Top 100 Bucket Quotes
#1. Holding onto anger is like carrying a bucket of poison. Every step you walk, it splashes onto yourself and others. When you finally reach the one who deserves it, you have poisoned yourself and many other innocent people.
Dean Henryson
#2. When the hole was done they backed the machine up and turned it around and used the front bucket to push Keever into his grave, scraping him, rolling him, covering his body with dirt, until finally it fell over the lip and thumped down into the electric shadows.
Lee Child
#3. Some nights stay up till dawn,
as the moon sometimes does for the sun.
Be a full bucket pulled up the dark way
of a well, then lifted out into light.
Rumi
#4. I would love to be a Bond girl. That is on my bucket list, definitely.
Morena Baccarin
#5. I always want to learn but I am sure on my dying day I will feel like I left something in the bucket.
Tim McGraw
#6. Nothing like having a bucket of cold water flung over you to make you see things as they really are!
Enid Blyton
#7. I had a dream about you. It happened during the day. You used a pencil to erase the ink I wrote over the chalkboard since the professor told me 7 + 4 didn't equal 10. You were really cool about it; in fact, you handed me a bucket of ice. Apparently I needed to chill out.
Melody Sohayegh
#8. She would say 'Bucket moon'
he would answer 'Ladle moon.'
Night after night sky revealed a
bitten moon, a butcher's moon,
an apple moon, a thief's moon,
a rabbit
'Rabbit moon?'
'Don't you see it?'
'I used to chase rabbits,' she had said,
her voice sweet and tired.
Toby Barlow
#9. I know you engineer types are excellent with mathematics, much better than I ever will be, but I do know the difference between a tiny pail of coins and big bucket of dollars. How can I take the pail when I am worth the bucket?
Ken Goldstein
#10. Laura, why do you go around pretending to be Julie Andrews , when you're actually Hyacinth Bucket?
Harriet Evans
#11. The Ephebians made wine out of anything they could put in a bucket, and ate anything that couldn't climb out of one.
Terry Pratchett
#13. When we play the game like we're supposed to play it, it is pretty easy. Making the extra pass, making the simple play, it's not about between your legs, behind your back, and all of that, it's just about scoring the bucket.
Karl Malone
#14. You can't get past the liberal press with a bucket of ink.
Judy Martz
#15. He stepped on it. Squished it. Squashed it. Killed it. Cut it down in its prime. It kicked the bucket, turned up its toes, shuffled off this mortal coil. It was ... an ex-rabbit."
"He's a dangerous man, your father."
"The baby better learn to dodge.
Derek Landy
#16. Americans around the country who came forward to make my 'bucket list' dream come true.
Brittany Maynard
#17. When it's raining gold, reach for a bucket, not a thimble.
Warren Buffett
#18. No we don't want a bucket of blood
Just a cup is all we could use
Jimmy Buffett
#19. I play for the poor man. I try to give a thrill to the lunch bucket fan. I know their plight. I worked in a factory in high school. The poor folk who lay out the hard bread to see a game. That's where my heart lies. The rich don't need heroes.
Leon Wagner
#20. People talk about this 'bucket list': 'I need to go to this country, I need to skydive.' Whereas I need to think as much as I can, to feel as much as I can, to be conscious and observe and understand me and the people around me as much as I can.
Amy Tan
#21. Strange how everyone tried to disguise truth with nonsense. Like the slang for death: kicking the bucket, wiped out, snuffed, wasted, blown away. The light touch to dispel the heavy fear.
Robert Bloch
#22. A little bit of suspicion is a dangerous thing; a drop from a pipette of poison into a bucket of otherwise clean water.
Bella Pollen
#23. However, the thought hit me that this was a pretty pathetic way to kick the bucket - being accidentally poisoned during a photo shoot, of all things - and I started weeping at the idiocy of it all.
Lara St. John
#24. Like eels in a bucket, slithering over one another and trying to bite each other's tails
Brandon Sanderson
#26. I think it's very useful for you folks (reporters) to try your damndest to be precise. And don't repeat things that are inaccurate if you can possibly avoid it. And when you see things that are inaccurate, knock them down
because there's a bucket of it floating around.
Donald Rumsfeld
#27. It's gonna be awesome! A suspected pedophile dunks my kids head in a bucket so when she dies she can live in an invisible castle. Set the alarm!
Dana Gould
#28. Opportunities come infrequently. When it rains gold, put out the bucket, not the thimble
Warren Buffett
#29. Bouquet list. You've heard of the Jack Nicholson movie, right? The Bucket List? Two old guys who make a list of everything they want to do before they die. Well, when I was starting to recover, I wrote a list of the things I want to do now that I know I'm not going to die - my bouquet list.
Barbara DeLeo
#30. All those things for which we have no words are lost. The mind - the culture - has two little tools, grammar and lexicon: a decorated sand bucket and a matching shovel. With these we bluster about the continents and do all the world's work. With these we try to save our very lives.
Annie Dillard
#31. Awakening into the God state makes all the perceptual limitations of the mind disappear, just like a bucket of muddy water turns crystal-clear once poured into the ocean.
Abhijit Naskar
#32. Life is a bucket of shit with a barbed wire handle.
Jim Thompson
#33. Affection can no more spoil a child than the sun could be put out by a bucket of gasoline.
L. Ron Hubbard
#34. Friend of fatherless! Fountain of happiness! Lord of the swill-bucket! Oh, how my soul is on Fire when I gaze at thy Calm and commanding eye, Like the sun in the sky, Comrade Napoleon!
George Orwell
#35. My way of discovering of what I like was to create a restaurant list and eat my way through it, and I call it my 'inner fat girl bucket list.'
Nina Dobrev
#36. Living with only men hadn't been the environment for sharing feelings and crying over a bucket of ice cream. I'd been raised to suck it up and keep moving, so that was what I did.
E.M. Abel
#37. It's on my bucket list, to get in a real fight.
Naya Rivera
#39. You tried to slide his original curse back onto him?" Al said in wonder. "At the restaurant? And I stopped you? Sweet mother pus bucket!" he exclaimed, and I swear, dust sifted from the ceiling. "Rachel, we have to work on this communication thing.
Kim Harrison
#40. Valkyrie smiled patiently. I like how you do your make-up. Do you use a brush, or just dip your head in the bucket?
Derek Landy
#41. After a certain length of time has passed, things harden up. Like a cement hardening in a bucket. And we can't go back anymore
Haruki Murakami
#42. When teaching, light a fire, don't fill a bucket.
Dan Snow
#43. Ridiculous to think what indignities I would suffer in silence, if I knew that I was to be rewarded with an oversize bucket of hot water, the magus said as he settled into the bath the servants had filled for him.
Megan Whalen Turner
#44. Oh, gosh, first of all, Paula Deen is my idol. I adore that woman. I got to be on her show a few months ago, and I'm telling you that was at the top of my bucket list.
Kimberly Schlapman
#45. I had a very funny and depressing talk with my seventy-four-year-old mother. I decided, she doesn't have a bucket list - she has a kick-the-bucket list.
Lori Lesko
#46. I kept buying bucket hats. Next thing I knew, I felt like I didn't look right without one.
Schoolboy Q
#47. All I'm going to say is that I worked with Christopher Walken the other day. I can cross him and working with Clint Eastwood off my bucket list!
Jeremy Luke
#48. The highest treason a crab can commit is to make a leap for the rim of the bucket.
Steven Pressfield
#49. One of my favorite things about Tom Waits is not only his songs, but when he does do live shows, it's the theatrics involved. It's like Kabuki theater, really old-fashioned theatrics. Like, standing on top of a piece of plywood lying on some cinderblocks and clapping his hands, banging on a bucket.
Brittany Howard
#50. Someone who takes the trouble to see her file at one of the many brokerages, for example, might see the home mortgage, a Verizon bill, and a $ 459 repair on the garage door. But she won't see that she's in a bucket of people designated as "Rural and Barely Making It,"or perhaps "Retiring on Empty.
Cathy O'Neil
#51. I don't have much of a bucket list. I don't have a lot of needs and desires.
Fred DeLuca
#52. Slang is a foul pool at which every dunce fills his bucket, and then sets up as a fountain.
Ambrose Bierce
#53. A phrase from Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil came to mind: Two tears in a bucket. Motherfuck it.
Zane
#54. Did you have sex in that alley?" "Inside the SUV." Beth unwound her arms and sat back. She lifted a hand in the air. "High five." Vanni just stared at her blankly. "Bucket list, remember? Sex in a car.
Laurann Dohner
#55. Seriously though, why am I naked?" I ask her one last time.
"You said-and I quote, I want to feel the breeze of the house-air on my skin as I walk up three flights of stairs. I've never done that before. Bucket list! Unquote.
Amy Daws
#56. Most time is wasted, not in hours, but in minutes. A bucket with a small hole in the bottom gets just as empty as a bucket that is deliberately kicked over ...
Paul J. Meyer
#57. Entertainer of the Year, to me, there's never been any question that that's one on my bucket list that I want. I'm not going to sit here and lie to you. If there's one that I ever could get - I would trade all the rest of them in for that one.
Jason Aldean
#58. If he looks at me like that again Dottie will need a bucket and mop to get me back to my room.
Gwenn Wright
#59. To those of my race who depend on bettering their condition in a foreign land or who underestimate the importance of cultivating friendly relations with the Southern white man, who is their next-door neighbor, I would say 'Cast down your bucket where you are.'
Booker T. Washington
#60. If you approach the ocean with a cup, you can only take away a cupful; if you approach it with a bucket you can take away a bucketful.
Ramana Maharshi
#61. It was a master surgeon, him that ampytated me - out of college and all - Latin by the bucket, and what not; but he was hanged like a dog, and sun-dried like the rest, at Corso Castle.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#62. It was as though I had been dying of thirst and the librarian had handed me a five gallon bucket of water. I drank and drank. The only reason I am here and not in prison is because of that woman. I was a loser, but she showed me the power of reading.
Gary Paulsen
#63. Oh God," Jase groaned, rubbing a hand down his jaw. "She's a friend, Dad."
"Uh-huh." His father backed up, picking up the bucket. "Friends with a pretty gal like that, then you're doing something wrong, son.
J. Lynn
#64. Was sorrow, in the end, a private thing? A closed container? Something that, like a bucket of water, could be borne only on a single pair of shoulders?
Alan Bradley
#65. Every offensive lost its force as it proceeded. It was like throwing a bucket of water over the floor. It first rushed forward, then soaked forward, and finally stopped altogether until another bucket could be brought.
Winston Churchill
#66. On 3 things in his bucket list: On my bucket list ... Uhm, the question is totally catching me by surprise. Some more travel, spending quality time with my family and just getting the most I can out of my wife and daughter.
Gabriel Macht
#67. Being near you for a day was at the top of my bucket list of the greatest life achievements, so this has by far exceeded my expectations and everyday has been magic.
Crystal Woods
#68. I've got things I have to do in fiction to sort of register my existence, before I kick the bucket, but it will never be my living and I know it. Plus it never moved fast enough for me and lacked cut and thrust. I need to be in the real show.
William Monahan
#69. 'Star Wars' is on my bucket list. Even if it's just a small walk on, I don't care.
Ming-Na Wen
#70. If pigs could vote, the man with the slop bucket would be elected swineherd every time, no matter how much slaughtering he did on the side.
Orson Scott Card
#71. The pig was soon dissected and its blood filled the bucket in the bottom of which a patch of sky was reflected darkly. It had surrendered to the vortex of life and his breathing.
Michel Fardoulis-Lagrange
#72. I do declare! I'd rather jump barefoot off a six-foot step ladder into a five-gallon bucket full of porcupines than see anything gad happen to you."
"I don'y think that's necessary , but the situation scares me a little
Ashlyn Chase
#73. Well, that explains why we jumped into bed with each other so quickly. We were both hornier than a bucket of desert toads.
Olivia Cunning
#74. Let the bucket of memory down into the well, bring it up. Cool, cool minutes. No one stirring, no plans. Just being there.
William Stafford
#75. People pay money to go in there and that row thrown at them? Could stick your head in a bucket and whack it with a stick for free ...
Charlie Fletcher
#76. We made the joke when we screened 'Bucket List' that there was 100% desire to see amongst our demographic with a 40% ability to get them to see it.
Rob Reiner
#77. Blues was my first love. It was the first thing where I said, 'Oh man, this is the stuff.' It just sounded so raw and honest, gut-bucket honest. From then I started rebelling.
Carlos Santana
#78. I'm the Duke of Riverside. I build things here and pretty much keep the peace, and discourage certain behaviors. If you think all that has been achieved through entirely civil and lawful means, you've had your head in a bucket.
Ellen Kushner
#79. Rampage frowns. "If you can't even hear about it, how are you going to watch the fight?" Bucket on head. Facecloth over eyes. Torment has given me lots of options.
Sarah Castille
#80. I don't keep a Bucket List. I'm open to anything.
John Scalzi
#81. Her former Columbia Law mentee Diane Zimmerman remembers the exuberant party thrown by students and faculty. RBG sat on the floor giggling, eating Kentucky Fried Chicken out of a bucket.
Irin Carmon
#82. Perhaps memory is like a bucket; if you want to cram into it more fruit than it will hold, the fruit is crushed.
Primo Levi
#83. Bucket
I feel so dreamy
dreamy lazy, crazy sleepy
like I want to be there
in the doorway, the doorway
or the porch corner
be sitting, be empty
notdoing not going
an old bucket left there
in the porch corner is like I am
an old empty bucket somebody left there.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#84. Human beings will line up for miles to buy a bucket of catastrophes, but don't try selling sunshine and light - you'll go broke.
Chuck Jones
#85. We have travelled a long distance from the cow with a bucket of raw milk under its udder. We are a long way from home.' This
Deborah Levy
#86. If a house is burning, and bucket of water is thrown on the blaze and doesn't extinguish the fire, this doesn't mean that water won't put out fire. It means we need more water. And so with nonviolence.
Dorothy Cotton
#87. I didn't think I'd end up divorced with three kids and a bucket fanny, but there you go.
Robert Bryndza
#88. I want to work, but I certainly am not going to be clawing at empty things when I can completely fill up my bucket with them - the other is a waste of my time.
Kelli O'Hara
#89. She's a charming middle-aged lady with a face like a bucket of mud and if she has washed her hair since Coolidge's second term I'll eat my spare tyre, rim and all.
Raymond Chandler
#90. bucket on the deck behind him, bait sloshing. He
Heather Burch
#91. If you have only a glass of water, then one person can drink. If you have a bucket, a whole family can benefit.
Chen Guangbiao
#92. If one foot is in a bucket of steam, and the other is in a bucket of ice, you are not, on average, comfortable.
Andy Hargreaves
#93. The trouble with bucket seats is that not everybody has the same size bucket.
Maxine
#94. I think you can have a Left that isn't culturally conservative talking about lunch-bucket issues.
Richard Rorty
#95. Colder than the nipple on a witch's tit! Colder than a bucket of penguin shit! Colder than the hairs of a polar bear's ass! Colder than the frost on a champagne glass!
Thomas Pynchon
#96. But thinking about it didn't do a thing. Thinking about it was a long dive into a bucket of shit that didn't have a bottom.
Cheryl Strayed
#97. My sister gave me a big bucket of Cool Whip. Isn't that awesome? For two weeks I basically watched Emergency! and ate cool whip with a spoon.
Steve Zahn
#98. Putting all of my time In learning to care And a bucket of rhymes I threw up somewhere Want a locket of who Made me lose my perfunctory view Of all that is around And of all that I do.
Rufus Wainwright
#99. It's not the nineteenth century; I'm not meant to be judged on how good a housekeeper I am. Getting down on the floor with a lemon and a bucket of vinegar does not make me a better person.
Emily Matchar
#100. I drink a bucket of white tea in the morning. I read about this tea of the Emperor of China, which is supposedly the tea of eternal youth. It's called Silver Needle. It's unbelievably expensive, but I get it on the Web.
Antonio Banderas
