Bubba Smith

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.

American Athlete

Anya Taylor-Joy

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.

Argentinian Actress

Robert McCloskey

I get a lot of letters. Not only from children but from adults, too. Almost every week, every month, clippings come in from some part of the world where ducks are crossing the street.

American Author

John Lithgow

If it's well written and well directed and you've got good actors to work with, acting is easy. But making sure all the ducks are in a row is the hard part. It's very rare.

American Actor

Jase Robertson

My wife hates the beard. When we dated, I would grow it out during duck season. She said she could handle anything for three months - but now I have it all the time.

American Celebrity

Luke Rockhold

I want to fight all the toughest guys in the world. I'm not trying to duck anybody or scared of anybody. I want to fight everybody.

Adrien Broner

Adrian Granados is a world-class fighter. A lot of guys duck him, but I wanted to fight him because that's what I'm about.

Alaska

I feel like the theme song to 'Duck Tales.' 'Life is like a hurricane; it's a duck blur.' That's absolutely what it is.

Spanish Musician

K. Flay

I've always had a duck personality. Calm above water, feet going crazy below.

American Musician

Florentijn Hofman

Dutch Artist

Ducks are associated with water; use this term for birds commonly seen around ponds and lakes.

Water Habitats

Use 'duck' to refer specifically to these water birds, not all birds in general.

Not Just Any Bird

'Duck' as a quick movement is used when someone needs to avoid being hit or seen suddenly.

Avoidance Action

Use 'duck' to describe dodging something like a physical object or a sudden situation.

Physical Evasion

Emphasize that 'to duck' involves a rapid and often reflexive action.

Quick Response

Extend usage of 'duck' beyond hiding; it can mean dropping down quickly.

Not Just Ducking

Use 'duck' in cricket to indicate a player scored nothing; it's a term unique to this sport.

Cricket Jargon

'Duck' is used for specific events in a game, being versatile within the cricket context.

Specific Scenarios

Remember 'duck' refers to a dense cotton fabric; imagine the sturdy texture in its uses.

Material Texture

Visualize 'duck' as it's used for heavy-duty applications, unlike lighter fabrics.

Industrial Use

 In some bed bug species, the females have evolved an entirely new set of genitalia on their right hand flanks where the males usually pierce them. That allows them to maintain the power to filter out unwanted sperm with their genitalia. And duck vaginas are shaped like a clockwise spiral

The evolution of animal...

 after the rubber ducks its own water the woodcuts here's a different way of looking at organisms on the seafloor face painting as a way to bring awareness to what's going on in the in the deep sea this is in the case of people are trawling the last example I

Beyond the edge of the...

 And also duck billed platypus males, they've got the claw when they when they're protecting females from other males. Exactly. Exactly that. So only a handful of species. But our amazing news today is that some scientists have discovered yet another

The Killer Rat with...

 and looks back through time for hints of these hidden histories. She wrote, "When one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling herbs, or even a very remarkable man who had a mother,

Why should you read...

 like a mommy duck does to its duckling, and I don't think he understands what's going on, but he is sure soaking in it. And I wonder what he's soaking in. Is he picking up on the themes of courage and perseverance and loyalty?

How movies teach manhood...

 the mom duck laid her 11 eggs on different days she didn't start sitting on them till they'd all appeared that way they'd all hatch on the same day the hatchlings get to spend their first night in the nest one night that's it

Baby Ducks' First Flight...

 once daunting and amazing even though the mom duck laid her 11 eggs on different days she didn't start sitting on them till they'd all appeared that way they'd all hatch on the same day the hatchlings get to spend their first

Tiny Ducklings Leap from...

 duck embryo with eyes a beak even feathers almost complete enough to plaque face read it good in the Philippines balut is a national passion as popular and as cheap as hot dogs in

A Fetal Feast PIPE National...

 any duck that takes to the wing will be a target the absence of his bigger more powerful mate is a good sign incubating eggs deep behind this overhang in the cliff

The Largest Falcon in...

 But then... backup arrives! Steamer ducks the most aggressive in the world. They hate caracaras and won't give up until every one is gone.