Ducks Quotations

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

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

If your woman picks your ducks, and she cooks and carries her Bible... now there's the complete package of womanhood.

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.

I think America needs us. 'Duck Dynasty' has given some hope to bringing the family back. I want to set that example.

Nobody criticizes the 'Mighty Ducks' trilogy and gets away with it. Nobody!

Im the lamest lame duck there could be.

There are no Rabbits in the north-west. This statement, far from final, is practically true today, but I saw plenty of Lynxes, and one cannot write of ducks without mentioning water.

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

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

Painting is sometimes like those recipes where you do all manner of elaborate things to a duck, and then end up putting it on one side and only using the skin.

Profit is the sole criterion used by the establishment to evaluate economic activity. From the rat race to lame ducks. The vocabulary in vogue is a give-away. It's more reminiscent of a human menagerie than human society.

We are the rags to riches story, okay, the Robertson's are. Okay? We had very humble beginnings. Everybody's trying to figure out what, what's behind it, and all the Robertsons say, 'Hey, it's divine intervention.' Me personally, okay, God's gonna take 'Duck Dynasty' where he wants it to go, okay, and to the people that he wants it to go to.

And I like pygmy goats, because they're just lovely, and ducks.

A fellow with the inventiveness of Albert Einstein but with the attention span of Daffy Duck.

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

I took the process of doing as much myself as I could like a duck to water. I set up my own label and publishing, etc, and it was a fun learning curve two decades ago.

If it's well written and well directed and you've got good actors to work with, acting is easy. But making sure all the ducks are in a row is the hard part. It's very rare

When I was nine years old I use to copy ( not trace ) the covers of the Donald Duck comics. Many years later I became a close friend of Jack Hannah, the director of the Donald Duck film shorts.

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.

I don't have ugly ducklings turning into swans in my stories. I have ugly ducklings turning into confident ducks.

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.

I picked ducks in a tub in my dorm room. I'd hang deer in the doorway between the bedroom and the little living room in our little apartment there, and I'd skin my deer, and all the guts would go in the tub, and I'd sneak them out so my fellow students on both sides wouldn't see all that, you know. I'd clean fish up there and all.

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

Architectural kitsch is most common in the commercial pop vernacular - typified by the Big Duck of 1931 in Flanders, New York, a Long Island roadside poultry stand resembling a duck, which Venturi and Scott Brown made a cult object through their writings.

I'm sure it's why I'm such an odd duck in my feminist generation, because I've always been equally fair to men.

Dealing with network executives is like being nibbled to death by ducks.

For me, it's just a pleasure to be out in the community wearing my Ducks logo on shirts and hats and so forth in representing the team.

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

I used to get a lot of rubber ducks on my birthdays as presents because, you know, I make rubber ducks. But then I get the ugliest ones with a neck, ugly colors, and devil ears. I don't like those.

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!'

I am a still friend with Dave Crosby, he's a weird duck but I like him a lot.

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.

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

Human beings have a lot of problems identifying themselves with other human beings who don't resemble them exactly. But there's something about drawing that means that anyone can identify to a drawing. I mean, people can identify themselves with Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse.

Have you seen a duck gliding smoothly on water? Does it ever look like it is paddling furiously underneath the surface? I don't have to show that I am working very hard.

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.

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.

One of the first houses we lived in was like out of a fairy story. We had a stream that ran through our garden, and we played with the ducks - we locked them in my mum's office, and they pooed everywhere. It was crazy, picking blackberries and mushrooms, rabbits running through your legs.

I fantasize and idealize myself as Bugs Bunny, but I know deep down I'm Daffy Duck.

People eat duck and you think, well, we've got loads of chickens, leave the ducks alone!

I think some people think that being on television makes you a sitting duck, but you have the right to remain private.

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

I'm crazy about ducks and swans and geese, so I don't eat foie gras. I try to eat organic.

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.

Christianity is why the 'Duck Dynasty' family is still together.

Our minds have a tendency to wander. To duck and feint and keep us at a slight remove from the moment at hand.

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.

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

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.

The thing about fashion - it's like ducks going quack, quack quack. It's being dictated from above, and it just makes me want to rebel against it.

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.

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.

'Vegetarian' is a slippery word. I don't eat cheese, I don't eat duck - the point is I'm vegan.

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.

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.

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.

For me to go to America - which I find such a positive place - well, I took to it like a duck to water.

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

Our main deal is pastured livestock. So we have beef cattle, pigs, turkeys, laying chickens, meat chickens, rabbit, lamb and ducks - egg-layer ducks.

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.

When I was a kid, politicians wanted to avoid talking about religion if they could. John F. Kennedy couldn't duck the issue, being Catholic and all. So how did he address it? By reminding Americans that religion shouldn't be an issue, that he was concentrating on big things like poverty and hunger and leading the space race.

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.

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

When I start a movie, the first day, I feel like a duck.

To produce foie gras, ducks and geese are force-fed enormous amounts of grain and fat, which causes their livers to swell to many times the normal size.

Let's get our ducks in a row before we start shooting.

She's been one of those people that has been able to play both sports, keep her grades up and then she, (teammate) Mandy (Lance) and (team chaplain) Todd Allen have started a Wednesday night youth group. All of her ducks are in a row.

We might be the land of 10,000 lakes, but if the land of 10,000 lakes are 10,000 dead lakes or 10,000 lakes that aren't very good, ducks just aren't going to come here.

Cuisine has become too complicated - this is about subject, verb, adjective: duck, turnips, sauce.

I was just always struck, in the original one-act play, by the intensity of the relationship between these two women. It's a very pure and loving relationship, and those lifelong friendships are so rare and unique. . . . One of them is getting ready to make her transition, and basically she's getting all of her ducks in a row. And her best friend does not know this and is terrified of death.

If all the ducks are lined in a row, these casinos can open the doors as soon as the conditional license is received.

The purposes are lost. They need to come home. Right now, they're sitting ducks and our troops are going to die in vain.

My stuff's staying in the Delta. Both my sons are in college, but I've recruited some other kids to hunt. We've got ducks and I'm not tired of calling them yet.

Look at what strength training did for Annika (Sorenstam). Michelle tended to shy away from it. But once we pointed out the benefits, it's a full program she has to work on. When you've got the talent she has, it's a matter of getting your ducks in a row. She's game for it. She's starting to enjoy it.

Our new partnership with Pepsi will literally change the way we do business both inside and outside the arena. Our fans will experience faster service with new, state-of-the-art equipment at the concession stands and in the marketplace, we will benefit from a tremendous amount of promotional support for the Mighty Ducks and other upcoming events.

Just getting young kids excited about hockey, then they'll want to skate, they'll want to start joining junior leagues, they'll want to play in high school, etc., so we're trying to expand at all levels. That's good for the sport, and it's good for the Ducks long term.

I think for the most part we are ready. We are Pac-10 home ready, that's for sure. It's going to be a wait-and-see thing to see how we play on the road. It's going to be a great test for us against the Ducks to see how we play over there.

It is like shooting ducks in a pond.

I think a good product would be Baby Duck Hat. It's a fake baby duck, which you strap on top of your head. Then you go swimming underwater until you find a mommy duck and her babies, and you join them. Then all of the sudden, you stand up out of the water and roar like Godzilla. Man those ducks really take off! Also Baby Duck Hat is good for parties. - Deep Thoughts (Saturday Night Live)

We didn't run well at home in our last meet, so improving on that is a first step. If we don't get our ducks in order Saturday, we'll get schooled.

The actual number of ducks hasn't been going down that much. We're just seeing fewer of them in Arkansas.

We have our ducks in a row. It just depends if a deal takes place Wednesday ... or Sunday ... or Wednesday again. But we have a contingency plan based on all this.

We have to step up improvement of the primitive farming practice in China's rural regions, especially the backyard feeding of chickens and ducks in many rural households.

We had a little more jump, a little more desperation. I think we had more fun tonight, too. The Ducks were doing it, too, for two periods. It was back and forth.

The process included both qualitative research and a formal quantitative telephone survey of Mighty Ducks season ticket holders. While there was support for keeping the current name, the majority of those surveyed, nearly two-thirds, supported some sort of name change.

We decided, OK, we're going to look at the scene every time before we shoot it, ... And Vince and I went, and we looked, and literally down to the body language of when he hands her the pen, how she ducks in from the rain, how she turns to walk out the door, whether she turns to the left or turns to the right. I wanted to hold my purse the same way, to show how specific you can get, and how different it will be, according to what the mind of a person is.

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.

A duck tastes the same whether they're shot sitting or flying.

At the end of the day, I love eating duck. It's the best thing you can eat on this earth, especially grilled with jalapenos and cream cheese.

Go to where the ducks are. Forget the duck calls. If you go where the ducks are coming, you're going to shoot more ducks.

If you’re too busy to duck hunt or catch fish, then you’re too busy.

The No. 1 rule in duck hunting is to go where the ducks are.

...I enjoyed it (Dr.Ducks Ax Wax) .. in fact I'm all out...

We're happy that we got this little stay of execution, so to speak. It'll give us some time to get all our ducks in a row, to take on whatever they throw at us in the future.

We're happy to lend a hand to this important program. Recycling continues to become a more and more important issue with each passing year and we hope that Ducks fans with old sneakers will be able to make the trip to our ballpark with their unwanted sneakers to help out a great cause.

... we use Dr.Ducks Ax Wax religiously on all Danelectros before they ever leave the factory...

When it was first installed, you could hear the calling of long-tailed ducks in the background.

Chess is a matter of delicate judgement, knowing when to punch and how to duck.

In an ideal world, the intelligent investor would hold stocks only when they are cheap and sell them when they become overpriced, then duck into the bunker of bonds and cash until stocks again become cheap enough to buy.