Swans Quotes - Page 7

• They were doing the Dying Swan at the ballet. And there was a rumor that some bookmarkers had drifted into town from upstate New York and that they had fixed the bullet. There was a lot of money bet on the swan to live.

  Woody Allen

  New York, Ballet, Rumor

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• There's a little book I'm thinking of writing - "Swan Song" is what I shall call it. The song of the dying. And my book will be incense burnt at the deathbed of this society, damned with the damnation of its own impotence.

  Maxim Gorky

  Song, Book, Writing

  "Foma Gordeyev". Book by Maxim Gorky, 1899.

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• The stiff rails were softened to swan's-down, and still fluttered down the snow.

  James Russell Lowell

  Winter, Snow, Down And

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.379

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• 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

  Wish, Records, Way

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I've actually rented Bjork's swan dress. I know that's kind of recycling, but I saw An Inconvenient Truth.

  Rainn Wilson

  Dresses, Saws, Recycling

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• Contact lenses are for vain, weak-willed piglets who swan around showing off: 'Look everybody, I can see without spectacles. No one at first glance will ever assume I know how to surf the net.'

  Greg Proops

  Piglet, Lenses, Looks

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• So the world is much more correlated than we give credit to. And so we see more of what Nassim Taleb calls "black swan events" - rare events happen more often than they should because the world is more correlated.

  Richard Thaler

  Rare Events, Giving, Black

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Do you really believe that in the late 1800s Paddy Hannan would have walked 600 miles in the hot sun from Perth to Kalgoorlie to discover gold if he had to pay the Wayne Swan resource super tax?

  Clive Palmer

  Believe, Gold, Pay

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• I collect church collapses, recreationally. Did you see the recent one in Sicily? Marvelous! The facade fell on sixty-five grandmothers at a special mass. Was that evil? If so, who did it? If he's up there, he just loves it, Officer Starling. Typhoid and swans - it all comes from the same place.

  Thomas Harris

  Grandmother, Evil, Church

  Thomas Harris (2009). “The Silence of the Lambs”, p.22, St. Martin's Press

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• 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.

  Russell Brand

  Character, Ugly Duckling, Ducks

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• 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

  Thinking, Names, Three

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• Always praise your kid even if he/she is unresponsive to learning. By insulting them and putting them down, you will only push them away and make them feel inadequate around other kids. Have faith that your child's brain is an evolving planet that rotates at its own speed. It will naturally be attracted to or repel certain subjects. Be patient. Just as there are ugly ducklings that turn into swans, there are rebellious kids that turn into serious innovators and hardcore intellectuals.

  Suzy Kassem

  Children, Kids, Ugly Duckling

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• I have had a lot of your countrymen as co-stars, that's true. I quite like them both. It depends on the person. I don't think English makes the man nor does American, but I like this guy right here [Clive]. He's nice and tall, which means I never have a double chin - there's lots of shots of me looking up, and I'm a swan. Well, we all laugh but it's so true.

  Julia Roberts

  Stars, Nice, Mean

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Qhuinn's eyes shifted away from his buddy--and just happened to measure the distance down to the stone patio below. Hmm . . . doing a swan dive onto all that slate might just get the images of those two out of his head... of course, it would also turn his brain into scrambled eggs, but really, was that such a bad thing?

  J.R. Ward

  Broken Heart, Distance, Eye

  J.R. Ward (2010). “Lover Mine: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.420, Penguin

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• Holy crow!" ~Bella Swan

  Stephenie Meyer

  Crow, Holy

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• And strangely enoughthe only emotion I ever feel, is what the beaver must feel, as he bears each stick to his hidden construction, which creates the tranquil pond and gives the mallards somewhere to paddle, and the pair of swans a place to conceal their young

  Billy Collins

  Giving, Ponds, Pairs

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• After eighteen years of being utterly ordinary, I finally found that I can shine" -Bella Swan <3

  Stephenie Meyer

  Years, Shining, Ordinary

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• 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

  Long, Black, Events

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• 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

  Writing, Thinking, Light

  Jose Ortega Y Gasset (1960). “the Revolt of the Masses”

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• Swan, by Mary Oliver. Poems and prose. Reading from this book is as if visiting a very wise friend. There is wisdom and welcoming kindness on every page.

  Jessye Norman

  Wise, Kindness, Book

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• There's no law that says I can't cook in my own house." - Charlie Swan

  Stephenie Meyer

  Law, House, Eclipse

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• There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them. Snow, rain, and mist highlight, drench, or conceal the vast towers, but those towers, hostile to mystery and blind to any sort of play, shear off the rain's tresses and shine their three thousand swords through the soft swan of the fog.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Rain, Fog, Play

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• Make no mistake, your relationships are the heaviest components in your life. All those negotiations and arguments and secrets, the compromises. The slower we move the faster we die. Make no mistake, moving is living. Some animals were meant to carry each other. To live symbiotically over a lifetime. Star crossed lovers, monogamous swans. We are not swans. We are sharks.

  Ryan Bingham

  Stars, Mistake, Moving

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• If King Harold had had swans on his side, England would still be Saxon.

  Connie Willis

  Kings, Sides, England

  Connie Willis (2009). “To Say Nothing of the Dog”, p.143, Bantam

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• 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

  War, People, Ignorant

  Kenneth Clark (1969). “Civilisation”

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