Lauren Myracle Quotes

Three hot chicks for three hot chicks." "THEY'RE NOT CHICKS! THEY'RE DUCKS!

The evidence is overwhelming that birds are dinosaurs.

Titles are but nicknames, and every nickname is a title.

I constantly want to know - what is a table, or what is a cat?

I love puffins. They are small, round gothic birds, and their babies are called pufflings.

The precision of naming takes away from the uniqueness of seeing.

When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.

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.

I love to personalize things. I love to make things my own. I like to name everything - from cars to iPhones to the socks I just lost.

Hollywood likes to label everyone so you're easier to identify.

A race is what zoologists term a variety or subdivision of a species.

I'm not defining Christians as Jews or Jews as Christians or zebras as elephants.

I refuse to use terms like 'optimist' or 'pessimist' and instead prefer 'realist.'

I don't love the term gatekeeper because it feels like there's a negative connotation attached to it, so I prefer to go with litmus test.

Never have varmints, only grandvarmints.

Whether the person should then be called "an intellectual" seems to reduce the issue to a question of terminology.

If you do not know the names of things, the knowledge of them is lost, too.

If there's anything I hate it's the word humorist-I feel like countering with the word seriousist.

Now sir, said the bulldog in his business-like way. 'Are you a animal, vegetable, or mineral?' - The Magician's Nephew

So first, your memory I'll jog, And say: A CAT IS NOT A DOG

If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, it's a duck!

Where lies the line between sorcery and science? It is only a matter of terminology, my friend.

One of the most basic and pervasive social processes is the sorting and labeling of things, activities, and people... Sorting and labeling processes involve a trade-off of costs and benefits. In general, the more finely the sorting is done, the greater the benefits - and the costs... Sorting and labeling, whether of people or of things, is a sorting and labeling of probabilities rather than of certainties.

And while we're on the subject of ducks, which we plainly are, the story, 'The Ugly Duckling' ought be banned as the central character wasn't a duckling or he wouldn't have grown up into a swan. He was a cygnet.

I have always kept ducks, even as a child, and the colours of their plumage, in particular the dark green and snow white, seemed to me the only possible answer to the questions that are on my mind.