Quotes by Swans The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge. Martial swans singers sweet People who think they know what is going to happen next are fools. Surprises - or what the brilliant author Nassim Taleb calls 'Black Swans' - are inevitable. Some are likely to be desperately unpleasant too Martin Wolf swans ignorance thinking Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese. Matthew Arnold swans geese long Swans are majestic, beautiful looking creatures. With really ugly temperaments. Michael Gira swans ugly beautiful When I first started doing the quieter, more acoustic material in Swans, there was a lot of derision and outright hatred from the audience and press, just as in the early days of Swans when we were rejected outright because of the bludgeoning, single-minded violence of the music. Michael Gira swans violence hatred I wanted to challenge myself and move into something new. I felt that using the name Swans and the sonic attitude that that engenders was what I needed to move forward musically, and it's led to lots of new things. Michael Gira swans moving-forward attitude Even if you enter the dirty water, stay neat like a white swan! Mehmet Murat Ildan swans white dirty We were the best team in the world: European champions in 1984, we qualified without a hitch and 86 was to be the swan song for a very experienced side. Michel Patini swans team song The central idea in The Black Swan is that: rare events cannot be estimated from empirical observation since they are rare. Nassim Nicholas Taleb swans rare-events ideas You cannot dance an arabesque in 'Swan Lake' and 'Nutcracker' the same way. Natalia Makarova nutcrackers swans lakes Technical things are getting more mechanical. Take 'Swan Lake,' the Black Swan pas de deux. Now, my goodness, they're turning not just 32 fouettes - but double or triple pirouettes. Natalia Makarova swans black lakes Remember that you are a Black Swan. Nassim Nicholas Taleb swans black remember In economic life and history more generally, just about everything of consequence comes from black swans; ordinary events have paltry effects in the long term. Nassim Nicholas Taleb swans black long If you're looking for monogamy, you'd better marry a swan. Nora Ephron swans monogamy ifs The silver swan, who, living had no note, When death approached unlocked her silent throat. Orlando Gibbons swans silver bird The raven once in snowy plumes was drest, Ovid swans ravens white O woman shapely as a swan. Padraic Colum swans women The dying swan, when years her temples pierce, In music-strains breathes out her life and verse, And, chanting her own dirge, tides on her wat'ry hearse. Phineas Fletcher swans dying years Why get married? For human beings, marriage is such an unnatural state. If you want monogamy, it has been said, you should marry a swan. Quentin Crisp swans marriage want I've actually rented Bjork's swan dress. I know that's kind of recycling, but I saw An Inconvenient Truth. Rainn Wilson swans saws dresses «12345678»