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The inner censor of the mind of the true believer completes the work of the public censor; his self-discipline is as tyrannical as the obedience… — Arthur Koestler
Landscapes can be deceptive. Sometimes a landscape seems to be less a setting for the life of its inhabitants than a curtain behind which their… — John Berger
Clouds on clouds, in volumes driven, curtain round the vault of heaven. — Thomas Love Peacock
What can not be overcome in prayer? Answer me! What cannot be done by the hand of the Almighty? Answer me! What can be done… — Paul Washer
. . . until the curtain was rung down on the last act of the drama (and it might have no last act!) he wished… — George Santayana
But scientists on both sides of the iron curtain played a very significant role in maintaining the momentum of the nuclear arms race throughout the… — Joseph Rotblat
Should the German people lay down their arms, the Soviets... would occupy all eastern and south-eastern Europe, together with the greater part of the [German]… — Joseph Goebbels
There's nobody living who couldn't stand all afternoon in front of a waterfall .... Anyone who can sit on a stone in a field awhile… — Agnes Martin
Nothing feeds the center of being so much as creative work. The curtain of mechanization has come down between the mind and the hand. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
This scepticism is the same scepticism I heard a generation ago in the USSR when few thought that a democratic transformation behind the iron curtain… — Natan Sharansky
You're going to get violated in that ring. I am going to close the curtain on the joke that is the Audley Harrison show. — David Haye
Try and stay sober. Until the curtain call. And for God's sake, have fun. Don't suffer for your art. Just have fun. — Christopher Plummer
Before the final curtain goes down On my life, I shall say to my Mother-Earth, "My gratitude-heart is all for you, All for you." — Sri Chinmoy
Somewhere, sometime, somehow you got tangled up in garbage, and you've been avoiding God. You've allowed a veil of guilt to come between you and… — Max Lucado
Time is so old and love so brief, love is pure gold and time a thief. We're late, darling, we're late, The curtain descends, everything… — Ogden Nash
Think of all your experiences as a huge tapestry that can be laid out in whatever pattern you wish. Each day you add a new… — Tony Robbins
Every day a new picture is painted and framed, held up for half an hour, in such lights as the Great Artist chooses, and then… — Henry David Thoreau
One blob of red in the wrong place and the audience isn't looking at the hero, they're looking at a patch of curtain (or something… — Terence Fisher
[Y]ou will understand the game behind the curtain too well not to perceive the old trick of turning every contingency into a resource for accumulating… — James Madison
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 things… — Jay Roach
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,… — David Knopfler
I don't think it's a director's job to peek behind the curtain too much. — Paul Thomas Anderson
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… — Ben Brantley
You know, entertainment is just a curtain at the end of the day. — Aubrey O'Day
As a teenager I had never been able to accept the fact of having to go to the back of a bus or sit in… — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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