“Ignorance is an ugly duckling; enlightenment is a magnificent swan.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
“If it looks like a duck and sounds like a duck, it could be a really ugly swan.” — Timmothy Radman Copy Share Image
'Don't Look Back' is my first YA contemporary mystery/thriller. It's been described as 'Black Swan' meets 'Pretty Little Liars'. — Jennifer Armentrout Copy Share Image
“The mosaicist was making the fine hairs on the nape of Mona's swan neck out of chips of gold” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
'Swan Lake' was my favourite piece of music when I was younger, and I never had a chance to skate to it. — Kaetlyn Osmond Copy Share Image
There's a double beauty whenever a swan Swims on a lake with her double thereon. — Thomas Hood Copy Share Image
Were I a nightingale, I would act the part of a nightingale; were I a swan, the part of a swan. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
The silver swan, who, living had no note, When death approached unlocked her silent throat. — Orlando Gibbons Copy Share Image
What really matters is that 'Black Swan' deploys and exaggerates all the cliches of earlier ballet movies, especially 'The Red Shoes,' another… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
“If you can add a great beauty to something which is already beautiful, then you must be very beautiful like a white… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
There are no makeovers in my books. The ugly duckling does not become a beautiful swan. She becomes a confident duck able… — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
“Physically she was like a swan among more humble fowl – tall, willowy, and exceptionally pretty with fair skin and golden hair,… — Francine Pascal Copy Share Image
'Swan,' by Mary Oliver. Poems and prose. Reading from this book is as if visiting a very wise friend. There is wisdom… — Jessye Norman Copy Share Image
“And the poets?' 'Lost in dreams of other worlds.'... 'And the wise, who made this world?' The swan lowered its black neck… — Catherine Fisher Copy Share Image
What 'War and Peace' is to the novel and 'Hamlet' is to the theater, Swan Lake' is to ballet - that is,… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Who may be called a paramahamsa? He who, like a swan, can take the milk from a mixture of milk and water,… — Ramakrishna Copy Share Image
“In the story of the Ugly Duckling, when did the Ugly Duckling stop feeling Ugly? When he realized he was a Swan.… — Benjamin Hoff Copy Share Image
“This humble person has been alive long enough to see two generations of children grow up, and knows how rare it is… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
“I have a message for your daughter,” said Cale. “I am bound to her with cables that not even God can break.… — Paul Hoffman Copy Share Image
When you came to me A swan fluttering its soft feathery wings You placed your shoulder next to mine Waiting for me… — Jennifer Copy Share Image
“It was a dead swan. Its body lay contorted on the beach like an abandoned lover. I looked at the bird for… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“The Raven And The Swan A RAVEN saw a Swan and desired to secure for himself the same beautiful plumage. Supposing that… — Aesop Copy Share Image
“Look upon men and things with the inner eye, with its form and desire, never forgetting that the shadow they throw as… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
From a public perspective, the Grand National is the biggest race of all, and not to have won it yet is definitely… — Tony McCoy Copy Share Image
“Of all Virginia Swan’s extraordinary adventures on her first trip to New York City, this visit” — Becky Lee Weyrich Copy Share Image
'My Swan Song' - that song is so depressing but uplifting at the same time, you know what I mean? — Joey Jordison Copy Share Image
I think everyone has a little black swan in them, it's just a matter of when you let it out. — Mila Kunis Copy Share Image
I hated Matthew Bourne's 'Swan Lake' when it first turned up, and then when it was televised, and then when it returned. — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The swan, like the soul of the poet, By the dull world is ill understood. — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
“I've also been chased by a swan over by the pond one time. That's why I don't go there anymore.” — Cara Dee Copy Share Image
Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear. — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
“Black Swan has three attributes: unpredictability, consequences, retrospective explainability.” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Some full-breasted swan That, fluting a wild carol ere her death, Ruffles her pure cold plume, and takes the flood With swarthy… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
“Don’t always trust what you see. In a bull market even a duck looks like a swan.” — Vijay Kedia Copy Share Image
“Every whore needs a man that could turn her into a beautiful swan...” — Cleopatramoneysex Copy Share Image
“I think I’ll call you Cygnus,” Chelsea said. “The swan?” I said. A bit precious, but it could have been worse. She… — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
“If I had the wings of a swan, over these stony hills I would fly. I would fly to the arms of… — Susan Price Copy Share Image
In the heyday of the Oscars, there were electric sparks flying. When Cher went in her fabulous Bob Mackie dress and her… — Andre Leon Talley Copy Share Image
