Bucket Quotes
165 quotes by 147 authors
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Mr. Wonka: "Don’t forget what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he wanted." Charlie Bucket: "What happened?" Mr. Wonka: "He lived happily ever…
— Roald Dahl
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Want is a thing that unfurls unbidden like fungus, opening large upon itself, stopless, filling the sky. But needs, from one day to the next,…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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No, death hadn't changed [Willie] much. But just in case, I avoided looking directly into his eyes. It was standard policy for dealing with vampires.…
— Laurell K. Hamilton
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The past is a bucket of ashes
— Carl Sandburg
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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 it?"…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Love is like water from the ocean." Damiana said. "You cannot empty it dry. Take bucket after bucket of water out of the Cormeon Sea,…
— Sharon Shinn
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I bear my testimony that there is no joy to be found in all this world like that of sweet communion with Christ. I would…
— Charles Spurgeon
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And if my choice is to sit graciously in my best robes and accept the inevitable or to bail a sea with a bucket, give…
— Robin McKinley
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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…
— George Orwell
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I woke to a bucket of ice water in my face. “Sadie! Get up,†Zia said. “God!†I yelled. “Was that necessary?†“No,†admitted Zia.
— Rick Riordan
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I am thinking of one woman and the rest is blotto. I say I am thinking of her, but the truth is I am dying…
— Henry Miller
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We weren't allowing our hopes to become expectations. Expectations are tempting, pleasant, maybe necessary. They are scary too, once you have had some experience. They…
— Wendell Berry
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Sylvia had given him a scalding lecture, the gist of it being that whatever a woman enjoyed wearing was feminine and anything she didn't enjoy…
— Anne Bishop
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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…
— Megan Whalen Turner
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Tom appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a long-handled brush. He surveyed the fence, and all gladness left him and a…
— Mark Twain
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Stories are like a river that flows - you dip a bucket in it
— Gary Paulsen
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THE ABANDONED VALLEY Can you understand being alone so long you would go out in the middle of the night and put a bucket into…
— Jack Gilbert
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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
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History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket.
— Alan Bennett
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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! 
— Kim Harrison
Who Wrote These Bucket Quotes
147 authors contributed a total of 165 Bucket Quotes, led by these top contributors: