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

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

As an actor, what's interesting is what's hidden away beneath the surface. You want to be like a duck on a pond - very calm on the surface but paddling away like crazy underneath.

- Alexander Skarsgard

On the roads, it is one of those 'might is right' situations. If I see cars coming, I duck out of the way.

- Dane Bird-Smith

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

I was a lone duck in a swan-filled pond who criticized everyone.

- Chris Colfer

I think some people think that being on television makes you a sitting duck, but you have the right to remain private.

- Amanda Burton

I think I just really understand what it is to feel like you don't fit in, within your society, within your world, within your family, within whatever. I've always felt like an odd duck so I really understood that.

- Anya Taylor-Joy

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

- Brad Pitt

You know, he would go and look at different funny books because he wanted his character to be different and make different faces. I saw a funny book in his room and it looked like the same character he was playing. It was about a duck.

- Bubba Smith

Our minds have a tendency to wander. To duck and feint and keep us at a slight remove from the moment at hand.

- Dani Shapiro

Most of my school friends and even a few of my teachers called me 'Duck.'

- Donald Dunn

What is sauce for the goose may be sauce for the gander but is not necessarily sauce for the chicken, the duck, the turkey or the guinea hen.

- Alice B. Toklas

On a big film, there's almost no way you can meet everyone. On an indie, there are 30 people and no trailers to duck into.

- Aaron Paul

There are plenty of characters I'd love to write. Swamp Thing, Etrigan the Demon, Man-Thing, Howard the Duck, Dr. Strange, Dr. Druid, Ghost Rider, the Micronauts, the Shogun Warriors... the list goes on and on.

- Cullen Bunn

You learn real early to make a film and then duck, and basically that's how I go about it.

- Alan Rudolph

I don't love duck nails, where the nails are really wide on top. I am not a fan of that!

- Adrienne Bailon

For a member to say, 'I'm a lame duck' violates political science 101.

- Charles B. Rangel

I walk like a duck: very straight up and down. Or like a penguin. It's a dead giveaway that I'm a dancer.

- David Hallberg

When Donald Duck traded his wings for arms, was he trading up or trading down?

- Douglas Coupland