Swans Quotes - Page 7

• Would you just strap some toe shoes on and dance 'Swan Lake?' No. Would you just put a violin in your hand and - ? No. I felt that way about acting, and I was taught to feel that way. I didn't come to it on my own.

  Ellen Barkin

  Lakes, Hands, Shoes

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• I had seen the ballet of Swan Lake as a child but it was as an adult, when I saw a production featuring Erik Bruhn, that I first noticed how significant a part the ever-present threat of violence played. This juxtaposition of great beauty and grace with a backdrop of pure evil stayed with me for years.

  Walter Dean Myers

  Children, Lakes, Years

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• Slashing its way to the finish line, Black Swan is the first ballet movie for highbrow horror fans for whom ballet itself signifies little to nothing. Those of us who know and love ballet can only look on it with a different kind of horror.

  James Wolcott

  Ballet, Black, And Love

  "Swan Down: James Wolcott's Review". "Opera Chic" blog, December 06, 2010.

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• Qhuinn's eyes shifted away from his buddy--and just happened to measure the distance down to the stone patio below. Hmm . . . doing a swan dive onto all that slate might just get the images of those two out of his head... of course, it would also turn his brain into scrambled eggs, but really, was that such a bad thing?

  J.R. Ward

  Broken Heart, Distance, Eye

  J.R. Ward (2010). “Lover Mine: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.420, Penguin

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• And while we're on the subject of ducks, which we plainly are, the story, 'The Ugly Duckling' ought be banned as the central character wasn't a duckling or he wouldn't have grown up into a swan. He was a cygnet.

  Russell Brand

  Character, Ugly Duckling, Ducks

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• Holy crow!" ~Bella Swan

  Stephenie Meyer

  Crow, Holy

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• There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them. Snow, rain, and mist highlight, drench, or conceal the vast towers, but those towers, hostile to mystery and blind to any sort of play, shear off the rain's tresses and shine their three thousand swords through the soft swan of the fog.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Rain, Fog, Play

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• There's no law that says I can't cook in my own house." - Charlie Swan

  Stephenie Meyer

  Law, House, Eclipse

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• After eighteen years of being utterly ordinary, I finally found that I can shine" -Bella Swan <3

  Stephenie Meyer

  Years, Shining, Ordinary

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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

  Long, Black, Events

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• Make no mistake, your relationships are the heaviest components in your life. All those negotiations and arguments and secrets, the compromises. The slower we move the faster we die. Make no mistake, moving is living. Some animals were meant to carry each other. To live symbiotically over a lifetime. Star crossed lovers, monogamous swans. We are not swans. We are sharks.

  Ryan Bingham

  Stars, Mistake, Moving

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• The surrealist thinks he has outstripped the whole of literary history when he has written (here a word that there is no need to write) where others have written "jasmines, swans and fauns." But what he has really done has been simply to bring to light another form of rhetoric which hitherto lay hidden in the latrines.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Writing, Thinking, Light

  Jose Ortega Y Gasset (1960). “the Revolt of the Masses”

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• Swan, by Mary Oliver. Poems and prose. Reading from this book is as if visiting a very wise friend. There is wisdom and welcoming kindness on every page.

  Jessye Norman

  Wise, Kindness, Book

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• And strangely enoughthe only emotion I ever feel, is what the beaver must feel, as he bears each stick to his hidden construction, which creates the tranquil pond and gives the mallards somewhere to paddle, and the pair of swans a place to conceal their young

  Billy Collins

  Giving, Ponds, Pairs

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• Björk’s wraparound swan frock . . . made her look like a refugee from the more dog-eared precincts of provincial ballet.

  Jay Carr

  Dog, Ballet, Looks

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• Orchestras have often been used to conjure up the natural world: Swans, sharks, trout, but not, as far as I know, the often maligned jellyfish.

  Bill Bailey

  Funny, Humor, Sharks

  "Remarkable Guide to the Orchestra". Comedy, Music, May 9, 2009.

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• There was a sorry judge who lived at the Swan by himself. He got but little honor, and he got but little pelf [i.e. wealth], He drudged and judged from morn to night, no ass drudged more than he, And the more he drudged, and the more he judged, the sorrier judge was he.

  St. George Tucker

  Life, Sorry, Night

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• One musn't overrate the culture of what used to be called "top people" before the wars. They had charming manners, but they were as ignorant as swans.

  Kenneth Clark

  War, People, Ignorant

  Kenneth Clark (1969). “Civilisation”

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• I have had a lot of your countrymen as co-stars, that's true. I quite like them both. It depends on the person. I don't think English makes the man nor does American, but I like this guy right here [Clive]. He's nice and tall, which means I never have a double chin - there's lots of shots of me looking up, and I'm a swan. Well, we all laugh but it's so true.

  Julia Roberts

  Stars, Nice, Mean

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I can't even listen to Swans anymore. It doesn't do it for me at all, but I absolutely adore the early records and, on that same token, I wouldn't in any way wish for them to come back and repeat themselves.

  Justin Broadrick

  Wish, Records, Way

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I've actually rented Bjork's swan dress. I know that's kind of recycling, but I saw An Inconvenient Truth.

  Rainn Wilson

  Dresses, Saws, Recycling

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• Contact lenses are for vain, weak-willed piglets who swan around showing off: 'Look everybody, I can see without spectacles. No one at first glance will ever assume I know how to surf the net.'

  Greg Proops

  Piglet, Lenses, Looks

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• So the world is much more correlated than we give credit to. And so we see more of what Nassim Taleb calls "black swan events" - rare events happen more often than they should because the world is more correlated.

  Richard Thaler

  Rare Events, Giving, Black

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Do you really believe that in the late 1800s Paddy Hannan would have walked 600 miles in the hot sun from Perth to Kalgoorlie to discover gold if he had to pay the Wayne Swan resource super tax?

  Clive Palmer

  Believe, Gold, Pay

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• Always praise your kid even if he/she is unresponsive to learning. By insulting them and putting them down, you will only push them away and make them feel inadequate around other kids. Have faith that your child's brain is an evolving planet that rotates at its own speed. It will naturally be attracted to or repel certain subjects. Be patient. Just as there are ugly ducklings that turn into swans, there are rebellious kids that turn into serious innovators and hardcore intellectuals.

  Suzy Kassem

  Children, Kids, Ugly Duckling

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