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“The day broke grey and dull. The clouds hung heavily, and there was a rawness in the air that suggested snow. A woman servant came into a room in which a child was sleeping and drew the curtains. She glanced mechanically at the house opposite, a stucco house with a portico, and went to the child's bed.”

Children Book House Sleep Rooms Air Bed Opposites Clouds Snow Broke Servant Dull Hung Grey Curtains Rawness

Book:Of Human Bondage (Diversion Classics)

Source: Of Human Bondage (Diversion Classics)

“Science is the art of creating suitable illusions which the fool believes or argues against, but the wise man enjoys for their beauty or their ingenuity, without being blind to the fact that they are human veils and curtains concealing the abysmal darkness of the unknowable”

Men Believe Humans Art Facts Enjoy Darkness Wise Fool Creating Illusion Blind Arguing Veils Curtains Ingenuity Suitable Concealing

Author:Carl Jung

“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.'”

Knows Lying Culture Waiting Rich Intelligent Presses Scary Galaxy Curtains Erotic

Author:Terence McKenna

“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.”

Said Remember Night Stage Opening Broadway Curtains Remember When Rehearsal Arthur Laura Crucible Opening Night Curtain Call

Author:John Benjamin Hickey

“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.”

Has Beens Two Home Influence Teaching Century Conventional Bias Curtains American Education Home Teaching

Author:Raymond S. Moore

“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.”

Ifs Wells May Ends Air Sea Land Waste Messages Resources Regard Environmental Finals Drawing Quarters Consumption Curtains Stewardship Undisciplined

Author:Richard J. Foster

“I never met my theater fans. I'm out the stage door five minutes after the curtain goes up. So that's it. I don't even know who comes, but thank God they do come. I can't tell. I keep my head down. I don't meet them. The fans from "Harry Potter" are kids who stop me in the street. I love that. That's terrific. I was amazed how many do.”

Knows I Can Kids Five Doors Fans Streets Minutes Stage Mets Theater Thank God Harry Potter Amazed Curtains Five Minutes Terrific Potters

Author:Michael Gambon

“It's curtains for you, Mighty Mouse! This gun is so futuristic that even I don't know how it works!”

Knows Funny Science Technology Know How Gun Mice Curtains Futuristic

Author:Ralph Bakshi

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

Humor Funny Certain Primitive Curtains Jersey New Jersey Wasteland

Book:The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose

Source: The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose

“Sometimes someone coming in doesn't have the natural passion for it, but they find it through the coaching or mentoring I give them. I'm sort of opening curtains or blinds and all of a sudden they see it, they get it.”

Giving Sometimes Passion Natural Opening Coaching Curtains Mentoring

Author:Paul Rankin

“The idea that the curtain rises on what is often more or less a happy scene, and it will fall just a few hours later, and everyone will be dead or have gone mad... I find that kind of narrative very appealing.”

Kind Ideas Fall Hours Gone Scene Mad Narrative Curtains

Author:Daniel Handler

“Despite being extremely professional, Michael Caine has a giggle which was lethal for me because once you catch his eyes, once you realize the other person is a giggler too, it's curtains.”

Persons Eye Realizing Despite His Eyes Curtains Giggle

Author:Emily Mortimer

“I always stayed for the first curtain call and people always said, 'Who's that?' But this got me started in acting.”

People Firsts Said Acting Curtains Curtain Call

Author:James Stewart

“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.”

Soul Faces Perfect Darkness Fool Moon Spread Curtains Bosoms

Author:Akhenaton

“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.”

Way Light Night Reading Bits Exercise Tragedy Best Way Afternoon Curtains Stretching Supper Welsh Foyers Shakespearean Tragedy

Author:Arthur Smith

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

Three Politics Lines Numbers Behinds Economy Mass Trade Welfare Curtains Gross Inflation Number Three

Author:Joe Walsh

“When I used to do abstract paintings at school, like everyone else, the tutor said these would make great curtains. I would always neglect the formal stuff that was going on by using colour, because colour kind of came naturally to me.”

Kind Said School Used Stuff Painting Abstract Colour Neglect Formal Curtains Tutor Abstract Painting

Author:Damien Hirst

“Lift the curtain and 'the State' reveals itself as a little group of fallible men in Whitehall, making guesses about the future, influenced by political prejudices and partisan prejudices, and working on projections drawn from the past by a staff of economists.”

Men Littles States Past Political Groups Prejudice Lifts Staff Economist Curtains Projection Partisans

Book:Freedom and reality

Source: Freedom and reality

“It's a horrible economy but I'm trying to do my part. I just bought a new shower curtain it has all the presidents on it. Do you know how hard it is to masturbate with all the presidents staring at you? And when the water hits them it looks like they're crying.”

Knows Trying Looks Hard President Water Know How Economy Cry Horrible Staring Do You Know Showers Curtains Staring At You Shower Curtains

Author:Dave Attell

“Theatre is filled w/ passion, risk and drama (as much behind-the-curtain as on stage), perfect ingredients for documentary storytelling.”

Passion Perfect Behinds Risk Stage Drama Filled Theatre Storytelling Ingredients Documentaries Curtains

Author:Dori Berinstein

“It is a noble and great thing to cover the blemishes and excuse the failings of a friend; to draw a curtain before his weaknesses and to display his perfections; to bury his shortcomings in silence but to proclaim his virtues on the housetop.”

Silence Virtue Failing Draws Weakness Perfection Excuse Noble Great Things Display Curtains Shortcomings

Author:Robert South

“We think we know people. We think that what we see is all there is. We rarely ask ourselves what goes on behind the curtain. We jump to conclusions. And we take everything very personally.”

People Thinking Knows Asks Behinds Goes On Conclusion Curtains

Book:The Unfortunate Importance of Beauty: A Novel

Source: The Unfortunate Importance of Beauty: A Novel

“Escape the safety of the small by taking the risks to become part of something bigger. Your true self demands it. Listen for the timer on the oven to sound-that's when the memory curtain parts, flashing moments that really mattered.”

Self Moments Sound Memories Risk Demand Bigger Safety True Self Curtains Ovens Timer

Author:Kirby Wright

“I was extremely fortunate to live around the corner from a recording studio and to be chosen to have a paper route to make enough money to pay for the music lessons. I was one of the chosen few to have a job and to walk through the curtain at Stax Records was just an amazing thing for me to do at age 14.”

Enough Age Jobs Walks Pay Records Lessons Paper Studios Corners Chosen Fortunate Routes Curtains Amazing Things Around The Corner Recording Studio Music Lessons

Author:Booker T. Jones

“Open the curtains of your mind, my friend; let the world know who you are! Do not hide your ideas; set them free, let them free! Open the curtains! Feel no fear! If there is truth in your ideas, you become invincible!”

Ifs Knows World Feels Mind Ideas My Friends Who You Are Curtains No Fear Invincible

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Conscience is the window of our spirit, evil is the curtain.”

Spirit Evil Conscience Window Curtains

Author:Douglas Horton

“An iron curtain has descended over Europe.”

Europe Iron Curtains Iron Curtain

Author:Winston Churchill

“If you want to gnaw greenery in the morning for health reasons, do it in your own home with the curtains drawn.”

Ifs Want Reason Home Morning Curtains Greenery

Author:Victoria Coren Mitchell

“Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass. Change may be announced by a small ache, so that you think you're catching cold. Or you may feel a faint disgust for something you loved yesterday. It may even take the form of a hunger that peanuts won't satisfy. Isn't overeating said to be one of the strongest symptoms of discontent. And isn't discontent the lever of change?”

Source: Travels with Charley and Later Novels, 1947-1962

“The young man who closes the door behind him, who draws the curtains, and there in silence pleads with God for help, should first pour out his soul in gratitude for health, for friends, for loved ones, for the gospel, for the manifestations of God's existence. He should first count his many blessings and name them one by one.”

Men Should Firsts Soul Helping Young Names Behinds Existence Silence Doors He Man Gratitude Blessing Draws Manifestation Young Man Loved Ones Curtains Gratitude For Health Many Blessings

Author:David O. McKay

“Players prefer the FA Cup because it's the end of season curtain-raiser.”

Ends Player Seasons Cups Curtains

Author:Peter Withe

“I'd get me a bunch of bats and balls and sneak me a couple of umpires and learn them kids behind the Iron Curtain how to tote a bat and play baseball.”

Play Kids Behinds Couple Baseball Balls Bunch Iron Bats Curtains Umpires Sneak Iron Curtain Totes

Author:Dizzy Dean

“We all have rosy memories of a simpler, happy time- a time of homemade apple pie and gingham curtains, a time when Mom understood everything and Dad could fix anything. "Let's get those traditional family values back!" we murmur to each other. Meanwhile, in a simultaneous universe, everyone I know, and every celebrity I don't know, is coming out of the closet to talk about how miserable they are because they grew up in dysfunctional families.”

“I did not have a computer until recently. I'm not really a computer person; I'm really hands-on. I can't make it work if it's all behind the black curtain. It doesn't interest me. I want to see what's actually happening back there.”

Ifs Want Persons I Can Hands Black Interest Behinds Computer Happenings Curtains

Author:Scoot McNairy

“[Nabokov's] language is made visible . . . like a veil or transparent curtain. You cannot help seeing the curtain as you peek into the intimate rooms behind.”

Made Helping Language Rooms Behinds Seeing Intimate Visible Veils Curtains Transparent

Book:Conversations with Jerzy Kosinski

Source: Conversations with Jerzy Kosinski

“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?”

Young Names Rooms Lord Boys Imagine Mets Fairs East Trials Thrown Oscars Plato Curtains Oxford Wilde Ender Noblemen Braille

Author:Quentin Crisp

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

Enough Light Able Stars Path Sky Trust In God Curtains Confidence In God Greatness Of God Mighty God God Is Able Instruments Of God

Author:Max Lucado

“I apologize for being obvious, but every time I watch the curtain come down on even a halfway decent production of a Shakespeare play I feel a little sorrowful that I'll never know the man, or any man of such warm intelligence.”

Knows Men Feels Littles Play Watches He Man Productions Obvious Warm Decent Apologizing Curtains Halfway I Apologize Sorrowful Shakespeare Play

Author:Ian Mcewan

“I urge you a nearer communion with Christ, and a growing communion. There are curtains to be opened in Christ that we have never seen before... Therefore dig deep, and sweat, and labor. Take pains for Him, and set aside as much time as you can in each day for Him.”

Pain Christ Growing Labor Each Day Urges Sweat Communion Curtains Dig Deep

Author:Samuel Rutherford

“When I was twenty I was in love with words, a wordsmith. I didn't know enough to know when people were letting words get in their way. Now I like the words to disappear, like a transparent curtain.”

People Knows Way Enough Twenties Disappear Curtains Transparent

Author:Wallace Stegner

“I remember feeling the temperature change the first time the curtain came up, the difference between the audience temperature and the stage temperature. I'll never forget it.”

Firsts Feelings Remember Differences Forget Audience Stage First Time Never Forget Curtains Forget It Temperature

Author:Sarah Paulson

“When you're in prison, there's no hiding. These women are not hiding behind towels and shower curtains. They go to the bathroom with no doors on the stalls. It would actually look weird, if these women were hiding.”

Ifs Looks Behinds Doors Prison Hiding Showers Bathroom Curtains Towels Shower Curtains

Author:Laura Prepon

“If the ruler wants to play the game by himself and follow secret policies, he must present a decoy to the masses. He cannot escape the mass; but he can draw between himself and that mass an invisible curtain, a screen, on which the mass will see projected the mirage of some politics, while the real politics are being made behind it.”

Ifs Want Made Real Play Games Secret Behinds Policy Mass Draws Screens Invisible Rulers Curtains Mirages Real Politics

Author:Jacques Ellul

“If government ownership of land and natural resources was the best way to protect the environment, then we should have found a Garden of Eden in the Soviet Union after the Iron Curtain came down. Instead, there was one environmental horror story after another.”

“On the air, it's as if somebody draws a heavy drape to block any bias. I don't even feel it inside. It's the same curtain that keeps you from swearing. I've known broadcasters who can't get one sentence out in normal conversation without being profane, and yet, they can go on the air and talk for three hours and never slip once.”

Ifs Feels Three Hours Known Air Goes On Conversation Normal Draws Heavy Sentences Block Slips Bias Curtains Swearing Profane One Sentence Broadcasters Drapes

Author:Dick Enberg

“Nothing will serve you better than a strong work ethic. Nothing. And it's something that you can't teach. You have to be thrown into it, where you're going to sink or swim. It's amazing how self-correcting and how clarifying a good, hard, shitty job can be. Because at the end of the day, any profession I've seen anybody in, when you peer behind the curtains of Oh, wouldn't that be a great job? Wow, what an amazing thing, a philanthropic endeavor! it really just comes down to It's a f**king grind.”

“And this was the main precondition, that anything might be something else. Once I'd accepted that, it followed that I might be mad, or that someone might think me mad. How could I say for certain that I wasn't, if I couldn't say for certain that a curtain wasn't a mountain range?”

Ifs Thinking Might Certain Mountain Mad Accepted Range Curtains Mountain Ranges

Book:Girl, Interrupted

Source: Girl, Interrupted

“Leave the shower curtain on the inside of the tub.”

Showers Curtains Tubs Shower Curtains

Author:Conrad Hilton

“What I've always wished I'd invented was paper underwear, even knowing that the idea never took off when they did come out with it. I still think it's a good idea, and I don't know why people resist it when they've accepted paper napkins and paper plates and paper curtains and paper towels-it would make more sense not to have to wash out underwear than not to have to wash out towels.”

People Thinking Knows Stills Ideas Knowing Paper Accepted Good Ideas Plates Curtains Underwear Towels Napkins Paper Towels

Author:Andy Warhol

“Well, when I was a kid I used to hide behind the curtains at home at Christmas and I used to try and be Elvis. There was a certain ambience between the curtains and the French windows, there was a certain sound there for a ten year old. That was all the ambience I got at ten years old... I think! And I always wanted to be a certain, a bit similar to that. But I didn't want to sell pizza.”

Thinking Want Trying Years Wells Home Kids Wanted Used Certain Bits Sound Behinds Ten Window Sells Curtains Pizza Ambience

Author:Robert Plant

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