[Y]ou will understand the game behind the curtain too well not to perceive the old trick of turning every contingency into a… — James Madison Copy Share Image
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Each waking day is a stage dominated for good or ill, comedy, farce, or tragedy, by a dramatis personae, the 'self', and… — Charles Scott Sherrington Copy Share Image
There is a curtain, thin as gossamer, clear as glass, strong as iron, that hangs forever between the world of magic and… — E. Nesbit Copy Share Image
There's roads, and there's roads, And they call. Can't you hear it? Roads of the earth And roads of the spirit The… — Bruce Cockburn 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
In some ways Lawler is a conceptual Diane Arbus. She's a stalker who takes advantage of situations. She pulls back curtains, causing… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
We owe to genius always the same debt, of lifting the curtain from the common, and showing us that divinities are sitting… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“There are great drifting theatre curtains in the sky, and they change color as she watches: green goes to purple, purple to… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“I look out my window a lot. It’s just one of those things that keeps me grounded in this weird, one-with-nature kind… — R.B. O'Brien 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
The sight filled the northern sky; the immensity of it was scarcely conceivable. As if from Heaven itself, great curtains of delicate… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
When our life is a continuous trial, the moments of respite seem only to substitute the heaviness of dread for the heaviness… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It was like falling off a building and suddenly, bang, you hit the bottom. The first time it happened was on an… — Jonah Lomu Copy Share Image
The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
This parrot is no more. It has ceased to be. It's expired and gone to meet its maker. This is a late… — Graham Chapman Copy Share Image
She lowered her lashes until they almost cuddled her cheeks and slowly raised them again, like a theatre curtain. I was to… — Raymond Chandler 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
September is the time to begin again. In the country, when I could smell the wood-smoke in the forest, and the curtains… — Eleanor Perenyi Copy Share Image
We think we know people. We think that what we see is all there is. We rarely ask ourselves what goes on… — Amanda Filipacchi Copy Share Image
Escape the safety of the small by taking the risks to become part of something bigger. Your true self demands it. Listen… — Kirby Wright Copy Share Image
...It all seemed to him to have disappeared as if behind a curtain at a theater. There are such curtains that drop… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Whatever it is that occurs at death, I believe it deserves to be called a miracle. The miracle, ironically, is that we… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Something that had the quality of a dimly lit stage set just before the curtains rise on opening night. There was a… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
Sometimes we go to a play and after the curtain has been up five minutes we have a sense of being able… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
The best way to prepare for a night out with a Shakespearean tragedy is to do a bit of reading up in… — Arthur Smith Copy Share Image
As the moon retaineth her nature, though darkness spread itself before her face as a curtain, so the Soul remaineth perfect even… — Akhenaton Copy Share Image
When you're in prison, there's no hiding. These women are not hiding behind towels and shower curtains. They go to the bathroom… — Laura Prepon Copy Share Image
You come in off the street, through the doors of the theater. You sit down. The lights go down and the curtain… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
In my stand-up, I've always been loose. If there's a curtain onstage, I'll use that in my act. If there's a door,… — J. B. Smoove Copy Share Image
Never value anything as profitable to thyself which shall compel thee to break thy promise, to lose thy self-respect, to hate any… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
It's nowhere near as intense as what I imagine an actor experiences backstage, but I feel a fluttering nervousness before a curtain… — Ben Brantley Copy Share Image
Bombardment, barrage, curtain-fire, mines, gas, tanks, machine-guns, hand-grenades - words, words, but they hold the horror of the world. — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
The first time it felt really dangerous, like the sort of thing you had to lock the doors and close the curtains… — Jamie Muir Copy Share Image
Just build a classic horseshoe of wood and plaster, and fill it with statuary and curtains, then sit back and savor the… — Michael A. Walsh Copy Share Image
If I want to calm down, I'll buy some fabric, get a pattern, shut myself in a room and stay there for… — Twiggy Copy Share Image
He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
I'm the kind of person who wants to present my most honest, authentic self to the world, so I hide backstage and… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
Sometimes someone coming in doesn't have the natural passion for it, but they find it through the coaching or mentoring I give… — Paul Rankin Copy Share Image
Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which are so dear to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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