Quacking Duck Quotes & Sayings

This was not a real human being but some kind of dummy. It was not the man's brain that was speaking, it was his larynx. The stuff that was coming out of him consisted of words, but it was not speech in the true sense: it was a noise uttered in unconsciousness, like the quacking of a duck. — George Orwell

Life is great; football is better. Steve Sabol. — Ed Sabol

I can't control your behavior; nor do I want that burden ... but I will not apologize for refusing to be disrespected, to be lied to, or to be mistreated. I have standards; step up or step out. — Steve Maraboli

I tried to stop smoking cigarettes by telling myself I just didn't want to smoke, but I didn't believe myself — Barbara Kelly

You want me to change overnight, Katie, and I'm telling you right now that it's not going to happen. You're asking me to forget years of abuse in a matter of days. — Inger Iversen

The squeaky wheel gets the grease but the quacking duck gets shot. — Carl Sandburg

I've got ten thousand ducks quacking and waddling, with one deluded chicken that thinks it's a duck in the middle. I think it's a flock of ducks; Cam thinks it's a malign conspiracy of chickens. — John Barnes

My parents are from a whole different culture. My parents are from small-town Louisiana. It's like, if it walk like a duck, talk like a duck, then it's a duck. And if you ain't quacking, you ain't no duck. — Bun B.

Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos. — Stephen Sondheim

Raucous quacking sounded in Firestar's ear. He jumped up, staring around wildly until he spotted a duck in the water beside the reed bed. — Erin Hunter

Human nature is a work in progress. — Nick Bostrom

Tom Sawyer said I was a numskull. — Mark Twain

Then you remember that Jack
that's his name, the mac & cheese
plays lacrosse. That's probably where he got all those yummy muscles. You need two hands for lacrosse.
A pinky? Damn, you might as well starve yourself. — Alaya Dawn Johnson

Maybe the only way to really start over is to tear everything apart. — Shaun David Hutchinson

It turns out that it's a waste of absolute political power to simply throw undocumented aliens over the border. When you have a group of people who have no rights at all, the more inspired corporate solution is to extract as much value from them as possible. That can be money, that can be property, and if they don't have either of those things left, you take their time and labor. — Matt Taibbi

Government is taking 40 percent of the GDP. And that's at the state, local and federal level. President Obama has taken government spending at the federal level from 20 percent to 25 percent. Look, at some point, you cease being a free economy, and you become a government economy. And we've got to stop that. — Mitt Romney

I think the hardest obstacles, actually, are probably ones I've put on myself. I push myself really hard, and I think that's why I've been able to accomplish certain things. — Amanda Crew

To speak in literature with the perfect rectitude and insouciance of the movements of animals and the unimpeachable of the sentiment of trees in the woods and grass by the roadside is the flawless triumph of art. — Walt Whitman

It must be recess in (heaven) if St. Peter is lettin his angels out. — Zora Neale Hurston

This is your work now, Gian had thought, strewing death about him, but only live and some day, home again, turn your hand to something better, and in Sea-john life will be good, and safe, and full of love. — Kai Ashante Wilson