“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.”

“The old oaken bucket, the iron-bound bucket,
The moss-covered bucket, which hung in the well.”

“She was carrying two coffees and a donut bag,
and right then and there, he fell in love."
-Animal Magnetism”

“I wouldn't trust you with a bucket of water if my knickers were on fire!”

“"Woken up, have you?" the woman said. Her voice was like broken glass in an ice bucket.†
† Unexpectedly sharp. And cold. No one can say I don't work hard describing things for you.”

“Man thinks that by thinking he will solve all the secrets of the universe. He forgets that he cannot possibly put the entire ocean into a bucket.”

“Opportunities come infrequently. When it rains gold, put out the bucket, not the thimble.”

“A Horse, a Bucket and a Spoon.”

“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 me the bucket.”

“The past is always beautiful. So, for that matter, is the future. Only the present hurts, and we carry it around like an abscess of suffering, our compassion between two infinities of happiness and peace.”