Quotes About Ugly Ducklings

#1. In America, there's a programme called 'The Swan.' They take 12 ugly people and call them 'ugly ducklings.' They spend six months and have everything done - plastic surgery, teeth, everything. And then they have this moment where their family is brought in, and they are revealed. It's scary.

Trinny Woodall

#2. Women who start out as ugly ducklings don't become beautiful swans. What they mainly become is confident ducks. They take charge of their lives.

Maeve Binchy

#3. 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.

Bonnie Raitt

#4. Ugly ducklings often turn into beautiful swans when they are tested.

Sudha Murty

#5. I don't have ugly ducklings turning into swans in my stories. I have ugly ducklings turning into confident ducks.

Maeve Binchy

#6. There are no ugly ducklings.

Loretta Young

#7. To ugly ducklings everywhere,
Don't worry about those fluffy yellow morons:
They'll never get to be swans

Zoe Marriott

#8. Since many traits can affect an individual's adaptation to it's environment (it's "fitness") natural selection can over eons sculpt an animal or plant into something that looks designed

Jerry A. Coyne

#9. There's something almost perfect in the ugly duckling syndrome. Because a sensitivity is tattooed on a part of you no one else can see but can somehow guess is there.

Stephanie Klein

#10. But Josef, like many boys of nineteen, was under the misapprehension that his heart had been broken a number of times, and he prided himself on the imagined toughness of that organ.

Michael Chabon

#11. I'll always defend the people I love even though I'm as terrifying as a baby penguin.

Niall Horan

#12. I write down portions, maybe fragments, and perhaps an imperfect view of what I'm hoping to write. Out of that, I keep trying to find exactly what I want.

James Salter

#13. Lazy reviewers look up other people's reviews and they write the same thing, so you get people writing crap based on crap.

Joni Mitchell

#14. My films are a form of psychoanalysis, except that it is I who am paid, which changes everything.

Woody Allen

#15. I never dreamed of so much happiness when I was the Ugly Duckling!

Hans Christian Andersen

#16. Attempting mischievous and salutary irritation of his peers ... Keynes may only succeed in becoming an academic idol of our worst cranks and charlatans - not to mention the possibilities of the book as the economic bible of a fascist movement.

Henry Calvert Simons

#17. I like men with some belly who are a little over the hill.

Victoria Abril