Ducks Quotes - Page 18

• The strong appearance of design [in nature] allows a disarmingly simple argument: if it looks, walks and quacks like a duck, then, absent compelling evidence to the contrary, we have warrant to conclude it's a duck. Design should not be overlooked simply because it's so obvious.

  Michael Behe

  Strong, Simple, Design

  "Design for Living" by Michael Behe, www.nytimes.com. February 7, 2005.

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• If you want a chicken to be a duck, and a duck to be a chicken, you will suffer.

  Ajahn Chah

  Suffering, Want, Chickens

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• Principal Principal: Where's your late pass, mister? Errant Student: I'm on my way to get one now. PP: But you can't be in the hall without a pass. ES: I know, I'm so upset. That's why I need to hurry, so I can get a pass. Principal Principal pauses with a look on his face like Daffy Duck's when Bugs is pulling a fast one. PP: Well, hurry up, then, and get that pass.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Upset, Daffy Duck, Needs

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• 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

  Communication, Bombs, Littles

  "Portnoy's Complaint". Book by Philip Roth, 1969.

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• Charlie Asher: Mrs. Ling, is that duck wearing trousers? Mrs. Ling: Could be . . . . You hear of paper-wrap chicken? This duck in pants.

  Christopher Moore

  Paper, Pants, Chickens

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• They would all be sorry... particularly the duck.

  Angie Sage

  Sorry

  Angie Sage (2012). “Magyk: Septimus Heap”, p.348, A&C Black

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• Meow says the cat ,quack says the duck , Bow wow wow says the dog ! Grrrr!

  Charles Dickens

  Dog, Cat, Wow

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• We have the most liberal, the most leftist candidate who has ever run for president in my lifetime; he's a sitting duck. This guy's policies are aimed at destroying the age of American greatness.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Running, Greatness, Guy

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• If you want to fly with eagles, stop swimming with ducks.

  T. Harv Eker

  Swimming, Eagles, Want

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• Boys can see adventure in a dirty old duck puddle, and if the Scoutmaster is a boys' man he can see it, too.

  Baden Powell de Aquino

  Wisdom, Dirty, Adventure

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• 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

  Crazy, Interesting, Ponds

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• 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.

  Jase Robertson

  Forget, Ifs

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• Beneath the light, the river and hills are beautiful, The spring breeze bears the fragrance of flowers and grass. The mud has thawed, and swallows fly around. On the warm sand, mandarin ducks are sleeping.

  Du Fu

  Beautiful, Spring, Flower

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• It could end up like the Dog & Duck against the Red Lion.

  Gary Neville

  Football, Dog, League

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• To have some parts flowing free again . . . with deer grazing on its banks . . . ducks and geese raising their young in the backwaters . . . eddies and twists and turns for canoeists . . . and fishing opportunities such as Lewis and Clark enjoyed . . . would be the finest possible tribute to the men of the Expedition, and a priceless gift for our children.

  Stephen Ambrose

  Children, Opportunity, Men

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

  Jase Robertson

  Hunting, Archery, Duck Hunting

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• I do not claim any of the creation of the blues, although I have written many of them even before Mr. Handy had any blues published. I heard them when I was knee-high to a duck.

  Jelly Roll Morton

  Knees, Jazz, Creation

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• People hit the sauce in a big way all winter. Amidst blizzards they wrestle unsuccessfully with the dark comedy of their lives, laughter trapped in their frigid gizzards. Meanwhile, the mercury just plummets, like a migrating duck blasted out of the sky by some hunter in a cap with fur earflaps.

  Amy Gerstler

  Laughter, Dark, Winter

  Amy Gerstler (2000). “Medicine”, p.75, Penguin

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• Democrat flaks jump on this like ducks on a June-bug, and in the process themselves reproduce the sick militarism of this culture that automatically valorizes anyone who wears a uniform. How dare you insult a soldier! Like its some sacred calling instead of an imperial employment program steeped in the culture of machismo and misogyny.(And you can gasp as theatrically as you want I spent more than two decades wearing a uniform that is exactly what it is.)

  Stan Goff

  June, Two, Sick

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• What is a turducken? An exclusive culinary creation available by special order from some little Cajun town down south. Entirely deboned, a turducken consists of a turkey, stuffed with duck, stuffed with a chicken, like an edible Russian nesting doll. Some were stuffed with alligator, crap, shrimp; my favorite was the traditional cornbread variety.

  S.A. Bodeen

  Order, Turkeys, Special

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• If we had the consciousness of a cat or a dog, we would have it in us to become perfect Zen masters. We could gnaw on a bone, take a nap, play with a spider until we killed it, get our litter just right, and be innocently and serenely present. Meaning would mean nothing to us, nor would we need it to mean anything. We would be free, and we would be spared. But, we are human beings, and we posses that odd duck – human consciousness.

  Eric Maisel

  Dog, Mean, Cat

  Eric Maisel, PhD (2012). “The Van Gogh Blues: The Creative Person s Path Through Depression”, p.65, New World Library

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• 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

  Home, Opportunity, Play

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• You point your feet out too much when you walk,” Will went on. He was busy polishing an apple on his shirtfront, and appeared not to notice Tessa glaring at him. “Camille walks delicately. Like a faun in the woods. Not like a duck” “I do not walk like a duck.” “I like ducks,” Jem observed diplomatically. “Especially the ones in Hyde Park.

  Cassandra Clare

  Apples, Feet, Fauns

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.193, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Wise, Tired, Insightful

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• 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

  Lying, Rivers, Looks

  Wendell Berry (2012). “New Collected Poems”, p.87, Counterpoint Press

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