Many readers simply can't stomach fantasy. They immediately picture elves with broadswords or mighty-thewed barbarians with battle axes, seeking the bejeweled Coronet… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
My continuing passion is to part a curtain, that invisible veil of indifference that falls between us and that blinds us to… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
I'm still exploring. As I look back, Nénette Et Boni had a massive effect on the album we made after it, Curtains.… — Stuart A. Staples Copy Share Image
The play is done; the curtain drops, Slow falling to the prompter's bell A moment yet the actor stops And looks around… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
I want the younger writer to know that she or he is meaningful, that what they have to say is powerful in… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys. but to move an audience in such a… — Alicia Markova Copy Share Image
For a moment man is a boy, for a moment a lovesick youth, for a moment bereft of wealth, for a moment… — Bhartrhari Copy Share Image
If on a friend’s bookshelf You cannot find Joyce or Sterne Cervantes, Rabelais, or Burton, You are in danger, face the fact,… — Alexander Theroux Copy Share Image
Some of the critics viewed Vietnam as a morality play in which the wicked must be punished before the final curtain and… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
O timid one, awaken, exert yourself, draw back the curtains your training and background have hung over the windows of your soul. — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
We are in the black theater of nonexistence. In an eye blink the curtain is up, the stage ablaze, for the vast… — Herman Wouk Copy Share Image
When the Iron Curtain fell, all of the West rejoiced that the East would become just as free as the West. It… — Rick Falkvinge Copy Share Image
Now and then the fantastic shadows of birds in flight flitted across the long tussore-silk curtains that were stretched in front of… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Somewhere beyond the curtain Of distorting days Lives that lonely thing That shone before these eyes Targeted, trod like Spring. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
God is going to reveal to us things He never revealed before if we put our hands in His. No books ever… — George Washington Carver Copy Share Image
I'd get me a bunch of bats and balls and sneak me a couple of umpires and learn them kids behind the… — Dizzy Dean Copy Share Image
I never cared who scored the goal, or which side won the silver cup. I never learned to bat or bowl; but… — Noel Coward Copy Share Image
War is a curtain of dense black fabric across all the hopes and kindliness of mankind. Yet always it has let through… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
This cruel age has deflected me, like a river from this course. Strayed from its familiar shores, my changeling life has flowed… — Anna Akhmatova Copy Share Image
You might be a redneck if your house doesn't have curtains, but your truck does. — Jeff Foxworthy Copy Share Image
He had never known such gallantry as the gallantry of Scarlett O'Hara going forth to conquer the world in her mother's velvet… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
Busy old fool, unruly sun, Why dost thou thus, Through windows, and through curtains, call on us? Must to thy motions lovers'seasons… — John Donne Copy Share Image
The theatre is not the place for the musician. When the curtain is up the music interrupts the actor, and when it… — Sir Arthur Sullivan Copy Share Image
With its orange carpets and bright flowery curtains, our house was super-fashionable in the 70s. It was like the set for a… — Michaela Strachan Copy Share Image
