Famous Quotes & Sayings

Epictetus

Were I a nightingale, I would act the part of a nightingale; were I a swan, the part of a swan.

Ramakrishna

Who may be called a paramahamsa? He who, like a swan, can take the milk from a mixture of milk and water, leaving aside the water. He who, like an ant, can take the sugar from a mixture of sugar and sand, leaving aside the sand.

Rainn Wilson

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

Joan Chen

I remember watching Swan Lake and everybody looking exactly the same, but being able to relate because they were the only company I had ever seen even on video that had Asian dancers. The Asian community in Hawaii is actually almost as dominant as the Caucasian community. I thought "I can relate to that company because they look like people that I see every day." They weren't all little stick-thin Russian ballerinas.

Juvenal

A rare bird on this earth, like nothing so much as a black swan.

James Wolcott

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

Alfred Lord Tennyson

The wild swan's death-hymn took the soul Of that waste place with joy Hidden in sorrow: at first to the ear The warble was low, and full and clear.

Anna Pavlova

Get my swan costume ready.

Thomas Harris

Typhoid and swans - it all comes from the same place.

Rick Riordan

The dead aren't scary. They are just sad.

Ugo Betti

This free will business is a bit terrifying anyway. It's almost pleasanter to obey, and make the most of it.

Rick Riordan

Jason's fingers itched to draw his sword. He'd met plenty of scary demigods, but he was starting to realize that Nico di Angelo--as pale and gaunt as he looked--might be more than he could handle.

Mohamed Atta

Make sure that nobody is following you.

Natsuki Takaya

Anyone who knows how scary it is to be alone, can't help loving others." ~Rin Sohma

Thomas a Kempis

It is much safer to obey than to rule.

Leigh Whannell

Horror films are very functional like comedies. The main thing with a comedy, the big question is "is it funny?" And with horror the question is "is it scary?"

Kevin Hart

I'm very scary. I'm a menace.

Kendrick Lamar

The worst part of success is, to me, adapting to it. It's scary.

Gwyneth Paltrow

Jack Black is incredibly hilarious. I think he's really appealing, so sexy. When I watched the movie, I really thought he was sexy.

Taye Diggs

Just recently white people are starting to notice who I am. In the black community of actors, that's the gauge of how big you are, your real crossover appeal.

Michael Greenberg

I think it's a black eye for the Bush administration. This opens a Pandora's box.

Linda Massey

It always come down to black and white. It's the same thing every meeting.

Jawn Murray

He changed the way Hollywood looked at black cinematography. He really showed Hollywood that the black story can be told differently and, if they don't invest in us, we'll invest in ourselves. So many other blacks are going to be following that lead.

Toni Thorn

Having a black president doesn't mean anything. He is not the black president. He is just a president that happened to be black. He has yet to do anything for minority students on this campus.

Lil' Kim

has learned through rap images to identify black male culture with a culture of violence.

Clara Taylor

I think we thought we were mentally prepared for everything that's come into this case. But to see that chain was bone-chilling. It made me think back to the slaves -- of slavery when you saw black men chained and brought over on ships.

Charles Fuller

I think it still brings a lot of the same lessons that it brought 20 years ago. It's a snapshot of the past. Colin Powell would not be Colin Powell were it not for the guys in World War II, young black men who went to the war and came back and got an education and fought for their civil rights. It's a mirror to the present.