forced it inside and Will made a great cut and found a seam to the end zone.

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?

David Gerrold

If you're passing the buck, don't ask for change.

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'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.

We thought Buck would come into his own in the second half of last season. We really didn't see that. So, offensively, it's an important year for him. No doubt about it.

With such enormous bucks devoted to trading in oil and other commodities, the distortions that they cause have been exacerbated.

Some hedge fund managers have made big bucks trading oil futures - George Soros is one.

We led 45-42 and stole the ball, but put up an ill-advised shot. They came down and hit a three to tie it. Then we got fouled and missed the front end of a one-and-one and they hit a bucket for the lead. After that, we didn't get a shot off.

You can't always wait for the guys at the top. Every manager at every level in the organization has an opportunity, big or small, to do something. Every manager's got some sphere of autonomy. Don't pass the buck up the line.

Buzz Osborne

I've liked country music for forever. And Buck Owens is just one of many country guitarists I like. I think Buck's Sixties records are really progressive.

Jack Whitehall

When I was younger, I was insecure for about 10 years: I wore glasses, had a cow's lick, buck teeth and braces. I looked ridiculous.

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.

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.

For the first time, a group of players competing for a season-long championship has, at the end of that rainbow, a real bucket of gold, $1 million first-place check.

Oswald Chambers

Suppose God wants to teach you to say, "I know how to be abased"--are you ready to be offered up like that? Are you ready to be not so much as a drop in a bucket--to be so hopelessly insignificant that you are never thought of again in connection with the life you served? Are you willing to spend and be spent; not seeking to be ministered unto, but to minister?

Mitt Romney

I like those fancy raincoats you bought. Really sprung for the big bucks.

Margaret Thatcher

You can't buck the market.

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.

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.

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.

Antler quality was certainly up this year. I've seen the evidence at two or three wildlife check stations that I'm real familiar with. One of them that used to check one or two exceptional bucks each year had three or four this year, and I'm talking about bucks scoring in the 150-point class.

An individual hunter may or may not detect it, but with three years of protecting younger bucks under our belts, there should be a decent number of older bucks out there.

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.

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

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