#curtain

Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which are so dear to you - you do not even suspect that the day has already dawned outside. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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Why do we need to wait until somebody sells 10 million records to give people a show like that? What about us smaller, hungry folk? At least gimme a curtain! ↗

— Angie Stone

#curtain #folk #give #hungry #least

An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I've left the opera house. ↗

— Maria Callas

#becomes #before #begins #come #curtain

A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

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You had to make sure that the tone of your dress was not the same tone as the curtains, for instance. ↗

— Julie Harris

#dress #had #instance #make #same

How much cooler was Oz than seeing the little dude behind the curtain? ↗

— Emile Hirsch

#cooler #curtain #dude #how #little

When I used to do abstract paintings at school, like everyone else, the tutor said these would make great curtains. I would always neglect the formal stuff that was going on by using colour, because colour kind of came naturally to me. ↗

— Damien Hirst

#always #because #came #colour #curtains

Conscience is the window of our spirit, evil is the curtain. ↗

— Douglas Horton

#curtain #evil #our #spirit #window

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

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

— Norman Lear

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