Duck Quotes

If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.
Douglas Adams

Family, Small, Bird

Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.
Orson Welles

Election, Popularity, Depend

Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
Michael Caine

Calm, Surface, Dickens

That's my gift. I let that negativity roll off me like water off a duck's back. If it's not positive, I didn't hear it. If you can overcome that, fights are easy.
George Foreman

Positive, Easy, Off

The great thing about being a print journalist is that you are permitted to duck. Cameramen get killed while the writers are flat on the floor. A war correspondent for the BBC dedicated his memoir to 50 fallen colleagues, and I guarantee you they were all taking pictures. I am only alive because I am such a chicken.
P. J. O'Rourke

Great, War, Alive

Rock 'n' roll is ridiculous. It's absurd. In the past, U2 was trying to duck that. Now we're wrapping our arms around it and giving it a great big kiss.
Bono

Great, Rock, Past

When Donald Duck traded his wings for arms, was he trading up or trading down?
Doug Coupland

Down, Wings, Arms

We will not duck the tough issues, we will lead.
Paul Ryan

Tough, Lead, Issues

In the early days I had a very black-and-white view of everything. I think that's kind of natural for anyone who's just embraced Islam - or any religion - as a convert. It was important for me to duck out of the fast and furious life I'd been living as a pop star. I was in a different mood.
Cat Stevens

Life, Religion, Islam

It was important for me to duck out of the fast and furious life I'd been living as a pop star. I was in a different mood.
Cat Stevens

Life, Important, Different

Some parents say it is toy guns that make boys warlike. But give a boy a rubber duck and he will seize its neck like the butt of a pistol and shout 'Bang!'
George Will

Parents, Give, Guns

When it comes to conservative social issues, it saddens me when sometimes my fellow Republicans duck and cover in the face of pressure from the left. Our loudest opponents on the left are never going to like us so let's quit trying to curry favor with them.
Rick Perry

Trying, Sometimes, Social

Don't quack like a duck, soar like an eagle.
Ken Blanchard

When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We'd play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He'd read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories.
Danica McKellar

Great, Dad, Game

I had my first French meal and I never got over it. It was just marvelous. We had oysters and a lovely dry white wine. And then we had one of those lovely scalloped dishes and the lovely, creamery buttery sauce. Then we had a roast duck and I don't know what else.
Julia Child

Else, Wine, Lovely

Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time.
Jules Renard

Time, Long, Wait

He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.
Douglas William Jerrold

Rain, Passion, Shower

Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.
Hans Christian Anderson

Matter, Born, Egg

To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
Igor Stravinsky

Effort, Listen, Hear

Mel Blanc is a hero because of what he could do with his voice for all the Looney Tunes, the Warner Brothers cartoons, to be the voice of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd, Porky Pig.
Nicolas Cage

Hero, Voice, Brothers

So I went to the Chinese restaurant and this duck came up to me with a red.
Tim Vine

Red, Restaurant, Chinese

I spent the '90s trying to hide out, trying to duck the full celebrity cacophony.
Brad Pitt

Trying, Full, Hide

The electro scene is all over the clubs now: groups like Duck Sauce, Empire of the Sun, even MGMT. But I get inspiration from everywhere. I'll go to the gym and put on old albums - Guns N' Roses or old Jay-Z.
Fergie

Throughout my teens, I just wanted to go somewhere I could wear a Donald Duck pin and no one would care.
Paul Feig

Care, Wanted, Somewhere

I want to keep audiences off balance, so they don't know who I am or how to take me. If I duck and weave, as Frank Bruno might say, I'll have a longer shelf life.
Robert Carlyle

Life, Keep, Off

Singing songs like 'The Man I Love' or 'Porgy' is no more work than sitting down and eating Chinese roast duck, and I love roast duck.
Billie Holiday

Love, Work, Down

Poetry is the most subtle of the literary arts, and students grow more ingenious by the year at avoiding it. If they can nip around Milton, duck under Blake and collapse gratefully into the arms of Jane Austen, a lot of them will.
Terry Eagleton

Poetry, Around, Year

For a member to say, 'I'm a lame duck' violates political science 101.
Charles Rangel

Science, Political, Lame

I look like a duck. It's the way my mouth curls up, or my nose tilts up. I should have played Howard the Duck.
Michelle Pfeiffer

Nose, Played, Mouth

I was a 'Duck Hunt' and 'Mario' guy, and stuff like that. I was never technologically driven. I never had all the cool, new toys. I was the youngest child, I wasn't the only child, so I wasn't spoiled as a kid. And, we were on the farm, so we didn't have a lot. Also, with computers, I'm not very good with them. I just check my email.
Garrett Hedlund

Good, Computers, Cool

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