Quotes About Swan

We're having something a little different this year for Thanksgiving. Instead of a turkey, we're having a swan. You get more stuffing.

If I had the wings of a swan, over these stony hills I would fly. I would fly to the arms of my true love, and there I'd be happy to die.

Swan-white of heart; I smile not ever neither do I weep. I am as lovely as a dream in stone.

He raised his hands. They saw his coat was feathered like the wings of the swan when it dies, when it sings its secret song. And he opened the door that none of them had seen until now.

My duchess," James stated, his eyes sweeping the crowd with the air of a man who has ruled the waves. "She is not a swan, because that would imply she had once been an ugly duckling.

There, tonight. The eternity of that. Swan logic. Swan history.

O woman shapely as a swan.

Malta has a rich and varied faunal history, including dwarf elephants and hippos, and a giant, flightless swan that stood taller than the island's pachyderms.

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 and not do the same old you-know-what.

He saw the black water and the declining sun and the swan dipping down, its white wings flashing, and slowing and slowing till silver ripples carried it home. It was a scene which seemed the heart of this land. The lowing sun and the one star waking, white wings on a black water, and the smell of rain, and the long lane fading where a voice comes in the falling night. --Ireland, said Scrotes. --Yes, this is Ireland.

I'm particularly interested in black swan events: unprecedented surprises that destroy the conventional wisdom about how the world works.

Closure is a false harmony, a siren song masquerading as a swan song.

above all the parishes in London, for a great number of alleys and thoroughfares, very long, into which no carts could come, and where they were obliged to go and fetch the bodies a very long way, which alleys now remain to witness it; such as White's Alley, Cross Keys Court, Swan Alley, Bell Alley, White Horse Alley, and many more.

The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death.

Coal-black is better than another hue, In that it scorns to bear another hue; For all the water in the ocean Can never turn the swan's black legs to white, Although she lave them hourly in the flood.

I will play the swan. And die in music.

Simply thinking and speaking of action is philosophy, of course. Taking action is something else. And, as with the swan, the greatest and ultimate test of a man taking action must also be his willingness, while loving life, to give his life for something he loves.

What do you want?' I ask, digging in my pockets. I take out the swan-shaped scissors I stole from Habetrot. 'These are pretty.' 'Put them away,' he scoffs. 'It would be an insult to be stabbed by those.' 'Then do not court that fate,' I growl softly...

The neighbourhood of Pangbourne, where the quaint little Swan Inn stands, must be as familiar to the habitues of the Art Exhibitions as it is to its own inhabitants.

There's a double beauty whenever a swan Swims on a lake with her double thereon.

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.

Snow as white as a swan's feather, white as a trillium bloom.

Nothing in the past can convincingly point to [a black swan's] possibility.

Nothing in all those "O swan" poems had ever mentioned that they hissed. Or resented being mistaken for felines. Or bit.