Quotes of: Swans Keyword

I will make thee think thy swan a crow.

Romeo and Juliet

Swans sing before they die— 't were no bad thing Should certain persons die before they sing.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.

Hans Christian Andersen

What really matters is that 'Black Swan' deploys and exaggerates all the cliches of earlier ballet movies, especially 'The Red Shoes,' another tale of a ballerina driven mad and suicidal.

Robert Gottlieb

[last lines] Thomas Leroy: Nina, what did you do? Nina: I felt it. Perfect. I was perfect.

Black Swan

Nina: Should I go again? Thomas Leroy: No thanks Nina! I've seen enough.

Black Swan

Meg Swan: I didn't ask for your opinion. I asked for a toy that you don't have!

Best in Show

Meg Swan: We are *so* lucky. We are *so* lucky to have been raised amongst catalogs.

Best in Show

Meg Swan: This? This is a fish. This is a fish! You know what? Just shut up.

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Women who start out as ugly ducklings don't become beautiful swans. What they mainly become is confident ducks. They take charge of their lives.

Maeve Binchy

The French fairy tale writers were so popular and prolific that when their stories were eventually collected in the 18th century, they filled forty–one volumes of a massive publication called the . Charles Perrault is the French fairy tale writer w...

Black Swan, White Raven

An Irish Airman foresees his Death I Know that I shall meet my fate Somewhere among the clouds above; Those that I fight I do not hate Those that I guard I do not love, My country is Kiltartan Cross, My countrymen Kiltartan’s poor, No likely end co...

The Wild Swans at Coole

A funny little literary article in the hand is worth at least three in the bush.

After Many a Summer Dies the Swan

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 something more sinister.

Jung Chang

I don't have ugly ducklings turning into swans in my stories. I have ugly ducklings turn into confident ducks.

Maeve Binchy

I've developed into quite a swan. I'm one of those people that will probably look better and better as I get older - until I drop dead of beauty.

Rufus Wainwright

I always believed I was an ugly duckling in a family of swans, you know? I was such a black sheep, and it was the same way in high school... I was just kind of that awkward theater kid with a bunch of athletes... it was very 'Glee.'

Lindsay Pearce

The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death.

Henry Miller

There are no makeovers in my books. The ugly duckling does not become a beautiful swan. She becomes a confident duck able to take charge of her own life and problems.

Maeve Binchy

With 'Black Swan,' the ballerina saga flips its tiara and goes on a hallucinatory bender, a scary acid trip where transfiguration and disfiguration meet.

James Wolcott

Swan: Why'd you do it? Why'd you waste Cyrus? Luther: No reason. I just... like doing things like that!

The Warriors