„My advice to you, if you want to lose a bit of weight: don't eat anything that comes in a bucket. Buckets are the kitchen utensils of the farmyard.“

„Most men give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.“

—  Tom Stoppard British playwright 1937

Misattributed
Forrás: William R(ounseville) Alger, American clergyman and writer [1822-1905]; reported in Raphael Lewin, Ed., The New Era (1872), Volume 2, p. 315.

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

—  Terry Pratchett, könyv Making Money

Forrás: Making Money

„I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes.“

—  Carl Sandburg American writer and editor 1878 - 1967

"Prairie" (1918)
Forrás: Cornhuskers

„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.“

—  Robin McKinley, Chalice

Forrás: Chalice

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

—  Samuel Woodworth, The Old Oaken Bucket

The Old Oaken Bucket (1817)

„Cast down your bucket where you are.“

—  Booker T. Washington African-American educator, author, orator, and advisor 1856 - 1915

This address was a speech at the Cotton States and International Exposition, Atlanta (1895-09-18)
Forrás: 1900s, Up From Slavery (1901), Chapter XIV: The Atlanta Exposition Address

„I’m not intimidated by anything, except maybe PETA standing outside with a bucket of blood.“

—  Johnny Weir figure skater 1984

Forrás: Johnny Weir quotes: One reason the Olympics are so sensational!, D. Scriber, 2010-02-16 http://dscriber.com/home/1186-johnny-weir-quotes-one-reason-the-olympics-are-so-sensational.html, ; Whether other skaters' practice performances would intimidate him

„Putting all of my time
In learning to care
And a bucket of rhymes
I threw up somewhere
Want a locket of who
Made me lose my perfunctory view
Of all that is around
And of all that I do.“

—  Rufus Wainwright American-Canadian singer-songwriter and composer 1973

I Don't Know What It Is
Song lyrics, Want One (2003)

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

—  Warren Buffett American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist 1930

http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2014/09/28/25-best-warren-buffett-quotes.aspx "25 Best Warren Buffett Quotes" The Motley Fool (28 September 2014)
Quotes from the press

„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, könyv The Book Thief

Forrás: The Book Thief

„In a population of hundreds of millions, such a small number of people is a mere drop in the bucket… but enough drops can make any bucket overflow“

—  Neal Shusterman American novelist 1962

Forrás: UnDivided

„A Horse, a Bucket and a Spoon.“

—  Terry Jones Welsh comedian, screenwriter, actor, film director and author 1942 - 2020

Graham Chapman A Liar's Autobiography (London: Eyre Methuen, 1980) p. 152.
Jones' suggested title for the show that was eventually named Monty Python's Flying Circus.

„Not worth a bucket of warm spit.“

—  John Nance Garner American politician 1868 - 1967

Comment to Lyndon B. Johnson on the vice presidency, widely attributed to Garner as early as 1964 http://books.google.com/books?id=q4zpAAAAMAAJ. The quote is sometimes given as using "piss" instead of "spit."

„[on John McCain] I don't need a president with a bucket list!“

—  Chris Rock American comedian, actor, screenwriter, television producer, film producer, and director 1965

Kill the Messenger (2008)

„There are still some other things to do, so don't think if I didn't fix your favorite bug that your bug report is in the bit bucket. (It may be, but don't think it.“

—  Larry Wall American computer programmer and author, creator of Perl 1954

[7238@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV, 1990]
Usenet postings, 1990

„Wiki is like a leaky bucket of information. It's losing information every day. But more information is coming in, so the net is positive. Even if it can lose things, wiki always has more to say than it did the day before.“

—  Ward Cunningham American computer programmer who developed the first wiki 1949

Collective Ownership of Code and Text

„A weeping woman is a bucket with no bottom.“

—  Robert Jordan American writer 1948 - 2007

Lini
(15 September 1992)

„Never get between a Premier and a bucket of money.“

—  Paul Keating Australian politician, 24th Prime Minister of Australia 1944

as quoted in a 2014 Daily Telegraph article http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/opinion/all-riled-up-over-an-empty-bucket/news-story/93c0bff6a075170852189ba9a7480365

„Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.“

—  George Orwell English author and journalist 1903 - 1950