Top 100 Sayings About A Duck
#1. You're a bit of an odd duck aren't you Freda,' she says, her glasses hanging too low on her nose. 'Quack,' I reply.
L. H. Cosway
#3. How could anybody not find a woman who played tag with her pet duck attractive?
Jan Pol
#4. One personal tip that my trainer gave me was, "Don't take things personally. People are calling on the worst days of their lives and you're their first point of contact. Be like a duck and let the water roll off your back." I live by those words when I'm at work.
Cameron West
#5. Wiggle like a stick, wobble like a duck, that's what you do when you do the Hucklebuck.
Chubby Checker
#6. I think some people think that being on television makes you a sitting duck, but you have the right to remain private.
Amanda Burton
#8. A fellow with the inventiveness of Albert Einstein but with the attention span of Daffy Duck.
Tom Shales
#9. Well, yes, I call it the Expando-Duck. It's perfect if you need a small metal duck. Or a larger metal duck.
Rick Riordan
#10. The sight of so many guns, mostly deer rifles and duck guns but with a smattering of black rifles and riot shotguns, made him glad that this was going down in a rural area where people still had their heads screwed on right about personal defense.
Larry Correia
#11. Love the show 'Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives.' Being from Louisiana and a big outdoorsman, I'm a big fan of 'Duck Dynasty' as well.
Wes Brown
#12. The first thing I'd do [as a president] is de-regulate about 90-percent of the things that they've got regulation on, OK, including duck hunting. We're way over-regulated on everything.
Si Robertson
#13. I took to photography like a duck to water. I never wanted to do anything else. Excitement about the subject is the voltage which pushes me over the mountain of drudgery necessary to produce the final photograph.
Berenice Abbott
#14. There was a certain history to this. While heavily pregnant with Amelia, she had asked him if she was radiant or if she just looked like a waddling duck. He told her she'd looked like a radiant duck. This had not been the correct answer.
Julia Quinn
#15. Cor, love a duck. And also Lawks-a-mercy. I said that inwardly, but outwardly I said, Blimey, and also, what larks.
Louise Rennison
#16. 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
#17. The first time it felt really dangerous, like the sort of thing you had to lock the doors and close the curtains on because if anybody saw you, God would strike you down with a thunderbolt. But I took to it like a duck to water.
Jamie Muir
#18. A duck's nest was found today near the trail on the dry open prairie with as far as could be seen no water or marsh near. The bird flew off but could not tell what species. The eggs nine originally.
George Mercer Dawson
#19. She'd arrived a self-sufficient city woman, and now she was covered in snow, sitting on a bench beside a crazy person, and she had a duck on her lap. Who was nuts now?
Louise Penny
#20. it seemed to Igor that trouble hit Mr. Lipwig like a big wave hitting a flotilla of ducks. Afterward, there was no wave but there was still a lot of duck. "It
Terry Pratchett
#21. You just turned down the woman who put a marshmallow duck in your hot chocolate. I hope you feel like a real asshole now.
Rachel Vincent
#22. If you should rear a duck in the heart of the Sahara, no doubt it would swim if you brought it to the Nile.
Mark Twain
#23. Apparently, the pathfinder duck is a psychological archetype in certain cultures.
Michael Leunig
#24. She may know what I am, though," Lorena said.
"Yes, she'll know you're a human being. You don't have to duck your head to nobody. Half the women in this country probably started out like you did, workin' in saloons.
Larry McMurtry
#25. His own image; no longer a dark, gray bird, ugly and disagreeable to look at, but a graceful and beautiful swan. To be born in a duck's nest, in a farmyard, is of no consequence to a bird, if it is hatched from a swan's egg.
Hans Christian Andersen
#26. There's a huge fucking missile launcher in our backyard and apparently the only thing between us and Armageddon is some guy who's afraid of a duck.
Louise Penny
#28. Light came to me when I realized that I did not have to consider any racial group as a whole. God made them duck by duck and that was the only way I could see them.
Zora Neale Hurston
#29. Duck Dynasty viewers think they're the experts on hunting, but actually they're the hunted ones, just another dumb demographic to be captured, laughed at and force-fed commercials for Geico and Home Depot by the Smart People in New York and L.A.
Matt Taibbi
#30. She's really gone, then. The little girl with the back of her shirt sticking out like a duck tail,
Suzanne Collins
#31. Voting for a candidate for the DC circuit is very different from confirming someone to the US Supreme Court. I have been very clear that the Senate should not confirm any nominee in a lame duck session.
Ted Cruz
#32. As for me ... I'm fine. I have bad dreams, but I never saw Mister Duck again. I play video games. I smoke a little dope. I got my thousand-yard stare. I carry a lot of scares. I like the way that sounds. I carry a lot of scares.
Alex Garland
#33. She had turned away and was watching a duck out on the lake. It was tucking into weeds, a thing I've never been able to understand anyone wanting to do. Though I suppose, if you face it squarely, they're no worse than spinach.
P.G. Wodehouse
#34. The fine line between genius and madness is a punch line. Duck, you idiot!
Brian Spellman
#35. Like a duck on the pond. On the surface everything looks calm, but beneath the water those little feet are churning a mile a minute.
Gene Hackman
#36. The competition is out to get you. Are you a moving target or a sitting duck? Innovate or die.
Richie Norton
#37. Oh, sweetie, you are a jackass. I love you, but you are dumber than a one legged duck in an ass kicking contest when pigs fly.
Tara Sivec
#38. My kids can't watch ('Howard the Duck'). By the time I get in bed with the duck, they are, like, 'Turn it off, mom. You in bed with a duck is just pretty much a deal breaker.'
Lea Thompson
#40. She sings on and on, while the house is discreetly dusted all around her and, in the concealed and subterranean kitchen, a naked duck, limp and faintly steaming, spreads its pimpled legs on a draining board.
Michel Faber
#41. Wanna trade?" (Puck)
... "Can't you take anything seriously?" (Ash)
"I am serious! Duck."
I ducked as a dagger flew overhead, barely missing my ear. A false Goodfellow whooped with laughter, and my anger fled. "All right," I snapped.
Julie Kagawa
#42. We lie under the network of arching shells and live in a suspense of uncertainty. If a shot comes, we can duck, that is all; we neither know nor can determine where it will fall.
- All Quiet On The Western Front, Ch. 6
Erich Maria Remarque
#43. You and the other Sux0rz can all go fuck a duck.
Ernest Cline
#44. You may call an eletric eel a rubber duck but that does not make it a rubber duck and god help the poor bastard who takes a bath with the duckie
Cassandra Clare
#45. Soon we could barely recognize them. They were taller than we were, and heavier. They were loud beyond belief. I feel like a duck that's hatched goose's eggs.
Julie Otsuka
#46. The only birds I know about are the duck and the dove and the quail, birds that you shoot. You're not really supposed to shoot cardinals. I don't know if I'd shoot this bird. It looks pretty mean. This bird might pull a gun out and shoot right back at you.
Josh McCown
#47. People ... of the universe! Tonight ... is the night.. when the skies will open, and spray forth a divine hand with pointed finger! And it will say ... everybody ... you're not just a duck ... YOU ARE HUMAN! YOU ARE HUMAAAAN!!!
Thurston Moore
#48. Not really riding weather, is it, miss? Unless you're a duck." He chuckled at his own joke.
"Quack," Jenna said...
Deborah Blake
#49. For a member to say, 'I'm a lame duck' violates political science 101.
Charles B. Rangel
#50. Or maybe I was just hungry. I'd forgotten to eat the day before, and possibly what I should do was go back to my hotel and sit down to a few duck's legs instead of falling down between the pews in an attack of mystical hypoglycemia.
Michel Houellebecq
#51. I don't love duck nails, where the nails are really wide on top. I am not a fan of that!
Adrienne Bailon
#52. I never had a hat, never wore one, but recently was given a brown suede duck-hunting hat. The moment I put it on I realized I was starved for a hat. I kept it warm by putting it on my head. I made plans to wear it especially when I was going to do any thinking. Somewhere in Virginia, I lost my hat.
John Cage
#53. Minion looked into the fragile belly of the duck for the third time. 'It's still not here, Master.' He shook his head in a slow, confused fashion. 'Strange things are afoot at the Circle K.
Lish McBride
#54. The Egyptian duck is a dangerous animal: one snap of its beak and you are infected with Egyptology for life.
Auguste Mariette
#55. If you know anything about ducks, you know a baby duck will imprint itself on you. It misses its mother.
Michael Leunig
#56. 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
#57. You're in the country of the kangaroo and the duck-billed platypus, and you're asking 'why is it a mushroom? Because it just IS.
Elle Lothlorien
#58. People love to compare the worst of themselves to animals: dumb as an ox, fat as a pig, lame as a duck. Maybe animals see our shortcomings the same way: boneheaded as a human.
Bruce Edwards
#59. Always behave like a duck- keep calm and unruffled on the surface, but paddle like the devil underneath.
Jacob M. Braude
#60. I am a still friend with Dave Crosby, he's a weird duck but I like him a lot.
Peter Tork
#62. Not every child takes instantly to books like a duck to water, but I don't believe there are children who hate books. There are just children who haven't yet found the right books for them.
Amanda Craig
#63. I have a God-given right to pursue happiness, and happiness to me is killing things, skinning them, plucking them, and then having a good meal. What makes me happy is going out and blowing a duck's head off.
Phil Robertson
#64. You're saying,' he said, weighing each word, 'that we should send Carrot away to be a duck among humans because Bjorn Stronginthearm is my uncle.
Terry Pratchett
#65. Tessa touched his wrist lightly with her hand. "Be brave," she said. "It's not a duck, is it?
Cassandra Clare
#67. The Victorians, especially southern Victorians, needed a lot of room to stray away from each other, to duck tuberculosis and flu, to avoid rapacious lust, to wall themselves away from sticky emotions. Extra space is always good.
Gillian Flynn
#68. Grandma pulled a .44 magnum out of her purse. Everybody duck, and I'll shoot out his tires.
Janet Evanovich
#69. If it looks like a duck and sounds like a duck, it could be a really ugly swan.
Timmothy Radman
#71. Be like a duck . . . keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath. - Unknown
Jolene Brackey
#73. My particular historical vantage point is a product of my upbringing as that odd duck, a native Washingtonian whose parents were not in government. The first presidential transition of my sentient lifetime, Kennedy's, I remember vividly.
Frank Rich
#74. I drew the duck blue because I've never seen a blue duck before and, to be honest with you I wanted to see a blue duck.
Adam Sandler
#75. Clear? Huh! Why a four-year-old child could understand this report! Run out and find me a four-year-old child, I can't make head or tail of it.
Groucho Marx
#76. I think we need to come up with a child-friendly phrase for f-u-c-k off."
"Duck off?"
"Exactly. Braden, duck off, you sarcastic dastard.
Samantha Young
#77. Death strode away, stopped, and came back. He pointed a skeletal finger at The Duck Man.
WHY, he said, ARE YOU WALKING AROUND WITH THAT DUCK?
"What duck?"
AH. SORRY.
Terry Pratchett
#78. At the window he sits and looks out, musing on the river, a little brown hen duck paddling upstream among the windwaves close to the far bank. What he has understood lies behind him like a road in the woods. He is a wilderness looking out at the wild.
Wendell Berry
#79. Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
Igor Stravinsky
#80. To me, there is no such thing as a trash duck. There are ducks that are a lot better to eat than other ducks. But a duck is just that.
Phil Robertson
#81. Yeah, well, not many boys take their girls out on a duck shoot with them as target for a first date. You have to give me points for style.
Joss Stirling
#82. Just because you call an electric eel a rubber duck doesn't make it a rubber duck, does it? And God help the poor bastard who decides they want to take a bath with the duckie. (Jace Wayland)
Cassandra Clare
#84. In Holland, we have a saying: 'A knife cuts on two sides.' With the rubber duck, I'm trying to show people what they haven't been seeing in their public space. When the rubber duck is there and when it's gone, you know.
Florentijn Hofman
#85. Never trust a duck" - Will Herondale
"We are bound, you and I, over the divide of death, down through whatever generations may come. Forever." - Will Herondale
Cassandra Clare
#86. Be like a duck, paddling and working very hard inside the water, but what everyone sees is a smiling and calm face.
Manoj Arora
#87. The nearest the modern general or admiral comes to a small-arms encounter of any sort is at a duck hunt in the company of corporation executives at the retreat of Continental Motors, Inc.
C. Wright Mills
#88. It wasn't that Microsoft was so brilliant or clever in copying the Mac, it's that the Mac was a sitting duck for 10 years. That's Apple's problem: Their differentiation evaporated.
Steve Jobs
#89. Resolved: If you make a duck face in your profile picture, you are declaring yourself a shallow loser and I will ignore you. Moreover, if you have multiple pictures of your cleavage and then declare that you want to "take things slow" you are not fooling anybody.
Morgan Deane
#90. Daddy had a farm - cows, pigs, OK, a big garden, OK? We did live off the land, and then we would supplement all that with whatever we could kill or catch. Whether we'd kill squirrels, deer, duck, or caught catfish or brim, that was what went on the table.
Si Robertson
#91. I make a mean pecan pie, and I have a great recipe for pralines - also using pecans. Pralines take a lot of patience, and patience is a must in the duck blind as well as in the kitchen. Good things come to those who wait.
Phil Robertson
#92. As an actor, what's interesting is what's hidden away beneath the surface. You want to be like a duck on a pond - very calm on the surface but paddling away like crazy underneath.
Alexander Skarsgard
#93. Everything needs a mirror to see what to change and what to love in itself, even a rock or a duck, everything!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#94. V: After having sucked all the good out of him you duck him away like a... like a banana skin.
Samuel Beckett
#95. You can't understand it until you experience the simple joy of the first time your son points at a seagull and says 'Duck!'
Russell Crowe
#96. The seer crow was outraged. "Mangiz does not forget an insult, hedgepig."
Ambrose smiled cheekily. "Good, then here's a few more for you to remember, you pot-bellied, cross-eyed, feather-bottomed excuse for a duck.
Brian Jacques
#97. People ask me about all sorts of sounds. There's a sound of a screeching toy or a rubber duck and everybody asks me about that, but it was an absolutely random thing, just a cool sound.
Kieran Hebden
#98. I walk like a duck: very straight up and down. Or like a penguin. It's a dead giveaway that I'm a dancer.
David Hallberg
#99. He was convinced that, as a duck is so made that it must live in water, so God had made him such that he must spend thirty thousand rubles a year and always occupy a prominent position in society. He
Leo Tolstoy
#100. Swam ashore, man, like a duck; I can swim like a duck, I'll be sworn.
William Shakespeare
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