Curtains Quotations

The curtains would open and it would be just her standing in some ludicrous pose, like Aphrodite.

But Nature cast me for the part she found me best fitted for, and I have had to play it, and must play it till the curtain falls.

If Everton were playing down the bottom of my garden, I'd draw the curtains.

In every house, when the curtains are drawn, there's a story going on, and you never get to hear... You get the public side of things, the happy, smiling, social activities.

There's the fatigue that you have to forget about, because the red curtain still has to rise.

You know, entertainment is just a curtain at the end of the day.

How much cooler was Oz than seeing the little dude behind the curtain?

When we went on the air, I didn't want to be interrupted for an act-one curtain.

My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down.

In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer. It's interior decorating. It's the fabric of the curtains and the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design.

Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain.

To be admitted to Nature's hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain.

We can custom order for anybody. We have dozens of different fabric choices, and tier curtains and panels can be ordered as well.

I miss theater. I miss living the arc of the character, from curtain to curtain, and I miss the immediate audience response.

I always feel that there is a curtain, you know, that if I could just peek behind the curtain I'd see how the world really works. And since I haven't had it I have to write about it instead.

That's it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.

Performers and their public should never meet. Once the curtain comes down, the performer should fly away like a magician's dove.

Obviously some cheap motel is missing a shower curtain.

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, / Why dost thou thus, / Through windows, and through curtains call on us? / Must to thy motions lovers' seasons run?

Last spring, it was about color; this year, it's about romance. Think about sheer curtains blowing in the wind.

We discovered that members were being deprived of an important opportunity to ask questions and speak freely among themselves. Families have curtains for a reason, and that is to provide them with a certain level of privacy as they develop relationships. The same can be true of a caucus.

Remember to tuck the shower curtain inside the bathtub.

Leave the shower curtain on the inside of the tub.

When you open a book it's like going to the theater first you see the curtain then it is pulled aside and the show begins.

We went down, beat on all the doors but found all the curtains were still pulled.

We have done a lot of training with law enforcement to alert them to these types of situations. If you look a little further and pull the curtains back, there may be a lot more to it.

And thou shalt make fifty taches of gold, and couple the curtains together with the taches: and it shall be one tabernacle.

Dread is the first and strongest of the...kinds of fear. It is that tension, that waiting that comes when you know there is something to fear but you have not yet identified what it is. The fear that comes when you first realize that your spouse should have been home hours ago; when you hear a strange sound in the baby's bedroom; when you realize that a window you are sure you closed is now open, the curtains billowing, and you're alone in the house.

It's just been blown apart. You've got buildings with all their windows blown out. You've got curtains blowing in the wind. You've got insulation from ceilings all over the streets.

It's the very British thing of reserve and keeping everything shut in, that's what people do with their emotions, shut the curtains on them.

Superfluous curtains that needlessly cover glass would give Salome a lifetime supply of veils.

It was actually a little nicer than what you might think, but it was very small. Windows were blacked out with curtains so that no movement or light could be seen. They did have a radio but could only listen to it at night, and they listened to BBC, not German radio. They would talk about their dreams and what they would do when the war was over.

I knew the character that I wanted to play. A guy who was like me, or what people think I am. The guy who you thought had everything going for him and when you pulled the curtains away, you see this guy who is just as confused, sad, lonely, neurotic and insecure as anybody else.

If you ever saw the original building, it was absolutely gorgeous. The red and the blue were neon at night, and the interior was flawless -- marble floors and red carpets. The seats and the curtains were red, too.

In this house, ... the bathroom is almost like a spa. It's more like a bathing space, it's more sensual, it's more attractive, it's more of a room. And it's only very minimally screened from the public areas by a kind of floating sheet of frosted glass. The bedroom -- if the curtains are open, it's actually quite evident from the other living spaces.

Cities might become biological entities, walls hung with curtains of algae that glow at night and sequester carbon, and floors made from tweaked cellular material that strengthens like bones as we walk on it.

And now the end is near, and so I face the final curtain.

Bring down the curtain, the farce is over

I figured, rather than hanging curtains I'd use stained glass,

I am the Wizard of Oz of housewives (in that I am both "Great and Terrible" and because I sometimes hide behind the curtains

The best prophets lead you up to the curtain and let you peer through for yourself.

Let the thick curtain fall;I better know than allHow little I have gained,How vast the unattained.

When the curtain rises, the only thing that speaks is courage.

It is well for young men to have a model, but let them draw the curtain over it while they are painting.

i feel like a curtain has dropped away and i'm seeing people for who they really are, different, and sharp, and unknowable.

Working on an essay versus a novel is like the difference between seeing to that curtain and seeing to New Jersey.

For many of us, the curtain had just come down on childhood.

What's exciting is there's a curtain that divides the audience from this other world. You want to see behind.

There's something in life that's a curtain, and I keep trying to raise it.

You can't get shower curtains in a Home Depot. You can at Lowe's,

The first time it felt really dangerous, like the sort of thing you had to lock the doors and close the curtains on because if anybody saw you, God would strike you down with a thunderbolt. But I took to it like a duck to water.

When the curtain falls no one is ready

The curtain of the universe is moth-eaten, and through its holes we see nothing now but mask and ghost.

And he coupled five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves.

Despite being extremely professional, Michael Caine has a giggle which was lethal for me because once you catch his eyes, once you realize the other person is a giggler too, it's curtains.

After all, no one is ever taken in by the happy ending, but we are often divinely fuddled by the tragic curtain.

I loved the stage not because it provided an escape from myself or my humdrum life but because when the curtain went up I could be whoever I wanted to be, and that was true freedom - to be myself.

Au contraire..." "What?" Constance demanded. Curtain blinked. ~ The Perilous Journey

Don't thank me,' Mr. Curtain called as the door slid closed. 'Impress me!

The fringed curtains of thine eye advance, And say what thou seest yond.

We will draw the curtain and show you the picture.

... and the very folds of the curtains contained secrets and sighs.

The light can be a curtain as well as the darkness.

You see these thick curtains shut out the daylight: artificial light suits me a great deal better; it's absolutely steady, and much more exciting.

The one charm about the past is that it is the past. But women never know when the curtain has fallen.

Let us draw the curtain of charity over the rest of this scene

There is someone who looks after us from behind the curtain. In truth we are not here, this is our shadow.

...It all seemed to him to have disappeared as if behind a curtain at a theater. There are such curtains that drop in life. God is moving on to the next act.

Pessimism drops the curtain on tomorrow.

An iron curtain has descended over Europe.