Quotes about Bucks

If I fail, the film industry writes me off as another statistic. If I succeed, they pay me a million bucks to fly out to Hollywood and fart. Votes: 4

Buck up or stay in the truck. Votes: 3

The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks. Votes: 3

I'm just trying to make a buck like everyone else. Votes: 3

Don't blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive. Votes: 3

I made 50 million bucks yesterday. That's a flameout I could get used to. Votes: 3

It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference. Votes: 3

People would say I really loved Buck Rogers until the Hawk guy came on. Votes: 3

My iPod that was programmed by Peter Buck. It has 7,000 songs hand-picked for me by him. Votes: 3

When we realize we can make a buck cleaning up the environment, it will be done! Votes: 3

And y'all scared I can tell That I'mma get Bucks like Milwaukee, cause like Sam, I ca' sell. Votes: 3

I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been. Votes: 3

And I try to give the best bang for the buck. I love performing more than anything else. Votes: 3

The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses. Votes: 3

Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck. Votes: 3

Clint Eastwood is an extraordinary director because he knows the value of a buck. He knows where it will show on the screen. Votes: 3

I never trust an executive who tends to pass the buck. Nor would I want to deal with him as a customer or a supplier. Votes: 3

I'm not playing for other musicians. We're trying to reach the guy who works all day and wants to spend a buck at night. We'll keep him happy. Votes: 3

Before I moved to Brooklyn to pursue music, I was a high school dropout and speed freak who'd been living with her dealer boyfriend in Bucks County, Pennsylvania at 16. Votes: 3

We saw very little of the real Jack Buck behind the microphone. He would touch people in ways that we will never know. Jack was much more than just an announcer. Votes: 3

Suddenly Star Wars came out while we were on hiatus, and we looked like the old Buck Rogers series, where they had cigarette smoke blowing out the back of the rocket ship. Votes: 3

At the state level, we must take a careful look at what went wrong and make sure it never happens again. The buck stops here, and as your governor, I take full responsibility. Votes: 3

As it happened, I had a friend who was a good person who liked to present himself as a dreadful one. Using him as a role model, I created the first Buck Godot strip. Votes: 3

The people I used to have around me from Nashville was showing love to the Cash Money clique on the strength of Buck trying to make it; making sure Buck gets to where he gots to go. Votes: 3

Ken Heitz got drafted by the Bucks the same year I did. He went to their camp just for the experience, then dropped out to attend Harvard Law School. I always admired his combination of athleticism and brains. Votes: 3

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential. Votes: 3

I wanted to be in a band that gave bang for the buck. I wanted to be in the band who didn't look like a bunch of guys who, you know, should be in a library studying for their finals. Votes: 3

It's tempting to just write a comic called 'Everyone Mail Randall Munroe Twenty Bucks' - maybe it would work, and I could just close down the 'xkcd' store and sit on a beach and draw pictures and make snarky Reddit posts for the rest of my life. Votes: 3

I've made upwards of a million bucks in the cops-and-robbers business. Votes: 1

The concept of loneliness and exile and self-sufficiency continually bucks me up. Votes: 1

Our whole wedding cost 180 bucks. Afterward, we re-heated lasagna for everyone and set off fireworks. Votes: 1

I got a hundred bucks says my baby beats Pete's baby. I just think genetics are in my favour. Votes: 1

To beat the market you'll have to invest serious bucks to dig up information no one else has yet. Votes: 1

Rocco paid me 35 bucks a week at Murray's Inn in South Jersey. People started asking Rocco to have me sing. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

Most disability charity hinges on that notion - that you need to send your money in quick before all these poor, pitiful people die. Peddling pity brings in the bucks, yo. Votes: 1

If you don't like the President, it costs you 90 bucks to fly to Washington to picket. If you don't like the governor, it costs you 60 bucks to fly to Albany to picket. If you don't like me - 90 cents. Votes: 1

I also played with Jimi Hendrix. Jimi would come down and sit in with Retaliation and we would have a ball. He offered me the gig with him at 20 pounds a week, which at that point, was like 60 bucks. Votes: 1

If you go to a coffee shop or at the airport, and you're using open wireless, I would use a VPN service that you could subscribe for 10 bucks a month. Everything is encrypted in an encryption tunnel, so a hacker cannot tamper with your connection. Votes: 1

How many actors have a shot at being a part of something that became a part of pop culture? It's been very rewarding. I'm not getting the 20 million bucks for the new movies, but at least I'm getting warmth and recognition from people wherever I go. Votes: 1

A blowtorch is a wonderful thing. You can get one of those for about 25 bucks at Home Depot. And there's a ton of things that you can use a blowtorch for, in browning a steak or touching up the browning of a chicken or making creme brulee. Votes: 1

You can have 10 bucks to 10 million bucks and if you got a crew, imagination and a lot of people willing to turn in some work next to nothing, you going to have a feature. But you can't get beyond how expensive marketing the movie is, it's so crushing. Votes: 1

I was a guy who wanted to become famous. There was steam coming out of my ears, I wanted to be famous so badly. You want the attention, you want the bucks, and you want the best seat in the restaurant. I didn't think what the repercussions would be. Votes: 1

My first real business was bootlegging T-shirts - I was just a dumb kid. You go to a concert and pay $25 for a cotton T-shirt that says 'Rolling Stones,' 'Lollapalooza,' or whatever. On the outside they're 10 or 15 bucks. We were the guys selling them for 10 or 15 bucks. Votes: 1

Twelve-piece cookware sets for ninety-nine bucks are routinely hawked on late-night TV - often by friends of mine. But with a mere five pieces, you can do whatever you like - slay the dragon and then cook its tenderloin in the style of the duke of Wellington, if you want to. Votes: 1

I'd go to the farmers' market in Santa Barbara, and I'd put out my guitar case, and I'd test out these little ditty songs that I would write, and I would get a couple of avocados, a bag of pistachios, and, like, fifteen bucks. That was a lot of money for me. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

Kim Kardashian's marriage to Kris Humphries famously lasted 72 days, and was reported in the tabloids as being all about the big bucks paid by magazines for the bridal photos: it is a spectacle of a bride-to-be as entrepreneur, not as romantic heroine; the groom, in this scenario, is nothing but a prop. Votes: 1

There's a strange sense of accomplishment in making an independent film. Everything's against you; there's no time, and even less money - you bring a bottle of glue, chip in twenty bucks, and hope you all make it through the day. If you manage to finish it and it actually turns out to be pretty good, it's thrilling. Votes: 1

To shuck oysters, you'll need an oyster knife, a handy tool with a sturdy handle and a short, rigid blade which you can pick up for about ten bucks in a kitchenware shop or fish market. A quick trip online will yield any number of videos and slide shows with step-by-step instructions on how to shuck an oyster. Votes: 1

I'd much rather see a world where, when you make some quirky comment on a blog or news story or you upload a video clip, instead of just a moment of fame for your pseudonym, you'll get 50 bucks. The first time that happens, you'll realise that you're a full-class citizen. You have the potential to make money from the system. Votes: 1

My breakdancing crew used to go to the mall and squat a piece of cardboard there; we had our jam box, and I'd spin on my head and make about forty bucks a day, which was pretty good back then. I was only 14 years old, so I would chase the girls around the mall and eat some pizza and have some change left over. Votes: 1

Two is company; three is fifty bucks. Votes: 0

It's all about bucks, kid. The rest is conversation. Votes: 0

I'm a natural. That's why I make the big bucks. Votes: 0

Million bucks won't see you through a major health crisis. Votes: 0

I know the pundits, they get big bucks for . . . pundating. Votes: 0

Midget wrestling on channel 3, it costs me 50 bucks a month. Votes: 0

Country music has always been the best shrink that 15 bucks can buy. Votes: 0

Rick, I'll tell you what. Ten thousand bucks? Ten thousand dollar bet? Votes: 0

Hey, maybe I can sing locally and earn a couple of bucks. Votes: 0

A tuna steak and a salad? Seventy bucks. Welcome to Los Angeles. Votes: 0

Six bucks and my right nut says we're not landing in Chicago. Votes: 0

My first car was a '56 Ford station wagon - cost 100 bucks. Votes: 0

Every person has the right to look and feel like a million bucks. Votes: 0

I like those fancy raincoats you bought. Really sprung for the big bucks. Votes: 0

Women love money. You give them a couple thousand bucks and they're happy. Votes: 0

No one ever made a million bucks by being cautious or timid or reasonable. Votes: 0

I’ve made upwards of a million bucks in the cops and robbers business. Votes: 0

If you buy a $28,000 car, in four years it will be worth about 11,000 bucks. Votes: 0

I still think that's successful, to make 50 bucks a day with your own music. Votes: 0

There's one site where you can buy pictures of me for five bucks a pop. Votes: 0

Keeping a guy in prison costs 50,000 bucks a year. Executing one costs a couple million. Votes: 0

You know they say money can't buy happiness. Give me 50 bucks and watch me smile Votes: 0

Its easier to feel a little more spiritual with a couple of bucks in your pocket. Votes: 0

Fresh dress, like a million bucks, Put on the bally shoes and the fly green socks Votes: 0

The first guy who lays a finger on this blind old man is fined fifty bucks! Votes: 0

They spent all week saving pennies and went out Saturdays to spend fifty bucks in three hours. Votes: 0

Today, I bought a pastrami sandwich: $13.75. Walked back out in the street - genuine Rolex watch: six bucks. Votes: 0

Someone pays me a hundred bucks every Tuesday to DJ. I don't think I'll ever give that up. Votes: 0

The only way that entire car is worth 500 bucks is if there's a 300 dollar hooker sitting in it. Votes: 0

I'll eat a nugget of my own poop for 20 bucks. I'll pay you 20 bucks and I'll eat it. Votes: 0

People don't usually wanna kill me for one of my movies until after they've paid 12 bucks for it. Votes: 0

If you want to earn a million bucks a year, eliminate mediocrity from your thinking and your life. Votes: 0

I got a hundred bucks says my baby beats Pete's baby. I just think genetics are in my favour Votes: 0

You don't know what pressure is until you play for five bucks with only two bucks in your pocket. Votes: 0

Look at the insane things the Jews believe. The Jews believe that Barbra Streisand is worth $1,000 bucks a ticket. Votes: 0

Pressure is when you've got thirty-five bucks riding on a four-foot putt and you've only got five dollars left. Votes: 0

Say what you want about America - thirteen bucks can still get you a hell of a lot of mice! Votes: 0

I'm at best on stage. It's one of the only places where I actually can feel like a million bucks. Votes: 0

I'm happiest playing a match with my dad and a couple of college friends, taking a few bucks off them. Votes: 0

Right at the end of the big wall of vibrators, $29.95, big rubber fist. Thirty bucks! Just in time for mothers day. Votes: 0

He spoke in telegram-as if every word he used cost five bucks, and he only had a twenty in his wallet. Votes: 0

I told my wife 'hey honey come on, let's make love like the old days.' She asked me for 50 bucks. Votes: 0

Bad movies are when people go, 'oh, I wasted $10 bucks and 2 hours and I don't even want to go back again.' Votes: 0

What's missing is the eyeballs in each of us, but it doesn't matter because you've got the bucks, the bucks, the bucks. Votes: 0

If I cut an album now and sell it for ten bucks, I can put seven dollars and fifty cents in my pocket. Votes: 0

Oh, everything's too damned expensive these days. This Bible cost 15 bucks! And talk about a preachy book! Everybody's a sinner! Except this guy. Votes: 0

Sport is increasingly played according to the tune, and rules, of those with the biggest bucks, whether their practices be legal or illegal. Votes: 0

My cousin had a baby and I was watching her breastfeed for a couple of bucks, and I'll tell you ladies: it's amazing. Votes: 0

Insurance companies pay big bucks for procedures but next to nothing for patient consultations and preventive medicine, which is what most medicine is. Votes: 0

There's only 10 guys making big bucks in wrestling, and the rest of them they're making good money, but they're not blowing it away. Votes: 0

Filmmaking is like playing in your imagination and getting paid to do it. I guess I'll ride this horse until it bucks me. Votes: 0

A lot of bands that reunite do it for the wrong reasons. They do it for the bucks and everybody can sense it. Votes: 0

I tried to log on to the Obamacare website today. I don't think I'm doing it right. I lost 300 bucks playing Texas Hold 'Em. Votes: 0

When you can sell [empty seats] at the gate for an upgrade for 500 bucks or 600 bucks... it makes all the sense in the world. Votes: 0

If I had a picture of two handcuffed criminals being booked, I would cut the picture in half and get five bucks for each. Votes: 0

I have ten bucks in my pocket - what to spend it on? French fries - ten dollars' worth of french fries, ultimate fantasy. Votes: 0

Every single person that spent a few bucks to buy a book that I wrote deserves a big thank you from my whole family. Votes: 0

In 1995 I had $7 bucks in my pocket and knew two things: I'm broke as hell and one day I won't be. You Can Achieve Anything! Votes: 0

If you can find a PS3 anywhere in North America that's been on shelves for more than five minutes, I'll give you 1200 bucks for it. Votes: 0

I'm washing lettuce. Soon, I'll be on fries. In a few years, I'll make assistant manager, and that's when the big bucks start rolling in. Votes: 0

There are certainly things labels can still provide that indie artists cant. They can pave the way to radio and pay big bucks for promotion. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I bet a guy at a bar 50 bucks that I was more dysfunctional than he was. He raped me. So I tipped him. I'm very competitive. Votes: 0

If I didn't have to do it, I wouldn't have done it. If I had a million bucks in the bank, I wouldn't have done Playboy. Votes: 0

I didn't have to do paper routes. I'd sing for 5 bucks a crack at weddings and church functions; I'd have four or five on some Saturdays. Votes: 0

How to become a media star: Be a Republican who bucks the party line. How to be ignored by media: Be a Democrat who bucks party line. Votes: 0

What are you guys doing? If you anted me to take a shower, all you had to do was pay me ten bucks, like you usually do Votes: 0

Knowledge and power doesn't come from an entity, it comes from within yourself. What can these things tell you, to put five bucks on Snowflake in the third race? Votes: 0

The further you go on the show, the larger the budget gets. But in the beginning they were just like, "Here's a hundred bucks in L.A. Good luck." Votes: 0

Forget boys and read a good book. Or study. When you're twenty-five and ranking in the big bucks, men will be falling all over you're a successful professional woman. Votes: 0

Knowledge and power doesn't come from an entity, it comes from within yourself. What can these things tell you, to put five bucks on Snowflake in the third race? Votes: 0

The kids are saying 'Make Love, Not War', and I'm beginning to think they're right. For war costs millions of dollars a day, and love--just a few bucks a night! Votes: 0

The players in the promotion business today are, by and large, not in it for the art anymore. It's all about how many bucks can you make on a concert. Votes: 0

The Cards had one pitcher who won fourteen straight games in a period of twenty-four days. Then when he lost his fifteenth game 1-0, his manager fined him fifty bucks. Votes: 0

If an actor is going to be an action hero, do it in a Robert Rodriguez movie, because that guy is going to make you look like a million bucks. Votes: 0

Even though you make twelve hundred bucks a month, if I was making twelve hundred bucks a month to play baseball, I would have done it. I would have stayed. Votes: 0

I'd much rather be on stage talking to a couple of retards for twenty bucks than sitting at my desk thinking up jokes for...well let's say a few dollars more. Votes: 0

The first job I ever had was singing in a jazz club when I was like 15 with my friend, and we earned like 70 bucks. We were like, 'Oh my God!' Votes: 0

Everything in my house was either free or under 40 bucks, and people come to my house and can't believe that I picked up everything on the street or in a thrift shop. Votes: 0

I've seen beautiful actresses get spat at or just someone trying to get a rise out of them so they can get an extra hundred bucks for a photo. It's really rough. Votes: 0

I don't think you need $35 million bucks to make a movie. I think what people should do is make a lot more movies for a lot less money. You can really do it. Votes: 0

I think I'm long past the days where I would go to the store and drop a couple hundred bucks on CDs, so my playlist is gonna be pretty long in the tooth. Votes: 0

That's what's great about show business. It's escapism. You pay your five bucks to get in and sit there and you're in another world. Forget about the problems in the world. It's wonderful. Votes: 0

The skanky vamp biting for bucks on the dark end of state street is your ex boyfriend?" William asked. The look on William's face implied he hoped I washed after interacting with Parrish Votes: 0

Never, under any circumstances, accept a position of responsibility. You will be forced to work harder with no other benefits than a few extra bucks - 'peanuts,' as they say, if that. Votes: 0

If you're involved in an accident and you're at fault $500,000 may not be enough. Do you really want to lose your house because you failed to spend an extra couple of hundred bucks? Votes: 0

The doc told me I had a dual personality. Then he lays an 82 dollar bill on me, so I give him 41 bucks and say, 'Get the other 41 bucks from the other guy.' Votes: 0

They gave it to us for about five bucks a week, and we just went there to live. Probably the first band that ever did that back then and it became the famous cottage. Votes: 0

How many beers do y'all think it takes before one internationally scientist turns to another and says, 'Dude, bet you twenty bucks I can levitate a frog with a magnet?' ' Sam drawled. Votes: 0

If all else fails, I could go to a train station and open up my saxophone case and make some bucks. I can do "Mary Had A Little Lamb," I can do "Happy Birthday." Votes: 0

Cuban cigars is a big expense because I do smoke a lot of them, eight to 12 a day, so that would be almost as bad as a cocaine habit, a hundred bucks a day. Votes: 0

For clothes, I like this little store on Fountain, Matrushka Construction. Beth Ann Whittaker and Laura Howe make amazing things. You can get a designer skirt with cool embroidery for 40 bucks instead of $400 or $4,000. Votes: 0

I was kind of secretly hoping one of my kids would go out and make a million bucks. So when they put me in a home, at least I'll have a window with a view. Votes: 0

Yeah, there's absolutely. I mean, remember when The Searchers came out, it was a relatively big hit for a Western, and I think it made 5 million bucks - I don't even think it made that. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Jimmy Connors plays two tennis matches and winds up with $850,000, and Muhammad Ali fights for one bout and winds up with five million bucks. Me, I play 190 games--if you count exhibitions -- and I'm overpaid! Votes: 0