Swans Quotes
119 quotes by 92 authors
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Now, if you notice how the swan, putting its neck down into the deep water, brings up food for itself from below, then you will…
— Saint Basil
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When turkeys mate they think of swans.
— Johnny Carson
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Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.
— Hans Christian Andersen
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Get my swan costume ready.
— Anna Pavlova
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It is imperative to maintain portions of the wilderness untouched so that a tree will rot where it falls, a waterfall will pour its curve…
— Bernard DeVoto
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Shiva... is the only hunter that will ever catch the wild swan; The prey she will take last is the wild white swan of the…
— Robinson Jeffers
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Once-ler! You're making such smogulous smoke - my poor swomee swans, why they can't sing a note! No one can sing who has smog in…
— Dr. Seuss
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We're having something a little different this year for Thanksgiving. Instead of a turkey, we're having a swan. You get more stuffing
— George Carlin
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I don't have ugly ducklings turning into swans in my stories. I have ugly ducklings turning into confident ducks.
— Maeve Binchy
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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 how the world…
— Thom Yorke
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I'm going to do 'The Social Network Two: The Electric Boogaloo.' And I have a part in 'Beige Swan.' I'm going to be the lead,…
— Amy Poehler
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Those who awaken never rest in one place. Like swans, they rise and leave the lake. On the air they rise and fly an invisible…
— Gautama Buddha
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The recollected go forth to lives of renunciation. They take no pleasure in a fixed abode. Like wild swans abandoning a pool, they leave one…
— Gautama Buddha
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People who think they know what is going to happen next are fools. Surprises - or what the brilliant author Nassim Taleb calls 'Black Swans'…
— Martin Wolf
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Evolution writ large is the belief that a cloud of hydrogen will spontaneously invent extreme-ultraviolet lithography, perform Swan Lake, and write all the books in…
— Fred Reed
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They were doing the Dying Swan at the ballet. And there was a rumor that some bookmarkers had drifted into town from upstate New York…
— Woody Allen
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In economic life and history more generally, just about everything of consequence comes from black swans; ordinary events have paltry effects in the long term.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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While I was writing Wild Swans I thought the famine was the result of economic mismanagement but during the research I realised that it was…
— Jung Chang
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No number of sightings of white swans can prove the theory that all swans are white. The sighting of just one black one may disprove…
— Karl Popper
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Were I a nightingale, I would act the part of a nightingale; were I a swan, the part of a swan.
— Epictetus
Who Wrote These Swans Quotes
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