Words matter. These are the best Duck Quotes from famous people such as Donovan, Jon Lovett, Paul Ryan, Matthew Hussey, Iman, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
A writer without a pen would be like a duck without water!
More and more people support equality for their gay friends and neighbors, and that is not because the ‘Duck Dynasty’ guy almost lost his show.
We will not duck the tough issues, we will lead.
Research shows that making eye contact is a powerful draw for guys – even in photos. Just don’t mistake duck face for flirty.
On a Friday night in 1983, I was in a taxi in New York riding home from dinner with friends. A drunk driver ran a red light and hit the cab, and I was thrown toward the glass partition. I tried to duck, but my face hit the glass, and the impact fractured my cheekbone, my eye socket, my collarbone and several ribs.
Just because one likes to cook up a great meal or decorate their home doesn’t mean they have to do it with granite counter tops and duck a l’orange.
‘Howard the Duck!’ That’s a really interesting movie. I appreciate my career, because I’ve had a lot of very interesting ups and downs, and most people… That movie is such a famous flop. In a land of a lot of flops, it’s kind of awesome to be in a really famous flop. I mean, it’s kind of a poster child for flops.
The Mojave Desert was plus 50. Now, I’ve cooked duck eggs at 50 degrees celsius. You can imagine what it’s like on a bike.
I don’t duck and dodge, I don’t pick fights.
When I’m working on a short story, I could duck into a bathroom at a crowded party and write a scene, which is to say I can work in a very incremental way.
For a member to say, ‘I’m a lame duck’ violates political science 101.
I tend to really duck down and make myself smaller than I already am.
I guess everyone is entitled their opinion and how they want to treat people, but it is water of a duck’s back.
It’s beyond TMI – oversharing is not just too much information; it’s incessant sharing of non-information – breaking news about your gluten-free diet complete with duck face selfies.
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.
When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.
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.
Contra.’ ‘Duck Hunt.’ ‘Double Dragon.’ If these phrases elicit any sort of emotional response inside of you, we have something in common. I get the warm and fuzzies just saying those names out loud. Some of my best memories growing up were playing these games with my dad.
Act like a duck. Be calm on the surface, but paddle like hell underneath.
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.
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.
I like to party at Christmas. We always have a duck, which my brother prepares.
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.
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.
The 2009 World Championship Duck Calling Contest, I won.
Since 1890, the Tour d’Argent’s basic recipe hasn’t changed. If you find yourself at the restaurant tomorrow, you will eat duck in the confidence that it was what someone ate a hundred years ago. You will eat it in the expectation that someone else will be served it a hundred years from now.
Everyone loves a long, slow-cooked stew and with gorgeous roasted vegetables. However, sometimes if you want something light, nothing beats a crispy duck salad.
I fantasize and idealize myself as Bugs Bunny, but I know deep down I’m Daffy Duck.
I’ve got this rep as a party boy, but the only show I’ve ever missed was when I had food poisoning from an Australian duck curry. I was puking buckets.
We don’t duck democratic choices out of fear of fascists.
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.
Neal Stephenson handles exposition better than anybody else. I keep trying to learn his tricks, but every time I duck into his pages, I get lost in the stories all over again and forget that I’m a writer.
People think I have an interest in comics, but I’m only interested in comics from the ’40s, like ‘Donald Duck’ comics.
I’ve thrown vanilla beans into mustard. Nothing crazy or grainy, just normal dijon. It’s great for duck. Smear some of that right on the duck, coupled with some roast plums, and it all comes together in that savory over sweet over savory over sweet way we all love.
I love partridge and duck casseroles, and have been known to hunt my own game. It’s important to eat off the land where possible.
My grandfather was actually a union organizer at Walt Disney. He was an animator. He used to draw Donald Duck for Walt Disney.
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.
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.
The stock from a pigeon is unique. It’s much better than quail or duck.
I think places that need the rubber duck the most are the ones in distress.
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. To me, he’s a great actor.
The rich flavors of duck meat have always attracted sweet, fruit-based sauces.
You cannot duck the difficult issues in the middle of an election campaign.
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.
If you’d have asked me five or six years ago when I first got the name, I’d have thought this is wild, a quarterback named Duck, but now it’s cool.
I am like a cartoon strip; I am like Donald Duck; everybody knows me in Italy.
I want to fight all the toughest guys in the world. I’m not trying to duck anybody or scared of anybody. I want to fight everybody.
Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan’s egg.
Summertime where guys played pickup, we got a thing in Philly called Summertime Rec. In that summertime you can’t duck no smoke. You can’t duck nobody in that basketball vibes.
I enjoy almost all of the game we kill. I only like to eat game that I have cleaned. I guess duck and dressing are still one of my favorites. We prefer fat green-winged teal or wood ducks for our dressing.
Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
I don’t love duck nails, where the nails are really wide on top. I am not a fan of that!
Unlike so many other conservative politicians, Paul Ryan doesn’t duck from answering questions about the reality of our entitlement problem. Ryan doesn’t only provide answers to how we solve the Social Security/Medicare Ponzi scheme on TV shows; he puts forward actual, workable plans: Paul Ryan’s Roadmap.
You know, he would go and look at different funny books because he wanted his character to be different and make different faces. I saw a funny book in his room and it looked like the same character he was playing. It was about a duck.
Apparently, the pathfinder duck is a psychological archetype in certain cultures.
Making duck calls is the hardest thing that we make, so there’s skill involved, and they’re all handmade.
Bizarrely, someone involved in the children’s show ‘Sarah and Duck,’ which I narrate, recently found a coat with my name on it in a secondhand shop. It’s the coat I wore as Theseus in the ‘Dream.’ So it’s back in my possession after all these years, which is rather strange and wonderful.
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.
I operate from a place of like water on a duck’s back. When things are thrown at me or said to me that aren’t worth my time, they don’t register with me. Like it just rolls off my back.
I wasn’t necessarily always funny, I don’t know if I necessarily am – some would argue not – but I was definitely, always been a strange one. Definitely always an odd duck.
