Quotes About Duck

Who but an English professor would threaten to kill a duck a day and hold up a goose as an example?

Trust none;For oaths are straws, men's faiths are wafer-cakes,And hold-fast is the only dog, my duck.

The Turing Test – the sort of thing that only a demented empiricist could devise – is one of the silliest tests ever to be taken seriously as a test. It's equivalent to saying, "If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's a duck" – even though we know it's actually a machine-duck with no organic parts, which we have painstakingly programmed to exhibit duck behavior … to quack like a duck.

Into one docile river, I heaved the non-word Shadowlawn. Lettering upward, cheerful as a duck, the log did not sink but happily bobbed elsewhere as if seeking finer property to describe.

The 2009 World Championship Duck Calling Contest, I won.

Most Texans think Hanukkah is some sort of duck call.

Just look at that beastly duck cooking at my stove! Cried Mrs Gregg as she flew past the kitchen window. How dare she!

Not really riding weather, is it, miss? Unless you're a duck." He chuckled at his own joke. "Quack," Jenna said...

A sister I'm not allowed to see, a headmaster with questionable intentions, and a duck that wants to kill me. Good doesn't feel like the right way to put it.

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

Memories Hello, duck, in yellow cloth stuffed from inside out, little pillow.

Lowell's an odd duck," Peterson said. "He's a loner. He reads books.

You needed only pliers and a crescent wrench and the sense of a common farm duck, "all of which," Rune said, "my uncle possessed.

Kinky sex involves the use of duck feathers. Perverted sex involves the whole duck.

Duck was a neutral party, so he brought the ultimatum to the cows.

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.

Sometimes Raymond wonders what it is like to be a duck: What is it like to have a facial expression so frozen that no one, not even another duck, can tell if you are in pain? It must be safe in one way, but then sooner or later the hunters come along and say to each other:"Hey, look at those birds out there, bobbing on the pond. We can shoot them because they can't feel emotion." But that's not true, Raymond thinks. Not even a little bit.

He's an odd duck but he's a good kid, with a good heart.

Her rage flopped awkwardly away like a duck. She felt as she had when her cold, fierce parents had at last grown sick and old, stick-boned and saggy, protected by infirmity the way cuteness protected a baby, or should, it should protect a baby, and she had been left with her rage--vestigial, girlhood rage--inappropriate and intact. She would hug her parents good-bye, the gentle, emptied sacks of them, and think Where did you go?

The road is always unreliable," the sandwich lady said. "It'll twist and turn on you. It'll duck and swerve and land you where you don't expect and you got no business being. You need your wits about you if you want to ride the road.

Apparently, the pathfinder duck is a psychological archetype in certain cultures.

I actually did a project with my puppet one time in fourth grade. I made up a song that went with the rhythm to a song I do now. And I had to make up a song about a penguin and research and put information in the song about a penguin. And I sang it with my duck, because I didn't have a penguin puppet, but close enough.

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'm of the opinion that a duck does not change styles every time it crosses a state line. I think they sound the same way from Canada all the way to the coast. As far as championship calling... I realize that a duck could not win a world championship, and that's why I don't do that. When it comes to duck calling, our judges have wings.