Swans moulting die, snow melts to tears, Roses do blush and hang their heads — Henry Noel Brailsford Copy Share Image
Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
With 'Black Swan,' the ballerina saga flips its tiara and goes on a hallucinatory bender, a scary acid trip where transfiguration and… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
Those parents who do not educate their sons are their enemies; for as is a crane among swans, so are ignorant so… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
Xenophon wrote with a swan's quill, Plato with a pen of gold, and Thucydides with a brazen stylus. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
I was in disbelief that I’d just explained my dreary life to this bizarre, beautiful boy who may or may not despise… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
swans ... always look as though they'd just been reading their own fan-mail. — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
Those who awaken never rest in one place. Like swans, they rise and leave the lake. On the air they rise and… — Gautama Buddha 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
I had seen the ballet of 'Swan Lake' as a child but it was as an adult, when I saw a production… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
“Youngest Brother, swan's wing, where one arm should be, yours the shirt of nettles short a sleeve and me with no time… — Debora Greger Copy Share Image
I have had a lot of your countrymen as co-stars, that's true. I quite like them both. It depends on the person.… — Julia Roberts Copy Share Image
The recollected go forth to lives of renunciation. They take no pleasure in a fixed abode. Like wild swans abandoning a pool,… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them. Snow, rain, and mist highlight,… — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
Some moralist or mythological poet Compares the solitary soul to a swan; I am satisfied with that, Satisfied if a troubled mirror… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Isabella Swan?” He looked up at me through his impossibly long lashes, his golden eyes soft but, somehow, still scorching. “I promise… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
Millions of years ago, in my previous incarnations, I must have been related to swans... because I can still feel that affinity. — Jean Sibelius Copy Share Image
The central idea in The Black Swan is that: rare events cannot be estimated from empirical observation since they are rare. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
And strangely enoughthe only emotion I ever feel, is what the beaver must feel, as he bears each stick to his hidden… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
The raven once in snowy plumes was drest, White as the whitest dove's unsullied breast, Fair as the guardian of the Capitol,… — Ovid Copy Share Image
Wild Swans' showed me there are Chinese traditions that still affect my life. For example, it's not that women are inferior, exactly,… — Katie Leung Copy Share Image
The evening advanced. The shadows lengthened. The waters of the lake grew pitchy black. The gliding of the ghostly swans became rare… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
I think Kristen is incredibly brave. She played such a good version Bella Swan, people think Kristen Stewart is Bella Swan. She's… — Rupert Sanders Copy Share Image
