1.
If Everton were playing down the bottom of my garden, I'd draw the curtains.
Bill Shankly
2.
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
3.
There is someone who looks after us
from behind the curtain.
In truth we are not here, this is our shadow.
Rumi
4.
Leave the shower curtain on the inside of the tub.
Conrad Hilton
5.
When the curtain rises, the only thing that speaks is courage.
Maria Callas
6.
The curtain of the universe is moth-eaten, and through its holes we see nothing now but mask and ghost.
Emile M. Cioran
7.
My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down.
T. S. Eliot
8.
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
9.
Remember to tuck the shower curtain inside the bathtub.
Conrad Hilton
10.
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
11.
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
13.
There's the fatigue that you have to forget about, because the red curtain still has to rise.
Mireille Mathieu
14.
Obviously some cheap motel is missing a shower curtain.
Bobby Heenan
15.
It is well for young men to have a model, but let them draw the curtain over it while they are painting.
Paul Gauguin
17.
As soon as you just walk through the curtains and the crowd's there, everything's good after that.
Gail Kim
18.
The best prophets lead you up to the curtain and let you peer through for yourself.
Frank Herbert
21.
That's it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.
Al McGuire
22.
Don't thank me,' Mr. Curtain called as the door slid closed. 'Impress me!
Trenton Lee Stewart
23.
When we went on the air, I didn't want to be interrupted for an act-one curtain.
Norman Lear
24.
You're going to get violated in that ring. I am going to close the curtain on the joke that is the Audley Harrison show.
David Haye
25.
What's exciting is there's a curtain that divides the audience from this other world. You want to see behind.
Matthew Macfadyen
26.
Au contraire..." "What?" Constance demanded. Curtain blinked. ~ The Perilous Journey
Trenton Lee Stewart
27.
Let us draw the curtain of charity over the rest of this scene
Mark Twain
28.
I am the Wizard of Oz of housewives (in that I am both "Great and Terrible" and because I sometimes hide behind the curtains
Jenny Lawson
29.
How much cooler was Oz than seeing the little dude behind the curtain?
Emile Hirsch
30.
The light can be a curtain as well as the darkness.
George Eliot
31.
... and the very folds of the curtains contained secrets and sighs.
Anais Nin
32.
For many of us, the curtain had just come down on childhood.
Mitch Albom
33.
I always feel that there is a curtain, you know, that if I could just peek behind the curtain I'd see how the world really works. And since I haven't had it I have to write about it instead.
Charles de Lint
34.
Let the thick curtain fall;I better know than allHow little I have gained,How vast the unattained.
John Greenleaf Whittier
35.
Weigh down your curtains with a proper 5-inch hem. It makes them much more proportioned and professional-looking.
Emily Henderson
36.
Working on an essay versus a novel is like the difference between seeing to that curtain and seeing to New Jersey.
Sloane Crosley
38.
The one charm about the past is that it is the past. But women never know when the curtain has fallen.
Oscar Wilde
40.
Despite being extremely professional, Michael Caine has a giggle which was lethal for me because once you catch his eyes, once you realize the other person is a giggler too, it's curtains.
Emily Mortimer
41.
Fall the deep curtains,
delicate the weave,
fair the thread.
Hilda Doolittle
42.
We humans have always needed rituals to draw like curtains over the chasms of the unknown. Without them we go mad, I think.
Patricia J. Williams
43.
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
44.
After all, no one is ever taken in by the happy ending, but we are often divinely fuddled by the tragic curtain.
Lionel Trilling