May you eat an unfamiliar dessert in a strange land at least once every three years. May you wake up... and start… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
If King Harold had had swans on his side, England would still be Saxon. — Connie Willis Copy Share Image
What else can I do, a lame old man, but sing hymns to God? If I were a nightingale, I would do… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Notes for a ballet, The Spell: ... Suddenly Sigmund hears the flutter of wings, and a group of wild swans flies across… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I once wrote a song so beautiful that I myself couldn't sing it. It's called Plastic Government Cheese Swan, and it's about… — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Wearing a corset, a ball gown, heels and a swan hat with wings to fight in the forest gave me a whole… — Lily Collins Copy Share Image
So," she went on, "it got me thinking about what cost beauty. Or for that matter, what cost anything? Would you trade… — Sarah Dessen 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
White swan of cities slumbering in thy nest . . . White phantom city, whose untrodden streets Are rivers, and whose pavements… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
There's a little book I'm thinking of writing - "Swan Song" is what I shall call it. The song of the dying.… — Maxim Gorky Copy Share Image
“I am as restless a traveller in my own land as a wintering whooper swan.” — Jim Crumley Copy Share Image
I was too young that time to value her, But now I know her. If she be a traitor, Why, so am… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The dying swan, when years her temples pierce, In music-strains breathes out her life and verse, And, chanting her own dirge, tides… — Phineas Fletcher Copy Share Image
“If you are stealing people's thunder just by being around and standing there; you really can't expect people to like you. People… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
This ugly duckling investment will likely need time - quarters, or even years - to blossom into a beautiful swan. — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
Technical things are getting more mechanical. Take 'Swan Lake,' the Black Swan pas de deux. Now, my goodness, they're turning not just… — Natalia Makarova Copy Share Image
“It doesn't matter if you're born in a duck yard, so long as you are hatched from a swan's egg!” — Hans Christian Andersen Copy Share Image
I wanted to challenge myself and move into something new. I felt that using the name Swans and the sonic attitude that… — Michael Gira Copy Share Image
The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge. — Martial Copy Share Image
To be born in a duck's nest, in a farmyard, is of no consequence to a bird, if it is hatched from… — Hans Christian Andersen Copy Share Image
Contact lenses are for vain, weak-willed piglets who swan around showing off: 'Look everybody, I can see without spectacles. No one at… — Greg Proops Copy Share Image
No number of sightings of white swans can prove the theory that all swans are white. The sighting of just one black… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
