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
This ugly duckling investment will likely need time - quarters, or even years - to blossom into a beautiful swan. — Barry Ritholtz 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
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
Death darkens his eyes, and unplumes his wings, Yet the sweetest song is the last he sings: Live so, my Love, that… — Marcus Tullius Cicero 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
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
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 dream that one day I would be a published writer and people would read my books - if not, I would… — Srinidhi.R 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
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 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
The surrealist thinks he has outstripped the whole of literary history when he has written (here a word that there is no… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Now, if you notice how the swan, putting its neck down into the deep water, brings up food for itself from below,… — Saint Basil 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
There's a little pond near my house, and I see two swans there all the time who are obviously in love. But… — Noel Fielding 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
Let beeves and home-bred kine partake The sweets of Burn-mill meadow; The swan on still St. Mary's Lake Float double, swan and… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
“The clouds, warm now, sun-spotted, sweep over the hills, leaving gold in the water, and gold on the necks of the swans.” — Virginia Woolf 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
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
The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge. — Martial 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 in the pool is singing, And up and down doth he steer, And, singing gently ever, Dips under the water… — Heinrich Heine 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
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
“...the young swans as big as their parents now, but still grey and it looks peculiar, like two different species swimming in… — Per Petterson 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
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 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 music, and the banquet, and the wine-- The garlands, the rose odors, and the flowers, The sparkling eyes, and flashing ornaments--… — Lord Byron 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
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
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
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
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
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
Amory took to writing poetry on spring afternoons, in the gardens of the big estates near Princeton, while swans made effective atmosphere… — F. Scott Fitzgerald 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
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
