#curtain

People used to think I was just a shouty comic but I was doing stuff about Sartre. ↗

— Alexei Sayle

#deranged #different #drapes #elevator #git

The journalists have obviously failed to capture my innate magnetism, humour and charisma, and they all need to be fired from their newspapers right away. ↗

— Alexei Sayle

#deranged #different #drapes #elevator #git

It used to happen in villages and towns in China that they would have - I guess you'd call them beauty contests - where all of the women of a particular village or town would be seated behind these screens or curtains with only their feet showing. ↗

— Lisa See

#behind #call #china #contests #curtains

This scepticism is the same scepticism I heard a generation ago in the USSR when few thought that a democratic transformation behind the iron curtain was possible. ↗

— Natan Sharansky

#behind #curtain #democratic #few #generation

It wasn't until 'Smokey Joe's' came out that I actually got to step out from behind the curtain and meet our 'fans.' ↗

— Mike Stoller

#behind #came #curtain #fans #got

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. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#comes #curtains #dawn #grass #hidden

We didn't know anything about comedy duos - Abbot and Costello, Martin and Lewis - we didn't know anything about that. Kim Fields showed us a tape of Martin and Lewis and their old shows and they come through the curtain so we started doing research on them. ↗

— Kel Mitchell

#anything #come #comedy #costello #curtain

Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star. ↗

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

#down #drops #her #pins #star

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

— Clive Barnes

#calls #curtain #dance #dancing #few

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. ↗

— Rudolf Bing

#any #comes #curtain #disaster #down