Quotes by Swans Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg. Hans Christian Andersen ugly-duckling swans eggs To be born in a duck's nest, in a farmyard, is of no consequence to a bird, if it is hatched from a swan's egg. Hans Christian Andersen ugly-duckling swans ducks Last year when "Black Swan," "True Grit" and "King's Speech" all grossed over $100 million, it gave studios and independent financiers the confidence to make daring movies. You know, and not do the same old you-know-what. Harvey Weinstein swans independent kings The swan in the pool is singing, And up and down doth he steer, And, singing gently ever, Dips under the water clear. Heinrich Heine swans singing water And over the pond are sailing Two swans all white as snow; Sweet voices mysteriously wailing Pierce through me as onward they go. They sail along, and a ringing Sweet melody rises on high; And when the swans begin singing, They presently must die. Heinrich Heine swans sweet two Gaze not on swans, in whose soft breast, Henry Noel Brailsford swans beauty fall Swans moulting die, snow melts to tears, Henry Noel Brailsford swans beauty death I have no idea! I have been writing for 35 years and from the beginning up to now the situation's almost the same. I'm kind of an ugly duckling. Always the duckling, never the swan. Haruki Murakami ugly-duckling swans writing The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death. Henry Miller swans singing song White swan of cities slumbering in thy nest . . . White phantom city, whose untrodden streets Are rivers, and whose pavements are the shifting Shadows of the palaces and strips of sky. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow swans cities sky You never count your chickens before they hatch. I used to keep parakeets and I never counted every egg thinking I would get all eight birds. You just hoped they came out of the nest box looking all right. I'm like a swan at the moment. I look fine on top of the water but under the water my little legs are going mad. Ian Holloway swans football thinking I have seen old ships sail like swans asleep. James Elroy Flecker sail swans ships Slashing its way to the finish line, Black Swan is the first ballet movie for highbrow horror fans for whom ballet itself signifies little to nothing. Those of us who know and love ballet can only look on it with a different kind of horror. James Wolcott swans ballet black With 'Black Swan,' the ballerina saga flips its tiara and goes on a hallucinatory bender, a scary acid trip where transfiguration and disfiguration meet. James Wolcott swans black scary The stiff rails were softened to swan's-down, and still fluttered down the snow. James Russell Lowell swans winter snow swans ... always look as though they'd just been reading their own fan-mail. Jan Struther swans fans reading Björk’s wraparound swan frock . . . made her look like a refugee from the more dog-eared precincts of provincial ballet. Jay Carr swans ballet dog Millions of years ago, in my previous incarnations, I must have been related to swans... because I can still feel that affinity. Jean Sibelius swans reincarnation years I'm telling you, the gorgeous of the world can actually look pretty intimidating when they scowl. Imagine a snow-white swan with a scary tattoo holding a chain saw. There's just no way to really prepare for that. Jim Benton swans tattoo white The name came from, erm... us all just agreeing on a name that we liked. There was talk of Swans at first, but there was already a band called Swans, way back in the eighties. An American band. So we thought, well, we can't have them, and I think Andy said, "well what about Doves?" We ruminated it around the three of us and went, well, it's not so bad, it's all right. Jimi Goodwin swans names thinking «12345678»