Curtains Quotes - Page 12

• For two generations up through the mid-1980s, many thought we were losing the Cold War, even in early 1989, few believed that Poland`s solidarity movement could win, that the Iron Curtain would come down, that the Baltic states could be free, that the second of the 20th century`s great evils, communism, could be vanquished without war, but it happened and the West`s great institutions, NATO and the E.U., grew to embrace 100 million liberated Europeans.

  Daniel Fried

  War, Winning, Two

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• It is well for young men to have a model, but let them draw the curtain over it while they are painting.

  Paul Gauguin

  Men, Painting, Young

  Paul Gauguin (2012). “Gauguin's Intimate Journals”, p.27, Courier Corporation

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• September is the time to begin again. In the country, when I could smell the wood-smoke in the forest, and the curtains could be drawn when the tea came in, on the first autumn evening, I always felt that my season of good luck had come.

  Eleanor Perenyi

  Country, Good Luck, Autumn

  Eleanor Perenyi (2016). “More Was Lost: A Memoir”, p.29, New York Review of Books

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• My dad's a prominent theatre director in Toronto, so I grew up in that world, directing and producing theater since I was a teenager. I always loved movies but they seemed too complicated until I got a job as an assistant on a movie-of-the-week and the technical process became demystified, like peeking behind a magician's curtain. Not long after that I switched to movies and never looked back.

  Ed Gass-Donnelly

  Jobs, Dad, Teenager

  Source: www.nerdprobs.com

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• It's all a play. Hiroshima and Nagasaki happen, there are hundreds of thousands of dead, and the curtain comes down, and that's the end of that. Then Korea happens. Vietnam happens, all that happened in Latin America happens. And every now and then, this curtain comes down and history begins anew. New moralities and new indignations are manufactured...in a disappeared history.

  Arundhati Roy

  Latin, Hiroshima And Nagasaki, Korea

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I understand the psychology of the sport, especially inside the ring. From bell to bell, from when my entrance plays and I step through that curtain, people have to wonder what's going on inside that guy's head.

  Randy Orton

  Sports, Play, People

  Source: espn.go.com

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• I don't know if it's ever happened to you, but it's one of my funniest and saddest experiences, when you go into a hotel, and they have an accessible walk-in shower. So you go in and open the curtain, and there is a bench off to the side of the shower. However, the shower is rectangular. On one side there's a bench, but the faucets are across from you. So if you sit on the bench, you cannot reach the faucets.

  Itzhak Perlman

  Sides, Benches, Showers

  Source: abilitymagazine.com

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• Just as that little opening in the Iron Curtain that Hungary created caused a flood of people out, and ultimately the beginning of the end of communism in Europe, if you could get refugee flows coming out of North Korea, while there'd be a very difficult humanitarian problem in the short run, both for China and South Korea, in the long run it would lead to reunification.

  John Bolton

  Running, Korea, Europe

  Source: humanevents.com

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• You know that Estonia, based largely on how successful Skype was, built by Estonian developers, that was a tenth of the entire country's GDP when eBay bought it. That was like a decade ago, it was f****** Estonia, they were behind the Iron Curtain two decades earlier. They're now pushing for K-12 education in computer science in public schools. They've gotten the message. They know how much value that can bring.

  Alexis Ohanian

  Country, School, Successful

  Source: thetartan.org

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• I deal with painting as I deal with things, I paint a window just as I look out of a window. If an open window looks wrong in a picture, I draw the curtain and shut it, just as I would in my own room. In painting, as in life, you must act directly.

  Pablo Picasso

  Looks, Rooms, Painting

  Pablo Picasso, Janie Cohen (1995). “Picasso, Inside the Image: Prints from the Ludwig Museum, Cologne”, Robert Hull Fleming Museum

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• I did love that scene in the movie [ "Our Brand Is Crisis"] because it's like "The Wizard of Oz." You see the backstage action of politics. You have access to see behind the curtain. You see how it's all one big advertisement.

  Sandra Bullock

  Wizards, Action, Scene

  Interview with Cindy Pearlman, acttwomagazine.com.

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• The most refined abstractions of logic conduct to a view of life, which, though startling to the apprehension, is, in fact, that which the habitual sense of its repeated combinations has extinguished in us. It strips, as it were, the painted curtain from this scene of things. I confess that I am one of those who are unable to refuse my assent to the conclusions of those philosophers who assert that nothing exists but as it is perceived.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Life, Views, Facts

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (Illustrated)”, p.1820, Delphi Classics

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• There is no figure who had more of an influence, no person had more of an influence on the intellectuals behind the Iron Curtain than Friedrich Hayek. His books were translated and published by the underground and black market editions, read widely, and undoubtedly influenced the climate of opinion that ultimately brought about the collapse of the Soviet Union.

  Milton Friedman

  Book, Iron, Black

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• I feel sorry for a culture that depends too much on delegating its musical expression to professionals. It is fine to have heroes, but we should do our own singing first, even if it is never heard beyond the shower curtain.

  Linda Ronstadt

  Music, Sorry, Hero

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• Performers and their public should never meet. Once the curtain comes down, the performer should fly away like a magician's dove.

  Edith Piaf

  Fly Away, Dove, Should

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• You know you knit too much when ... Before you buy anything, such as a hammock or curtains, you seriously wonder whether you could knit it.

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

  Knitting, Hammocks, Too Much

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• The eyelids confess, and reject, and refuse to reject. They have expressed all things ever since man was man. And they express so much by seeming to hide or to reveal that which indeed expresses nothing. For there is no message from the eye. It has direction, it moves, in the service of the sense of sight; it receives the messages of the world. But expression is outward, and the eye has it not. There are no windows of the soul, there are only curtains.

  Alice Meynell

  Moving, Eye, Men

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• Strangers with puzzled looks were amazingly cooperative in letting me into their rooms with my photographic gear. They let me take down the curtains, wash the windows, and rearrange the furniture. Often, too, they expressed their desire to share their view with others, as if it were a non-depletable treasure. I liked the idea that my photographic vantage points were not solely determined by myself. They were predetermined by others, sometimes years earlier, and patiently waited for me to discover them.

  John Pfahl

  Views, Years, Ideas

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• The speckled sky is dim with snow,
  The light flakes falter and fall slow;
  Athwart the hill-top, rapt and pale,
  Silently drops a silvery veil; And all the valley is shut in
  By flickering curtains gray and thin.

  John Townsend Trowbridge

  Fall, Light, Sky

  John Townsend Trowbridge (1871). “Vagabonds: And Other Poems”, p.42

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• It is said that ridicule is the test of truth; but it is never applied except when we wish to deceive ourselves - when if we cannot exclude the light, we would fain draw the curtain before it. The sneer springs out of the wish to deny; and wretched must that state of mind be, that wishes to take refuge in doubt.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Spring, Light, Doubt

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• And we have much better examples of the government not intervening to curtain parental rights, much worse abuse than a simple tap on the hand or a spank is perpetrated by many parents across the country, trust me.

  Sean Hannity

  Country, Simple, Rights

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• other artists - poets, painters, sculptors, musicians - produce something which lives after them and enshrines their memories in positive evidences of their divine mission; but we, - we strut and fret our hour upon the stage, and then the curtain falls and all is darkness and silence.

  Charlotte Saunders Cushman

  Memories, Fall, Artist

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• If someone can learn from my experiences, grow from them and take it to the next level or to learn what not to do, that's almost a civil responsibility for your peers but also for those that follow you, support you and don't get a chance to come behind the curtain so to speak.

  Jalen Rose

  Responsibility, Support You, Next Level

  Source: thesource.com

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• Tuesdays and Thursdays, I didn't do any press, I didn't do any meetings, I just wrote all day, 'cause I'd meet, via Skype, with the creative team, at five p.m., and then I would have my seven o'clock curtain.

  Lin-Manuel Miranda

  Team, Tuesday, Creative

  Source: kellystilwell.com

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• While the Soviet Union has imposed its rule on its neighbours and drawn an iron curtain between east and west, we in Great Britain have given freedom and independence to more than forty-eight countries whose populations now number more than a thousand million - a quarter of the world's total.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Country, Eight, Iron

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