Ducks Quotes

• Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.

  Michael Caine

  Inspiring, Encouragement, Bad Day

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

  Bill Cosby

  Secret, Paddling, Smooth

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• If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, it's a duck!

  Robin Cook

  Looks, Quacks, Ifs

  Robin Cook (2011). “Crisis”, p.63, Pan Macmillan

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• Nature is a wet place where large numbers of ducks fly overhead uncooked.

  Oscar Wilde

  Numbers, Overhead, Wet

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• If you keep your feathers well oiled the water of criticism will run off as from a duck's back.

  Ellen Swallow Richards

  Running, Water, Criticism

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• I'm like a duck: calm above the water, and paddling like hell underneath.

  Fred Shero

  Water, Training, Paddling

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• I don't have ugly ducklings turning into swans in my stories. I have ugly ducklings turning into confident ducks.

  Maeve Binchy

  Writing, Swans, Ugly Duckling

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

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Passion, Fleeting, Humans

  Dorothy L Sayers (2009). “Gaudy Night: Lord Peter Wimsey”, p.262, Hachette UK

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• All along the backwater,
  Through the rushes tall,
  Ducks are a-dabbling,
  Up tails all!

  Kenneth Grahame

  Tails, Wind In The Willows, Tall

  Kenneth Grahame (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Kenneth Grahame (Illustrated)”, p.28, Delphi Classics

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• 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

  Positive, Fighting, Mma

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• Poetry is a sky dark with a wild-duck migration.

  Carl Sandburg

  Dark, Sky, Migration

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.318, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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

  Family, Integrity, Patriotic

  Douglas Adams (2016). “Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Box Set: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul”, p.209, Simon and Schuster

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• An optimist is someone who figures that if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's the bluebird of happiness.

  Robert Breault

  Optimism, Quacks, Figures

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• I don't think you're happier if you're thin or beautiful or rich or married. You have to make your own happiness. My heroines do not become beautiful elegant swans, they become confident ducks and get on with life.

  Maeve Binchy

  Beautiful, Thinking, Swans

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• Don't quack like a duck, soar like an eagle.

  Ken Blanchard

  Motivational, Leadership, Ambition

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• 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

  Funny, Clever, Smart

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• My motto is water off a duck's back. Meaning: don't let negativity weigh you down, perpetuate positive thinking.

  Jinkx Monsoon

  Positive Thinking, Water, Negativity

  Source: fierth.com

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• Was that you or the duck?

  Groucho Marx

  "Fictional character: Professor Quincy Adams Wagstaff". "Horse Feathers", 1932.

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• Wiggle like a stick, wobble like a duck, that's what you do when you do the Hucklebuck.

  Chubby Checker

  Dancing, Sticks

  Song: The Hucklebuck

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• To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Music, Effort, Merit

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The whole story of the universe is implicit in any part of it. The meditative eye can look through any single object and see, as through a window, the entire cosmos. Make the smell of roast duck in an old kitchen diaphanous and you will have a glimpse of everything, from the spiral nebulae to Mozart's music and the stigmata of St. Francis of Assisi. The artistic problem is to produce diaphanousness in spots, selecting the spots so as to reveal only the most humanly significant of distant vistas behind the near familiar object.

  Aldous Huxley

  Art, Eye, Smell

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• 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

  Skins, Recipes, Sides

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• 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

  Song, Men, Chinese

  Billie Holiday, William Dufty (2011). “Lady Sings the Blues: The 50th-Anniversay Edition with a Revised Discography”, p.51, Broadway Books

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• 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

  Gun, Boys, Giving

  George F. Will (1983). “The Pursuit of Virtue and Other Tory Notions”, Touchstone

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• Im the lamest lame duck there could be.

  George C. Wallace

  Lame, Politics

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