Ages elapsed ere Homer's lamp appear'd, And ages ere the Mantuan swan was heard: To carry nature lengths unknown before, To give… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Why get married? For human beings, marriage is such an unnatural state. If you want monogamy, it has been said, you should… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
I remember watching Swan Lake and everybody looking exactly the same, but being able to relate because they were the only company… — Joan Chen Copy Share Image
My duchess,” James stated, his eyes sweeping the crowd with the air of a man who has ruled the waves. “She is… — Eloisa James Copy Share Image
You never count your chickens before they hatch. I used to keep parakeets and I never counted every egg thinking I would… — Ian Holloway Copy Share Image
I cry. Evil dissolves, & love, like foam; that love. Prattle of children powers me home, my heart claps like the swan's… — John Berryman Copy Share Image
No amount of observations of white swans can allow the inference that all swans are white, but the observation of a single… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The woods decay, the woods decay and fall, The vapours weep their burthen to the ground, Man comes and tills the field… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
For beauty with sorrow Is a burden hard to be borne: The evening light on the foam, and the swans, there; That… — Walter de La Mare Copy Share Image
I like relativity and quantum theories because I don't understand them and they make me feel as if space shifted about like… — D. H. Lawrence 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
I thought acting was all about natural instinct but I've realised, through working with so many talented actors on 'Wild Swans' and… — Katie Leung Copy Share Image
I've actually rented Bjork's swan dress. I know that's kind of recycling, but I saw An Inconvenient Truth. — Rainn Wilson Copy Share Image
The stiff rails were softened to swan's-down, and still fluttered down the snow. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Holland is a dream, Monsieur, a dream of gold and smoke-smokier by day, more gilded by night. And night and day that… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I cry. Evil dissolves, and love, like foam; that love. Prattle of children powers me home, my heart claps like the swan’s… — John Berryman Copy Share Image
I can't even listen to Swans anymore. It doesn't do it for me at all, but I absolutely adore the early records… — Justin Broadrick Copy Share Image
I don't have ugly ducklings turning into swans in my stories. I have ugly ducklings turning into confident ducks. — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
The swan, like the soul of the poet, By the dull world is ill understood. — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
Orchestras have often been used to conjure up the natural world: Swans, sharks, trout, but not, as far as I know, the… — Bill Bailey Copy Share Image
I sit in the sky like a sphinx misunderstood; My heart of snow is wed to the whiteness of swans; I hate… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Some men are born to good luck: all they do or try to do comes right—all that falls to them is so… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
