Swan Quotations

To this day, people are still talking about the Coral Casino's parties of the '30s, '40s, '50s - complete with antidotes of Errol Flynn's swan dives, Marlon Brando's secret cigar smoking spots, and Ester Williams' Aquacades.

What 'War and Peace' is to the novel and 'Hamlet' is to the theater, Swan Lake' is to ballet - that is, the name which to many people stands for and sums up an art form.

Misty Copeland is making history. During American Ballet Theatre's current season at the Metropolitan Opera House, Copeland will alight on that storied Lincoln Center stage, making her New York debut as the Swan Queen in the iconic masterpiece Swan Lake - a crowning achievement for any dancer, regardless of the color of her skin.

I think that all services will have downtime. No matter how much you prepare, have redundant systems, or audit, there will periodically be a black swan event that is completely unlike whatever you've experienced before. It even happens to Google!

In the heyday of the Oscars, there were electric sparks flying. When Cher went in her fabulous Bob Mackie dress and her Mohawk, and Bjoerk with her swan dress. Then we thought it was bad taste; now I think it should have been the best dress because she stood out.

I'm particularly interested in black swan events: unprecedented surprises that destroy the conventional wisdom about how the world works.

This produced much stronger ground motion than similar quakes centered at Swan Island or Kelley Point in North Portland.

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 beauty of things.Then she will be alone, pure destruction, achieved and supreme,Empty darkness under the death-tent wings.She will build a nest of the swan's bones and hatch a new brood,Hang new heavens with new birds, all be renewed.

Now wakes the hour Now sleeps the swan Behold the dream The dream is gone

Reydell and Swan Lake look like they haven't fared so well. They haven't gotten any rain down there.

But when the swan departs, you shall remain behind, like an abandoned woman.

But calm, white calm, was born into a swan

I feel confident our officers will be more than able to deal with any swan that finds its way onto our network.

Given this is a swan song for Greenspan, I think it's going to be one more of these global topics. There will be very little if anything that will give us any insight into monetary policy.

It is best to live with honor for just a day than with dishonor for many decades; better a short lived celestial swan than a century-lived crow.

Terry backed up and did a swan dive into the water and was swimming after the fish and the rod. It's the only time I ever saw a fish catch a man.

When as a swan he rises from the water he does not withdraw his one foot. If in truth he were to withdraw it, there would be neither to-day, nor to-morrow, no night and no day, never would the dawn appear.

When the Dow was doing its swan song yesterday (Thursday), the money was staying in the market and rotating into tech, ... That's the first time that's happened this year and that's good news -- folks are changing their minds about the sectors but they're staying in the market.

When I went to Moscow, I felt I was relearning Swan Lake - which was written for the Bolshoi - and being immersed in a tradition and history I had never experienced. It took a while to adjust to living there and learning the language, but now I have lots of friends. I get the best of two completely different worlds.

Everybody in the United Kingdom classes the swan as a royal bird. They have everybody's hearts.

First, the baby loves mother's milk; second, he learns of his mother and father; third, his brothers, sisters and aunts; fourth, the love of play awakens. Fifth, he runs after food and drink; sixth, in his sexual desire, he does not respect social customs. Seventh, he gathers wealth and dwells in his house; eighth, he becomes angry, and his body is consumed. Ninth, he turns grey, and his breathing becomes labored; tenth, he is cremated, and turns to ashes. His companions send him off, crying out and lamenting. The swan of the soul takes flight, and asks which way to go.

The results were confirmed today. The swan was found on Saturday.

The swan was found near the same location as previous cases, so protection measures will be almost unchanged.

The Swan Valley and surrounding lands are an important part of the Northern Rockies landscape, and this agreement will contribute to maintaining these lands as working forests, and for the public to enjoy.

Thanks to the cooperation of Mr. Moore and Vital Ground, Montana will leverage the value of their easement to provide about $600,000 in federal funds that we will use to conserve other important forestlands in the Swan Valley. This project will add another 180 acres to a program that has helped conserve wildlife habitat and working forests on nearly 155,000 acres in Montana in the last five years.

So putting the Black Swan in Act 1 where Tchaikovsky put it and not cutting repeats just to make your life easier - because it was there for a reason.

The one swan doesn't mean it has arrived here.

This is Greenspan?s last hurrah. The swan song for the big guy.

It was their swan song, and it was a good one.

It is our swan song, and (winning) kind of symbolizes the closure at the end, and I miss it already. I'm gonna go bawl now.

They were asking for a court to say Idaho Power hadn't defended its water rights at Swan Falls.

If you assume that this was his final budget, it was an almost near-perfect swan song.

In the process he meets a swan who accepts him.

I therefore named this isolated and remarkable feature Swan Hill.

By that time, I felt there was no future in the lamb business. I decided to donate the lamb. It would be our swan song.

These girls will not quit. The effort and competitiveness of this group has been outstanding. What I've been trying to convince them of is their season is not lost, and that they can still prove that they're one of the best teams White Swan has ever seen.