Let's go to Sarai, Sashka! Or Tzargrad, or Buyan, where…

“Once upon a time, a woman told this to her daughter: Save yourself. The girl didn’t think to ask for what? She looked into…

— Tracy K. Smith

Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.

— Anonymous

Now wakes the hour Now sleeps the swan Behold the dream The dream is gone

— Pink Floyd

The very first film I ever saw was a pirate movie called 'The Black Swan' with Tyrone Power. And I thought that was great…

— Ridley Scott

The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge.

— Martial

“A swan is beautiful, even if mocked by ugly ducks.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“Black Swan has three attributes: unpredictability, consequences, retrospective explainability.”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

This ugly duckling investment will likely need time - quarters, or even years - to blossom into a beautiful swan.

— Barry Ritholtz

I launched Ballet Beautiful not long after finishing at Columbia and met Natalie Portman shortly after. We began training and preparing her for her…

— Mary Helen Bowers

When I saw the movie 'Black Swan,' I liked the darker aspect of it, the more dramatics, and that's what I like to do…

— Kaetlyn Osmond

Were I a nightingale, I would act the part of a nightingale; were I a swan, the part of a swan.

— Epictetus

In the heyday of the Oscars, there were electric sparks flying. When Cher went in her fabulous Bob Mackie dress and her Mohawk, and…

— Andre Leon Talley

Blood is the leitmotif of 'Black Swan.'

— Robert Gottlieb

Notes for a ballet, The Spell: ... Suddenly Sigmund hears the flutter of wings, and a group of wild swans flies across the moon…

— Woody Allen

I think that all services will have downtime. No matter how much you prepare, have redundant systems, or audit, there will periodically be a…

— Matt Mullenweg