#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

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. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#curtain #hard #iron #iron curtain #reminders

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. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#curtain #draw #essay #good #must

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

— Emile Hirsch

#cooler #curtain #dude #how #little

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

I've had some of the best craft services on independent movies, actually, because they get more creative, generally, with a smaller budget. The work is still the same. I didn't really notice the difference other than I was getting dressed behind a curtain, basically. ↗

— Jennifer Beals

#basically #because #behind #best #budget

It was still quite light out of doors, but inside with the curtains drawn and the smouldering fire sending out a dim, uncertain glow, the room was full of deep shadows. ↗

— Kate Chopin

#deep #dim #doors #drawn #fire

I never went to business school. I was just bumbling through a lot of my life. I was like the guy behind the curtain in The Wizard of Oz. ↗

— David Geffen

#business #business school #curtain #guy #i

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

— James Russell Lowell

#curtain #heart #his #own #sat

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

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#before #curtain #falling #heart #his