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Quotes About Buckets

The rain came down in buckets." [I know, I know, but I was only 13.]
~ Randy Chandler
The funnel-shaped devices are tremie tubes, which are apparently being used to avoid having the wet concrete free fall into the forms where the 4-cubic-yard buckets could not fit to pour directly.
~ Ray Bottenberg
From reveries so airy, from the toilOf dropping buckets into empty wells,And growing old in drawing nothing up.
~ William Cowper
artists and thinkers – who fill the history books. History is something that very few people have been doing while everyone else was ploughing fields and carrying water buckets.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
Your goal when searing a steak is to make sure that the temperature and evaporation buckets are as small as possible, so that you can rapidly fill them up and move on to the important process of browning.
~ J. Kenji Lopez-Alt
Love contains no fear, because the mere presence of fear desecrates love and makes it something less than pure. (Imagine) you have two 5-gallon buckets. In one you have 2 gallons of pure water (Love) and in the other you have 2 gallons of toxic waste (Fear). If you dip 1 gallon of toxic waste and pour it into the water, what do you now have? Two buckets of toxic waste.
~ Donald L. Hicks
soaking them in buckets of seawater, to which she'd add a handful of cornmeal and a rusty nail. She'd agitate the water several times a day, and change the water after twelve hours.
~ Ruth Ozeki
Until then her only kisses had taken place in a closet during parties at Helene's house. The orderly took her into a closet as well, a utility closet where there were mops and buckets and folded sheets and towels. She wasn't speaking then. She tried to tell him no, but the word sounded like a sob.
~ Alice Hoffman
If your feet are in two buckets and the average temperature of the water is 90 degrees, you're probably fine—unless one bucket is at 35 and the other is at 145 degrees. On average, you're fine. Based on variation, though, you're miserable.
~ Seth Godin
A group of servants were busy emptying the privy buckets into the moat when they were startled by a sudden drawn-out cry. They looked up in time to see a scarlet-and-gold-clad figure sail out of a first-story window, turn over once and then land with an enormous splash in the dark, rancid waters. They shrugged and went back to work.
~ John Flanagan
I wonder," she said. "Does this castle have a moat?" A group of servants were busy emptying the privy buckets into the moat when they were startled by a sudden drawn-out cry. They looked up in time see a scarlet-and-gold clad figure sail out of a first-story window, turn over once and then land with an enormus splash in the dark, rancid waters. They shrugged and went back to work.
~ John Flanagan
Okay, now you know the players that belong in your allocation buckets, and you know the key to building a winning team: diversify, diversify, diversify!
~ Anthony Robbins
You'll need lots of chips to go with that lot." "And salt too, ha ha." "Ha ha." "We aren't going around to other shops buying up all their vinegar, are we?" "No, now we need some plastic buckets.
~ Ben Aaronovitch
I've got this rep as a party boy, but the only show I've ever missed was when I had food poisoning from an Australian duck curry. I was puking buckets.
~ Noel Fielding
I had never thought words erotic. Sometimes I really do like to talk more than fuck. Sentences. Buckets of this buckets of that and then buckets of this again. The trouble with words is that you can really talk yourself into a corner. Whereas you can't fuck yourself into a corner." "That's a man talking," muttered Hana.
~ Michael Ondaatje
The buckets emptied quickly, and men from different squads took turns bringing water from the gully that lay towards the city, where, in the feeble shade of emaciated mulberries, a muddy stream lived out its last days in the diabolical heat.
~ Mikhail Bulgakov
Superfluid helium is a realization of the hypothetical quantum liquid that we imagined when performing the thought experiment with the buckets on the staircase. Its behavior is almost surreal.
~ Steven H. Strogatz
Slop buckets filled and quickly spilled over. Floor planks were slick with waste and vomit.
~ Kieran Doherty
One unlucky sailor, who had been branded a liar by his shipmates, was given the unenviable job of cleaning the slop buckets and swabbing the privy in the ship's beak.
~ Kieran Doherty
Basketball isn't a game; it's an art form. You master the fundamentals so you can forget 'em, so you can improvise and just concentrate on what really matters; getting buckets.
~ Kyrie Irving
This last group repaired the hundreds of casks and buckets aboard the ships by replacing hoops or staves
~ Laurence Bergreen
The cold rain came down in buckets. I was shaking, shivering, and naked, and more soap was getting into my eyes. But hey. At least I was clean.
~ Jim Butcher
The rain comes down, baby, and we've all got sixteen buckets and seventeen holes in the roof.
~ John D. MacDonald
..As always, she was carrying the washing. Rudy was carrying two buckets of cold water, or as he put it, two buckets of future ice.
~ Markus Zusak