Curtains Quotes - Page 20

• From time to time it's fun to close our eyes, and in that dark say to ourselves, 'I am the sorcerer, and when I open my eyes I shall see a world that I have created, and for which I and only I am completely responsible.' Slowly then, eyelids open like curtains lifting stage-center. And sure enough, there's our world, just the way we've built it.

  Richard Bach

  Fun, Eye, Dark

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• There weren't any curtains in the windows, and the books that didn't fit into the bookshelf lay piled on the floor like a bunch of intellectual refugees.

  Haruki Murakami

  Book, Intellectual, Window

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• One does odd things. You see, when one's young one doesn't feel part of it yet, the human condition; one does things because they are not “for good”; one thinks everything is a rehearsal - to be repeated ad lib, to be put right when the curtain goes up in earnest. One day you know that the curtain was up all the time. That was the performance.

  Sybille Bedford

  Thinking, One Day, Rehearsal

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• I loved the stage not because it provided an escape from myself or my humdrum life but because when the curtain went up I could be whoever I wanted to be, and that was true freedom - to be myself.

  Suzanne Farrell

  Humdrum, Stage, Wanted

  Suzanne Farrell, Toni Bentley (1990). “Holding on to the air: an autobiography”, Summit Press

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• Try and stay sober. Until the curtain call. And for God's sake, have fun. Don't suffer for your art. Just have fun.

  Christopher Plummer

  Art, Fun, Suffering

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• . . . until the curtain was rung down on the last act of the drama (and it might have no last act!) he wished the intellectual cripples and the moral hunchbacks not to be jeered at; perhaps they might turn out to be the heroes of the play.

  George Santayana

  Drama, Hero, Medicine

  George Santayana (2014). “Character and Opinion in the United States”, p.47, The Floating Press

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• Should the German people lay down their arms, the Soviets... would occupy all eastern and south-eastern Europe, together with the greater part of the [German] Reich. All over this territory, which would be of an enormous extent, an iron curtain would at once descend.

  Joseph Goebbels

  War, Europe, Iron

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• When I was young, we thought that Oscar Wilde was a great nobleman who had thrown his life away for love. Nothing could be less true. He slept with East Enders who were procured for him by Lord Alfred Douglas. He knew them only 'in Braille' - the curtains were never drawn back in the rooms in Oxford where he met those boys. It was the most sordid life you can imagine. And he was bleating about love and dragging the fair name of Mr. Plato into the trial - after a life like that?

  Quentin Crisp

  Plato, Boys, Names

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• There's nobody living who couldn't stand all afternoon in front of a waterfall .... Anyone who can sit on a stone in a field awhile can see my painting. Nature is like parting a curtain, you go into it .... as you would cross an empty beach to look at the ocean.

  Agnes Martin

  Beach, Nature, Ocean

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• Nothing feeds the center of being so much as creative work. The curtain of mechanization has come down between the mind and the hand.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Hands, Creative, Mind

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• You're going to get violated in that ring. I am going to close the curtain on the joke that is the Audley Harrison show.

  David Haye

  Motivation, Fighter, Shows

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• Remove all the walls and curtains so you can get closer and purely love. Have principles but do not use them to exclude or to judge the others. Stay far from idols, specially from those you made from your own principles. Have a powerful faith, but do not play the powerful.

  Shams Tabrizi

  Wall, Powerful, Idols

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• It's the first time I'm going to be on my own this Christmas and I'm really looking forward to not having any cards or decorations up. So I'll be in London, sit on my couch, arms folded, curtains drawn, having a drink.

  Noel Gallagher

  Christmas, London, Firsts

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• God is able to place stars in their sockets & suspend sky like a curtain; surely He is mighty enough to light your path.

  Max Lucado

  Stars, Light, Sky

  Twitter post from Apr 02, 2013

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• The sight filled the northern sky; the immensity of it was scarcely conceivable. As if from Heaven itself, great curtains of delicate light hung and trembled. Pale green and rose-pink, and as transparent as the most fragile fabric, and at the bottom edge a profound fiery crimson like the fires of Hell, they swung and shimmered loosely with more grace than the most skillful dancer.

  Philip Pullman

  Fire, Light, Sight

  Philip Pullman (1995). “Northern lights”

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• You grow old when you lose interest in life, when you cease to dream, to hunger after new truths, and to search for new worlds to conquer. When your mind is open to new ideas, new interests, and when you raise the curtain and let in the sunshine and inspiration of new truths of life and the universe, you will be young and vital.

  Joseph Murphy

  Dream, Inspiration, Sunshine

  Joseph Murphy (2011). “The Power of Your Subconscious Mind: Unlock the Secrets Within”, p.184, Penguin

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• Clouds on clouds, in volumes driven, curtain round the vault of heaven.

  Thomas Love Peacock

  Clouds, Heaven, Vaults

  Thomas Love Peacock (1818). “Rhododaphne: Or, The Thessalian Spell: A Poem”, p.119

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• And now the end is near And so I face the final curtain, My friends, I'll say it clear, I'll state my case of which I'm certain. I've lived a life that's full, I've travelled each and evr'y highway And more, much more than this, I did it my way.

  Paul Anka

  Death, Inspirational Life, Finals

  My Way (1969 song; music by Claude Fran‡ois and Jacques Revaux)

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• In 1968 I frequently would sit in a photo booth and practice self mirror images which I then documented photographically. Curious types would always open the curtains and chase me away. Today I work with a photographer.

  Arnulf Rainer

  Mirrors, Self, Practice

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• Nothing good about the sun if you're trying to watch television with out curtains.

  Dov Davidoff

  Trying, Watches, Television

  FaceBook post by Dov Davidoff from Jun 05, 2012

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• In my stand-up, I've always been loose. If there's a curtain onstage, I'll use that in my act. If there's a door, I'll use the door. I always like to use everything at my disposal, which makes each show a little different and a little more fun.

  J. B. Smoove

  Fun, Doors, Different

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• The sugar maple is remarkable for its clean ankle. The groves of these trees looked like vast forest sheds, their branches stopping short at a uniform height, four or five feet from the ground, like eaves, as if they had been trimmed by art, so that you could look under and through the whole grove with its leafy canopy, as under a tent whose curtain is raised.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Art, Feet, Tree

  Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “A Yankee in Canada: With Anti-slavery and Reform Papers”, p.6

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• You sleep with a dream of summer weather,
  wake to the thrum of rain—roped down by rain.
  Nothing out there but drop-heavy feathers of grass
  and rainy air. The plastic table on the terrace
  has shed three legs on its way to the garden fence.
  The mountains have had the sense to disappear.
  It's the Celtic temperament—wind, then torrents, then remorse.
  Glory rising like a curtain over distant water.
  Old stonehouse, having steered us through the dark,
  docks in a pool of shadow all its own.
  That widening crack in the gloom is like good luck.
  Luck, which neither you nor tomorrow can depend on.

  Anne Stevenson

  Summer, Dream, Rain

  Anne Stevenson, “Drench”

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• Dawn came and matters were worse for it. Because now, emerging from the darkness, I could see, what before I had only felt, the great curtains of rain crashing down on me from towering heights and the waves that threw a path over me and trod me underfoot one after another.

  Yann Martel

  Rain, Darkness, Dawn

  Yann Martel (2015). “Life of Pi - CANCELED”, p.169, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• These moments were wondrous and divine, instances when the gossamer curtain between heaven and earth ripped and all of humanity witnessed the marvel of the ethereal beings.

  Danielle Trussoni

  Heaven, Humanity, Earth

  Danielle Trussoni (2010). “Angelology: A Novel”, p.35, Penguin

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