Best Curtain Sayings
265 Curtain quotes by 231 unique authors
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With Hitchcock I had little relationship. I was called to replace Bernard Herrmann, his favorite composer, in Torn Curtain, after the bitter fight between them.
— Maurice Jarre
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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…
— Jan Peter Balkenende
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Jackie [Kennedy] wore one of my dresses – it was made from kitchen curtain material – and people went crazy.
— Lilly Pulitzer
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Gold is the fool's curtain, which hides all his defects from the world.
— Owen Feltham
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Sometimes, a stage curtain parts and you see: life could be better if you had more. Usually, I think, we can get just as good…
— Mona Simpson
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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…
— David Geffen
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There's the fatigue that you have to forget about, because the red curtain still has to rise.
— Mireille Mathieu
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Heaven's ebon vault Studded with stars unutterably bright, Through which the moon's unclouded grandeur rolls, Seems like a canopy which love has spread To curtain…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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The time will come when we will be obliged to depend upon our own resources; for the time is not far distant when the curtain…
— Heber C. Kimball
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There's no twilight in the tropics. Night falls like a curtain.
— Unknown Author
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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…
— John Stamos
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Yes, there is plenty of hard work for them in addition to that which they do when they appear, smiling and happy, when the curtain…
— Florenz Ziegfeld
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Deductivism in mathematical literature and inductivism in scientific papers are simply the postures we choose to be seen in when the curtain goes up and…
— Peter Medawar
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It's not scary to make a horror film because you get to pull back the curtain and see that none of it's real. When you're…
— Josh Hartnett
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Tree at my window, window tree, My sash is lowered when night comes on; But let there never be curtain drawn Between you and me.
— Robert Frost
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Old Year! upon the Stage of Time You stand to bow your last adieu; A moment, and the prompter's chime Will ring the curtain down…
— Robert W. Service
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Normally we'd draw the curtain here, but I just wanted to see what he'd play next.
— Bobby Fischer
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He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain -…
— Kate Chopin
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I see no light behind that terrible curtain. I do not think one religion better than another and I think the Christian religion has brought…
— Eliza Lynn Linton
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Horror itself is a bit of a bullied genre, the antagonist being literary snobbery and public misconception. And I think good horror tackles our darkest…
— Kealan Patrick Burke
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Many readers simply can't stomach fantasy. They immediately picture elves with broadswords or mighty-thewed barbarians with battle axes, seeking the bejeweled Coronet of Obeisance ...…
— Michael Dirda
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It was my mother who taught me the one worthwhile thing: when they ask if you like what you see in the mirror, pretend that…
— Gary Lutz
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I loved the stage not because it provided an escape from myself or my humdrum life but because when the curtain went up I could…
— Suzanne Farrell
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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…
— Danielle Trussoni
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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…
— John Wesley Powell
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