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“I've been singing properly every day since I was about fifteen or sixteen, and I have never had any problems with my voice, ever. I've had a sore throat here and there, had a cold and sung through it, but that day it just went while I was onstage in Paris during a radio show. It was literally like someone had pulled a curtain over it.”

Shows Problem Voice Cold Singing Radio Paris Over It Throat Fifteen Curtains Here And There Sixteen Sore Throat

Author:Adele

“Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.”

Heart Fall Falling In Love Lifts Sat Curtains Falling Apart Scenery

Book:The Duino elegies

Source: The Duino elegies

“Once the curtain is raised, the actor is ceases to belong to himself. He belongs to his character, to his author, to his public. He must do the impossible to identify himself with the first, not to betray the second, and not to disappoint the third.”

Firsts Character Actors Impossible Thirds Raised Betrayal Cease Betray Betrayed Curtains Disappoint

Author:Sarah Bernhardt

“In some ways Lawler is a conceptual Diane Arbus. She's a stalker who takes advantage of situations. She pulls back curtains, causing normal things to look freakish and the freakish to turn mundane.”

Way Looks Turns Situation Normal Advantage Curtains Mundane Normal Things

Author:Jerry Saltz

“If you travel to the States... they have a lot of different words than like what we use. For instance: they say 'elevator', we say 'lift'; they say 'drapes', we say 'curtains'; they say 'president', we say 'seriously deranged git.'”

Ifs World Different States Use America President Modern Instance Lifts Curtains Modern World Elevators Deranged Drapes

Author:Alexei Sayle

“If Everton were playing down the bottom of my garden, I'd draw the curtains.”

Ifs Draws Garden Bottom Curtains Everton

Author:Bill Shankly

“Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which are so dear to you - you do not even suspect that the day has already dawned outside.”

Time Behinds Watches Dear Blow Heavy Dust Clock Suspects Curtains Repression

Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“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.”

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Book:Sweet Thursday

Source: Sweet Thursday

“Why do we need to wait until somebody sells 10 million records to give people a show like that? What about us smaller, hungry folk? At least gimme a curtain!”

People Needs Giving Shows Waiting Millions Records Sells Folks Hungry Curtains

Author:Angie Stone

“Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you've closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart.”

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Author:Desmond Tutu

“On the morrow the horizon was covered with clouds- a thick and impenetrable curtain between earth and sky, which unhappily extended as far as the Rocky Mountains. It was a fatality!”

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Book:From the Earth to the Moon

Source: From the Earth to the Moon

“The critic leaves at curtain fall To find, in starting to review it, He scarcely saw the play at all For starting to review it.”

Play Fall Saws Comedy Critics Starting Reviews Curtains

Book:The Letters of E. B. White

Source: The Letters of E. B. White

“Funny is not a color. Being black is only good from the time you get from the curtain to the microphone.”

Black Color Curtains Microphones

Author:Flip Wilson

“A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out.”

Writing Literature Quality Draws Rounds Permanent Essays Curtains

Author:Virginia Woolf

“But Nature cast me for the part she found me best fitted for, and I have had to play it, and must play it till the curtain falls.”

Play Fall Found Casts Curtains

Book:Edwin Booth: Recollections by His Daughter, Edwina Booth Grossmann, and Letters to Her and to His Friends

Source: Edwin Booth: Recollections by His Daughter, Edwina Booth Grossmann, and Letters to Her and to His Friends

“The fringed curtains of thine eye advance, And say what thou seest yond.”

Eye Curtains Tempest Gonzalo From Tempest

Author:William Shakespeare

“The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.”

Way Long Moving Wall Illusion Theater Tables Expensive Chairs Curtains Bricks Profitable Scenery Brick Wall Illusion Of Freedom Tables And Chairs

Author:Frank Zappa

“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.”

World Way Enough Eye Fun Dark Stage Built Responsible Our World Curtains Lifting Eyelids

Author:Richard Bach

“There have been occasions in my later life (I suppose as in most lives) when I have felt for a time as if a thick curtain had fallen on all its interest and romance, to shut me out from anything save dull endurance any more. Never has that curtain dropped so heavy and blank, as when my way in life lay stretched out straight before me through the newly-entered road of apprenticeship to Joe.”

Source: A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations (Oprah's Book Club): Two Novels

“For many of us, the curtain had just come down on childhood.”

Childhood Curtains

Author:Mitch Albom

“...It all seemed to him to have disappeared as if behind a curtain at a theater. There are such curtains that drop in life. God is moving on to the next act.”

Ifs Moving Next Behinds Theater Curtains

Book:Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“O timid one, awaken, exert yourself, draw back the curtains your training and background have hung over the windows of your soul.”

Soul Training Draws Window Backgrounds Your Soul Hung Curtains

Author:Spencer W. Kimball

“Yes, when I get big and have my own home, no plush chairs and lace curtains for me. And no rubber plants. I'll have a desk like this in my parlor and white walls and a clean green blotter every Saturday night and a row of shining yellow pencils always sharpened for writing and a golden-brown bowl with a flower or some leaves or berries always in it and books . . . books . . . books. . . .”

Source: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

“A curtain of stars, miles of them, are scattered, glowing, across the sky and their multitude humbles me, which I have a hard time tolerating. She shrugs and nods after I say something about forms of anxiety. It's as if her mind is having a hard time communicating with her mouth, as if she is searching for a rational analysis of who I am, which is, of course, an impossibility: there... is... no... key.”

Source: American Psycho: Picador Classic

“Surely everyone is aware of the divine pleasures which attend a wintry fireside; candles at four o'clock, warm hearthrugs, tea, a fair tea-maker, shutters closed, curtains flowing in ample draperies to the floor, whilst the wind and rain are raging audibly without.”

Pleasure Four Divine Wind Rain Fairs Warm Rage Tea Clock Makers Warmth Candle Curtains Shutters Wind And Rain

Author:Thomas de Quincey

“So imagine a fire going -- wood snapping the way it does when it’s a little green — the wind rattling the windows behind the curtains -- and one of those Chopin melodies that feel like sorrow and ecstasy all mixed together pouring from the keys -- and you have my idea of happiness. Or just reading, reading and lamplight, the sound of pages turning. And so you dare to be happy. You do that thing. You dare.”

Way Feels Littles Doe Ideas Together Reading Sound Behinds Fire Imagine Wind Keys Sorrow Pages Window Green Dare Woods Melody Ecstasy Curtains Pouring Snapping Pages Turning

Book:The King in the Tree

Source: The King in the Tree

“Non...I am DANCING IN MY NUDDY-PANTS!!!' And we both laughed like loons on loon tablets. I danced for ages round the house in my nuddy-pants. Also, I did this brilliant thing-I danced in the front window just for a second whilst Mr. Across the Road was drawing his curtains. He will never be sure if he saw a mirage or not. That is the kind of person I am. Not really the kind of person who goes and raises elks in Whakatane.”

Ifs Kind Persons Age House Saws Fronts Window Raises Dancing Rounds Brilliant Drawing Laughed Pants Curtains Tablets Mirages

Author:Louise Rennison

“I woke with a terrible headache and wobbled around 'till I fell out the window." "You what?" "Fell out the window. That one over there." She [Edwina] gestured to the curtain behind her. "I broke my back. My spine is all wobbly now, but it doesn't hurt.”

Hurt Behinds Terrible Window Broke Curtains Spine Headache

Author:Megan Whalen Turner

“And the ship went out into the High Sea and passed into the West, until at last on a night of rain Frodo smelled a sweet fragrance on the air and heard the sound of singing that came over the water. And then it seemed to him that as in his dream in the house of Bombadil, the grey rain-curtain turned all to silver glass and was rolled back, and he beheld white shores and beyond them a far green country under a swift sunrise.”

Source: The Lord of the Rings: The return of the King

“This parrot is no more. It has ceased to be. It's expired and gone to meet its maker. This is a late parrot. It's a stiff. Bereft of life, it rests in peace. If you hadn't nailed it to the perch, it would be pushing up the daisies. It's rung down the curtain and joined the choir invisible. This is an ex-parrot.”

Ifs Would Be Death Gone Late Invisible Pushing Makers Curtains Exes Choir Daisies Parrots Rest In Peace Bereft Monty Expired Redundancy

Book:Monty Python Live!

Source: Monty Python Live!

“When you open a book it's like going to the theater first you see the curtain then it is pulled aside and the show begins.”

Firsts Book Shows Theater Curtains

Book:Inkheart

Source: Inkheart

“It's possible, in a poem or short story, to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language, and to endow those things—a chair, a window curtain, a fork, a stone, a woman's earring—with immense, even startling power.”

Writing Stories Language Objects Stones Window Chairs Insightful Short Story Immense Precise Curtains Commonplace Forks Earrings

Book:Fires: Essays, Poems, Stories

Source: Fires: Essays, Poems, Stories

“Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!”

Men Pay Behinds Attention Curtains Wizard Of Oz Wizard Wonderful Wizard Of Oz Tin Man

Author:L. Frank Baum

“I don't want to see anyone. I lie in the bedroom with the curtains drawn and nothingness washing over me like a sluggish wave. Whatever is happening to me is my own fault. I have done something wrong, something so huge I can't even see it, something that's drowning me. I am inadequate and stupid, without worth. I might as well be dead.”

Source: Cat's Eye

“Not only would I never want to belong to any club that would have me for a member--if elected I would wear street shoes onto the squash court and set fire to the ballroom curtains.”

Ifs Want Fire Streets Members Court Shoes Clubs Curtains Squash Ballroom

Book:Wonder Boys

Source: Wonder Boys

“How not to imagine the tumors ripening beneath his skin, flesh I have kissed, stroked with my fingertips, pressed my belly and breasts against, some nights so hard I thought I could enter him, open his back at the spine like a door or a curtain and slip in like a small fish between his ribs, nudge the coral of his brains with my lips, brushing over the blue coil of his bowels with the fluted silk of my tail.”

Hard Night Brain Imagine Doors Skins Blue Lips Fishes Flesh Breasts Slips Tails Belly Curtains Spine Silk Ribs Fingertips Nudge Brushing Tumors Bowels Ripening Small Fish

Author:Dorianne Laux

“To every man, in his acquaintance with a new art, there comes a moment when that which before was meaningless first lifts, as it were, one corner of the curtain that hides its mystery, and reveals, in a burst of delight which later and fuller understanding can hardly ever equal, one glimpse of the indefinite possibilities within.”

Men Firsts Art Moments Understanding Mystery Possibility Equal Delight Corners Every Man Lifts Meaningless Glimpse Curtains Acquaintance

Book:Out of the Silent Planet

Source: Out of the Silent Planet

“God is going to reveal to us things He never revealed before if we put our hands in His. No books ever go into my laboratory. The thing I am to do and the way of doing it are revealed to me. I never have to grope for methods. The method is revealed to me the moment I am inspired to create something new. Without God to draw aside the curtain I would be helpless.”

Ifs Way Book Moments Hands Would Be Draws Method Inspired Something New Helpless Curtains Laboratory Without God

Author:George Washington Carver

“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.”

Matter Felt Darkness Path Rain Wave Dawn Height Curtains Emerging Crashing Down

Book:Life of Pi - CANCELED

Source: Life of Pi - CANCELED

“at last you, will say (maybe without speaking) (there are mountains inside your skull garden and chaos, ocean and hurricane; certain corners of rooms, portraits of great-grandmothers, curtains of a particular shade; your deserts; your private dinosaurs; the first woman) all i need to know: tell me everything just as it was from the beginning.”

Knows Needs Firsts Lasts Certain Rooms Particular Mountain Ocean Garden Chaos Corners Desert Grandmother Shade Portraits Curtains Hurricanes Skulls Dinosaurs Great Grandmother

Book:Selected Poems: 1965-1975

Source: Selected Poems: 1965-1975

“The moth settled onto the curtain and sat still. It was an astonishing creature, with black and white wings patterned in geometric shapes, scarlet underwings, and a fat white body with black spots running down it like a snowman's coal buttons. No human eye had looked at this moth before; no one would see its friends. So much detail goes unnoticed in the world.”

Source: Prodigal Summer

“Neal stood, kicking free of the clinging curtain. "I'll kill you." I drew the firestar and pointed it at him. "I don't think so." "She is pack now," Sylvie said. "You fight one of us, and you fight all of us." Edward raised his eyebrows at me. "What is going on, Anita?" "I think I've been adopted," I said.”

Thinking Said Fighting Raised Packs Curtains Adopted Eyebrows Kicking Clinging

Book:Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter collection 6-10

Source: Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter collection 6-10

“It was an overcast late November morning, the grass splintered by hoarfrost, and winter grinning through the gaps in the clouds like a bad clown peering through the curtains before the show begins.”

Shows Morning Late Winter Clouds Grass Gaps Curtains Clown November Grinning Overcast

Book:The John Connolly Collection #2: The White Road, The Black Angel, and The Unquiet

Source: The John Connolly Collection #2: The White Road, The Black Angel, and The Unquiet

“For me the world has always been more of a puppet show. But when one looks behind the curtain and traces the strings upward he finds they terminate in the hands of yet other puppets, themselves with their own strings which trace upward in turn, and so on. In my own life I saw these strings whose origins were endless enact the deaths of great men in violence and madness. Enact the ruin of a nation.”

Source: The Border Trilogy: Picador Classic

“I..." He struggled to answer. "When everything was quiet, I went up to the corridor and the curtain in the livingroom was open just a crack... I could see outside. I watched, only for a few seconds." He had not seen the outside world for twenty-two months. There was no anger or reproach. It was Papa who spoke. How did it look?" Max lifted his head, with great sorrow and great astonishment. "There were stars," he said. "They burned by eyes.”

World Looks Said Two Eye Stars Answers Months Sorrow Quiet Twenties Spokes Cracks Seconds Burned Curtains Max Outside World Reproach Two Months Astonishment Corridors Papa Twenty Two No Anger

Author:Markus Zusak

“And then, at night, the lit lamp and the drawn curtain, with the flutter of the turned page and soft scrape of pen on paper the only sounds to break the silence between quarter- and quarter-chime.”

Night Sound Silence Break Paper Pages Pens Quarters Curtains Lit Lamps Chimes

Book:Gaudy Night

Source: Gaudy Night

“Out- out are the lights- out all! And, over each quivering form, The curtain, a funeral pall, Comes down with the rush of a storm, While the angels, all pallid and wan, Uprising, unveiling, affirm That the play is the tragedy, "Man," And its hero the Conqueror Worm.”

Men Play Light Form Hero Angel Tragedy Storm Funeral Worms Curtains Conqueror Uprising Unveiling

Book:Complete Poems

Source: Complete Poems

“End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path, one that we all must take. The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to silver glass, and then you see it.”

World Ends Turns Path Journey This World Rain Glasses Rings Silver Grey Curtains Return Of The King Pippin Lord Of The Ring

Author:J. R. R. Tolkien

“His vision, from the constantly passing bars, has grown so weary that it cannot hold anything else. It seems to him there are a thousand bars, and behind the bars, no world. As he paces in cramped circles, over and over, the movement of his powerful soft strides is like a ritual dance around a center in which a mighty will stands paralyzed. Only at times, the curtain of the pupils lifts, quietly. An image enters in, rushes down through the tense, arrested muscles, plunges into the heart and is gone.”

Source: The best of Rilke: 72 form-true verse translations with facing originals, commentary, and compact biography ; translated by Walter Arndt ; foreword by Cyrus Hamlin

“We can see the film stars of yesterday in yesterday’s films, hear the voices of poest and singers on a record, keep the plays of dead dramatists upon our bookshelves, but the actor who holds his audience captive for one brief moment upon a lighted stage vanishes forever when the curtain falls.”

Play Moments Film Fall Actors Stars Voice Acting Audience Forever Records Stage Singers Yesterday Curtains Captives Bookshelves Brief Moments Film Stars

Book:The Rebecca notebook and other memories

Source: The Rebecca notebook and other memories