Quotes by Swans I remember watching Swan Lake and everybody looking exactly the same, but being able to relate because they were the only company I had ever seen even on video that had Asian dancers. The Asian community in Hawaii is actually almost as dominant as the Caucasian community. I thought "I can relate to that company because they look like people that I see every day." They weren't all little stick-thin Russian ballerinas. Joan Chen swans lakes people The wild swan hurries hight and noises loud John Clare swans white fall Swan flocks of lilies shoreward lying, In sweetness, not in music, dying. John Greenleaf Whittier swans water-lily lying The surrealist thinks he has outstripped the whole of literary history when he has written (here a word that there is no need to write) where others have written "jasmines, swans and fauns." But what he has really done has been simply to bring to light another form of rhetoric which hitherto lay hidden in the latrines. Jose Ortega y Gasset swans writing thinking Xenophon wrote with a swan's quill, Plato with a pen of gold, and Thucydides with a brazen stylus. Joseph Joubert swans style plato While I was writing Wild Swans I thought the famine was the result of economic mismanagement but during the research I realised that it was something more sinister. Jung Chang swans research writing I can't even listen to Swans anymore. It doesn't do it for me at all, but I absolutely adore the early records and, on that same token, I wouldn't in any way wish for them to come back and repeat themselves. Justin Broadrick swans records wish A rare bird on this earth, like nothing so much as a black swan. Juvenal swans black bird A rare bird upon the earth and very much like a black swan. Juvenal swans black bird no matter how many instances of white swans we may have observed, this does not justify the conclusion that all swans are white. Karl Popper swans white doe No number of sightings of white swans can prove the theory that all swans are white. The sighting of just one black one may disprove it. Karl Popper swans white numbers One musn't overrate the culture of what used to be called "top people" before the wars. They had charming manners, but they were as ignorant as swans. Kenneth Clark swans war people She tastes like nectar and salt. Nectar and salt and apples. Pollen and stars and hinges. She tastes like fairy tales. Swan maiden at midnight. Cream on the tip of a fox’s tongue. She tastes like hope. Laini Taylor swans apples stars Wearing a corset, a ball gown, heels and a swan hat with wings to fight in the forest gave me a whole new appreciation for everyday clothes, because you really become that alter ego while wearing those costumes in those environments on the set. They just influenced everything you tried to do. Lily Collins swans fighting appreciation I don't have ugly ducklings turning into swans in my stories. I have ugly ducklings turning into confident ducks. Maeve Binchy ugly-duckling swans writing I don't think you're happier if you're thin or beautiful or rich or married. You have to make your own happiness. My heroines do not become beautiful elegant swans, they become confident ducks and get on with life. Maeve Binchy swans beautiful thinking Women who start out as ugly ducklings don't become beautiful swans. What they mainly become is confident ducks. They take charge of their lives. Maeve Binchy ugly-duckling swans beautiful The Singing of Swans is a remarkable narrative calling--even compelling--us to connect with our own ancestral roots, to seek our own inner wisdom, and to reclaim our own inner voices! Margaret Starbird swans voice roots Sometimes I feel my arm is like a swan's neck - so weak. Maria Sharapova swans arms hands The swan is not without cause dedicated to Apollo, because foreseeing his happiness in death, he dies with singing and pleasure. Marcus Tullius Cicero swans apollo singing «12345678»