Duck Quotes

#1. In retrospect I would say from Donald Duck I have learned more about life than from all the schools I ever attended.

Gottfried Helnwein

#2. Raise the bar. Don't duck under it.

Peter James West

#3. The worst thing about regret is that it makes you duck the chance of new regret, just as you get a glimmer that nothing is worth doing unless it has the potential to fuck up your whole life.

Richard Ford

#4. If you were up to your neck in cat vomit and someone threw dog poop at you would you duck?

Joel Samaha

#5. 'Duck Dynasty' is a ridiculous show, and long may it wave. America and democracy will endure. They've seen a lot worse.

Henry Rollins

#6. If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, it's a duck!

Robin Cook

#7. What did you think of him?" Cade asked.
"Give me some credit," Zach said. "Guy's more full of shit than a duck pond.

Christopher Farnsworth

#8. No one should be posing for duck-lipped selfies with the plaque of the dead. That wouldn't be right.

Mira Grant

#9. Don't be scared, puppy dog, little frog, little duck, duckie dog. It's just rain.

Kiran Desai

#10. Because if you fidget or wriggle or squirm or sass me or get an answer wrong, I'll wiggle my ears - (Wiggles her ears: they vibrate dramatically. MYRON and BEBE duck under their desks) MYRON and BEBE: NO! MRS. GORF: --stick out my tongue and turn you into apples!

Louis Sachar

#11. I spent the weekend after our date wishing I could stab him with my fluffy-duck pen and staring at the phone hoping he'd call. Dating is a very tricky business.

Cath Crowley

#12. Pixie and Dixie just did a drive by on Donald Duck, but they shot and missed and now Bugs Bunny is getting kind of pissed.

Coolio

#13. London is a dead duck, as far as innovative new music is concerned, unless you want to have your head blown off with some outrageous, rubbish, pounding dance music.

Jeff Beck

#14. Not exactly,' Richter said. 'We're going to attack an armed road convoy and seize a nuclear weapon that the Russians are trying to deliver to London.'

'Fuck a duck,' Colin Dekker said, and sat down.

James Barrington

#15. On a big film, there's almost no way you can meet everyone. On an indie, there are 30 people and no trailers to duck into.

Aaron Paul

#16. What, exactly, is the Internet? Basically it is a global network exchanging digitized data in such a way that any computer, anywhere, that is equipped with a device called a "modem" can make a noise like a duck choking on a kazoo.

Dave Barry

#17. Perhaps the comparison is closer to the Chinese cook who leaves hardly any part of a duck unserved.

Graham Greene

#18. As recently as 1950, the Scottish pathologist John Glaister included in his text the tale of a man "who was apprehended after having been seen to have unnatural intercourse with a duck," leaving us to wonder precisely what natural intercourse with a duck would involve.

E.J. Wagner

#19. I don't understand why some people would even try to categorize you. After watching "Duck Dynasty", who would have thunk?

Shannon L. Alder

#20. I'd pretend their words were water and let them roll off my back. Now, I'm nobody's duck, and their words stung a whole lot more than water.

Nikki Grimes

#21. As Lea Thompson says in 'Howard the Duck', everything happens for a purpose.

Manny Rayner

#22. What life compares with a duck's life? At home on land, in the air and on water.

Marty Rubin

#23. Part of her had hoped she would come home to find him looking like a cast member of Duck Dynasty. It would have been easy to ignore him then. But his looking like he did made it hard to focus on why she couldn't like him anymore.

Andrea Laurence

#24. I find a duck's opinion of me is very much influenced by whether or not I have bread.

Mitch Hedberg

#25. We will not duck the tough issues, we will lead.

Paul Ryan

#26. Whatever. I didn't throw beer on you just because you forgot to say thank you. I'm not some hysterical nagging psycho-bitch.
Right. And if it walks like a duck and talks like a duck ... it's a horse.

Emma Chase

#27. He can trade me to a team below five hundred if he wants to, or worse, I could find myself wearing a duck on my sweater.

Rachel Gibson

#28. Give him a good ducking, anyhow.
-But he'd crawl back.
Duck him again; and keep ducking him.
-Suppose he should take it into his head to duck you, though - yes, and drown you - what then?

Herman Melville

#29. My God! The English language is a form of communication! Conversation isn't just crossfire where you shoot and get shot at! Where you've got to duck for your life and aim to kill! Words aren't only bombs and bullets - no, they're little gifts, containing meanings!

Philip Roth

#30. Confit is not something that comes to mind for summer. Usually it means duck confit, made by cooking the legs and thighs in duck fat to preserve them for winter.

Geoffrey Zakarian

#31. Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.

Michael Caine

#32. I'm a vegetarian, I'm not strict. I eat fish. And duck, but they're nearly fish aren't they.

Bill Bailey

#33. Honey, I just forgot to duck.

Jack Dempsey

#34. A lot of bad things happen in lame duck sessions.

Marco Rubio

#35. The perils of duck hunting are great - especially for the duck.

Walter Cronkite

#36. Rob Anybody clearly noticed this, because he turned to his brother and said, "Ye will bring tae mind, brother o' mine, that there was times when ye should stick your head up a duck's bottom rather than talk?" Daft Wullie looked down at his feet. "Sorry, Rob. I couldna find a duck just noo.

Terry Pratchett

#37. Wise words are like arrows flung at your forehead. What do you do? Why, you duck of course.

Steven Erikson

#38. Though finally the worst thing about regret is that it makes you duck the chance of suffering new regret just as you get a glimmer that nothing's worth doing unless it has the potential of to fuck up your whole life

Richard Ford

#39. Darkwing Duck and Don Karnage are the most fun to do, because they're both probably the closest to me - I kinda improvise a lot of them, kinda ad lib.

Jim Cummings

#40. NASA even sent Chuck Berry's music on a space probe searching for intelligent life in outer space. Well, now, if they're out there, they're duck walking

William J. Clinton

#41. So the controversy over Duck Dynasty sends a clear signal to anyone who has anything to risk in public life: Say nothing about the sinfulness of homosexual acts or risk sure and certain destruction by the revolutionaries of the new morality. You have been warned.

Albert Mohler

#42. Thought you could steal the pepper, did you?! Thought you could try darning my socks while I was asleep, did you?! I wanted those holes there, you little bastard! I wanted those holes there!" He throttled the duck and swung it up and down, whumping it on the table.

Clayton Smith

#43. Hey, did somebody step on a duck?

Rodney Dangerfield

#44. Making duck calls is the hardest thing that we make, so there's skill involved, and they're all handmade.

Willie Robertson

#45. Them Jews aren't going to let (Obama) talk to me. I told my baby daughter, that he'll talk to me in five years when he's a lame duck, or in eight years when he's out of office ... They will not let him talk to somebody who calls a spade what it is.

Jeremiah Wright

#46. The squeaky wheel gets the grease but the quacking duck gets shot.

Carl Sandburg

#47. Tell me, where do I stand compared to Neil and the ankle biter over there? He's kind of hot, in a Howard the Duck kind of way

H.M. Ward

#48. Forget the trunk. You can have the back seat ... but you have to duck.

Anthony Paull

#49. I could run 200 yards at a stretch, I could duck between players, I felt free to make plays that suited me best. It wasn't like football then and basketball today, where coaches tell you what foot to put down.

Jim Brown

#50. I'd learned a little about nuclear war from duck-and-cover air-raid drills at school, but most of what I knew about the Russians came from the Rocky and Bullwinkle Show on TV.

Todd Strasser

#51. Don't duck the most difficult problems. That just ensures that the hardest part will be left when you are most tired. Get the big one done - it's downhill from then on.

Norman Vincent Peale

#52. 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

#53. No one blames a pilot who takes refuge in port when the storm begins to blow. It is not cowardice to duck under a bullet; what is wrong is to defy it only to fall and never rise again.

Jose Rizal

#54. With its ten-foot-high inward sloping walls, slick with algae, I was stuck. "Lord love a duck," I muttered. "Can this get any worse?

Mimi Jean Pamfiloff

#55. The next millisecond demonstrated how much faster I can think than react. First I thought Blitzen had spotted an actual duck. Blitzen likes ducks. Then I realized he was telling me to get down, which is hard to do when you're the last in a line of three people on horseback.

Rick Riordan

#56. Too often in the post-9/11 world, when the time has come to translate the moral, and essentially progressive, roots of foreign policy idealism into plans for American action, liberals have said, 'Duck.

Richard Just

#57. When I started out in the duck-call business, my college buddies would come in and say, 'Robertson, you have a college degree. What are you doing?' Then they drove away saying, 'What an idiot!' Thirty-five years later, they're saying, 'The sucker's a genius!'

Si Robertson

#58. Ack! I'm blind. Old man dick alert. Cover it up. She protested with her mouth, yet her eyes remained locked on his bare body. He swelled up to an even mightier size. Good grief. Just how big does that thing get? Should I duck and cover before it explodes?

Eve Langlais

#59. As an old acquaintance of mine used to say, "If you can't duck it, fuck it." I'm pretty sure he knew it was duct and not duck, but I'll forgive him for the sake of the rhyme.

Cherie Priest

#60. If you keep your feathers well oiled the water of criticism will run off as from a duck's back.

Ellen Swallow Richards

#61. Starstruck with one buck, your girl look like Donald Duck.

Kool Keith

#62. Love means you are completely helpless and there's nothing you can do about it except duck or plunge. But you can't change it, you can't change the way you feel.

Edeet Ravel

#63. 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

#64. If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, you're probably in the wrong bathroom.

Robert Leland Taylor

#65. Bollywood directors are like cricketers where in one match you score a century, and in the next match, you are out for a duck! Moreover, very few directors are consistent in Bollywood.

Sunny Deol

#66. Contrary to popular belief, the Loch Ness Monster is not a dinosaur
it's a huge mutant duck, a top researcher claims ... Most mainstream Nessie researchers consider Gluber's duck theory to be horse feathers and are trying to blast it out of the water.

Murphy J. Foster Jr.

#67. In the first State of the Union of his second term, President Bush made clear to Americans tonight that he is not going to play the role of a lame duck President.

Jim Sensenbrenner

#68. He was probably stud duck at the Rotary Club cookouts. I could have taken him while whistling the Michigan fight song and balancing a seal on my nose.

Robert B. Parker

#69. I was a lone duck in a swan-filled pond who criticized everyone.

Chris Colfer

#70. Mike Myers as Austin Powers makes me laugh - that was genius - and Daffy Duck makes me laugh, but I like odd behavior. I don't like hip dialogue and one-liners and all that sort of cool, sophomoric comedy. It's just not for me.

Nicolas Cage

#71. There are plenty of characters I'd love to write. Swamp Thing, Etrigan the Demon, Man-Thing, Howard the Duck, Dr. Strange, Dr. Druid, Ghost Rider, the Micronauts, the Shogun Warriors ... the list goes on and on.

Cullen Bunn

#72. You ever hear that expression 'If it looks like a duck and it quacks like a duck, it's probably a duck'?

Alex Duval

#73. I like the Valentino store in Rome.Because in Rome when I'd be riding my bike, that store is right next to the Spanish Steps, and it gets so crowded there, so I could sometimes duck into the Valentino store and go up to the top floor and have a little espresso and just relax and take it easy.

Owen Wilson

#74. I figured I'd duck out ... before Goody Osbourne took the stand.

Megan Abbott

#75. My wife hates the beard. When we dated, I would grow it out during duck season. She said she could handle anything for three months - but now I have it all the time.

Jase Robertson

#76. I am like a cartoon strip; I am like Donald Duck; everybody knows me in Italy.

Roberto Benigni

#77. Tonight's December thirty-first, something is about to burst. The clock is crouching, dark and small, like a time bomb in the hall. Hark, it's midnight, children dear. Duck! Here comes another year!

Ogden Nash

#78. One man's duck is another man's swan.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#79. As a former English major, I am a sitting duck for Gift Books, and in the past few years I've gotten Dickens, Thackeray, Smollet, Richardson, Emerson, Keats, Boswell and the Brontes, all of them Great, none of them ever read by me, all of them now on a shelf, looking at me and making me feel guilty.

Garrison Keillor

#80. And do all Hell-Bards waddle like a duck, or is it just you?

Susan Dennard

#81. People think I have an interest in comics, but I'm only interested in comics from the '40s, like 'Donald Duck' comics.

Terry Zwigoff

#82. Now, with Annie gone, I'm looking for a new dog. I have a lot of duck hunting planned, and I can't imagine doing it without a dog. I'm 84, so I won't get a puppy.

Bud Grant

#83. Small men oft feel a need to prove their courage with unseemly boasts," he declared. "I doubt if he could kill a duck."
Tyrion shrugged. "Fetch the duck.

George R R Martin

#84. In 2004, the iPod was a novelty, and tablet computers were a dream. Now we take for granted that we can see whatever we want whenever and wherever we want to see it, be it 'Grand Illusion' or 'Duck Dynasty.'

Terry Teachout

#85. In the end, a lack of compatibility is what ruins relationships. You can't force someone to be an eagle when they are a duck. Nobody wants to fly solo. Dreams were meant to be shared together.

Shannon L. Alder

#86. Duck was a neutral party, so he brought the ultimatum to the cows.

Doreen Cronin

#87. My torso is short, but my arms are really long and gangly and my legs and my neck, and my feet and hands are really long, and I look like a duck.

Cyndi Lauper

#88. To some people, I may seem calm. But if you could peer beneath the surface, you would see that I'm like a duck
paddling, paddling, paddling.

Scott Stossel

#89. Was that you or the duck?

Groucho Marx

#90. My kids would come in from school and sit on the floor in front of the TV and line up duck call boxes and put the stickers on the duck call and then put them in the boxes.

Kay Robertson

#91. You learn real early to make a film and then duck, and basically that's how I go about it.

Alan Rudolph

#92. I find that a duck's opinion of me is very much influenced over whether or not I have bread.

Mitch Hedberg

#93. Most of my school friends and even a few of my teachers called me 'Duck.'

Donald Dunn

#94. After using your stuff on a jug band full of instruments, all I can say is Thank You Dr. Duck ! ...

John Sebastian

#95. I didn't know whether to duck or to run, so I ran.

Bob Dylan

#96. Wait, was that Mal Ericson from Stage Dive?
Fuck a duck, it was.

Kylie Scott

#97. His face was an exploding zit-factory below a Brylcreem-loaded Bobby Rydell duck's ass.

Stephen King

#98. I could dance with you till the cows come home. Better still, I'll dance with the cows and you come home.
Groucho Marx was never one to pass up an opportunity for a play on words and this occurs in his dialogue of the 1933 film Duck Soup:

Groucho Marx

#99. What do you think? she asked, pouting her lips attempting to imitate a model . . . or a duck. I wasn't sure which.

Jamie McGuire

#100. There's an old saying in the Two Rivers" Rand said dryly. "'The louder a man tells you he's honest, the harder you must hold on to your purse.'" Another said, "The fox often offers to give the duck its pond.

Robert Jordan