#duck

I lived with them in my studio in New York. And of course if I were doing that book today or even ten years, fifteen years later, I would have gone to where the wild ducks were and where I could study them - I would have gone to the country somewhere. ↗

— Robert McCloskey

#could #country #course #doing #ducks

When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We'd play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He'd read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories. ↗

— Danica McKellar

#characters #dad #disney #donald #donald 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