Many drops make a bucket, many buckets make a pond, many…

If my tears could build a stairway, so you could walk back down to me, I'd cry the tallest staircase, so you could be…

— Anonymous

All authors know that any book is a casting of runes, a reading of cards, a map of the palm and heart. We make…

— Erica Jong

“You can make a boat, but you can't make the ocean. You can make an airplane, but you can't make the air. Your powers…

— Michael Crichton

Write what you know. Every guide for the aspiring author advises this. Because I live in a long-settled rural place, I know certain things.…

— Geraldine Brooks

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…

— Dana Gould

If pigs could vote, the man with the slop bucket would be elected swineherd every time, no matter how much slaughtering he did on…

— Orson Scott Card

When life gives you the opportunity to check off a thing on the bucket list, you have to check them.

— Ryan Tedder

I grew up having to piss in a bucket ’cos there was no indoor shitter, and now I have these computerised Japanese super-loo things…

— Ozzy Osbourne

Seventeen, eh!" said Hagrid as he accepted a bucket-sized glass of wine from Fred. "Six years to the day we met, Harry, d’yeh remember…

— Anonymous

When you are relaxed about where you are at in life, things tend to flow more fluidly. It is as if you poke three…

— Jennifer O'Neill

My paternal grandmother would not light a fire on the Sabbath and piled all Sunday's washing-up in a bucket, to be dealt with on…

— Angela Carter

Two tears in a bucket. Motherfuck it.

— John Berendt

After Nicholas hung up the phone, he watched his mother carry buckets and garden tools across the couch grass toward a bed that would,…

— Stephen M. Irwin

What a pure blessing it was to have a bath in a tub alone in a room where all you had to do was…

— Nancy E. Turner

In the water bucket a melon and an eggplant nodding to each other

— Yosa Buson