Buck O'neil Quotes

#1. Yeah, like this one carny up in Fargo. It had a big sign saying 'See the Siamese twins,' and everybody pays a buck, thinking they're gonna see two people hooked together. And when they get there it's a cage with two Siamese kittens in it. Like that.

Connie Willis

#2. Solutions to problems often come from knowing when to ask for help.

Buck Brannaman

#3. Those youngsters go out there and set a record and clinch the pole position. But what do you do if you wreck your car. That record doesn't spend too well.

Buck Baker

#4. In good times, people turn to Left wing parties, in bad times, they say, well, possibly Left-wing parties can't make those tough decisions ... We've got to buck that trend

Ed Miliband

#5. Only people who are assured of daily food can concern themselves with matters of principle and ethic. A man will become a slave rather than starve.

Pearl S. Buck

#6. The first peaches of spring - the first peaches! Buy, eat, purge your bowels of the poisons of winter!

Pearl S. Buck

#7. Riding across Nebraska in a covered wagon was a monthlong immersion therapy in kindness, a reminder of the essential decency of my country.

Rinker Buck

#8. I am proud that I have devoted all my life to the struggle for the triumph of Leninism.

Tim Buck

#9. I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.

Pearl S. Buck

#10. The old deep sadness of life lay in the bottom of her heart and she knew it was there, but she would not allow herself to sink into it. Out of the dark and sullen bottom of a lake the lotus flowers bloomed upon its surface, and she would pluck the flowers.

Pearl S. Buck

#11. But what happens when her beauty is torn from her like a cover from a book? Will he care to read her then, although her pages speak of nothing but love for him?

Pearl S. Buck

#12. While every body wants it, most don't want to give it.

Buck Rodgers

#13. To take each day as a separate page, to be read carefully, savoring all of the details, this is best for me, I think.

Pearl S. Buck

#14. Nothing is menial where there is love.

Pearl S. Buck

#15. Little Joe was still behind him. Eli could feel it. He wanted to look back, but he couldn't. The tears were too close. If he were Fancy, he'd turn around and kick and buck and moo and do just about anything to keep his calf near. But Eli wasn't Fancy; he was a farmer.

Sandra Neil Wallace

#16. And out of his heaviness there stood out strangely but one clear thought and it was a pain to him, and it was this, that he wished he had not taken the two pearls from O-lan that day when she was washing his clothes at the pool, and he would never bear to see Lotus put them in her ears again.

Pearl S. Buck

#17. In our beautiful memory
We were all handsome
We could all sing
We all had the heart
Of the prettiest girl in town
And we all hit .300

John Buck O'Neil

#18. Depending on how he gripped the ball and how hard he threw it, Satchel Paige had pitches that included the bat-dodger, the two-hump blooper, the four-day creeper, the dipsy-do, the Little Tom, the Long Tom, the bee ball, the wobbly ball, the hurry-up ball and the nothin' ball.

Buck O'Neil

#19. The thing I love about political interviews is, if you're really prepared, you can make great headway because these are the people for whom, theoretically at least, the buck stops.

Soledad O'Brien

#20. You know, you meet some people, and do a lot of interviews, and you come across a Buck O'Neill and you know you are going to know him for the rest of your life. The same thing happened with Curt Flood.

Ken Burns

#21. I'm a registered Republican and consider socialism a violation of the American principle that you shouldn't stick your nose in other people's business except to make a buck.

P. J. O'Rourke

#22. You get up about 2-3 o'clock in the morning and get through about 7 or 8 and 12 hours later you start all over. That's the worst kind of work a person can do. You have to do these two shifts to get one day.

Buck Owens

#23. O. J. Simpson theory of legal fees: I'm not paying you; you're lucky to be here; go make a buck with your book.

John Grisham

#24. You cannot be happy until you understand that life is sad

Pearl S. Buck

#25. Happiness was waiting to be chosen.

Pearl S. Buck

#26. It's important to preach like there's a broken heart on every pew. That's always been a phrase that stuck with me. Not everybody is having a tough time, but you can bet your buck that there's a good tenth of your church that's going through a hard season. There really is a broken heart on every pew.

Max Lucado

#27. 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.

Buzz Osborne

#28. The thing about commuting internationally is that you have to be a lawyer or an airline steward to do it successfully.

Joan Juliet Buck

#29. We learn as much from sorrow as from joy, as much from illness as from health, from handicap as from advantage - and indeed perhaps more.

Pearl S. Buck

#30. Nations, like individuals, can only learn by their own individual experience." Yul-chun

Pearl S. Buck

#31. When we define democracy now it must still be as a thing hoped for but not seen.

Pearl S. Buck

#32. You got what you deserved. Now be a man and confess to what most of us already know.

Stacy Buck

#33. When you don't know where you're at, you don't get upset you're not somewhere else.

George W. Buck

#34. No daughter is ever her mother's darling. That spot is always reserved for the son.

Pearl S. Buck

#35. Introversion, at least if extreme, is a sign of mental and spiritual immaturity.

Pearl S. Buck

#36. I started rapping when I was about 12 or 13, just playing around with it.

Young Buck

#37. Stop going for the easy buck and start producing something with your life. Create, instead of living off the buying and selling of others.

Martin Sheen

#38. As for inhibitions, I've spent a lifetime developing them, and I don't intend to lose them.

Pearl S. Buck

#39. Is man all man and is woman all woman? If so, they will never come together, since he lives for his own being and she lives for universal life, and these are opposites.

Pearl S. Buck

#40. With short hair you begin to crave pearl necklaces, long earrings, and a variety of sunglasses. Short hair removes obvious femininity and replaces it with style.

Joan Juliet Buck

#41. and his voice came from him in a whisper,

Pearl S. Buck

#42. The desire to change the world is a tremendous advantage as you travel down the difficult path ahead because focusing on a lofty goal is more energizing and attracts more talent than simply making a buck.

Guy Kawasaki

#43. Lady Limelight is a jealous lady. She wants all of your attention. You don't have any time to think of anything else but Lady Limelight, because pretty soon that light will be shinning on somebody else. So you better do it while you can.

Buck Owens

#44. Buck is a mammoth, like a yeti. A huge perverted, hairy whore of a yeti. According to the sportscasters, Buck's an excellent hockey player. I'd agree, based on his yearly salary alone. No one gets much money for sucking, not even extremely skilled prostitutes.

Helena Hunting

#45. That buck that bought a bottle could have struck the lotto

Nas

#46. We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.

Buck Henry