Top 100 Bucks Quotes

Seriously, we should start taxing churches and have tax-exempt places for worship and study of nature and art. Charge ten bucks for Sunday services and make the Botanic Gardens free.

I like to play golf. You know, make a little money, lose a little money. Get 10 bucks, lose 20 bucks.

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.

When I moved from Boston to L.A., I floundered. I definitely did time at the Improv and the Comedy Store, making 20 bucks a night. I learned how to be a starving comic. I was an in-debt comic: I ate well on loan.

A lot of time, when you’re poor and you ain’t got but 15, 20 bucks in your pocket – if you can’t change your shoes, you can change your look with a haircut.

When we do deals, it’s not, ‘Ah, it’s a million bucks, who cares?’ The penny means something.

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

The whole idea behind the EB-5 visa was to help create jobs in economically disadvantaged areas. But where big bucks are involved, corruption soon follows, and with Chuck Schumer and the EB-5 visa program, you need to follow the money.

It was at a big swap meet that I discovered you could buy other people’s old discarded family photos and vacation pictures for pretty cheap – a quarter, 50 cents, five bucks for a really nice one.

I played ‘Mortal Kombat’ competitively in arcades. Played for money at 10, hustling the 20-year-olds. Five bucks on whoever wins. Which, at 10 years old, is real money.

In my junior high and high school days, I would just pick up a mower and go mow the neighbor’s grass and make an extra 30 bucks.

I’m after the bucks because bucks give you the power, power gives you the freedom, and freedom lets you send money home to your mother.

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.

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.

When I started I’d fly across the country to do a gig for a hundred bucks.

Ricky Morton and Robert Gibson were not giants, they were giants in the ring, they drew money, people loved them and that’s what you find in the Young Bucks.

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

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

Not only as designers, but as creatives, we’re all about the importance of creating that super chic space that feels like a million bucks without having to spend a million bucks.

New York reminds me of what my career was like when I lived here, so when I walk through the streets, I remember when I had ten bucks in my pocket and all I could eat is Chipotle.

I don’t indulge in the luxury of feeling when necessity requires that we meet a target. One just bucks up and does it.

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

I don’t know if we have any action going on, so there shouldn’t be anybody worried about the rumors if it entails the Milwaukee Bucks. This is our team.

I remember, when I was growing up in Baltimore, we’d get on a streetcar and go down to see the Orioles, and for a couple of bucks, you could get a pretty good seat. Kids can’t do that anymore. So I think that changes the whole nature of sports.

First paying gig, I got 20 bucks. I played at some really weird venue. I don’t remember the venue; I just remember it was the last stop on the A train. It was, like, the Far Rockaways, Queens, and it was an audience of, like, three people.

We’re gonna raise some big bucks and breed ’em and that sorta thing. Pretty excited about that.

When I got the ‘Blue Album,’ I was 11 years old, 10 years old, and then I convinced my parents to go and get my first drum kit, which was, like, 600 bucks.

We keep a woman in prison for decade after decade at a cost of $60,000 a year, and then give them $200 when they hit the gates for release. And, adios. People have to get their IDs, Social Security cards. They have to get clothing, housing, apply for benefits and services, and it’s impossible to do with 200 bucks.

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.

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

When I go back home I can see the excitement about the Bucks.

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.

The Young Bucks do a good amount of winking at their audience and you can argue whether that’s good or bad.

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.

My first signing bonus was 3,500 bucks. I bought speakers and a five-disc carousel CD changer. Dude, I thought I was the wealthiest quarterback around.

You can’t really go into TV thinking, ‘Maybe I can make a few bucks doing this thing I’m only kind of interested in to support my one true love, which is prose fiction.’ I think you have to love what you’re doing to do it well.

Nowadays, most educated people would just as soon stay home and watch ‘Breaking Bad’ as shell out a hundred bucks to see a Broadway play – assuming that there are any plays on Broadway worth seeing, which long ago ceased to be a safe bet.

This is what happens when you get old and have a couple of bucks. You go back and try to be young again.

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

I’ve done so many jobs. As an actor, you have to. I didn’t have my parents footing the bill when I moved to New York. I moved here with, like, 300 bucks. I was a bike messenger. I was a waiter. I was a bartender. I worked in a consignment shop for high-end designers.

I used to go and cop stacks of blanks CDs and sit there and burn copies of my mixtapes and print up my own mixtape covers and post up in downtown Oakland and Telegraph in Berkeley and literally was selling my mixtapes for five bucks, hand-to-hand.

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.

I did two matches for WCW, for ‘Saturday Night’ and for ‘WorldWide.’ Scott D’Amore was booking the extra talent. I remember I was really torn about it. I was like, ‘Hmm… I don’t want to do that. I don’t want to just be an extra guy. I want so much more than that,’ but I was flat broke, and it was 500 bucks.

My first choice was to work it out with Larry Brown. I needed Larry and I gave him 50 million bucks. This is a situation that I’m in and I’ll handle it and I’ll make it work.

It would absolutely suck if you paid a few bucks for a book only to find that on the first page it said, ‘Once upon a time they all lived happily ever after’ and the rest of the book was blank.

I use Jane Iredale SPF foundation and bronzer, along with the brand’s brushes. Her stuff keeps my face all glowy and looking good for interviews and moments when I want to feel like a million bucks.

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

The biggest thing is getting the kid in a kart – they have to buy it and that’s the biggest thing. You can go to a sporting store and buy a basketball for 30 bucks or a football for 30 bucks. You go buy a go-kart and that’s 300 bucks. What are you going to get? A basketball or a go-kart?

They pay me the big bucks to make the big plays.

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

It’s hard to find that perfect dress that makes you feel like a million bucks. I’ve found a few, and I wish I could wear them over and over and over again on red carpets.

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.

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

Women love money. Give ’em a couple thousand bucks and they are happy.

Large and profitable newspapers have the ability to drop the cover price of their publications to increase circulation – this, in turn, attracts the advertising bucks and makes them more powerful.

I grew up in Bucks County, Pennsylvania and have spent a lot of time in the Midwest.