Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Grisham

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

Andy Roddick

I was down in blackjack, now I'm up 600 bucks so I'm pretty excited about that. My dealer was Alfie, and he was being good to me the other night.

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.

Raymond Chandler

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

I have family and friends who have been there for me and I would not take a million bucks for their love and support.

I love flying the blimp. I always wanted to be a blimp pilot. I might have been able to make a few more bucks (as an electrical engineer). But I've had a lot more fun.

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.

Eric Avery

I have always considered reunions to be a way to make a quick buck, and it sells short my own experience of it the first time around.

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.

I want to get one that bucks so I can get a good score.

John McEnroe

The ushers are looking for a couple of bucks and they will sit people down right in the middle of the game. They will do it and you've got to live with that.

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

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.'

P. G. Wodehouse

I clutched at the brow. The mice in my interior had now got up an informal dance and were buck-and-winging all over the place like a bunch of Nijinskys.

Mitt Romney

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

Lauren Myracle

Suck it up. This is the life you chose for yourself, so buck up and deal.

Larry the Cable Guy

Our whole wedding cost 180 bucks. Afterward, we re-heated lasagna for everyone and set off fireworks.

Margaret Thatcher

You can't buck the market.

Rachael Ray

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

Lawrence Tierney

Nevermind what you normally would do. Just cough up your goddam buck like everyone else.

Lionel Richie

I grew up with the Grand Ole Opry, Dottie West, Conway Twitty, Buck Owens... not realizing it was influencing me as much as it was.

Laurie Halse Anderson

I have ten bucks in my pocket - what to spend it on? French fries - ten dollars' worth of french fries, ultimate fantasy.

Gabrielle Reece

I'm a natural. That's why I make the big bucks.

Fred Thompson

I know the pundits, they get big bucks for . . . pundating.

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

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.

Arbor is a national organization and they think they can make a few bucks off the state. But if they don't make their money, they can just leave.

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.

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

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

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.