Curtain Quotes - page 2

I have a small room to write in. One wall is completely covered in books. And I face the window with the curtain closed to stop the light hitting the computer. (Anne Enright)
In these times of the 'Great Recession', we shouldn't be trying to shift the benefits of wealth behind some curtain. We should be celebrating and encouraging people to make as much money as they can. Profits equal tax money. While some people might find it distasteful to pay taxes, I don't. I find it patriotic. View quote
Mark Cuban
These moments were wondrous and divine, instances when the gossamer curtain between heaven and earth ripped and all of humanity witnessed the marvel of the ethereal beings. Angelology pg. 32. View quote
Danielle Trussoni
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. View quote
Cornelia Funke
Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star. View quote
Lucy Maud Montgomery
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. View quote
Edwin Booth
I never went to business school. I was just bumbling through a lot of my life. I was like the guy behind the curtain in The Wizard of Oz. View quote
David Geffen
It's possible, in a poem or short story, to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language, and to endow those things-a chair, a window curtain, a fork, a stone, a woman's earring-with immense, even startling power. View quote
Raymond Carver
Well, I go to the theater today, and its curtain - there is no curtain in this play; the lights go down and go up - and we start. And I live this character for two hours. There are only two of us in the play. And It's a complete experience. View quote
Eli Wallach
It's nowhere near as intense as what I imagine an actor experiences backstage, but I feel a fluttering nervousness before a curtain goes up on a play. I mean, any play, anywhere - on Broadway or the Bowery or in a church basement. View quote
Ben Brantley
One of the few things in dance to match the Royal Ballet's curtain calls is the Royal Ballet's dancing. (Clive Barnes)
I always liked the magic of poetry but now I'm just starting to see behind the curtain of even the best poets, how they've used, tried and tested craft to create the illusion. Wonderful feeling of exhilaration to finally be there. View quote
David Knopfler
Conscience is the window of our spirit, evil is the curtain. View quote
Douglas Horton
Hurried and worried until we're buried, and there's no curtain call, Lifes a very funny proposition after all. View quote
George M. Cohan
The horrors of the Second World War, the chilling winds of the Cold War and the crushing weight of the Iron Curtain are little more than fading memories. Ideals that once commanded great loyalty are now taken for granted. View quote
Jan Peter Balkenende
I remember when I was doing 'The Crucible' on Broadway with Laura Linney, and Arthur Miller had been in rehearsal with us and was on stage on opening night. She turned to me during the curtain call and said, 'Let's make sure we remember this.' View quote
John Benjamin Hickey
You cannot see the Grand Canyon in one view, as if it were a changeless spectacle from which a curtain might be lifted, but to see it, you have to toil from month to month through its labyrinths. View quote
John Wesley Powell
When we went on the air, I didn't want to be interrupted for an act-one curtain. View quote
Norman Lear
The moment the curtain rose on that first ballet, I knew something wonderful and new had come into my life. I can still see the first scene. The ballet was Divertimento No. 15. View quote
Robert Caro
You come in off the street, through the doors of the theater. You sit down. The lights go down and the curtain goes up. And you're in another world. View quote
Robert Caro
There are two sighs of relief every night in the life of an opera manager. The first comes when the curtain goes up The second sigh of relief comes when the final curtain goes down without any disaster, and one realizes, gratefully, that the miracle has happened again. (Rudolf Bing)
Voice, come out of the silence. Say something. Appear in the form of a spider Or a moth beating the curtain. Tell me: Which is the way I take; Out of what door` do I go, Where and to whom? Dark hollows said, lee to the wind, The moon said, back of an eel, The salt said, look by the sea, Your tears are not enough praise, You will find no comfort here, In the kingdom of bang and blab. View quote
Theodore Roethke
The road passed through a curtain of pine forest and came out on a flat, rolling snow field. In this field the sprawled or bunched bodies of Germans lay thick, like some dark shapeless vegetable. View quote
Martha Gellhorn
When the curtain rises, the only thing that speaks is courage. View quote
Maria Callas
When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away. View quote
Harold Macmillan