Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mitch Hedberg

There are six ducks out here, and they all want Sun Chips!

Robert Salerno

It is like shooting ducks in a pond.

Richard Russo

Who but an English professor would threaten to kill a duck a day and hold up a goose as an example?

Sarah Polley

We're still at a point where women [directors] aren't allowed to be mad visionaries. We have to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that we're responsible, that we can handle it, that we've got all our ducks in a row . . . most women who direct always come in on budget, always come in on schedule, and if they were wild and irresponsible it would not be put down to brilliance, but to a general flakiness.

Rodney Dangerfield

Hey, did somebody step on a duck?

Paul Feig

Throughout my teens, I just wanted to go somewhere I could wear a Donald Duck pin and no one would care.

Julia Quinn

There was a certain history to this. While heavily pregnant with Amelia, she had asked him if she was radiant or if she just looked like a waddling duck. He told her she’d looked like a radiant duck. This had not been the correct answer.

Mitch Hedberg

I find a duck's opinion of me is very much influenced by whether or not I have bread.

Phil Robertson

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.

Mitch Hedberg

There are six ducks out here, and they all want Sun Chips!

Robert Salerno

It is like shooting ducks in a pond.

Richard Russo

Who but an English professor would threaten to kill a duck a day and hold up a goose as an example?

Sarah Polley

We're still at a point where women [directors] aren't allowed to be mad visionaries. We have to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that we're responsible, that we can handle it, that we've got all our ducks in a row . . . most women who direct always come in on budget, always come in on schedule, and if they were wild and irresponsible it would not be put down to brilliance, but to a general flakiness.

Rodney Dangerfield

Hey, did somebody step on a duck?

Paul Feig

Throughout my teens, I just wanted to go somewhere I could wear a Donald Duck pin and no one would care.

Julia Quinn

There was a certain history to this. While heavily pregnant with Amelia, she had asked him if she was radiant or if she just looked like a waddling duck. He told her she’d looked like a radiant duck. This had not been the correct answer.

Mitch Hedberg

I find a duck's opinion of me is very much influenced by whether or not I have bread.

Phil Robertson

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.

Sathya Baba

Knowledge that is not put into practice is like food that is not digested.

Timothy Ramey

There is a lack of innovation, lack of reinvestment, and lack of news in the category. We're not recommending any large-cap food names.

Eric Schlosser

There is a growing market today for local, organic foods produced by small farmers. And farmers' markets have played a large role in making that happen.

Allen Johnson

We've been told they have to be 'completely self-sufficient,' ... so they have to take their own food, water and clothing. There is no local support.

Gilbert Arenas

We've got to realize that these people lost everything they had. For some people they didn't have food or water for days. I'm just trying to do my part and help out as much as I can.

Sara Schmitz

We substitute foods that are on the menu with a doctor's excuse. With 20,000 kids, it's impossible to be short-order cooks.

Mario Batali

I think that the rise of a group of people called the slow food movement is doing a lot to try to protect and preserve traditions.

Irish Proverb

Laughter is brightest, in the place here the food is.

Thomas Armstrong

When they see the Spirit of Connecticut coming, they'll know they're going to get good food coming.

Bobby Vinton

I wrote that song 'Melody Of Love', the one with the Polish lyrics, because over the years I had gone to Italy, Germany, South America.

Pavle Jovanovic

He keeps us on our toes, because you can be gone one race to the next no matter the outcome.

John Montgomery

Hard Rock has this cachet and image that can't be under-valued. I think if it had gone to Vail, for example, which already has a number of world-class hotels, the impact wouldn't have been as great.

Sonya Berzett

Her numbers have been pretty consistent. They've gone up every year, for the most part.

Robert Redford

God, it was great to play a guy like him, gone to seed, surly,

Pat Perez

He's always gone by Joe. I was surprised he used Ignacio.

O. Winston

He's gone through a lot and I think that helps him. There's not too much stuff he hasn't gone through, that's for sure. He's a real raw player. He hasn't had a lot of experience. I think he's gotten significantly better. He's got a lot of want-to about him. And he's a good guy to have around.

Steven Levitt

He's gone from someone who has never gotten a lot of endorsements to someone who's likely not to get any more and likely lose some that he already had,

Paul Jewell

It could have been worse, it could have gone to extra-time,

Mel Stottlemyre

I would tell him what it's like and I wouldn't leave anything out, ... You've got to satisfy two sets of people here and it shouldn't be that way.

Leslie Moonves

Katie's someone we like a lot. But you know what? Katie's been at NBC a long, long time. We'll leave it at that.

Paul Sanders

I think I subconsciously do (try to leave people out). I don't want to be intruding in people's lives.

Steve Clarke

He leaves a strong legacy for the country.

Stephen Hunter

I have never connected with 'Gone With the Wind.' 'Lawrence of Arabia' leaves me cold.

Kenny Rogers

He's a dead-pull hitter. Leave it to me to get him to go the other way with what I throw.

Gordon Roberts

He's a worker. He never misses a day. He's (in the weight room) first and leaves last.

Jose Guillen

We're poor people who live here and we don't know where to go. The situation is tough. We'd like to know specifically what they're going to do and not leave us stranded on the street.

Ray Nagin

Today I feel better about Rita, and I'm not as prone to do a hard, mandatory evacuation, ... But I want to leave that open as an option.

Abraham Lincoln

I will be frank. The taste is in my mouth ... .

Woody Allen

We laughed over it, and Hemingway punched me in the mouth.

Sara Cox

I used to be double-jointed in my hips, so I could put my toe in my mouth. That can't be classed as a talent really, rather a mild deformity.

Sara Shepard

Here you go, dear."" The corners of Mrs. Colbert's mouth curled up. "You like meat, don't you?" Emily blinked. Was it her, or did that statement seem...loaded? She checked Issac for his reaction, but he was innocently selecting a roll from a wicker basket. "Uh, thanks." Emily said, pulling the platter toward her. She did like meat. The kind you, um, eat.

Robert Louis Stevenson

To the old our mouths are always partly closed; we must swallow our obvious retorts and listen. They sit above our heads, on life's raised dais, and appeal at once to our respect and pity.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Sir, with no intention to take offence, I deny your right to put words into my mouth.

Zora Neale Hurston

Africa has her mouth on Moses.

Zora Neale Hurston

Slogans can be worse than swords if they are only put in the right mouths.

William H. Macy

Talk about putting your money where your mouth is. It's not right. Someone's gotta say it. They said it. I applaud them.

Susan Jackson

We're not worried about the Mississippi River levee. Is it a concern? Yes, it is a concern, but it is not a top concern.

Rebecca West

Birds sat on the telegraph wires that spanned the river as the black notes sit on a staff of music.

William Whipple

The river route is certainly preferable, as it affords good grazing and an abundance of water.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

The revelation that we have everything we need in life to make us happy but simply lack the conscious awareness to appreciate it can be as refreshing as lemonade on a hot afternoon. Or it can be as startling as cold water being thrown in our face. How many of us go through our days parched and empty, thirsting after happiness, when we’re really standing knee-deep in the river of abundance?

William Blake

Dip him in the river who loves water.

W. H. Auden

Far from his illness The wolves ran on through the evergreen forests, The peasant river was untempted by the fashionable quays; By mourning tongues The death of the poet was kept from his poems.

Ursula K. Le Guin

To know there is a choice is to have to make the choice: change or stay: river or rock.

Ursula K. Le Guin

What is the use trying to describe the flowing of a river at any one moment, and then at the next moment, and then at the next, and the next, and the next? You wear out. You say: There is a great river, and it flows through this land, and we have named it History.

Robert MacNeil

Change is legitimate and inevitable, for our language is a mighty river, picking up silt and flotsam here and discarding it there, but growing ever wider and richer.