#curtain

On the morrow the horizon was covered with clouds- a thick and impenetrable curtain between earth and sky, which unhappily extended as far as the Rocky Mountains. It was a fatality! ↗

— Jules Verne

#between #covered #curtain #earth #extended

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 similar) and your whole effect is lost. ↗

— Terence Fisher

#curtain #effect #hero #looking #lost

At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#books #collective #curtains #dignity #drawn

When we went on the air, I didn't want to be interrupted for an act-one curtain. ↗

— Norman Lear

#curtain #i #interrupted #want #went

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 goes up. Giving a performance is the least of their worries. ↗

— Florenz Ziegfeld

#appear #curtain #giving #goes #happy

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 watching one, the terror bombards you. ↗

— Josh Hartnett

#because #curtain #film #get #horror

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 four decades of the Cold War. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

#arms race #both #both sides #cold #cold war

Most people have excellent necks. Now they cover them with curtains, which is kind of ridiculous. But there are some beautiful necklines that you can cut into and create wonderful backs, as well as bone structure for the face. ↗

— Vidal Sassoon

#beautiful #bone #cover #create #curtains

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 was possible. ↗

— Natan Sharansky

#behind #curtain #democratic #few #generation

Besides what endless brawls by wives are bred, The curtain lecture makes a mournful bed. ↗

— Juvenal

#curtain-lectures #husbands #marriage #wives #marriage