Carter Chambers: Forty-five years goes by pretty fast. Edward Cole: Like smoke through a keyhole.
[first lines] Carter Chambers: Edward Perriman Cole died in May. It was a Sunday afternoon, and there wasn't a cloud in the sky...
Edward Cole: [Angrily to Carter] Just because I told you my story - that does not invite you to be part of it!
Edward Cole: How are they treating you? Carter Chambers: The pea soup still sucks. Edward Cole: I'll have a word with the owner.
Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one is watertight.
What can you do with a good cow that gives a lot of milk and then kicks the bucket over?
Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water.
When husband and wife live in harmony, they can dry up the ocean without a bucket.
..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.
I had a very funny and depressing talk with my seventy-four-year-old mother. I decided, she doesn't have a bucket list - she has a kick-the-bucket list.
Edward Cole: [Carter's obsessing over a car] You gonna drive it or buy it a dress? Carter Chambers: Just getting to know each other.
Edward Cole: Kiss the most beautiful girl in the world. Carter Chambers: How are you going to do that? Edward Cole: Volume!
Even a fool recognizes that there is great sadness in a bucket of tears. But only a wise man thinks to conserve water and use that bucket to wash his car.
I don't have a bucket list because it is my dedication to live every day of my life there. I don't have a bucket list because I'm doing it that day. I don't want to go to bed and say, 'Oh, I wish I had done this.'
Carter Chambers: [to Edward, of the two questions asked of the dead by the gods at the entrance to heaven] Have you found joy in your life? Has your life brought joy to others?
Edward Cole: I envy people who have faith, I just can't get my head around it. Carter Chambers: Maybe because your head's in the way.
Edward Cole: Here's something to remember when you're older Thomas - never pass up a bathroom, never waste a hard-on, and never trust a fart. Thomas: I'll remember that when I start "decrepitating" sir.
Inspiration can be a wonderful thing, but it can also be quite fickle ... If you want to be able to call on inspiration reliably then you need to work on it with regularity. Someone once said that if you only go out with a bucket to collect water whe...
The bucket goes down the well every day -- some day it won't come up again.
Edward Cole: Three things to remember when you get older: never pass up a bathroom, never waste a hard-on, and never trust a fart. Thomas: I'll keep that in mind as I approach decrepitude.
Edward Cole: You want some too? I'll have Thomas fix you a plate. Carter Chambers: No thanks. Edward Cole: You sure? Best in L.A. [later, throwing up] Carter Chambers: It ain't the best in L.A. no more.
