“That's conversation. I charge six bucks an hour for that.”
"A Young Girl's Primer" (1966)
On Dirty's bet
My Heart Will Always Be The B-Side To My Tongue (2004), Honda Civic Tour (2007)
“That's conversation. I charge six bucks an hour for that.”
"A Young Girl's Primer" (1966)
This saying, also popularized by Truman, was on a sign on his desk https://www.trumanlibrary.org/buckstop.htm, but did not originate with him. According to the Truman Presidential Library, it was sent to him nearly two months after the Hiroshima atomic bombing.
Misattributed
“The buck stops with everybody.”
Q: Does the buck stop with you over this shutdown?
White House press conference, , quoted in * 2019-01-10
Rejecting responsibility, Trump declares, ‘The buck stops with everybody’
Steve Benen
MSNBC
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/rejecting-responsibility-trump-declares-the-buck-stops-everybody, and with video in * 2019-01-10
Trump: 'Buck stops with everybody' for shutdown he was proud to own
Oliver Willis
American Independent
https://americanindependent.com/trump-buck-stops-with-everybody-shutdown-proud/
2010s, 2019, January
“You want it in one line? Does it have to fit in 80 columns?”
[7349@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV, 1990]
Usenet postings, 1990
Source: The House that Jack Built (2001), Chapter 1 (p. 14)
“Two is company; three is fifty bucks.”
Reported in The Quotable Quote Book (1990), p. 258
“Rob: "I got 20 bucks that say you can't finish that."”
Bucky Katt's Big Book of Fun, page 15
Bucky Katt, Dialogue
“There is no way in which one can buck the market.”
Prime Ministers' Questions (10 March 1988) https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1988/mar/10/engagements#S6CV0129P0_19880310_HOC_156
Third term as Prime Minister
“It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.”