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Quotes About Duck

It was the first time in a long while that I thought about how small a dog I was as Max. It did not seem right that a dog should be the same size as a duck.
~ W. Bruce Cameron
I'd been outsmarted by a man who named his goose Doris and thought it was a duck.
~ W. Bruce Cameron
Celia had ordered his favourite meal of wild duck cooked in limes, and I advised that we eat without him and save his portion for him to dine later. 'He
~ Philippa Gregory
Noah — get off me!" she demanded, trying to push the big duck off her chest.
~ R.L. Stine
Such poisoning of waters set aside for conservation purposes could have consequences felt by every western duck hunter and by everyone to whom the sight and sound of drifting ribbons of waterfowl across an evening sky are precious. These
~ Rachel Carson
I guess everyone is entitled their opinion and how they want to treat people, but it is water of a duck's back.
~ Steve Smith
There's a huge fucking missile launcher in our backyard and apparently the only thing between us and Armageddon is some guy who's afraid of a duck.
~ Louise Penny
She'd arrived a self-sufficient city woman, and now she was covered in snow, sitting on a bench beside a crazy person, and she had a duck on her lap. Who was nuts now?
~ Louise Penny
The whole restaurant was really about duck, the fact that you passed the tiny kitchen on the way to the tables and the chefs were knee-deep in ducks in there, raw ducks getting plucked, roasted ducks, fried duck legs, ducks cooked six ways from Sunday, the fact that what about that dish they had where the duck was served in a sea of green olives, just like a sea, like two hundred olives at least.
~ Lucy Ellmann
The fact that Ben has a new riddle book, and wants to entertain us all by reading out every single joke, "Why did the duck cross the road?", "To give the chicken a break.
~ Lucy Ellmann
Jordan pinched the bridge of his nose. 'The only decent piece of trivia I know is that it's against the law to cross the state boundaries of Iowa with a duck on your head.
~ Jodi Picoult
The world is round, so if you do something bad you had better duck.
~ Unknown
Honey, I just forgot to duck.
~ Jack Dempsey
To begin cooking duck at one in the morning is one of the finest acts of madness that can be undertaken by a human being who is not mad.
~ Unknown
My idea of fast food is a mallard.
~ Ted Nugent
Guy goes into a bar with a duck under his arm. Bartender says, "Where'd you get the pig?" Guy says, "This is a duck." Bartender says, "I was talking to the duck."
~ Rodney Dangerfield
When I was a kid my family was really poor and I remember one Halloween I wanted to dress up really scary and my parents came home with a duck costume. I wore that costume for years! I hated it.
~ R. L. Stine
So I went to the Chinese restaurant and this duck came up to me with a red rose and says "Your eyes sparkle like diamonds". I said "Waiter, I asked for a-ROMATIC duck".
~ Tommy Cooper
The startled child gathered his thoughts. I'm not entirely sure what the circumstances are, he said, but as a general rule I try to keep things simple. If I'm clear about what I want, other people have an easier time making me happy. It sounds basic, but most of the time it works. "Duck." He spoke clearly, pointing to a wooden duck.
~ Meg Rosoff
if a civil war should break out in France, it would take a while to reach the southwest. I knew next to nothing about the southwest, really, only that it was a region where they ate duck confit, and duck confit struck me as incompatible with civil war.
~ Michel Houellebecq
no animal likes to be pecked on the anus by a duck.
~ Nicholson Baker
The best sorts of leftover meals are those that are glorified picnics. Alongside the cold meats, you need a good purchased pâté en croûte—one made with veal or duck would be just the thing. Also put on the table some salad and bread.
~ Nigella Lawson
Odd isn't it, that we never hear of the duck that laid the Golden Egg?" The little duck was fuming. "Oh, so ducks aren't aristocratic—is that it? I suppose, Charlie, that you have never heard of the Duck of Edinburgh?" he asked with some heat. "Can't say that I have." "Then you don't know everything, do you—not if you've never heard of His Highness!" the small duck finished in some triumph.
~ Unknown
I was raised in the backwoods of Montana. I can hit a duck on the wing." Maybe. Probably. I'd never shot a duck in my life; I prefer hunting on all fours. "Where I come from, a gun is a weapon, not a TV prop, and if all the bad guys are dead, our side of the story is the only one that gets told.
~ Patricia Briggs