Quotes by Ducks Profit is the sole criterion used by the establishment to evaluate economic activity. From the rat race to lame ducks. The vocabulary in vogue is a give-away. It's more reminiscent of a human menagerie than human society. Jimmy Reid ducks vocabulary race My motto is water off a duck's back. Meaning: don't let negativity weigh you down, perpetuate positive thinking. Jinkx Monsoon positive-thinking ducks water This weekend the Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC, featured several speakers including Sarah Palin and Phil Robertson from 'Duck Dynasty.' It was a good weekend for conservatives - and a great weekend for wild animals. Jimmy Fallon weekend ducks animal Here's a little bit of good news. The Coast Guard says that BP is now catching up to 630,000 gallons of oil a day. The bad news is that they're capturing it with ducks. Jimmy Fallon news oil ducks I'm an expert cook when it comes to preparing the quail, ducks, geese and wild turkeys that I hunt on the farm. Jimmy Carter turkeys ducks experts Along the wide curving moat surrounding the palace, rows of cherry trees announced the end of their seasonal beauty. Some of the trees were weeping: blossoms in white and palest pink, ponderous with decreptitude, eddying on the brown water, stirred by the paddling of ducks. John Burnham Schwartz ducks white water 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. Jim Rohn ducks eagles motivational I never had a hat, never wore one, but recently was given a brown suede duck-hunting hat. The moment I put it on I realized I was starved for a hat. I kept it warm by putting it on my head. I made plans to wear it especially when I was going to do any thinking. Somewhere in Virginia, I lost my hat. John Cage hunting ducks thinking 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 ducks wise mother I think it could get passed in a lame duck? Probably tough. But impossible? No, or I wouldn't be wasting my time. It's going to take some leadership, and it takes a time where leadership is more important than people's political career at times. John Kasich ducks careers thinking If it's well written and well directed and you've got good actors to work with, acting is easy. But making sure all the ducks are in a row is the hard part. It's very rare John Lithgow ducks actors acting 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 bars ducks answers 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. John Green ducks together hands We communicated with pithy, rather monosyllabic thoughts: viz. Run, Jump, Where? Left, Up, Duck, ect. (This latter was an observation I made on the edge of a lake. Nathaniel unfortunately took it as a command, which resulted in our temporary immersion.) We didn't ever quite say Ug, but it was a close-run thing. Jonathan Stroud ducks lakes running I'm sorry for the ducks; I love foie gras. Jose Andres im-sorry ducks sorry No one blames a pilot who takes refuge in port when the storm begins to blow. It is not cowardice to duck under a bullet; what is wrong is to defy it only to fall and never rise again. Jose Rizal ducks blow fall The only birds I know about are the duck and the dove and the quail, birds that you shoot. You're not really supposed to shoot cardinals. I don't know if I'd shoot this bird. It looks pretty mean. This bird might pull a gun out and shoot right back at you. Josh McCown ducks gun mean Nobody criticizes the 'Mighty Ducks' trilogy and gets away with it. Nobody! Joshua Jackson trilogies get-away ducks Smart people duck when they hear the dread announcement 'I'm going to be perfectly honest with you. Judith Martin smart ducks honesty Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time. Jules Renard ducks men long «345678910111213»