quotes about Curtains
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That's it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.
-- Al McGuire -
... and the very folds of the curtains contained secrets and sighs.
-- Anais Nin -
If Everton were playing down the bottom of my garden, I'd draw the curtains.
-- Bill ShanklySource : Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).
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Obviously some cheap motel is missing a shower curtain.
-- Bobby Heenan -
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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.
-- Charles de Lint -
Remember to tuck the shower curtain inside the bathtub.
-- Conrad Hilton -
You're going to get violated in that ring. I am going to close the curtain on the joke that is the Audley Harrison show.
-- David Haye -
Performers and their public should never meet. Once the curtain comes down, the performer should fly away like a magician's dove.
-- Edith Piaf -
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How much cooler was Oz than seeing the little dude behind the curtain?
-- Emile Hirsch -
Weigh down your curtains with a proper 5-inch hem. It makes them much more proportioned and professional-looking.
-- Emily Henderson -
As soon as you just walk through the curtains and the crowd's there, everything's good after that.
-- Gail Kim -
The light can be a curtain as well as the darkness.
-- George Eliot -
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To be admitted to Nature's hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain.
-- Henry David Thoreau -
Fall the deep curtains, delicate the weave, fair the thread.
-- Hilda Doolittle -
I am the Wizard of Oz of housewives (in that I am both "Great and Terrible" and because I sometimes hide behind the curtains
-- Jenny Lawson -
After all, no one is ever taken in by the happy ending, but we are often divinely fuddled by the tragic curtain.
-- Lionel Trilling -
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When the curtain rises, the only thing that speaks is courage.
-- Maria Callas -
What's exciting is there's a curtain that divides the audience from this other world. You want to see behind.
-- Matthew Macfadyen -
There's something in life that's a curtain, and I keep trying to raise it.
-- Maxine Hong KingstonSource : Maxine Hong Kingston, Paul Skenazy, Tera Martin (1998). “Conversations with Maxine Hong Kingston”, p.34, Univ. Press of Mississippi
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There's the fatigue that you have to forget about, because the red curtain still has to rise.
-- Mireille Mathieu -
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When we went on the air, I didn't want to be interrupted for an act-one curtain.
-- Norman Lear -
We humans have always needed rituals to draw like curtains over the chasms of the unknown. Without them we go mad, I think.
-- Patricia J. Williams -
Pessimism drops the curtain on tomorrow.
-- Robert H. Schuller -
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There is someone who looks after us from behind the curtain. In truth we are not here, this is our shadow.
-- Rumi -
Working on an essay versus a novel is like the difference between seeing to that curtain and seeing to New Jersey.
-- Sloane Crosley -
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.
-- Suzanne FarrellSource : Suzanne Farrell, Toni Bentley (1990). “Holding on to the air: an autobiography”, Summit Press
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My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down.
-- T. S. Eliot -
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Au contraire..." "What?" Constance demanded. Curtain blinked. ~ The Perilous Journey
-- Trenton Lee Stewart -
Don't thank me,' Mr. Curtain called as the door slid closed. 'Impress me!
-- Trenton Lee Stewart -
I don't live for stuff and things, and if I had to live in a cardboard box, I would put curtains on it.
-- Carmen Dell'Orefice