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The curtain rises on a vast primitive wasteland, not unlike certain parts of New jersey. — Woody Allen

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

Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain! — L. Frank Baum

I stay awake all night. My knees curled up to my chin, my arms wrapped tight around my small frame, my long brown hair the only curtain between us. — Tahereh Mafi

That summer rain I mean that is so quiet and matter of fact and falls straight down like a curtain. Now — Elizabeth Berg

Nothing feeds the center of being so much as creative work. The curtain of mechanization has come down between the mind and the hand. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The light can be a curtain as well as the darkness. — George Eliot

I feel like a curtain has dropped away and i'm seeing people for who they really are, different, and sharp, and unknowable. — Lauren Oliver

We didn't talk much, and the silence hung like a silk curtain, light and lovely. — Katherine Reay

An iron curtain has descended over Europe. — Winston Churchill

Behind the curtain's mystic fold The glowing future lies unrolled. — Neil Gaiman

Truth hides behind the curtain of illusion. We often get lost in illusion and forget to find the truth. — Debasish Mridha

The easiest way to have a peek behind the curtain is to learn from those that are ahead of you. — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Obviously some cheap motel is missing a shower curtain. — Bobby Heenan

I am the bridge between the bleeding edge and the dead center. I stand between the Wizard of Oz and the man behind the curtain.
I am the curtain. — Peter Watts

The land of litigation, the courts are like game shows. Take what's behind the curtain the jury cries. — Joni Mitchell

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

I love telling stories, whether I'm the human instrument that helps tell that story, or I'm the man behind the curtain. — Ray McKinnon

No one in particular. A man of no importance. CURTAIN — Oscar Wilde

Normally we'd draw the curtain here, but I just wanted to see what he'd play next. — Bobby Fischer

Working on an essay versus a novel is like the difference between seeing to that curtain and seeing to New Jersey. — Sloane Crosley

Au contraire..."
"What?" Constance demanded.
Curtain blinked.
~ The Perilous Journey — Trenton Lee Stewart

Last time you called me late at night you were naked and chained to your shower curtain rod. I hope this isn't going to be disappointing. — Janet Evanovich

For true growth and multiplication there must be a curtain time span. — Sunday Adelaja

Remember to tuck the shower curtain inside the bathtub. — Conrad Hilton

We are in the black theater of nonexistence. In an eye blink the curtain is up, the stage ablaze, for the vast drama of ourselves. — Herman Wouk

If you come within two feet of this curtain, I will poke out your eyes while you sleep. — Jamie McGuire

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

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

There is a hand behind every curtain,' " she quoted. " 'And a knife in every hand,' " finished Mara. — Raymond E. Feist

The play is done; the curtain drops,
Slow falling to the prompter's bell
A moment yet the actor stops
And looks around to say farewell. — William Makepeace Thackeray

For many of us, the curtain had just come down on childhood. — Mitch Albom

Quarrelling with the Prince of Barrow was like fighting a curtain. Robin Stewart gave up. — Dorothy Dunnett

We will draw the curtain and show you the picture. — William Shakespeare

Players prefer the FA Cup because it's the end of season curtain-raiser. — Peter Withe

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

Somewhere beyond the curtain Of distorting days Lives that lonely thing That shone before these eyes Targeted, trod like Spring. — William Butler Yeats

Joy and truth both have a way
of peeking through any dark curtain. — Margarita Engle

It is useless to put news agency stories behind the paid curtain because they are available in thousands of other places that will be free. — Robert G. Picard

Bull. Shit. You want to get busy with him. You want to climb him like a cat on a curtain, Denise said with undisguised relish. — Sarah Mayberry

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

When the wind blows, curtain steps aside; when the genius blows, the intelligent stands aside! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Like the sound of a velvet curtain being drawn aside on a peaceful morning to let sunlight wake someone very special to you. — Haruki Murakami

My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down. — T. S. Eliot

Whether you win or not, the night the Oscars are over, the curtain goes down and you go back to the grind. Period. — Marcia Gay Harden

There's no twilight in the tropics. Night falls like a curtain. — Waldemar Young

Who has not sat, afraid, before his heart's curtain? — Rainer Maria Rilke

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

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

Each successive Labour Government has been the most rapacious, doctrinaire and unpatriotic conspiracy to be seen this side of the Iron Curtain. — Roy Jenkins

Living room by a curtain of colored beads. The room's furnishings consisted of a table, an image of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, — Paulo Coelho

If the curtain is indeed about to drop on Sapiens history, — Yuval Noah Harari

Grief is a little like being in a fresh snowfall. A light, cold curtain falls between you and the rest of the world. — Elise Forier Edie

Ke$ha is her art; there is no curtain you peel back to find the real person. And with Ke$ha, you never know what to expect when you're in the studio. — Benny Blanco

blue shower curtain — Stephen King

My decorating and renovation skills are nil - indeed, I once used a shower curtain from Pottery Barn as 'window dressing.' — Candace Bushnell

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

America is a nation of illusions; illusions in the media, schools and government - an iron curtain of propaganda. — Bryant McGill

You know, entertainment is just a curtain at the end of the day. — Aubrey O'Day

Even the disappointing diffusion of a sheer curtain can suggest the most colorful bouquet of unspeakable secrets. — Chris Ware

Gold is the fool's curtain, which hides all his defects from the world. — Owen Feltham

A storm was coming up from the south, moving slowly. It looked something like a huge blue-gray shower curtain being drawn along by the hand of God. — Barbara Kingsolver

He let the curtain drop and the terrible light that had played on his features went off to play somewhere more healthy. — Douglas Adams

There's something in life that's a curtain, and I keep trying to raise it. — Maxine Hong Kingston

When twilight drops her curtain down And pins it with a star Remember that you have a friend Though she may wander far. — L.M. Montgomery

So he held toward them an attitude of iron reserve; he lived with them, but behind a wall, a curtain. And toward himself he was even more exacting. — Richard Wright

People say I was made for this
Nothin' else would I trade for this
And just think I get paid for this... — Bobby Darin

Do you mind if I pull down the curtain? — F Scott Fitzgerald

Take it from someone who fled the Iron Curtain: I know what happens when you give the Russians a green light. — Madeleine Albright

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

Life has dazzling beauty. To see it, open the window of the mind and remove the curtain of conformity. — Debasish Mridha

A heroin-thin boy with enough rings in his eyebrows to resemble a shower curtain rod ... — Jodi Picoult

I am one of those people who believes that the solution to the world's problems is to be found behind the Iron Curtain. — Che Guevara

I am going to seek a great perhaps; draw a curtain, the farce is played out. — Francois Rabelais

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. — E.B. White

I miss theater. I miss living the arc of the character, from curtain to curtain, and I miss the immediate audience response. — David Anders

I always stayed for the first curtain call and people always said, 'Who's that?' But this got me started in acting. — James Stewart

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

Bombardment, barrage, curtain-fire, mines, gas, tanks, machine-guns, hand-grenades - words, words, but they hold the horror of the world. — Erich Maria Remarque

I'd get me a bunch of bats and balls and sneak me a couple of umpires and learn them kids behind the Iron Curtain how to tote a bat and play baseball. — Dizzy Dean

How can one capture genes that behave like ghosts," Weinberg wrote, "influencing cells from behind some dark curtain? — Siddhartha Mukherjee

19 We have this hope as an anchor for our lives, safe and secure. It enters the inner sanctuary behind the curtain. — Anonymous

When you open a book it's like going to the theater first you see the curtain then it is pulled aside and the show begins. — Cornelia Funke

It was the Victorians who covered the piano legs and drew a heavy curtain over what a lady got up to in her boudoir. — Laurie Graham

I don't know what is behind the curtain; only that I need to find out. — Richard Paul Evans

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

I see the world through a diaphanous curtain of blood. — Rick Yancey

In economy, invisible hand is a set of wealthy men.
It's the puppeteer who's in charge behind the curtain. — Toba Beta

When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away. — Harold Macmillan

Do me a favor this morning. Draw the curtain and come back to bed.
Forget the coffee. We'll pretend
we're in a foreign country, and in love. — Raymond Carver

Old Year! upon the Stage of Time You stand to bow your last adieu; A moment, and the prompter's chime Will ring the curtain down on you. — Robert W. Service

The evening breeze floated through the open window over my desk, waltzing the curtain from side to side. — Ruta Sepetys

That's what you do when the curtain is falling
you give the line that the audience wants to hear. — Rick Yancey

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

Mass inflation, welfare line, gross economy, trade it all for what's behind curtain number three. — Joe Walsh

Because that's what you do when the curtain is falling, you say the line the audience wants to hear. — Rick Yancey

For pilots sometimes see behind the curtain, behind the veil of gossamer velvet, and find the truth behind man, the force behind a universe. — Richard Bach

Let us draw the curtain of charity over the rest of this scene — Mark Twain

In the end when the last curtain falls, if all you have is gold ... then you truly have nothing at all! — Timothy Pina

The final curtain of life's play is dropp'd. — Ian Doescher