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

The writer is the duelist who never fights at the stated hour, who gathers up an insult, like another curious object, a collector's item,…

— Anais Nin

My first vision of earth was water veiled. I am of the race of men and women who see all things through this curtain…

— Anais Nin

The Witch's Life" When I was a child there was an old woman in our neighborhood whom we called The Witch. All day she…

— Anne Sexton

No one has ever laughed at a pun who did not see in the one word a twofold meaning. To materialists this world is…

— Fulton J. Sheen

They are enthusiasts, devotees. Addicts. Something about the circus stirs their souls, and they ache for it when it is absent. They seek each…

— Erin Morgenstern

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

— Paul Gauguin

I have these lacy shirts that look kind of like my grandma's curtains that I wear.

— Borns

The sugar maple is remarkable for its clean ankle. The groves of these trees looked like vast forest sheds, their branches stoppingshort at a…

— Henry David Thoreau

It is moonlight. Alone in the silence I ascend my stairs once more, While waves remote in pale blue starlight Crash on a white…

— Conrad Aiken

I think-I need to ask an embarrassing question. Do you think I could borrow a pair of scrubs? I-uh-my pants-" "Oh!" Cried the poor…

— Maggie Stiefvater

“I’m hopping on one foot and grasping at the curtains, because that’s what dressing rooms are these days, curtains instead of walls so you…

— Matt Bellassai

You could get in rehearsals, pre-production, anything that would actually contribute to the understanding of how a film gets made. I actually find those…

— Jay Roach

Every wife ought to answer for her man. If the husband be engaged in a seditious club, or drinks mysterious healths, or be frugal…

— Joseph Addison

“Yes, when I get big and have my own home, no plush chairs and lace curtains for me. And no rubber plants. I'll have…

— Betty Smith

History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their…

— Angela Merkel