Ducks Quotes - Page 4

Well," Peter Van Houten said, extending his hand to me. "It is at any rate a pleasure to meet such ontologically improbable creatures." I shook his swollen hand, and then he shook hands with Augustus. I was wondering what ontologically meant. Regardless, I liked it. Augustus and I were together in the Improbable Creatures Club: us and duck-billed platypuses.

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.

How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks.

Bloodthirsty little beasts. Never trust a duck.- William Herondale

My parents are from a whole different culture. My parents are from small-town Louisiana. It's like, if it walk like a duck, talk like a duck, then it's a duck. And if you ain't quacking, you ain't no duck.

The secret of success is to be like a duck, Smooth and unruffled on top, But paddling furiously underneath.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

The framers gave us the Second Amendment not so we could go deer or duck hunting but to give us a modicum of protection against congressional tyranny.

I don't understand anything. Life is so strange. I feel like some one who's lived all his life by a duck-pond and suddenly is shown the sea. It makes me a little breathless, and yet it fills me with elation. I don't want to die, I want to live. I'm beginning to feel a new courage. I feel like one of those old sailors who set sail for undiscovered seas and I think my soul hankers for the unknown.

The Second Amendment is not about duck hunting, and I know I'm not going to make very many friends saying this, but it's about our right, all of our right to be able to protect ourselves from all of you guys [politicians] up there.

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

Remakes are always a challenge and they always are sitting ducks.

The only dynasty I like is the Duck Dynasty.

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.

I'm sorry for the ducks; I love foie gras.

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

Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.

One is never alone with a rubber duck.

Quick: noise made by a dyslexic duck

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

As for meat, I'm not going to become vegetarian. I'm telling you that right now. I want me a steak. I want me a pork chop. I want me a lamb chop, even a piece of duck every once in awhile. We used to have ham and salami, all that crazy stuff.