Quotes and Sayings about Swans

"It is not that the French are not profound, but they all express themselves so well that we are led to take their geese for swans."
- Van Wyck Brooks
(Related: Geese, Swans)

"When turkeys mate they think of swans."
- Johnny Carson
(Related: Swans, Turkeys)

"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
(Related: Thought, Famine, Research, Result, Swans, Writing)

"Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing."
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Related: Swans)

"Sometimes I'll go by and there are a couple of swans, the next day it's a few ducks. I'd like to stop there every day for a year and capture how it changes, then put it all together to create an incredible image of a traditional English scene."
- Graeme Le Saux
(Related: Day, English, Swans)

"At 26 I felt myself a victim rather than a victor in the realm of pictures."
- Gloria Swanson

"I was married when I was 17. I knew nothing. I was full of romance."
- Gloria Swanson
(Related: Romance, Nothing)

"I became a fanatic about healthy food in 1944."
- Gloria Swanson
(Related: Food)

"After 16 years in pictures I could not be intimidated easily, because I knew where all the skeletons were buried."
- Gloria Swanson
(Related: Years)

"All creative people should be required to leave California for three months every year."
- Gloria Swanson
(Related: People, Months)

"All they had to do was put my name on a marquee and watch the money roll in."
- Gloria Swanson
(Related: Money, Name)

"As Daddy said, life is 95 percent anticipation."
- Gloria Swanson
(Related: Life, Anticipation)

"Because I take care of my body, it doesn't look like the body of a woman of my years."
- Gloria Swanson
(Related: Body, Care, Woman, Years)

"Fame was thrilling only until it became grueling. Money was fun only until you ran out of things to buy."
- Gloria Swanson
(Related: Money, Fame, Fun)

"From the first moment on the set I was consumed with curiousity about the technical side of shooting a sound picture."
- Gloria Swanson
(Related: First, Sound)

"I always anticipated difficulties in order to avoid scenes."
- Gloria Swanson
(Related: Difficulties, Order)

"I am a very pragmatic person."
- Gloria Swanson

"By the time I was 15, my mother had turned me into a real clotheshorse."
- Gloria Swanson
(Related: Time, Mother)

"I am big. It's the pictures that got small."
- Gloria Swanson

"I was 25 and the most popular celebrity in the world, with the possible exception of my friend Mary Pickford."
- Gloria Swanson
(Related: Friend, Celebrity, Popular, World)

"I consider anybody who weighs over 200 pounds fat, and time was when I could not refrain from telling such people so."
- Gloria Swanson
(Related: Time, People)

"I didn't want to spend the rest of my life playing Norma Desmond over and over again."
- Gloria Swanson
(Related: Life, Rest, Want)

"I doubted that there were Communists hiding behind every corporation desk and director's chair."
- Gloria Swanson

"I entered the cosmetics industry because I wanted more women to use cosmetics made with safe, healthful ingredients."
- Gloria Swanson
(Related: Women, Cosmetics)

"I feel sure that unborn babies pick their parents."
- Gloria Swanson
(Related: Babies, Parents)

"I had starred in more than 30 successful films, six in a row directed by Cecil B. De Mille."
- Gloria Swanson
(Related: Successful)

"There was no place at all for me in my father's military world."
- Gloria Swanson
(Related: Father, Military, World)

"The English press treated the world premiere of my first talking picture as a major event."
- Gloria Swanson
(Related: English, First, Press, Talking, World)

"The first feminine feature that goes, with advancing age, is the neck."
- Gloria Swanson
(Related: Age, First)

"The fuss that actors began making about the difficulty of shifting to sound struck me as perfectly foolish."
- Gloria Swanson
(Related: Actors, Difficulty, Sound)

"The major gossip columnists were more concerned with protecting the industry than with gunning down sinners."
- Gloria Swanson
(Related: Gossip)

"The only time I ever went hunting I remembered it as a grisly experience."
- Gloria Swanson
(Related: Experience, Time, Hunting)

"Your body is the direct result of what you eat as well as what you don't eat."
- Gloria Swanson
(Related: Body, Result)

"Writing the story of your own life is a bit like drilling your own teeth."
- Gloria Swanson
(Related: Life, Drilling, Writing)

"Much as I cared for Joseph Kennedy, he was a classic example of that person in the arts with lots of brains and drive but little taste or talent."
- Gloria Swanson
(Related: Talent, Example, Taste)

"We lived on the Key West Army Base. Key West for me was a tropical island paradise."
- Gloria Swanson
(Related: Army, Paradise, Key)

"The Sennett system of making pictures was actually fun. You never knew what the person next to you was going to do."
- Gloria Swanson
(Related: Fun)

"The day I initiated divorce proceedings against Michael Farmer, I was ready to retire to a desert cave and rethink my life."
- Gloria Swanson
(Related: Life, Day, Divorce)

"When I die, my epitaph should read: She Paid the Bills. That's the story of my private life."
- Gloria Swanson
(Related: Life)

"My greatest debt will always be to the movie-going public of yesterday and today, without whose love and devotion I would have had no story to tell."
- Gloria Swanson
(Related: Love, Debt, Devotion, Public, Today, Will, Yesterday)

"Tennessee Williams was a gifted talker with a beautiful accent and we had lots of things in common."
- Gloria Swanson

"My mother and I could always look out the same window without ever seeing the same thing."
- Gloria Swanson
(Related: Mother)

"Life and death. They are somehow sweetly and beautifully mixed, but I don't know how."
- Gloria Swanson
(Related: Life, Death)

"In two months Joseph Kennedy had taken over my entire life, and I trusted him implicitly to make the most of it."
- Gloria Swanson
(Related: Life, Months)

"If you're 40 years old and you've never had a failure, you've been deprived."
- Gloria Swanson
(Related: Failure, Old, Years)

"I was the first celebrity in pictures to be marrying a titled European."
- Gloria Swanson
(Related: Celebrity, First)

"The Paramount executives were so pleased with Sunset Boulevard that they asked me to do a publicity tour."
- Gloria Swanson
(Related: Publicity, Sunset)

"My sculpture is very personal; for years my subjects were family and close, close friends."
- Gloria Swanson
(Related: Family, Friends, Sculpture, Years)

"Nobody gets anything for nothing."
- Gloria Swanson
(Related: Nothing)

"One of the networks sent me a TV set to watch. I didn't care for the medium. It depressed me."
- Gloria Swanson
(Related: Care)

"Sam Wood, the director, made most of his money as a real estate agent; there was nothing of the temperamental artist about him."
- Gloria Swanson
(Related: Money, Artist, Nothing, Wood)

"Sunset Boulevard opened in August 1950, and it was pronounced the best movie ever made about Hollywood."
- Gloria Swanson
(Related: Hollywood, Sunset)

"I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book."
- Gloria Swanson
(Related: Thought, Divorce)

"I would rather take the role and work and make my own money and self respect than to have sex with someone who has a lot of money."
- Kristy Swanson
(Related: Money, Work, Sex, Respect, Self, Self respect)