Curtain Quotes

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.

I don't display my plaques and honors. They are hidden behind a black curtain in my work room at home.

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.

In these times of the 'Great Recession', we shouldn't be trying to shift the benefits of wealth behind some curtain. We should be celebrating and encouraging people to make as much money as they can. Profits equal tax money. While some people might find it distasteful to pay taxes, I don't. I find it patriotic.

There's the fatigue that you have to forget about, because the red curtain still has to rise.

Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain.

Believe me, it jabs you. When you're on the side of buses and New York loves you, you love to go out there every night. It's like a race. Curtain opens, out you go, and New York is yours.

You come in off the street, through the doors of the theater. You sit down. The lights go down and the curtain goes up. And you're in another world.

The road passed through a curtain of pine forest and came out on a flat, rolling snow field. In this field the sprawled or bunched bodies of Germans lay thick, like some dark shapeless vegetable.

One of the few things in dance to match the Royal Ballet's curtain calls is the Royal Ballet's dancing.

Well, I go to the theater today, and its curtain - there is no curtain in this play; the lights go down and go up - and we start. And I live this character for two hours. There are only two of us in the play. And It's a complete experience.

Curtain! Fast music! Light! Ready for the last finale! Great! The show looks good, the show looks good!

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.

It's strange because even in the vaudeville days, ventriloquists were never the main attraction. They were the guys brought out to stand in front of the curtain while sets were being changed. Ventriloquism wasn't even celebrated as an art until Edgar Bergen came along in the 1930s.

When we went on the air, I didn't want to be interrupted for an act-one curtain.

From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.

How much cooler was Oz than seeing the little dude behind the curtain?

With Hitchcock I had little relationship. I was called to replace Bernard Herrmann, his favorite composer, in Torn Curtain, after the bitter fight between them.

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

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

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.

I mean you pull the curtain away, and you see I'm just as insecure and neurotic and scared and vulnerable as anybody, you know.

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!

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.

My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down.

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.

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

An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I've left the opera house.

I wrote somewhere during the Cold War that I sometimes wish the Iron Curtain were much taller than it is, so that you could see whether the development of science with no communication was parallel on the two sides. In this case it certainly wasn't.