I was in disbelief that I’d just explained my dreary life to this bizarre, beautiful boy who may or may not despise me. Bella Swan
Merrily, merrily goes the bark On a breeze from the northward free, So shoots through the morning sky the lark, Or the swan through the summer sea.
Remember that you are a Black Swan.
But calm, white calm, was born into a swan.
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.
O woman shapely as a swan.
No amount of observations of white swans can allow the inference that all swans are white, but the observation of a single black swan is sufficient to refute that conclusion.
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.
Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.
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.
The silver Swan, who, living, had no Note, when Death approached, unlocked her silent throat. Leaning her breast upon the reedy shore, thus sang her first and last, and sang no more: 'Farewell, all joys! O Death, come close mine eyes! More Geese than Swans now live, more Fools than Wise. '
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
Björk’s wraparound swan frock. . . made her look like a refugee from the more dog-eared precincts of provincial ballet.
It is not that the French are not profound, but they all express themselves so well that we are led to take their geese for swans.
A rare bird on this earth, like nothing so much as a black swan.
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?
The swan in the pool is singing, And up and down doth he steer, And, singing gently ever, Dips under the water clear.
Typhoid and swans - it all comes from the same place.
I have this really morbid, awesome love for the movie Black Swan.
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 it.