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Curtains Quotes

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

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

Bill Shankly
Garden, Curtains, Draws
Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

I loved the stage not because it provided an escape from myself or my humdrum life but because when the curtain went up I could be whoever I wanted to be, and that was true freedom - to be myself.

Suzanne Farrell
Humdrum, Stage, Curtains
Suzanne Farrell, Toni Bentley (1990). “Holding on to the air: an autobiography”, Summit Press

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

Rumi
Shadow, Looks, Curtains

Leave the shower curtain on the inside of the tub.

Conrad Hilton
Tubs, Curtains, Showers
Last words, 1979.

When the curtain rises, the only thing that speaks is courage.

Maria Callas
Speak, Curtains

The curtain of the universe is moth-eaten, and through its holes we see nothing now but mask and ghost.

Emile M. Cioran
Ghost, Mask, Curtains

My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down.

T. S. Eliot
Trouble, Curtains, Up And Down

You see these thick curtains shut out the daylight: artificial light suits me a great deal better; it's absolutely steady, and much more exciting.

Pablo Picasso
Light, Suits, Curtains

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

Carmen Dell'Orefice
Stuff, Boxes, Curtains

Remember to tuck the shower curtain inside the bathtub.

Conrad Hilton
Remember, Curtains, Showers

To be admitted to Nature's hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain.

Henry David Thoreau
Nature, Cost, Curtains
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.208, Jazzybee Verlag

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

Mireille Mathieu
Red, Forget, Curtains

Bring down the curtain, the farce is over

Francois Rabelais
Funny, Farce, Curtains

Pessimism drops the curtain on tomorrow.

Robert H. Schuller
Tomorrow, Pessimism, Curtains

It is well for young men to have a model, but let them draw the curtain over it while they are painting.

Paul Gauguin
Men, Painting, Curtains
Paul Gauguin (2012). “Gauguin's Intimate Journals”, p.27, Courier Corporation

Obviously some cheap motel is missing a shower curtain.

Bobby Heenan
Missing, Motels, Curtains

An iron curtain has descended over Europe.

Winston Churchill
Europe, Iron, Curtains

Don't thank me,' Mr. Curtain called as the door slid closed. 'Impress me!

Trenton Lee Stewart
Doors, Curtains, Impress

When the curtain falls no one is ready

Olive Schreiner
Fall, Curtains, Ready
Olive Schreiner (2013). “The Story of an African Farm”, p.14, Courier Corporation

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

Gail Kim
Wwe, Crowds, Curtains

The best prophets lead you up to the curtain and let you peer through for yourself.

Frank Herbert
Peers, Prophet, Curtains
Frank Herbert (1984). “God Emperor of Dune”

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

Norman Lear
Air, Want, Curtains
Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. April 27, 2005.

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

Al McGuire
Race, Balloons, Curtains

We will draw the curtain and show you the picture.

William Shakespeare
Love, Curtains, Shows
William Shakespeare, Elizabeth Story Donno (2004). “Twelfth Night Or What You Will”, p.78, Cambridge University Press

Au contraire..." "What?" Constance demanded. Curtain blinked. ~ The Perilous Journey

Trenton Lee Stewart
Journey, Curtains

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