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  • I've always looked upon the Ducks as caricature human beings. Perhaps I've been years writing in that middle world that J.R.R. Tolkien describes, and never knew it. -- Carl Barks
  • Dealing with network executives is like being nibbled to death by ducks. -- Eric Sevareid
  • If I think too much about all of those Chinese factories where all the stuff in a Wal-Mart is made, I get that woozy feeling you get when you see ducks covered in crude oil. -- Douglas Coupland
  • ...I like Dr.Ducks Ax Wax .... -- Joe Beck
  • ...Dr.Ducks Ax Wax is Great Stuff... -- Leland Sklar
  • ...I love Dr.Ducks Ax Wax ... Glossily Yours .... -- Elliot Easton
  • ...I enjoyed it (Dr.Ducks Ax Wax) .. in fact I'm all out... -- Dick Dale
  • Nobody criticizes the 'Mighty Ducks' trilogy and gets away with it. Nobody! -- Joshua Jackson
  • ...it works ... (Dr.Ducks Ax Wax & String Lube) .. makes the strings last longer ... -- Larry Coryell
  • All along the backwater, Through the rushes tall, Ducks are a-dabbling, Up tails all! -- Kenneth Grahame
  • ... we use Dr.Ducks Ax Wax religiously on all Danelectros before they ever leave the factory... -- Brian Martin
  • ... I'm on the road right now ... all is well ... Dr.Ducks Ax Wax is great, loved it ... -- Cesar Rosas
  • Ducks are sweet, crows are intelligent; but I prefer dolphins because they are both sweet and intelligent. -- Mehmet Murat ildan
  • ...I use Dr.Ducks Ax Wax on my entire collection of vintage guitars ... it's the best polish I've ever used... -- Bob Daisley
  • ...it's great! I used it (Dr.Ducks Ax Wax) to restore the finish of my 370/12/RM and I love the way it turned out!.. -- Roger McGuinn
  • She turned and looked at him. "Ducks?" she said again. A smile tugged the edge of his mouth. "I hate ducks. Don't know why. I just always have. -- Cassandra Clare
  • In leadership we teach we teach;Don't send your ducks to eagle school because it wont help.Ducks finishes eagle school,sees his first rabbit, makes him a friend. -- Jim Rohn
  • Then I lost him for a brief period of time, and by the time I caught up with him, he had wandered into Hyde Park, waded into the Serpetine, spread his arms wide, and was shouting, 'Ducks, embrace me as your king! -- Cassandra Clare
  • Don't quack like a duck, soar like an eagle. -- Ken Blanchard
  • The perils of duck hunting are great- especially for the duck. -- Walter Cronkite
  • And I like pygmy goats, because they're just lovely, and ducks. -- Richard Hammond
  • When Donald Duck traded his wings for arms, was he trading up or trading down? -- Douglas Coupland
  • Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath. -- Michael Caine
  • To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also. -- Igor Stravinsky
  • Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time. -- Jules Renard
  • People eat duck and you think, well, we've got loads of chickens, leave the ducks alone! -- Karl Pilkington
  • So I went to the Chinese restaurant and this duck came up to me with a red. -- Tim Vine
  • I don't have ugly ducklings turning into swans in my stories. I have ugly ducklings turn into confident ducks. -- Maeve Binchy
  • If you keep your feathers well oiled the water of criticism will run off as from a duck's back. -- Ellen Swallow Richards
  • I'm crazy about ducks and swans and geese, so I don't eat foie gras. I try to eat organic. -- Anna Chancellor
  • You learn real early to make a film and then duck, and basically that's how I go about it. -- Alan Rudolph
  • If your woman picks your ducks, and she cooks and carries her Bible... now there's the complete package of womanhood. -- Phil Robertson
  • If you know anything about ducks, you know a baby duck will imprint itself on you. It misses its mother. -- Michael Leunig
  • 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
  • Women who start out as ugly ducklings don't become beautiful swans. What they mainly become is confident ducks. They take charge of their lives. -- Maeve Binchy
  • Every unwanted animal ends up on my farm: alpacas and horses and dogs and cats and chickens and ducks and parrots and fish and guinea pigs. -- Salma Hayek
  • 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. -- Orson Welles
  • 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. -- Billie Holiday
  • He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain. -- Douglas William Jerrold
  • The English eat all sorts of birds - pigeons, ducks, sparrows - but if you tell them you eat puffin, you might as well come from Mars. -- Bjork
  • When I was younger, my mum used to put fresh flowers in bath water instead of rubber ducks, and since then I had a love of perfumes. -- Virginia Hey
  • 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. -- Sara Blakely
  • 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. -- Cat Stevens
  • What is sauce for the goose may be sauce for the gander, but it is not necessarily sauce for the chicken, the duck, the turkey or the Guinea hen. -- Alice B. Toklas
  • 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. -- Ernest Thompson Seton
  • 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. -- Lucian Freud
  • That's my gift. I let that negativity roll off me like water off a duck's back. If it's not positive, I didn't hear it. If you can overcome that, fights are easy. -- George Foreman
  • 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
  • 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!' -- George Will
  • We're trying to infuse a little good into the American culture. Love God, love your neighbor, hunt ducks. Raise your kids, make them behave, love them. I don't see the down side to that. -- Phil Robertson
  • 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. -- John Lithgow
  • 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. -- David Knopfler
  • 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. -- Jimmy Reid
  • 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. -- William Jackson
  • The one complaint about the Internet that I wholeheartedly endorse is that most of these tools have been designed to peck at us like ducks: 'Hey, there's a new reply to your comment! Come look at it!' -- Clive Thompson
  • 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. -- Phil Robertson
  • I do have my ducks in line if I want to do it, but I'd love to see the Republicans pick somebody that was going to win and take over this country and frankly, to use the expression, 'Make America great again.' -- Donald Trump
  • I've got eighteen-year-old twins that need to go to college, so there's still a financial issue, but I could retire tomorrow and just count ducks by the side of the lake, and that would be just fine by me. I'm not a high-energy guy. -- Jonathan Banks
  • 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. -- Bubba Smith
  • I spent a lot of time on farms when I was growing up, and I've been obsessed with the practical logic of farmyards - the turning radius of tractors, where the chickens and ducks might go. It's not a place where stand-alone aesthetic decisions make a lot of sense. -- Jaquelin T. Robertson
  • 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. -- Emilia Clarke
  • 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. -- Phil Robertson
  • They're not chicks. They're ducks. -- Lauren Myracle
  • his snores sounded like ducks mating. -- George R. R. Martin
  • Make ducks and drakes with shillings. -- George Chapman
  • Where do the ducks go in the winter? -- J. D. Salinger
  • Fear God. Love your neighbor. And shoot ducks. -- Phil Robertson
  • I'm sorry for the ducks; I love foie gras. -- Jose Andres Puerta
  • I'm sorry for the ducks; I love foie gras. -- Jose Andres Puerta
  • Why try to have pigs flyWhen ducks already can -- _
  • Why try to have pigs flyWhen ducks already can -- _
  • I hate ducks. Don't know why. I just always have. -- Cassandra Clare
  • Remakes are always a challenge and they always are sitting ducks. -- Nicolas Cage
  • Making love to your wife is like shooting at sitting ducks. -- Groucho Marx
  • If you want to fly with eagles, stop swimming with ducks. -- T. Harv Eker
  • Women are a lot like ducks-they don't like mud on their butts. -- Phil Robertson
  • Three hot chicks for three hot chicks." "THEY'RE NOT CHICKS! THEY'RE DUCKS! -- Lauren Myracle
  • If you want to fly with the eagles, don't swim with the ducks! -- T. Harv Eker
  • Nature is a wet place where large numbers of ducks fly overhead uncooked. -- Oscar Wilde
  • How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks. -- Dorothy L. Sayers
  • The No. 1 rule in duck hunting is to go where the ducks are. -- Jase Robertson
  • Sick of lame ducks, use Cosmic Ordering and your ducks will lay golden eggs. -- Stephen Richards
  • Proverbial wisdom counsels against risk and change. But sitting ducks fare worst of all. -- Mason Cooley
  • Mandarin ducks mate for life and will die of loneliness if separated from their chosen mate. -- Katherine Paterson
  • If you are going to be a successful duck hunter, you must go where the ducks are. -- Bear Bryant
  • You all sound like a bunch of ducks! What? What? What? What? Shut up while I'm talking! -- The Miz
  • Coaches are like ducks. Calm on top, but paddling underneath. Believe me, there's a lot of leg movement. -- Ken Hitchcock
  • I don't have ugly ducklings turning into swans in my stories. I have ugly ducklings turning into confident ducks. -- Maeve Binchy
  • A lot of young girls together is a romantic secret thing like the first sight of wild ducks at dawn. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • I might do my own independent film, that my husband wrote for me, if all the ducks are in a row. -- Erica Durance
  • The memories of long love gather like drifting snow, poignant as the mandarin ducks who float side by side in sleep. -- Murasaki Shikibu
  • Even if the project requires you to have all the ducks in a line, I can't do that. I don't create way. -- Erykah Badu
  • I'm an expert cook when it comes to preparing the quail, ducks, geese and wild turkeys that I hunt on the farm. -- Jimmy Carter
  • If she kept wondering about how much of her life Bran engineered, she'd end up on a funny farm knitting caps for ducks. -- Patricia Briggs
  • He whines, he complains, he ducks out of the most obvious responsibility. He is vain, petty and maddening, but he doesn't ever quit. -- Megan Whalen Turner
  • My dad used to hunt ducks, and my mom would put them in the pot. We lived really modestly. We had very little money. -- Megan Fox
  • Our main deal is pastured livestock. So we have beef cattle, pigs, turkeys, laying chickens, meat chickens, rabbit, lamb and ducks - egg-layer ducks. -- Joel Salatin
  • I soon found out this much:--terror can be endured so long as a man simply ducks;--but it kills, if a man thinks about it. -- Erich Maria Remarque
  • No matter how organized your ducks are, life can turn on 2 seconds. So, you can't keep on waiting. Because, if you keep on waiting, it's gone. -- Diem Brown
  • 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. -- Kate Winslet
  • Nothing. Absolutely nothing. No furniture, no light fittings, no carpet, no bodies. Not a single body. Nothing but the million ducks, the three million ducklings and a window. -- Nicky Singer
  • Don't waste your time trying to turn ducks into eagles. Hire people who already have the motivation and drive to be eagles and then just let them soar. -- Jim Rohn
  • There must be something unique about man because otherwise, evidently, the ducks would be lecturing about Konrad Lorenz, and the rats would be writing papers about B. F. Skinner. -- Jacob Bronowski
  • We have federal regulations and state laws that prohibit hunting ducks with more than three rounds. And yet it's legal to hunt humans with 15-round, 30-round, even 150-round magazines. -- Dianne Feinstein
  • The thing that makes you know that Vernon Ward is a good painter is if you look at his ducks, you can see the eyes follow you around the room. -- Peter Cook
  • Their oldest child, James, had spoken laughingly about Will's unrelenting fear of ducks and his continual battle to keep them out of the pond at the family home in Yorkshire. -- Cassandra Clare
  • 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
  • There was an Old Person of Bray, Who sang through the whole of the day To his ducks and his pigs, whom he fed upon figs, That valuable Person of Bray. -- Edward Lear
  • I was just thinking of bunding up Cecily and feeding her to the ducks in Hyde Park," said Will, pushing his wet hair back and favoring Jem with a rare smile. -- Cassandra Clare
  • Four ducks on a pond, / A grass-bank beyond, / A blue sky of spring, / White clouds on the wing: / What a little thing / To remember for years - / To remember with tears!. -- William Allingham
  • Here's a little bit of good news. The Coast Guard says that BP is now catching up to 630,000 gallons of oil a day. The bad news is that they're capturing it with ducks. -- Jimmy Fallon
  • I get a lot of letters. Not only from children but from adults, too. Almost every week, every month, clippings come in from some part of the world where ducks are crossing the street. -- Robert McCloskey
  • Why the critics, like a flock of ducks, always move in perfect unison: Their authority with the public depends upon an appearance of unanimous agreement. One dissenting voice would shatter the whole fragile structure. -- Edward Abbey
  • I've always said the key to killing a lot of mallards if you live on the East Coast is to move west. The No. 1 rule in duck hunting is to go where the ducks are. -- Jase Robertson
  • 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 -- John Lithgow
  • 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
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