Best Curtain Proverbs
265 Curtain quotes by 231 unique authors
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They do not need the sun. Who needs the sun when the eyes glow? Darkness. A woolen fog has wrapped the earth, has dropped a…
— Yevgeny Zamyatin
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i feel like a curtain has dropped away and i'm seeing people for who they really are, different, and sharp, and unknowable.
— Lauren Oliver
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Don't thank me,' Mr. Curtain called as the door slid closed. 'Impress me!
— Trenton Lee Stewart
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Bombardment, barrage, curtain-fire, mines, gas, tanks, machine-guns, hand-grenades - words, words, but they hold the horror of the world.
— Erich Maria Remarque
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Because God is full of life, I imagine each morning Almighty God says to the sun, "Do it again"; and every evening to the moon…
— Fulton J. Sheen
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It snowed all week. Wheels and footsteps moved soundlessly on the street, as if the business of living continued secretly behind a pale but impenetrable…
— Truman Capote
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Like stepping into a fairy tale under a curtain of stars.
— Erin Morgenstern
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He turns and walks away, moving so quickly that the candle flames shiver with the motion of the air. “I miss you,” Isobel says as…
— Erin Morgenstern
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Last time you called me late at night you were naked and chained to your shower curtain rod. I hope this isn't going to be…
— Janet Evanovich
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My continuing passion is to part a curtain, that invisible veil of indifference that falls between us and that blinds us to each other's presence,…
— Eudora Welty
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Cycling is so hard, the suffering is so intense, that it’s absolutely cleansing. The pain is so deep and strong that a curtain descends over…
— Lance Armstrong
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They are enthusiasts, devotees. Addicts. Something about the circus stirs their souls, and they ache for it when it is absent. They seek each other…
— Erin Morgenstern
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As the carriage whipped forward, they passed the alley she had spent so many days staring at—it was there, and then gone as they careened…
— Cassandra Clare
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And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain Thrilled me — filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before; So that now, to…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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The baby explodes into an unknown world that is only knowable through some kind of a story – of course that is how we all…
— Jeanette Winterson
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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, spreads…
— Anais Nin
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Adolf Hitler is probably the last of the great adventurer-conquerors in the tradition of Alexander, Caesar and Napoleon, and the Third Reich the last of…
— William L. Shirer
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If on a friend’s bookshelf You cannot find Joyce or Sterne Cervantes, Rabelais, or Burton, You are in danger, face the fact, So kick him…
— Alexander Theroux
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In Irena’s head the alcohol plays a double role: it frees her fantasy, encourages her boldness, makes her sensual, and at the same time it…
— Milan Kundera
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Every book should begin with attractive endpapers. Preferably in a dark colour: dark red or dark blue, depending on the binding. When you open the…
— Cornelia Funke
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PIPPIN: I didn't think it would end this way. GANDALF: End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path, one that we…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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What are you doing now?” Al questioned, listing heavily as he tucked another one of those bottles under his arm and staggered for the cot…
— Kim Harrison
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Let us draw the curtain of charity over the rest of this scene
— Mark Twain
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I wish I could do whatever I liked behind the curtain of “madness”. Then: I’d arrange flowers, all day long, I’d paint; pain, love and…
— Frida Kahlo
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Life is a play that does not allow testing. So, sing, cry, dance, laugh and live intensely, before the curtain closes and the piece ends…
— Charlie Chaplin
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