Curtains Quotes - Page 7

• We humans have always needed rituals to draw like curtains over the chasms of the unknown. Without them we go mad, I think.

  Patricia J. Williams

  Thinking, Mad, Chasms

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• Mass inflation, welfare line, gross economy, trade it all for what's behind curtain number three.

  Joe Walsh

  Numbers, Three, Lines

  Song: Bones, Album: There Goes the Neighborhood

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• If the German people lay down their arms the whole of Eastern and Southern Europe, together with the Reich, will come under Russian occupation. Behind an iron curtain mass butcheries of people would begin.

  Joseph Goebbels

  War, Europe, Iron

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• Like the Arthurian years at Camelot, the Sixties constituted a breakthrough, a fleeting moment of glory, a time when a significant little chunk of humanity briefly realised its moral potential and flirted with its neurological destiny, a collective spiritual awakening that flared brilliantly until the barbaric and mediocre impulses of the species drew tight once more the curtains of darkness.

  Tom Robbins

  Spiritual, Destiny, Years

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.308, Bantam

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• The best way to prepare for a night out with a Shakespearean tragedy is to do a bit of reading up in the afternoon, eat a light supper - perhaps Welsh rarebit - and then arrive early to do some stretching exercises in the foyer before curtain-up.

  Arthur Smith

  Reading, Exercise, Night

  "Preparing for the Bard" by Arthur Smith, www.theguardian.com. November 20, 2002.

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• As the moon retaineth her nature, though darkness spread itself before her face as a curtain, so the Soul remaineth perfect even in the bosom of the fool.

  Akhenaton

  Moon, Perfect, Darkness

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• They do not need the sun. Who needs the sun when the eyes glow? Darkness. A woolen fog has wrapped the earth, has dropped a heavy curtain. From far away, from beyond the curtain, comes the sound of drops falling on stone. Far, far away - the autumn, people, tomorrow. ("The North")

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Fall, Eye, Autumn

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• i feel like a curtain has dropped away and i'm seeing people for who they really are, different, and sharp, and unknowable.

  Lauren Oliver

  People, Different, Feels

  Lauren Oliver (2010). “Before I Fall”, p.234, Hachette UK

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• The curtain rises on a vast primitive wasteland, not unlike certain parts of New jersey.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Humor, Jersey

  Woody Allen (2007). “The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose”, Random House Incorporated

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• But I have never had the privilege of unhappiness in Happy Valley. California is about the good life. So a bad life there seems so much worse than a bad life anywhere else. Quality is an obsession there—good food, good wine, good movies, music, weather, cars. Those sound like the right things to shoot for, but the never-ending quality quest is a lot of pressure when you’re uncertain and disorganized and, not least, broker than broke. Some afternoons a person just wants to rent Die Hard, close the curtains, and have Cheerios for lunch.

  Sarah Vowell

  Good Life, Wine, Lunch

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• Also, I think having that comic gene kind of makes you look at things in a different way. If you take yourself so seriously, eventually you end up one of those people having a 'Do Not Disturb' sign on their lives. You see them drawing the curtains and they don't even realize that they've kind of drifted off somewhere.

  Jamie Foxx

  Thinking, Drawing, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We owe to genius always the same debt, of lifting the curtain from the common, and showing us that divinities are sitting disguised in the seeming gang of gypsies and peddlars.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Genius, Sitting, Debt

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• There's always something to do if you don't have to work or consider the cost. It's no real fun but the rich don't know that. They never had any. They never want anything very hard except maybe somebody else's wife and that's a pretty pale desire compared with the way a plumber's wife wants new curtains for the living room.

  Raymond Chandler

  Fun, Real, Wife

  Raymond Chandler (2002). “The Long Goodbye: A Novel”, p.21, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• Bombardment, barrage, curtain-fire, mines, gas, tanks, machine-guns, hand-grenades - words, words, but they hold the horror of the world.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  Gun, Fire, Hands

  Erich Maria Remarque (2013). “All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel”, p.99, Random House

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• I think-I need to ask an embarrassing question. Do you think I could borrow a pair of scrubs? I-uh-my pants-" "Oh!" Cried the poor nurse. "Yes. Absolutely. I'll be right back." [...] "Thanks," I mumbled. "I'll just change here. He's not looking at anything at the moment." I gestured toward Sam, who was looking convincingly sedated. The nurse vanished through the curtains. Sam eye's flashed open again, distinctly amused. He whispered, "Did you just tell that man you went potty on yourself?" "You.Shut.UP." I hissed back furiously.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Eye, Men, Thinking

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• It snowed all week. Wheels and footsteps moved soundlessly on the street, as if the business of living continued secretly behind a pale but impenetrable curtain. In the falling quiet there was no sky or earth, only snow lifting in the wind, frosting the window glass, chilling the rooms, deadening and hushing the city. At all hours it was necessary to keep a lamp lighted, and Mrs. Miller lost track of the days: Friday was no different from Saturday and on Sunday she went to the grocery: closed, of course.

  Truman Capote

  Friday, Fall, Sunday

  Truman Capote, Eleanor Perry, Frank Perry (1971). “Trilogy; an experiment in multimedia”

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• The message from all quarters is the same: our undisciplined consumption must end. If we continue to gobble up our resources without any regard to stewardship and to spew out our deadly wastes over land, sea, and air, we may well be drawing down the final curtain upon ourselves.

  Richard J. Foster

  Drawing, Air, Sea

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• What can not be overcome in prayer? Answer me! What cannot be done by the hand of the Almighty? Answer me! What can be done by your feeble arms!? ANSWER ME! He can take down the iron curtain in a day, He CAN convert a nation in an hour. Call upon Him, believe Him.

  Paul Washer

  Prayer, Believe, Hands

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• Homeschool history tells of more than two centuries of home-teaching influence on American education, although it has been largely obscured by the drawn curtains of conventional bias.

  Raymond S. Moore

  Teaching, Home, Two

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• But the monotonous life led by invalids often makes them like children, inasmuch as thy have neither of them any sense of proportion in events, and seem each to believe that the walls and curtains which shut in their world, and shut out everything else, must of necessity be larger than anything hidden beyond.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Children, Wall, Believe

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2012). “Norte e Sul: North and South: Edição bilíngue português - inglês”, p.641, Editora Landmark LTDA

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• I remember when I was doing The Crucible on Broadway with Laura Linney, and Arthur Miller had been in rehearsal with us and was on stage on opening night. She turned to me during the curtain call and said, Lets make sure we remember this.

  John Benjamin Hickey

  Night, Crucible, Broadway

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• Wherever we press beyond the thin curtain of rationalist culture, we discover the incredibly rich, erotic, scary, promising presence of this intelligent Other, that beckons us out of history, and says, you know: 'The galaxy lies waiting.'

  Terence McKenna

  Lying, Intelligent, Waiting

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• In no country has the historical blackout been more intense and effective than in Great Britain. Here it has been ingeniously christened The Iron Curtain of Discreet Silence. Virtually nothing has been written to reveal the truth about British responsibility for the Second World War and its disastrous results.

  Harry Elmer Barnes

  Country, War, Responsibility

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• The breeze and the dew make tranquil the clear dawn;
  Behind the curtain there is one who alone is up betimes.
  The orioles sing and the flowers smile -
  Whose then, after all, is the Spring?

  Li Shangyin

  Spring, Flower, Dawn

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• My mother’s been living alone for over ten years. She gets up at six every morning. She makes herself a coffee. She waters her plants. She listens to the news on the radio. She drinks her coffee. She has a quick wash. An hour later, at seven, her day is over. Two months ago a neighbour told her about your blog, and she asked me to buy her one of those thingummyjigs – by a thingummyjig she meant a computer. And since then, thanks to your trimmings, your ribbon bows, your tie-backs for curtains, she’s rediscovered the joys of life. So don’t tell me you don’t know any answers.

  Gregoire

  Mother, Morning, Coffee

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