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ducked

«To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.»
Author: Igor Stravinsky | About: Listening | Keywords: duck, ducked, ducking, hears, merit, merited
«Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.»
«Ducking for apples - change one letter and it's the story of my life.»
«And we certainly don't have full conversations on cellphones. You know? Usually the reception is so bad, but it's only bad on your side. The person talking to you has no clue...They're just rambling on and on. You've got your finger jammed in your ear, you're shushing people on the streets. You're ducked behind a dumpster so you can hear about your friend's new hair cut. 'What about the bangs are they shorter?!?...Are the bangs shorter?!?...THE BAAANGS!!!»
«I once had a large gay following, but I ducked into an alleyway and lost him.»
«There is one order of beauty which seems made to turn heads. It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very small downy ducks making gentle rippling noises with their soft bills, or babies just beginning to toddle.»
«Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.»
«If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.»
«If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, looks like a duck, it must be a duck»
Author: Proverb | About: Funny | Keywords: duck, ducked, ducking, looks, quack, quacks, walks
«Happy as a duck in water»
Author: Proverb | Keywords: duck, ducked, ducking