“Just because you call an electric eel a rubber duck doesn't make it a rubber duck, does it? And God help the poor bastard who decides they want to take a bath with the duckie.”
Jace to Clary, pg. 83
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)
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Source: The Sword of Summer
“The swarm of ducks so darkens the sky that poor Europe does not know which way to go”
original French text: 'La nuée des canards obscurcissant tellement l'air que la pauvre Europe ne sait plus quel chemin prendre'
title/caption in Daumier's print; published in 'La Caricature', 1833-35; number 3601 in the catalogue raisonné by Loys Delteil, Le peintre-graveur illustré, Vol. 28 (New York: Da Capo Press, 1969); as quoted on samfoxschool http://samfoxschool.wustl.edu/node/11263#footnote-1-ref
The word 'canards' refers to physical ducks; it also means unfounded rumors or exaggerated stories. Ducks, symbolizing rumors was a visual motif Daumier used both before and after this print
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Regarding Communists; hearing before the Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare (1953)
“If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, it's a duck!”
Source: Crisis
“Take three quarts of duck's milk…”
First words of a "recipe for high-priced cookies" in Stories for Children (1984)
“Does a one-legged duck swim in circles?”
"This is the week that...", The Times, 5 December 1998, p. 8.
Reply to Jeremy Paxman on BBC Newsnight when asked whether he still wanted to lead the Labour Party in the National Assembly for Wales.
Morgan was awarded the "Foot in Mouth" award by the Plain English Campaign on 11 December 1998 for this quote.