Bucket Quotes - page 2

Nasreddin Khodja commanded his disciples, when he sneezed, to salute him by clapping their hands and crying out: "Haïr Ollah, Khodja," that is "Prosperity to thee, O Master!" Now it came to pass that on one of the days the bucket fell into the well [...] he descended, caught the bucket, and the boys were already pulling him up, when, just as he was drawing near the edge of the well, he chanced to sneeze. Whereupon they, mindful of the master's behest, let go the rope and, clapping their hands in high glee, cried out in chorus: "Haïr Ollah, Khodja," Nasreddin was precipitated violently into the well, bruising himself against the sides. [...] "Well, boys, it was not your fault, but mine: too much honour is no good thing for man." (Nasreddin)
He had a battered face that looked as if it had been hit by everything but the bucket of a dragline. It was scarred, flattened, thickened, checkered, and welted. It was a face that had nothing to fear. Everything had been done to it that anybody could think of. View quote
Raymond Chandler
They say, 'you mean it's just sounds?' thinking that for something to just be a sound is to be useless, whereas I love sounds just as they are, and I have no need for them to be anything more than what they are. I don't want them to be psychological. I don't want a sound to pretend that it's a bucket or that it's president or that it's in love with another sound. I just want it to be a sound. View quote
John Cage
To be identified with the public is the divine gift of the best-sellers in popular Romance and, no doubt, in popular realism. E. M. Forster once spoke of the novelist as sending down a bucket into the unconscious; the author of She installed a suction pump. He drained the whole reservoir of the public's secret desires. Critics speak of the reader suspending unbelief; the best-seller knows better; man is a believing animal. View quote
V. S. Pritchett
I cleaned up my act because otherwise I would have kicked the bucket. View quote
Lou Reed
Put ya shoulder to the handle, if ya dare, and hoist that bucket hither, Crank'n'hoist'n'hoist'n'crank, till ya muscles waste'n'wither. View quote
Nick Cave
I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future. View quote
Carl Sandburg
Never get between a Premier and a bucket of money. View quote
Paul Keating
Lower a bucket into a well of self-deception, and what comes up must be immortal truth, mustn't it? View quote
Charles Reade
Not worth a bucket of warm spit. View quote
John Nance Garner
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)
I'm not intimidated by anything, except maybe PETA standing outside with a bucket of blood. View quote
Johnny Weir
I always want to learn but I am sure on my dying day I will feel like I left something in the bucket. View quote
Tim McGraw
If somebody blocks you when you're walking, you're positively Edwardian in your manners. You do this sheepish little smile together, and you step aside. And you both do it at the same time, and you go "for goodness sake, what a to-do! Oh-ho-ho, dear me! I'll just eh, I'll just-oh, we did it again, can you believe it, I can't believe it! We should be on the stage! One more time, I'll just-oh, how did we ever get this far as a species!" But, for some reason, in a car, that becomes "YOU SPUNK BUCKET!".... from, you know, an eighty nine year-old church warden. View quote
Dylan Moran
Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill. View quote
William Butler Yeats
[on John McCain] I don't need a president with a bucket list! View quote
Chris Rock
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. View quote
Ellen Kushner
I wouldn't trust you with a bucket of water if my knickers were on fire! View quote
Terry Pratchett
Opportunities come infrequently. When it rains gold, put out the bucket, not the thimble. View quote
Warren Buffett
Seek not for fresher founts afar, just drop you bucket where you are. View quote
Sam Walter Foss
I am going to take this bucket of water and pour it on the flames of hell, and then I am going to use this torch to burn down the gates of paradise so that people will not love God for want of heaven or fear of hell, but because He is God. (John Green (author))
Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don't go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won't laugh at you. View quote
Jim Rohn
The old oaken bucket, the iron-bound bucket, The moss-covered bucket, which hung in the well. View quote
Samuel Woodworth
Wiki is like a leaky bucket of information. It's losing information every day. But more information is coming in, so the net is positive. Even if it can lose things, wiki always has more to say than it did the day before. View quote
Ward Cunningham
The doc­trines that by keep­ing out for­eign goods more wealth, and con­se­quently more employ­ment, will be cre­ated at home, are either true or they are not true. We con­tend that they are not true. We con­tend that for a nation to try to tax itself into pros­per­ity is like a man stand­ing in a bucket and try­ing to lift him­self up by the han­dle. View quote
Winston Churchill