Buckets Quotes - Page 2

• 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

  Dying, Want, Feels

  "Flicka (2006)". Interview with David Bruce, www.hollywoodjesus.com. May 28, 2005.

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• 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

  Sunshine, Light, Trying

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• Good words quench more then a bucket of water.

  George Herbert

  Water, Quench, Good Words

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.327

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• I would love to compose something for dance before I kick the bucket, and I'm not closed-minded about the dance, or the dance company.

  Tori Amos

  Inspirational, Dance, Closed Minded

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• Listen, I must be 110 by now. Granny is going to kick the bucket at some point.

  Maggie Smith

  Granny, Kicks

  "Maggie Smith, of thee we sing". www.usatoday.com. September 16, 2012.

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• Seek not for fresher founts afar, just drop you bucket where you are.

  Sam Walter Foss

  Keys, Afar, Where You Are

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• I've had 72 absolutely flaming years. It (the illness) doesn't bother me at all, because, you know, love, when you've lived like I have, you've done it all. I put all my effort into living; any dope can drop dead. I'm in the hospital now, and I guess I'll kick the bucket here. Every beetle does it, every bird, everybody. You come into the world and then you go.

  Vali Myers

  Dope, Years, Effort

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• The neuro-biology of playing a musical instrument is completely scientific, but it’s also an absolute miracle, that you’re taking basically a calcium bucket filled with salt-water that’s run by a weak electrical signal, and you’re using it to move your flesh around in order to manipulate an instrument which disturbs air molecules between you and the listener, and then the listener’s ears picks up those disturbed air molecules which generates a weak electrical signal to their calcium bucket full of salt water, and they feel a feeling. That’s miraculous, and that’s where I live.

  Bob Brozman

  Running, Moving, Air

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• 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

  Memories, Just Being, Being There

  William Stafford (2014). “Ask Me: 100 Essential Poems of William Stafford”, p.98, Macmillan

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• Money is like water in a leaky bucket: no sooner there, it begins to drip.

  John Updike

  Water

  John Updike (2010). “Rabbit Is Rich”, p.28, Random House

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• You can pour holy oil and holy water on a thug until you have emptied buckets of both; but at the end he will be a consecrated thug, but a thug all the same unless interior intentions and a disciplined man are present.

  William Henry O'Connell

  Thug, Men, Oil

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• I cleaned up my act because otherwise I would have kicked the bucket.

  Lou Reed

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• Our prayer and God's mercy are like two buckets in a well; while the one ascends the other descends.

  Mark Hopkins

  Prayer, Mercy Of God, Grace And Mercy

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• I try to help people become the best possible editors of their own work, to help them become conscious of the things they do well, of the things they need to look at again, of the wells of material they have not even begun to dip their buckets into.

  Tobias Wolff

  Work, Editors, People

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• Americans around the country who came forward to make my 'bucket list' dream come true.

  Brittany Maynard

  Dream, Country, Lists

  " Brittany Maynard's bucket list beckons her to Grand Canyon" by Bill Briggs, www.today.com. October 14, 2016.

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• The past is a bucket of ashes

  Carl Sandburg

  Past, Ashes

  Cornhuskers (1918) "Prairie"

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• 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.

  Carl Sandburg

  Life, Time, Moving

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• I'm the enemy. Because I like to think, I like to read. I'm into freedom of speech, the freedom of choice. I'm the kind of guy who likes to sit in a greasy spoon and wonder - "Gee, should I have the T-bone steak or the jumbo rack of BBQ ribs with the side order of gravy fries?" I want high cholesterol. I wanna eat bacon and butter and buskets of cheese, okay? I wanna smoke a Cuban cigar the size of Cincinnati in the non-smoking section. I wanna run through the streets naked with green Jell-O all over my body reading Playboy magazine. Why? Because I suddenly might feel the need to, okay, pal?

  Denis Leary

  Running, Reading, Thinking

  "Fictional character: Edgar Friendly". "Demolition Man", 1993.

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• Defend me, therefore, common sense, say
  From reveries so airy, from the toil
  Of dropping buckets into empty wells,
  And growing old in drawing nothing up.

  William Cowper

  Drawing, Common Sense, Toil

  'The Task' (1785) bk. 3 'The Garden' l. 187

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• You can lead a team in a lot of different ways. It can be talking to somebody who is down or, during the course of a game, looking to penetrate and then dropping the ball off to someone else for an easy bucket.

  Bill Cartwright

  Team, Talking, Games

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• We've been playing ugly. Without all of our bodies, we've been kicking it all over the shop, but fortunately we've been able to make the big buckets and rely on our defense for once.

  Steve Nash

  Basketball, Kicking It, Defense

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• It's just an ice bucket with a bottle in it. The two flute glasses are little tray. I got to shut the curtains. I'm in my boxer shorts and shirt. I'm going to take a bath and go to bed. But I want to shut the blinds so it's really dark in the room.

  Danny DeVito

  Dark, Ice, Two

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• Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.

  William Butler Yeats

  Hills, Companion, Draws

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.140, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Men, Pigs, Democracy

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• Let us not demand of ourselves that we alone must be the agent of change. In a fire brigade everyone passes along a bucket, but only the last person puts out the fire. None of us know where we stand in line. We may be here simply to pass a bucket; we may be called on to play a major role. In either case, all we can do is think, act, and say. Let us direct our thoughts, words, and actions to peace. That is all we can do. Let the results be what they will be.

  Deepak Chopra

  Inspiring, Thinking, Fire

  "Where Is Peace In a Time of War?" by Deepak Chopra, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 31, 2006.

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