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“But scientists on both sides of the iron curtain played a very significant role in maintaining the momentum of the nuclear arms race throughout the four decades of the Cold War.”

Source: A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat

“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.”

People Should War Would Be Together Greater Arms Cold Europe Lays South Enormous Iron Territory Cold War Eastern Curtains Eastern Europe Iron Curtain

Author:Joseph Goebbels

“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.”

Looks Nature Fronts Fields Painting Ocean Stones Crosses Empty Beach Afternoon Curtains Parting Waterfalls

Author:Agnes Martin

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

Mind Hands Ability Creative Curtains Creative Work Mechanization

Author:Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work.”

People Real Behinds Streets Design Painting Scene Models Paint Photograph Architecture Real Life Curtains Graphic Graphic Design Whatever It Takes Grids Setups Real Street

Author:Bob Dylan

“There is someone who looks after us from behind the curtain. In truth we are not here, this is our shadow.”

Looks Behinds Shadow Curtains

Author:Rumi

“This scepticism is the same scepticism I heard a generation ago in the USSR when few thought that a democratic transformation behind the iron curtain was possible.”

Literature Behinds Generations Heard Transformation Democratic Iron Curtains Scepticism Ussr Iron Curtain

Author:Natan Sharansky

“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.”

Firsts My Own Arms Drink First Time London Christmas Cards Curtains Looking Forward Couches Decoration

Author:Noel Gallagher

“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.”

Shows Motivation Jokes Rings Fighter Curtains

Author:David Haye

“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.”

Made Play Use Powerful Principles Judging Wall Remove Idols Curtains

Author:Shams Tabrizi

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

Trying Art Suffering Fun Sake Having Fun Sober Curtains Just Have Fun Curtain Call

Author:Christopher Plummer

“Before the final curtain goes down On my life, I shall say to my Mother-Earth, "My gratitude-heart is all for you, All for you."”

Heart Earth Mother Gratitude Finals Curtains Mother Earth

Author:Sri Chinmoy

“Somewhere, sometime, somehow you got tangled up in garbage, and you've been avoiding God. You've allowed a veil of guilt to come between you and your Father. You wonder if you could ever feel close to God again. The message of the torn flesh is you can. God welcomes you. God is not avoiding you. God is not resisting you. The curtain is down, the door is open, and God invites you in”

Ifs Feels Father Wonder Doors Messages Guilt Flesh Invites Avoiding Torn Veils Curtains Garbage Resisting Tangled

Book:He Chose the Nails

Source: He Chose the Nails

“Time is so old and love so brief, love is pure gold and time a thief. We're late, darling, we're late, The curtain descends, everything ends, too soon, too soon.”

Ends Love Is Pure Late Gold And Love Thieves Curtains Darling Close Relationship

Author:Ogden Nash

“From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard.”

Hard Behinds Trouble Military Structure Surface Tyranny Iron Curtains Reminders Iron Curtain

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1954

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1954

“Think of all your experiences as a huge tapestry that can be laid out in whatever pattern you wish. Each day you add a new thread to the weaving. Do you craft a curtain to hide behind, or do you fashion a magic carpet that will care you to unequaled heights?”

Thinking Care Wish Behinds Magic Fashion Huge Add Patterns Crafts Height Each Day Thread Curtains Human Experience Carpet Tapestry Weaving Power Of Intention

Author:Tony Robbins

“My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down.”

Trouble Curtains Up And Down

Author:T. S. Eliot

“I don't live for stuff and things, and if I had to live in a cardboard box, I would put curtains on it.”

Ifs Stuff Boxes Curtains Cardboard Boxes

Author:Carmen Dell'Orefice

“I don't want to look old and worn, but what can you do? My real focus is being an actor. I care more about having the opportunity to play roles that I haven't played than I care if my neck looks like someone's bedroom curtains.”

Ifs Want Looks Real Play Care Actors Opportunity Roles Focus Havens Necks Worn Bedroom I Care Curtains

Author:Sally Field

“If I want to calm down, I'll buy some fabric, get a pattern, shut myself in a room and stay there for days, really happy. And at the end of it, you get a bedspread or some curtains or something to wear - it's lovely.”

Ifs Want Ends Rooms Calm Patterns Lovely Fabric Curtains Really Happy Calm Down

Author:Twiggy

“I wrote 'Big Yellow Taxi' on my first trip to Hawaii. I took a taxi to the hotel and when I woke up the next morning, I threw back the curtains and saw these beautiful green mountains in the distance. Then, I looked down and there was a parking lot as far as the eye could see, and it broke my heart this blight on paradise. That's when I sat down and wrote the song.”

Firsts Heart Bigs Eye Beautiful Song Next Morning Saws My Heart Mountain Down And Green Distance Broke Sat Paradise Hotel Yellow Hawaii Curtains Taxi Parking Parking Lot Broke My Heart Blight

Author:Joni Mitchell

“Weigh down your curtains with a proper 5-inch hem. It makes them much more proportioned and professional-looking.”

Inches Curtains Hem

Author:Emily Henderson

“One blob of red in the wrong place and the audience isn't looking at the hero, they're looking at a patch of curtain (or something similar) and your whole effect is lost.”

Whole Lost Audience Effects Hero Red Curtains Patches Red Lips

Author:Terence Fisher

“It was like falling off a building and suddenly, bang, you hit the bottom. The first time it happened was on an ordinary day at home. I was taking down some curtains. I took one step, turned around, took another step and then I fell and hit my head hard on the rowing machine.”

Firsts Hard Home Fall Steps Happened Building Ordinary First Time Machines Bottom Curtains Bangs Rowing Falling Off Ordinary Days

Author:Jonah Lomu

“[Y]ou will understand the game behind the curtain too well not to perceive the old trick of turning every contingency into a resource for accumulating force in the government.”

Wells Government Games Force Behinds Resources Tricks Perceive Curtains Contingency

Book:1794-1815

Source: 1794-1815

“You could get in rehearsals, pre-production, anything that would actually contribute to the understanding of how a film gets made. I actually find those things increase people's interest in a movie and like that better than worrying about showing the tricks behind the curtain.”

People Made Film Understanding Interest Behinds Worry Increase Productions Tricks Curtains Rehearsal

Author:Jay Roach

“Now and then the fantastic shadows of birds in flight flitted across the long tussore-silk curtains that were stretched in front of the huge window, producing a kind of momentary Japanese effect, and making him think of those pallid, jade-faced painters of Tokyo who, through the medium of an art that is necessarily immobile, seek to convey the sense of swiftness and motion.”

Source: Le Portrait de Dorian Gray / The Picture of Dorian Gray: Édition bilingue: français - anglais / Bilingual Edition: French - English

“I always liked the magic of poetry but now I'm just starting to see behind the curtain of even the best poets, how they've used, tried and tested craft to create the illusion. Wonderful feeling of exhilaration to finally be there.”

Feelings Used Behinds Wonderful Magic Poet Illusion Starting Crafts Tested Curtains Exhilaration Best Poet

Author:David Knopfler

“I don't think it's a director's job to peek behind the curtain too much.”

Thinking Jobs Behinds Too Much Directors Curtains

Author:Paul Thomas Anderson

“It's nowhere near as intense as what I imagine an actor experiences backstage, but I feel a fluttering nervousness before a curtain goes up on a play. I mean, any play, anywhere - on Broadway or the Bowery or in a church basement.”

Feels Mean Play Actors Church Imagine Intense Broadway Curtains Basements Nervousness Fluttering

Author:Ben Brantley

“As soon as you just walk through the curtains and the crowd's there, everything's good after that.”

Walks Crowds Wwe Curtains

Author:Gail Kim

“God continues to lift the curtain and allow the enemies of America to give us probably what we deserve.”

Giving America Enemy Deserve Sick Positive Atheism Lifts Offensive Curtains

Author:Jerry Falwell

“You know, entertainment is just a curtain at the end of the day.”

Knows Ends Entertainment The End Of The Day Curtains

Author:Aubrey O'Day

“I grew up on a suburban street with lace curtains and dull neighbours, so I made up stories to tell my friend, in which they became serial killers and burglars. She told her mother, who then told mine.”

Made Stories Mother Streets Mines Grew Grew Up My Friends Dull Killers Curtains Neighbour Serials Serial Killer Lace Burglars Made Up Stories

Author:Nina Bawden

“As a teenager I had never been able to accept the fact of having to go to the back of a bus or sit in the segregated section of a train. The first time I had been seated behind a curtain in a dining car, I felt as if the curtain had been dropped on my selfhood.”

Ifs Firsts Facts Able Felt Behinds Accepting Car First Time Train Teenager Bus Sections Curtains Dining

Book:I have a dream: the life and words of Martin Luther King, Jr

Source: I have a dream: the life and words of Martin Luther King, Jr

“You have won the Cold War. ... [Your] underappreciated valor [helped] topple the Berlin Wall, and bring down dictators the world over. ... For the past four decades the world behind the Iron Curtain ... looked to Americans for hope, and America looked to you to get the job done. Today, the free world says thank you.”

World War Done Today Jobs America Past Behinds Four Wall Cold Victory Decades Iron Dictator Cold War Curtains Berlin Valor Saying Thank You Free World Get The Job Done Berlin Wall Iron Curtain

Author:Bob Dole

“Oh! now to be alone, on some grand height, Where heaven’s black curtains shadow all the sight, And watch the swollen clouds their bosom clash, While fleet and far the living lightnings flash... And see the fiery arrows fall and rise, In dizzy chase along the rattling skies,— How stirs the spirit while the echoes roll, And God, in thunder, rocks from pole to pole!”

Spirit Fall Heaven Black Watches Sky Rocks Shadow Sight Clouds Weather Height Flash Lightning Echoes Curtains Thunder Arrows Bosoms Clash Fiery Dizzy Swollen

Book:The Omnipresence of the Deity: A Poem

Source: The Omnipresence of the Deity: A Poem

“I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.”

Death Purpose Nature Draws Curtains Farce

Author:Francois Rabelais

“The town was glad with morning light; places that had shown ugly and distrustful all night long, now wore a smile; and sparkling sunbeams dancing on chamber windows, and twinkling through blind and curtain before sleepers’ eyes, shed light even into dreams, and chased away the shadows of the night.”

Source: The Complete Novels of Charles Dickens: 20 Illustrated Classics in One Volume: Oliver Twist, The Pickwick Papers, Hard Times, A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations, Nicholas Nickleby, The Old Curiosity Shop, Barnaby Rudge, Martin Chuzzlewit, Dombey and Son, David Copperfield…

“Spring is beautiful, and smells sweet. Spring is when you shake the curtains, and pound on the rugs, and take off your long underwear, and wash in all the corners.”

Long Beautiful Sweet Spring Corners Smell Shakes Pounds Curtains Underwear Spring Poems

Book:O Ye Jigs & Juleps

Source: O Ye Jigs & Juleps

“We are in the black theater of nonexistence. In an eye blink the curtain is up, the stage ablaze, for the vast drama of ourselves.”

Eye Black Stage Drama Theater Curtains Blink

Author:Herman Wouk

“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.”

Knows Has Beens Sometimes Play Able Five Minutes Arms Theatre Settling Curtains Five Minutes Playwright

Book:The Selected Letters of Anton Chekhov

Source: The Selected Letters of Anton Chekhov

“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.”

Made Jew East Distinction Curtains Boston Lace Brahmins

Book:Mrs. Harris: the death of the Scarsdale diet doctor

Source: Mrs. Harris: the death of the Scarsdale diet doctor

“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.”

Men Ends Moments Age Faces Actors Wealth Behinds Boys Youth Aging Prosperity Old Age Height Retiring Worn Curtains Limbs Wrinkles Worn Out Bereft

Author:Bhartrhari

“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.”

Art Reality Causes Doors Painting Despair Sight Metaphor Glasses Surface Etc Curtains Dilemma Apprehension

Book:Gerhard Richter: Forty Years of Painting

Source: Gerhard Richter: Forty Years of Painting

“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.”

People Wells Kind Beautiful Faces Cutting Wonderful Structure Bones Ridiculous Excellent Necks Curtains

Author:Vidal Sassoon

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

Used Skills Window Showers Curtains Dressings Barns Pottery Decorating Renovation Shower Curtains Window Dressing

Author:Candace Bushnell

“There are two sighs of relief every night in the life of an opera manager. The first comes when the curtain goes up The second sigh of relief comes when the final curtain goes down without any disaster, and one realizes, gratefully, that the miracle has happened again.”

Firsts Two Night Realizing Happened Miracle Finals Disaster Managers Relief Opera Every Night Sigh Curtains Sigh Of Relief

Author:Rudolf Bing

“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.”

Two Stories Film Three Actors Hours Television Theater Curtains Hierarchy Somewhere Else Edits Film And Television Milieu

Author:Tim DeKay

“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.”

Writing Book Light Faces Rooms Wall Computer Window Covered Hitting Curtains Small Rooms

Author:Anne Enright