A duck's nest was found today near the trail on the dry open prairie with as far as could be seen no water or marsh near. The bird flew off but could not tell what species. The eggs nine originally.
George Mercer Dawson

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

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

Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.
Hans Christian Anderson

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

He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.
Douglas William Jerrold

I am a still friend with Dave Crosby, he's a weird duck but I like him a lot.
Peter Tork

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 took the process of doing as much myself as I could like a duck to water. I set up my own label and publishing, etc, and it was a fun learning curve two decades ago.
David Knopfler

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

I'm a very driven, ambitious, positive person. But I'm a spiritual person as well. I believe in creative visualization. So for me to go to America - which I find such a positive place - well, I took to it like a duck to water.
Victoria Beckham

I'm the lamest lame duck there could be.
George C. Wallace

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

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

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

It was important for me to duck out of the fast and furious life I'd been living as a pop star. I was in a different mood.
Cat Stevens

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

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

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

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