#duck

The nearest the modern general or admiral comes to a small-arms encounter of any sort is at a duck hunt in the company of corporation executives at the retreat of Continental Motors, Inc. ↗

— C. Wright Mills

#any #comes #company #continental #corporation

The first time it felt really dangerous, like the sort of thing you had to lock the doors and close the curtains on because if anybody saw you, God would strike you down with a thunderbolt. But I took to it like a duck to water. ↗

— Jamie Muir

#because #close #curtains #dangerous #doors

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

#duck #howard #i #like #like a duck

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

— Brad Pitt

#duck #full #hide #i #out

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

— Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards

#criticism #duck #feathers #keep #off

We will not duck the tough issues, we will lead. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#issues #lead #tough #will

Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate. ↗

— Orson Welles

#donald #donald duck #duck #election #politicians

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

#boy #duck #give #guns #like

Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time. ↗

— Jules Renard

#fly #into #long #long time #man

When I was nine years old I use to copy ( not trace ) the covers of the Donald Duck comics. Many years later I became a close friend of Jack Hannah, the director of the Donald Duck film shorts. ↗

— William Jackson

#close #close friend #comics #copy #covers