“And the Black Swan is what we leave out of simplification.” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb 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
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
“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
“Black Swan has three attributes: unpredictability, consequences, retrospective explainability.” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb 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
“Every whore needs a man that could turn her into a beautiful swan...” — Cleopatramoneysex 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
I had daydreamed through many performances of Swan Lake, thinking the dancing tutus only ever conveyed one aspect of swans: their beauty… — Matthew Bourne Copy Share Image
The wild swan hurries hight and noises loud With white neck peering to the evening clowd. The weary rooks to distant woods… — John Clare Copy Share Image
I had the opportunity to train with Natalie Portman for 'Black Swan,' and the program we created was intense and involved a… — Mary Helen Bowers 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
The swan who goes on living in its parents' tree will die; this is why those who are beautiful and talented bear… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
“His own image; no longer a dark, gray bird, ugly and disagreeable to look at, but a graceful and beautiful swan. To… — Hans Christian Andersen 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
“The Swan Oh, a swan! Blooming in grace and power. Were you thrown out of the forest of reeds by Pan To… — Gertrud Kolmar Copy Share Image
'Black Swan' does what Hollywood movies have always done - it spends its energies on getting some surface things right while getting… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
“Wie rau der Morgen war. So weiß, so kühl gegen das sanfte Violett der Nacht; so harsch und bloß nach den reich… — Anonymous 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
“One evening he was in his room, his brow pressing hard against the pane, looking, without seeing them, at the chestnut trees… — Théophile Gautier Copy Share Image
Shiva... is the only hunter that will ever catch the wild swan; The prey she will take last is the wild white… — Robinson Jeffers Copy Share Image
'Black Swan' was absolutely unbelievable. I had always dreamed of working with Darren Aronofsky, and Natalie Portman, Winona Ryder, Barbara Hershey, Mila… — Ksenia Solo 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
