#curtain

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

It used to happen in villages and towns in China that they would have - I guess you'd call them beauty contests - where all of the women of a particular village or town would be seated behind these screens or curtains with only their feet showing. ↗

— Lisa See

#behind #call #china #contests #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

Hurried and worried until we're buried, and there's no curtain call, Lifes a very funny proposition after all. ↗

— George M. Cohan

#buried #call #curtain #funny #hurried

I used to cover my windows in heavy curtains, never drawn. Now I danced in the sunlight on my hardwood floors. ↗

— Kimberly Novosel

#darkness #hardwood-floors #light #love #sadness

Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#comes #curtains #dawn #grass #hidden

It's just an ice bucket with a bottle in it. The two flute glasses are little tray. I got to shut the curtains. I'm in my boxer shorts and shirt. I'm going to take a bath and go to bed. But I want to shut the blinds so it's really dark in the room. ↗

— Danny DeVito

#bed #blinds #bottle #boxer #bucket

There are two sighs of relief every night in the life of an opera manager. The first comes when the curtain goes up The second sigh of relief comes when the final curtain goes down without any disaster, and one realizes, gratefully, that the miracle has happened again. ↗

— Rudolf Bing

#any #comes #curtain #disaster #down

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, tried and tested craft to create the illusion. Wonderful feeling of exhilaration to finally be there. ↗

— David Knopfler

#behind #best #craft #create #curtain

Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#before #curtain #falling #heart #his