Fancy Duck Quotes

The moments that define lives aren't always obvious. They don't scream LEDGE, and nine times out of ten there's no rope to duck under, no line to cross, no blood pact, no official letter on fancy paper. They aren't always protracted, heavy with meaning. Between one sip and the next, Victor made the biggest mistake of his life, and it was made of nothing more than one line. Three small words.
I'll go first. ~ Victoria Schwab

When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck. ~ James Whitcomb Riley

Well, yes, I call it the Expando-Duck. It's perfect if you need a small metal duck. Or a larger metal duck. ~ Rick Riordan

The party and the Krikkit warship looked, in their writhings, a little like two ducks, one of which is trying to make a third duck inside the second duck, whilst the second duck is trying very hard to explain that it doesn't feel ready for a third duck right now, is uncertain that it would want any putative third duck anyway, and certainly not whilst it, the second duck, was busy flying. ~ Douglas Adams

A duck walks into a bar and the bartender asks, what'll it be? The duck doesn't answer because it's a duck. ~ Jodi Picoult

Death strode away, stopped, and came back. He pointed a skeletal finger at The Duck Man.
WHY, he said, ARE YOU WALKING AROUND WITH THAT DUCK?
"What duck?"
AH. SORRY. ~ Terry Pratchett

Childhood schizophrenia walked like a duck and quacked like a duck but was not a duck. Instead, it was the psychotic goose that suddenly seemed to be in everyone's backyard. ~ Steve Silberman

You ever hear that expression 'If it looks like a duck and it quacks like a duck, it's probably a duck'? ~ Alex Duval

I'm a huge fan of Warner Brothers cartoons. I would spend many hours alone after school watching Daffy Duck. I think Daffy Duck is one of the great comedic villains. ~ Roger Bart

If it looks like a duck and sounds like a duck, it could be a really ugly swan. ~ Timmothy Radman

I look like a duck. It's the way my mouth curls up, or my nose tilts up. I should have played Howard the Duck. ~ Michelle Pfeiffer

I fantasize and idealize myself as Bugs Bunny, but I know deep down I'm Daffy Duck. ~ Patton Oswalt

All impediments in fancy's course Are motives of more fancy. ~ William Shakespeare

If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, you're probably in the wrong bathroom. ~ Robert Leland Taylor

If it looks like a duck, and it quacks like a duck…you should not be so quick to jump to conclusions. ~ Joseph Fink, Jeffrey Cranor

Duck love is recognizable in any language. ~ Edmond Manning

That everything in nature has "the appearance" of design is not exactly evidence against design. According to Dawkins, though, if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it is almost certainly something else. ~ Paul Greene

But this was fancy; she was succumbing to fancy in a way she hadn't done before. ~ Gregory Maguire

My kids can't watch ('Howard the Duck'). By the time I get in bed with the duck, they are, like, 'Turn it off, mom. You in bed with a duck is just pretty much a deal breaker.' ~ Lea Thompson

Well, don't make duck. I'm morally opposed to duck. Do you know what they do to ducks at a duck farm? The cruelty! It's barbaric. But I do love veal. Can you make veal? Or is that too hard for you? ~ Kristan Higgins

Did I not tell you that would gag a maggot on a gut wagon? ~ Duck Dynasty

if it looks like ahh duck and Quack like ahh duck then....its an afflack! ~ Madea

In Holland, we have a saying: 'A knife cuts on two sides.' With the rubber duck, I'm trying to show people what they haven't been seeing in their public space. When the rubber duck is there and when it's gone, you know. ~ Florentijn Hofman

Say you have a dog, but you need to create a duck on the financial statements. Fortunately, there are specific accounting rules for what constitutes a duck: yellow feet, white covering, orange beak. So you take the dog and paint its feet yellow and its fur white and you paste an orange plastic beak on its nose, and then you say to your accountants, 'This is a duck! Don't you agree that it's a duck?' And the accountants say, 'Yes, according to the rules, this is a duck.' Everybody knows that it's a dog, not a duck, but that doesn't matter, because you've met the rules for calling it a duck. ~ Bethany McLean

Small men oft feel a need to prove their courage with unseemly boasts," he declared. "I doubt if he could kill a duck."
Tyrion shrugged. "Fetch the duck. ~ George R R Martin

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

For parents, the days are long but the years are short. ~ Travis Thrasher

The Chinese use every spare bit of an animal: cow lungs, pig ears, chicken feet, duck blood. ~ Jennifer Lee

'Howard The Duck' has a lot of fans, and usually when they come up to me, I just think they're the coolest. Because it takes a lot of strength, a lot of perseverance to love 'Howard the Duck.' ~ Lea Thompson

In spring a young mans fancy turns to a fancy young man. ~ Mart Crowley

A lot of bad things happen in lame duck sessions. ~ Marco Rubio

Most Texans think Hanukkah is some sort of duck call. ~ Richard Lewis

My dear Mama, you are definitely the hen who hatched a famous duck. ~ Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec

You learn real early to make a film and then duck, and basically that's how I go about it. ~ Alan Rudolph

Throughout my teens, I just wanted to go somewhere I could wear a Donald Duck pin and no one would care. ~ Paul Feig

His companion was older, clean-shaved, with a lined ascetic face. His hair had been pulled back and tied in a knot behind his head. "Small men oft feel a need to prove their courage with unseemly boasts," he declared. "I doubt if he could kill a duck." Tyrion shrugged. "Fetch the duck." "If you insist." The rider glanced at his companion. The brawny man unsheathed a bastard sword. "I'm Duck, you mouthy little pisspot." Oh, gods be good. "I had a smaller duck in mind." The big man roared with laughter. "Did you hear, Haldon? He wants a smaller Duck! ~ George R R Martin

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

I was a lone duck in a swan-filled pond who criticized everyone. ~ Chris Colfer

Sometimes you have to gag on fancy before you can appreciate plain, th' way I see it. For too many years, I ate fancy, I dressed fancy, I talked fancy. A while back, I decided to start talkin' th' way I was raised t' talk, and for th' first time in forty years, I can understand what I'm sayin'. ~ Jan Karon

Jude: But I thought Fancy was the Slip Kid?
Olivia: Fancy?
Ruby: He nicknamed Clancy.
Olivia: Fancy sort of suits him. ~ Alexandra Bracken

My kids would come in from school and sit on the floor in front of the TV and line up duck call boxes and put the stickers on the duck call and then put them in the boxes. ~ Kay Robertson

I don't love duck nails, where the nails are really wide on top. I am not a fan of that! ~ Adrienne Bailon

I think places that need the rubber duck the most are the ones in distress. ~ Florentijn Hofman

Kinky sex involves the use of duck feathers. Perverted sex involves the whole duck. ~ Lewis Grizzard

You may call an eletric eel a rubber duck but that does not make it a rubber duck and god help the poor bastard who takes a bath with the duckie ~ Cassandra Clare

For a member to say, 'I'm a lame duck' violates political science 101. ~ Charles B. Rangel

Gundar seemed to come to a decision.
"Well, as my old mam used to say, if it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck and walks like a duck, it's probably a duck."
"Very wise," Halt said. "And what exactly do your mother's words of wisdom have to do with this situation?"
Gundar shrugged. "It looks like a channel. It's the right place for a channel. If I were digging one, this is where I'd dig a channel. So ... "
"So it's probably the channel?" Selethen said.
Gundar grinned at him. "Either that or it's a duck. ~ John Flanagan

The greatest architectural illusion is not Baroque fancy or Victorian flamboyant, but minimalism. ~ Kevin McCloud

Most of my school friends and even a few of my teachers called me 'Duck.' ~ Donald Dunn

What life compares with a duck's life? At home on land, in the air and on water. ~ Marty Rubin

I don't live in a fancy neighborhood. ~ Judah Friedlander

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. ~ Nancy Friday

If you know anything about ducks, you know a baby duck will imprint itself on you. It misses its mother. ~ Michael Leunig

Just because one likes to cook up a great meal or decorate their home doesn't mean they have to do it with granite counter tops and duck a l'orange. ~ Nadia Giosia

Love the show 'Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives.' Being from Louisiana and a big outdoorsman, I'm a big fan of 'Duck Dynasty' as well. ~ Wes Brown

People think I have an interest in comics, but I'm only interested in comics from the '40s, like 'Donald Duck' comics. ~ Terry Zwigoff

Because human beings suffer so much more than ducks."
"You might not think so if you were a duck. ~ Michel Faber

I find in the domestic duck that the bones of the wing weigh less and the bones of the leg more, in proportion to the whole skeleton, than do the same bones in the wild duck; and this change may be safely attributed to the domestic duck flying much less, and walking more, than its wild parents. ~ Charles Darwin

On a big film, there's almost no way you can meet everyone. On an indie, there are 30 people and no trailers to duck into. ~ Aaron Paul

If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and looks like a duck, it is a very unfortunate situation for the batting team. On the other side of the image, although being definitely unfortunatable for the batting team, it is most definitely a glorious silver lining for the bowling team. ~ Ian B.G. Burns

I'm pretty sure there will be duck-hunting in heaven and I can't wait! ~ Mike Huckabee

No one can penetrate me. They only see what's in their own fancy, always. ~ Ray Davies

A fellow with the inventiveness of Albert Einstein but with the attention span of Daffy Duck. ~ Tom Shales

People ask me if I'd permit fancy things, like dunks. Well, if they did dunk, it was with no fancy flair. No behind-the-back dribbles or passes unless necessary. If it was for show, you were on the bench. ~ John Wooden

I'm a guy's guy. I don't comb my hair unless I have to, and I don't use lotions or fancy shampoos. ~ Ashton Kutcher

They are the new breed of slot machine-colorful, fancy, exciting, wonderful ... and deadly. ~ Frank Scoblete

He was clearly in love with Amber too, and this time it wasn't the usual water off the back of the duck. Instead, the duck, wounded by a hunter and bewildered because half its head had been shot way, and was still tottering about on its webby feet by the side of the pond. From the one side it looked like a duck usually looks. From the other, it was a different story. ~ Ali Smith

I walk like a duck: very straight up and down. Or like a penguin. It's a dead giveaway that I'm a dancer. ~ David Hallberg

Ever let the Fancy roam, Pleasure never is at home. ~ William Cowper

Before you use a fancy word, make room for it. ~ Joseph Joubert

Awareness, even at a subconscious level, beats fancy checklists without it, track or you will fail. ~ Tim Ferriss

I find that a duck's opinion of me is influenced by whether or not I have bread. A duck loves bread, but he does not have the capability to buy a loaf. That's the biggest joke on the duck ever. If I worked at a convenience store, and a duck came in and stole a loaf of bread, I would let him go. I'd say, "Come back tomorrow, bring your friends!" When I think of a duck's friends, I think of other ducks. But he could have, say, a beaver in tow. ~ Mitch Hedberg

I still want to play music but I don't want to look like Donald Duck while I'm doing it. ~ Elton John

If you're going to do Chuck Berry, you got to, you know, go all out, and the duck walk is just kind of you know, cursory. That's like standing. ~ Mos Def

A little of what you fancy does you good. ~ Marie Lloyd

I spent the '90s trying to hide out, trying to duck the full celebrity cacophony. ~ Brad Pitt

I guess a normal woman would find it extremely enjoyable to wear fancy clothes. For me, I didn't enjoy it. It felt like a straight jacket. ~ Meryl Streep

Mel Blanc is a hero because of what he could do with his voice for all the Looney Tunes, the Warner Brothers cartoons, to be the voice of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd, Porky Pig. ~ Nicolas Cage

Human beings have a lot of problems identifying themselves with other human beings who don't resemble them exactly. But there's something about drawing that means that anyone can identify to a drawing. I mean, people can identify themselves with Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse. ~ Marjane Satrapi

I want to keep audiences off balance, so they don't know who I am or how to take me. If I duck and weave, as Frank Bruno might say, I'll have a longer shelf life. ~ Robert Carlyle

World is suddener than we fancy it. ~ Louis MacNeice

A lady cannot be blamed if a master criminal takes a fancy to her. ~ Elizabeth Peters

The duck swallows the worm, the fox kills the duck, the men shoot the fox, and the devil hunts the men. ~ Ken Follett

A brick could be used like a duck could be used like a cat. My duck soup is meowing to be manhandled by a construction worker. ~ Jarod Kintz

Fancy tortures more people than does reality ~ Ouida

I didn't fancy any of my teachers. ~ Katie Price

Do not let fancy outrun your means. ~ Benjamin Franklin

Everywhere my sons and I go, we're telling people the good news about Jesus, blowing duck calls, and making people, happy, happy– then down the road we go. ~ Phil Robertson

Architectural kitsch is most common in the commercial pop vernacular - typified by the Big Duck of 1931 in Flanders, New York, a Long Island roadside poultry stand resembling a duck, which Venturi and Scott Brown made a cult object through their writings. ~ Martin Filler

It's not what I think? If it looks like a duck and walks like a duck..." I imply with a shrug "...well then you know what they say."
"Nothing hap―"
"Quack! ~ K. Bromberg

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. ~ Jase Robertson

We take a fancy to something: and scarcely have we thoroughly taken a fancy to it when that tyrant in us calls out: "Give me thatin sacrifice"
and we give it. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

World, O world, I follow my fancy, not yours! ~ Marty Rubin

In the first State of the Union of his second term, President Bush made clear to Americans tonight that he is not going to play the role of a lame duck President. ~ Jim Sensenbrenner

We will not duck the tough issues, we will lead. ~ Paul Ryan

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

I think I will sit on it a little while longer," said the duck, "as I have sat so long already, a few days will be nothing." "Please yourself," said the old duck, and she went away. ~ Hans Christian Andersen

Leisure: A fancy word for people who don't want to admit they're bored. ~ Gene Perret

Steve Coogan does something for me. He is so naughty, but I quite fancy him. ~ Billie Piper

Creativity Is a fancy word for the work we have to do by Friday. ~ David Ogilvy