Swans are majestic, beautiful looking creatures. With really ugly temperaments.
The swan is not without cause dedicated to Apollo, because foreseeing his happiness in death, he dies with singing and pleasure.
When we accept bad art because it's good politics, we're killing the swan to feed the chickens.
Millions of years ago, in my previous incarnations, I must have been related to swans. . . because I can still feel that affinity.
Here in the trees it was much easier to believe the absurdities that embarrassed me indoors. Nothing had changed in this forest for thousands of years, and all the myths and legends of a hundred different lands seemed much more likely in this green haze than they had in my clear-cut bedroom. Bella Swan Stephenie Meyer
What else can I do, a lame old man, but sing hymns to God? If I were a nightingale, I would do the nightingale's part; if I were a swan, I would do as a swan. But now I am a rational creature, and I ought to praise God. This is my work. I do it, nor will I desert my post, so long as I am allowed to keep it. And I ask you to join me in this same song.
There's a double beauty whenever a swan Swims on a lake with her double thereon.
I was too young that time to value her, But now I know her. If she be a traitor, Why, so am I. We still have slept together, Rose at an instant, learned, played, eat together, And wheresoe'er we went, like Juno's swans, Still we went coupled and inseparable.
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.
Ugly ducklings don't turn into swans and glide off down the lake. Whether your sunglasses are on or off, you only see the world you make.
I have no idea! I have been writing for 35 years and from the beginning up to now the situation's almost the same. I'm kind of an ugly duckling. Always the duckling, never the swan.
swans. . . always look as though they'd just been reading their own fan-mail.
Remember that you are a Black Swan.
There was no reason for Bella Swan to cross paths with me. She would be avoided like the plague she was.
You cannot dance an arabesque in 'Swan Lake' and 'Nutcracker' the same way.
Swan Lake is the most difficult thing to portray for a female ballet dancer; it really requires such specific qualities of articulation, agility, strength, and the arm work is something that takes a lot of training.
I will make thee think thy swan a crow.
Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.
When turkeys mate they think of swans.
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