#curtain

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

— Rainer Maria Rilke

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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. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#behind #blow #clock #curtains #dawned

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

— Bill Shankly

#curtains #down #draw #everton #garden

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. ↗

— Nina Bawden

#burglars #curtains #dull #friend #grew

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. ↗

— Maria Callas

#becomes #before #begins #come #curtain

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. ↗

— Robert Caro

#come #curtain #doors #down #go

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. ↗

— Angela Lansbury

#buses #curtain #every #every night #go

I would rather the man who presents something for my consideration subject me to a zephyr of truth and a gentle breeze of responsibility rather than blow me down with a curtain of hot wind. ↗

— Grover Cleveland

#breeze #consideration #curtain #down #gentle

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. ↗

— Damien Hirst

#always #because #came #colour #curtains

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

— Douglas Horton

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