Bucket Quotes

“I wasn’t a nerd, mind you, but I’d spent a lot of my youth studying Epics, so I’d had limited experience with social interaction. I mixed with ordinary people about the same way that a bucket of paint mixed with a bag of gerbils.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Firefight

“To improve oneself you must be as persistent as the drip, drip, drip of water filling a bucket. Do a little bit, every day.”
― Jeffrey Fry

“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, This is Rage: A Novel of Silicon Valley and Other Madness

“Your water is in the bottles, and my water is in the bucket, but we are brothers?
I am collecting garbage, and you are in the bed, but we are sisters?
My fingers are broken, and your hands are so soft, but we are family?
Your God is like an angel, and my God is like an evil, but we are equal?
My stomach is empty, and your stomach is so big, but we are humans?”
― M.F. Moonzajer, LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS

“Sometimes, I imagine that the universe is like an unmoved, round bucket! The water inside is like the space all around; the space is moving as the water in the bucket. The spinning planets are like the dipped and moving mug and the sun is like the accidentally fallen bug in the middle of the bucket!”
― Md. Ziaul Haque

“It's just a drop in the bucket, but that's how buckets are filled.”
― James S.A. Corey

“Could just feed 'im to the dogs, Prez," Bucket drawled. "Wouldn't have to feed 'em for a whole fuckin' month after that."

Dirty rolled his eyes. Bucket was full of shit; the club didn't have any dogs.”
― Madeline Sheehan, Unattainable

“I was falling for his lies until he started crying. (sighs) excuse me but I'm gonna need another bucket.”
― ~forkenca~

“To attempt to justify a lie is much like pouring water into a bucket with no bottom while actually thinking that you have a bucket.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“People often bemoan the demands in their lives. And in some sort of deeply lamenting tone they say, “Don’t you understand? My bucket is full.” But when you spend your life committed to a small bucket it might be full, but your life is not and neither is your rationale for complaining.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“All I had was an old bamboo pole that was cracked at the base, a handful of rusty hooks, a coffee can full of worms, and a listless summer’s afternoon sitting on an aging dock. And the greatest joy on any one of those many summer days was not catching the fish that filled my bucket. Rather, it was to release them at the end of the day so that they might fill the bucket of another.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough