Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mitch Hedberg

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

David Gore

I think by looking at the duck and what things he goes through I think it kind of reminds me of how I was at a time and how I was reaching out for help and nobody was there to help me. Now I think I kind of owe it to the duck to help him.

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?

Zora Neale Hurston

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.

Robert Jordan

The fox often offers the duck its pond.

Mike Keller

I'm more of a guy who will throw it away or I'll duck and take it rather than just throwing it up. The times I have thrown it up and it could have been picked, my guys have done a good job of knocking it down. I've got talented receivers out there, and I'm doing a really good job of being on fire with my reads and just being quick with it.

Kenny Williams

Kids who come through and have eaten seem to be really satisfied.

Marco Balich

Italians live very passionately: their cars, how they eat and dress. Italians love speed, too, so we wanted to represent this also.

Daniel Boulud

I usually try to eat in my restaurants before I fly, as I'd rather sleep on the plane and just order a salad with cheese, maybe some ice cream.

Monica Johnson

You recognize the truth because sometimes it's hard to swallow, but if you hold it in your mouth, refusing to eat it, you are going to choke.

Q-Tip

In theory, people would pick progression every time over being idle. But if you look at us as a culture, as a people, you would say that if you get up at five o'clock in the morning, eat your breakfast, go to work, make money, pay your bills, you're progressing, when you're still doing what's comfortable.

Kevin Hanson

He's a freshman in a different country, eating different food and going to a new school. He has a lifelong girlfriend back in Austria. So it was a great reward for him to play big in a big game like this.

Kate Hudson

(Goldie) told her to put on some weight, ... eating practically nothing.

Greg Gilchrist

He's eating well and breezed well over the track,

Paul McGee

He?s eating good, training good and things have gone without a hitch.

Nikki Giovanni

Kevin Powell is pushing to bring, as he has so brilliantly done before, the voices of his generation: the concerns, the cares, the fears and the fearlessness.

Liz Rosenberg

Knowing her, she'll be riding next week. She is a fearless girl.

Herbert Sloane

I yelled 'get me out' several times, and the next thing I knew I realized somebody was pulling me out of the plane. My instinctive fear was the gasoline.

Brendan Shanahan

He just knows how to play the game. Most times, I'm the one standing in front but if I'm not there, he has no fear of going in there and doing that job. The goal isn't scored unless Steve's screening the goalie.

Steven Gerrard

He just goes out there as if he's going for a knockabout with his friends, ... He has no fear.

Sugata Mitra

We need a pedagogy free from fear and focused on the magic of children's innate quest for information and understanding.

Mike Ramsey

What we fear, in a situation as radioactive as this one, is that we'll have a so-called stealth juror.

James Douglas

Here lies he who neither feared nor flattered any flesh

Dan Meyer

I think it's kind of the fear of the unknown.

Jay Garner

He had 12 years to hide it. He was very skillful at doing that,

Samuel Beckett

How hideous is the semicolon.

Zora Hurston

If you haven't got it,/ you can't show it./ If you have got it,/ you can't hide it.

Parry Aftab

If you freak, the kids are just going to hide (their online activity).

Cierra Ramirez

I'm very well known for hiding my phone in really weird places. I can hide it in a refrigerator during a scene or under that bed. It's pretty bad, but at the end of the day we can all laugh at it.

Rachael Ray

If there are celebrities, they can't just come on and talk about their movie. It's come on and tell them how to get picky eaters to eat. Where do they hide their junk when people come over?

Charles Palliser

I'm quite intrigued by the notion of a book that is completely self-contained but related to another book. I've coined a rather hideous word for it - a paraquel.

Roger Clemens

I'm sure they could hide me in the outfield. Why not?

Yulia Tymoshenko

I'm not going to hide myself away - I'm not going anywhere.

Azzam Tamimi

I actually have a moderating influence, rather than radicalizing influences,

Aidan Gillen

'Heroes', 'Desperate Housewives', 'The Sopranos' - they're all very stylised. 'The Wire' is much more rooted in realism and honesty. In American television, I can't think of anything I'd rather have been in because it has got something to say and that is the kind of thing I want to do.

Brian Penn

It could have been worse. They could have been using grenades rather than eggs.

Jason Alexander

There is no community service in 'Seinfeld.' But rather than lauding that, I think it shows the insane banality of it.

Yvonne Johnson

I think we need to do that rather than just talk about it.

Luigi Speranza

We look at this a temporary blip rather than a sign the recovery is fading.

Ruzwana Bashir

In the end, I'd rather wear a nice dress, and if someone is not going to take me seriously, that's so superficial.

Kelly Slater

I tend to do a lot better here when it's big rather than when its small.

Lois Capps

I read that in the Wall Street Journal, and I find it rather offensive,

Woody Allen

Those modern analysts, they charge so much! In my day, for five marks Freud himself would treat you. For ten marks he would treat you and press your pants. For fifteen marks Freud would let you treat him - that included a choice of any two vegetables.

Mahatma Gandhi

The consumption of vegetables involves himsa, but I cannot give them up.

James Beard

If you have never tasted a braised vegetable, you'll find it is a revelation.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Revolutions are like the most noxious dungheaps, which bring into life the noblest vegetables.

Joely Fisher

Eating vegetables makes me feel good.

Julia Child

I love root vegetables: carrots, parsnips, and turnips.

Julia Child

There is nothing worse than grilled vegetables.

P. J. O'Rourke

The only really good vegetable is Tabasco sauce. Put Tabasco sauce in everything. Tabasco sauce is to bachelor cooking what forgiveness is to sin. The next best vegetable is the jalapeno pepper. It has the virtue of turning salads into practical jokes.

Masanobu Fukuoka

Speaking biologically, fruit in a slightly shriveled state is holding its respiration and energy consumption down to the lowest possible level. It is like a person in meditation: his metabolism, respiration, and calorie consumption reach an extremely low level. Even if he fasts, the energy within the body will be conserved. In the same way, when mandarin oranges grow wrinkled, when fruit shrivels, when vegetables wilt, they are in the state that will preserve their food value for the longest possible time.