#curtain

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #curtain




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

You come in off the street, through the doors of the theater. You sit down. The lights go down and the curtain goes up. And you're in another world.


Robert Caro


#come #curtain #doors #down #go

Believe me, it jabs you. When you're on the side of buses and New York loves you, you love to go out there every night. It's like a race. Curtain opens, out you go, and New York is yours.


Angela Lansbury


#buses #curtain #every #every night #go

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

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

Eudora Welty's 'A Curtain of Green' had an enormous effect on me. But my early attempts to graft stories from the Deep South onto North of England provincialism were not successful. All were rejected.


Barry Unsworth


#curtain #deep #deep south #early #effect

And when an architect has designed a house with large windows, which is a necessity today in order to pull the daylight into these very deep houses, then curtains come to play a big role in architecture.


Arne Jacobsen


#architecture #big #come #curtains #daylight