Top 24 Wild Swans Quotes
#1. I thought acting was all about natural instinct but I've realised, through working with so many talented actors on 'Wild Swans' and 'Run,' that I can see the training. That's why I am back at drama school.
Katie Leung
#2. While I was writing Wild Swans I thought the famine was the result of economic mismanagement but during the research I realised that it was something more sinister.
Jung Chang
#3. 'Wild Swans' showed me there are Chinese traditions that still affect my life. For example, it's not that women are inferior, exactly, but my dad and my brother are the most important men in my life and I would do anything for them. I feel like I should be the one cooking and looking after them.
Katie Leung
#4. Tiresome heart, forever living and dying,
House without air, I leave you and lock your door.
Wild swans, come over the town, come over
The town again, trailing your legs and crying!
Edna St. Vincent Millay
#5. The recollected go forth to lives of renunciation. They take no pleasure in a fixed abode. Like wild swans abandoning a pool, they leave one resting place after another.
Gautama Buddha
#6. And the black box in her arms whimpered itself to sleep with longing to be a normal person who is chosen, not a special person who is discovered. To be the kind of duck who gets included by wild swans
Nell Zink
#7. FRANK: Do you know Yeats?
RITA: The wine lodge?
FRANK: No, WB Yeats, the poet.
RITA: No.
FRANK: Well, in his poem 'The Wild Swans At Coole',Yeats rhymes the word "swan" with the word "stone". You see? That's an example of assonance.
RITA: Yeah, means getting the rhyme wrong.
Willy Russell
#8. Sometimes you just have to keep away from the things that are trying to kill you, even if they're the same thing that gave birth to you. Sometimes those two things are the same, and their name is mother.
Lydia Netzer
#10. Some full-breasted swan That, fluting a wild carol ere her death, Ruffles her pure cold plume, and takes the flood With swarthy webs.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
#11. So fell Lord Perth," he said, "and the countryside did shake with that thunder.
Stephen King
#12. I'll text my bounty hunter. But his nuts are so small, it's going be like Horton Hears a Who to find them.
A. Wilding Wells
#13. Even though I was scared to stay behind, scared to turn into my parents, I was just as afraid of leaving.
R.K. Ryals
#14. The more you talk of it, the less you understand.
Laozi
#15. I mean maybe I was holding all the aces, but what was the game?
Joan Didion
#16. A million men can tell a woman she is beautiful, but the only time she will listen is when it's said by the man she loves.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#17. I believe in love in hindsight, meaning attraction and connection can be remembered as love at first sight. But how could you possibly know at first sight? That's too much pressure to put on a relationship.
Greg Behrendt
#18. 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.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
#19. Do you know why they call a drummer's seat a throne? Because drummers are kings and queens.
Ed Thigpen
#20. Like every writer, I'm drawn by unlikely juxtapositions, precisely-dated and once-only collisions between people from different worlds.
Hilary Mantel
#21. Reunion reveals friendship potential that haven't yet been emerged in the past.
Toba Beta
#22. The wild swan hurries hight and noises loud
With white neck peering to the evening clowd.
The weary rooks to distant woods are gone.
With lengths of tail the magpie winnows on
To neighbouring tree, and leaves the distant crow
While small birds nestle in the edge below.
John Clare
#23. Those palates who, not yet two summers younger, must have inventions to delight the taste, would now be glad of bread, and beg for it.
William Shakespeare
#24. Something's moving, something's changing. See His glory feels like heaven on earth.
Micah Stampley
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