The strong appearance of design [in nature] allows a disarmingly simple argument: if it looks, walks and quacks like a duck, then, absent compelling evidence to the contrary, we have warrant to conclude it's a duck. Design should not be overlooked simply because it's so obvious.
Even if the project requires you to have all the ducks in a line, I can't do that. I don't create way.
One is never alone with a rubber duck.
Flapping my arms I began to cluck, look at me, I'm the disco duck.
One personal tip that my trainer gave me was, "Don't take things personally. People are calling on the worst days of their lives and you're their first point of contact. Be like a duck and let the water roll off your back. " I live by those words when I'm at work.
I don't understand anything. Life is so strange. I feel like some one who's lived all his life by a duck-pond and suddenly is shown the sea. It makes me a little breathless, and yet it fills me with elation. I don't want to die, I want to live. I'm beginning to feel a new courage. I feel like one of those old sailors who set sail for undiscovered seas and I think my soul hankers for the unknown.
Proverbial wisdom counsels against risk and change. But sitting ducks fare worst of all.
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.
Who but an English professor would threaten to kill a duck a day and hold up a goose as an example?
Their oldest child, James, had spoken laughingly about Will's unrelenting fear of ducks and his continual battle to keep them out of the pond at the family home in Yorkshire.
his snores sounded like ducks mating.
She's really gone, then. The little girl with the back of her shirt sticking out like a duck tail.
To me, there is no such thing as a trash duck. There are ducks that are a lot better to eat than other ducks. But a duck is just that.
You can't understand it until you experience the simple joy of the first time your son points at a seagull and says 'Duck!'
Starstruck with one buck, your girl look like Donald Duck.
It's a bit like a fledgeling duck, finding your flippers.
Light came to me when I realized that I did not have to consider any racial group as a whole. God made them duck by duck and that was the only way I could see them.
You all sound like a bunch of ducks! What? What? What? What? Shut up while I'm talking!
He took a duck in the face at 250 knots.
I once heard a woman laugh at that most tragic moment in all drama, the off-stage shot in "The Wild Duck," and I afterward had her killed, so there will be no more of that out of her.