Curtains Quotes - Page 13

• Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa around, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in

  William Cowper

  Cheer, Fall, Fire

  'The Task' (1785) bk. 4 'The Winter Evening' l. 34.

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• (You wouldn't believe how many people will hang up a picture of an electric chair? especially if it matches the color of their curtains.

  Andy Warhol

  Believe, Color, People

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• I realized it might be possible to do such a thing, run for money, trot for wages on piece work at a bob a puff rising bit by bit to a guinea a gasp and retiring through old age at thirty-two because of lace-curtain lungs, a football heart, and legs like varicose beanstalks.

  Alan Sillitoe

  Football, Running, Heart

  Alan Sillitoe (2016). “New and Collected Stories”, p.25, Open Road Media

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• The people who lived behind those clean lace curtains in row after row of identical boxes were newspaper readers, and every word in at any rate my newspaper must be clear and comprehensible to them, must be interesting to them, must encourage them to break away from littleness, stimulate their ambition, help them to want to build a better land.

  Arthur Christiansen

  Ambition, Land, People

  1961 Headlines all my Life, ch.1.

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• That's it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.

  Al McGuire

  Race, Balloons, Treetops

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• Sometimes, a stage curtain parts and you see: life could be better if you had more. Usually, I think, we can get just as good a different way. But tricks, they do not always work.

  Mona Simpson

  Thinking, Different, Way

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• Aubade THE lark now leaves his wat'ry nest, And climbing shakes his dewy wings. He takes this window for the East, And to implore your light he sings- Awake, awake! the morn will never rise Till she can dress her beauty at your eyes. The merchant bows unto the seaman's star, The ploughman from the sun his season takes, But still the lover wonders what they are Who look for day before his mistress wakes. Awake, awake! break thro' your veils of lawn! Then draw your curtains, and begin the dawn!

  William Davenant

  Stars, Eye, Light

  William Davenant, “Morning Song”

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• Heaven's ebon vault Studded with stars unutterably bright, Through which the moon's unclouded grandeur rolls, Seems like a canopy which love has spread To curtain her sleeping world.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Love, Stars, Sleep

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1871). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Complete in One Volume”, p.18

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• The time will come when we will be obliged to depend upon our own resources; for the time is not far distant when the curtain will be dropped between us and the United States. When the time comes, brethren and sisters, you will wish you had commenced sooner to make your own clothing. I tell you, God requires us to go into home manufacture; and, prolong it as much as you like, you have got to do it.

  Heber C. Kimball

  Home, Wish, United States

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• History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their fears and openly confront dictators such as in East Germany and Eastern Europe about 22 years ago... The yearning for freedom cannot be contained by walls for long. It was this yearning that brought down the Iron Curtain that divided Germany and Europe, and indeed the world, into two blocs.

  Angela Merkel

  Wall, East Germany, Years

  Angela Merkel's Remarks in an Exchange of Toasts with President Obama, www.newsroomamerica.com. June 7, 2011.

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• Tree at my window, window tree, My sash is lowered when night comes on; But let there never be curtain drawn Between you and me.

  Robert Frost

  Night, Tree, Window

  Robert Frost (1975). “The poetry of Robert Frost”

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• Old Year! upon the Stage of Time You stand to bow your last adieu; A moment, and the prompter's chime Will ring the curtain down on you.

  Robert W. Service

  Years, Old Year, Progress

  ROBERT W. SERVICE (1917). “rhymes of rolling stone”

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• Sometimes I feel like tap-dancing, screeching, unscrewing light bulbs, pulling curtains, combing hair, doing knee bends, handstands and turning somersaults out there.

  Ilie Nastase

  Light, Hair, Dancing

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• The doctrine of the Second Coming teaches us that we do not and cannot know when the world drama will end. The curtain may be rung down at any moment: say, before you have finished reading this paragraph.

  C. S. Lewis

  Drama, Reading, Doctrine

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

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• Sometimes we go to a play and after the curtain has been up five minutes we have a sense of being able to settle back in the arms of the playwright. Instinctively we know that the playwright knows his business.

  Anton Chekhov

  Play, Theatre, Arms

  Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1955). “The Selected Letters of Anton Chekhov”

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• The distinction that Jews have themselves always made between Jews of German origin and Jews of East European origin is as stringent as that between Boston Brahmin and Boston lace-curtain Irish, though much finer.

  Diana Trilling

  Boston, East, Lace

  Diana Trilling (1981). “Mrs. Harris: the death of the Scarsdale diet doctor”, Harcourt

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• For a moment man is a boy, for a moment a lovesick youth, for a moment bereft of wealth, for a moment in the height of prosperity; then at life's end with limbs worn out by old age and wrinkles adorning his face, like an actor he retires behind the curtain of death.

  Bhartrhari

  Boys, Men, Wrinkles

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• Perhaps the Doors, Curtains, Surface Pictures, Panes of Glass, etc. are metaphors of despair, prompted by the dilemma that our sense of sight causes us to apprehend things, but at the same time restricts and partly precludes our apprehension of reality.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Reality, Glasses

  Robert Storr, Gerhard Richter, Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) (2002). “Gerhard Richter: Forty Years of Painting”, p.49, The Museum of Modern Art

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• Most people have excellent necks. Now they cover them with curtains, which is kind of ridiculous. But there are some beautiful necklines that you can cut into and create wonderful backs, as well as bone structure for the face.

  Vidal Sassoon

  Beautiful, Cutting, People

  "Vidal Sassoon Was an Actual Person" by Michael Schulman, www.newyorker.com. May 10, 2012.

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• My decorating and renovation skills are nil - indeed, I once used a shower curtain from Pottery Barn as 'window dressing.

  Candace Bushnell

  Skills, Barns, Pottery

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• There tends to be this hierarchy of film and television, and theater is somewhere else in its own milieu. However, as actors, yes, we love to do theater because it's our story. Nobody can edit it, the curtain goes up, and it's ours for two hours or three, or whatever. And we tell it.

  Tim DeKay

  Somewhere Else, Two, Film And Television

  "A Roundtable With Tim DeKay, Carla Gugino, and Gabriel Macht". Interview with Mark Peikert, www.backstage.com. June 27, 2012.

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• I have a small room to write in. One wall is completely covered in books. And I face the window with the curtain closed to stop the light hitting the computer.

  Anne Enright

  Wall, Book, Writing

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• I made her the queen of my double wide trailer with the polyester curtains and redwood deck.

  Sammy Kershaw

  Queens, Quality, Redwoods

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• Each waking day is a stage dominated for good or ill, comedy, farce, or tragedy, by a dramatis personae, the 'self', and so it will be until the curtain drops.

  Charles Scott Sherrington

  Life, Philosophy, Self

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• The land of litigation, the courts are like game shows. Take what's behind the curtain the jury cries.

  Joni Mitchell

  Land, Games, Politics

  Song: The Windfall, Album: Night Ride Home

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