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Quotes About Curtain

I am the bridge between the bleeding edge and the dead center. I stand between the Wizard of Oz and the man behind the curtain. I am the curtain.
~ Peter Watts
When you open the blinds, open them like you're lifting the veil of enlightenment. Or just open the blinds. See?
~ Philip Toshio Sudo
I don't think it's a director's job to peek behind the curtain too much.
~ Paul Thomas Anderson
The wind languished. The floral curtain ceased flapping. The moonlight streamed through, lighting up her face. It was a young, animated face. At that moment, it touched a string, a peg, deep inside him.
~ Qiu Xiaolong
People look at me and go, 'You must have it made. You have girls. You have a great life.' It's not true. I mean you pull the curtain away, and you see I'm just as insecure and neurotic and scared and vulnerable as anybody, you know.
~ John Stamos
Broadway was weird.
~ Daveed Diggs
Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
The stars have us to bed: Night draws the curtain; which the sun withdraws. Music
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Because sometimes the Church seems like those posed circus tableaus where the curtain lifts and men, white, zinc-oxide, talcum-powder statues, freeze to represent abstract Beauty. Very wonderful. But I hope there will always be room for me to dart about among the statues, don't you, Father Stone?
~ Ray Bradbury
Living with her taught me this: That silence is a thick and dark curtain, the kind that pulls down over a shop window; that love is the repercussion of a stone bouncing off that same window - and that pain is something you can embrace, like a rag doll nobody will ask you to share.
~ Judith Ortiz Cofer
The settling pastels, the walled horizons, the yellowing nylon curtain pulled back, unattached to clouds and rain, but the metal rungs ringing over the guide bar above the bed are a downpour.
~ WALTER BARGEN
And because they're not, when disaster strikes, it tears the curtain away from these festering problems . . . and black and white, all of us should be concerned to make sure that's not the kind of America that's reflected on our television screens.
~ David Axelrod
I remember remembering," she muttered, sitting down with a heavy sigh; she pulled her legs up to wrap her arms around her knees. "Feelings. Emotions. Like I have all these shelves in my head, labeled for memories and faces, but they're empty. As if everything before this is just on the other side of a white curtain. Including you.
~ James Dashner
The hem of a sheer curtain brushed a windowsill. Faintly, I heard traffic singing on the street. Sitting there on the edge of her bed, it felt like the waking-up moment between dream and daylight where everything merged and mingled just as it was about to change, all in the same, fluid, euphoric slide
~ Donna Tartt
Quarrelling with the Prince of Barrow was like fighting a curtain. Robin Stewart gave up.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
He let the curtain drop and the terrible light that had played on his features went off to play somewhere more healthy.
~ Douglas Adams
But rest assured, my indications will lead you to the truth." He paused. Then he said: "And perhaps, then, you would wish that they had not led you so far. You would say instead: 'Ring down the curtain.
~ Agatha Christie
As the moon retaineth her nature, though darkness spread itself before her face as a curtain, so the Soul remaineth perfect even in the bosom of the fool.
~ Akhenaton
Could anyone among us have an inkling or a clue What magic feats or wizardry and voodoo you can do? And who would ever guess what powers you possess And who would not be stunned to see you prove There's more to us than surgeons can remove So much more than we ever knew So much more were we born to do Should you draw back the curtain, this I am certain You'll be impressed with you
~ Alan Jay Lerner
I apologize for being obvious, but every time I watch the curtain come down on even a halfway decent production of a Shakespeare play I feel a little sorrowful that I'll never know the man, or any man of such warm intelligence.
~ Ian Mcewan
Do me a favor this morning. Draw the curtain and come back to bed. Forget the coffee. We'll pretend we're in a foreign country, and in love.
~ Raymond Carver
It was raining again the next morning, a slanting grey rain like a swung curtain of crystal beads.
~ Raymond Chandler
I felt afraid that the curtain between worlds was not sufficient. Air blew things in and away and water exiled its creatures onto dry land and rushed away from them. It seemed to be the nature of water and air, to be random, heartless.
~ Regina McBride
Libertatea, combinat? cu nelini?tea constant? - ca o perdea care nu se trage de tot — poate s? duc? numai la crearea de psihopa?i sexuali.
~ K?b? Abe