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Curtain Quotes
From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. - Sir Winston Churchill Quotes
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 Quotes
The horrors of the Second World War, the chilling winds of the Cold War and the crushing weight of the Iron Curtain are little more than fading memories. Ideals that once commanded great loyalty are now taken for granted. - Jan Peter Balkenende Quotes
People look at me and go, You must have it made. You have girls. You have a great life. Its not true. I mean you pull the curtain away, and you see Im just as insecure and neurotic and scared and vulnerable as anybody, you know. - John Stamos Quotes
The world of learning is so broad, and the human soul is so limited in power! We reach forth and strain every nerve, but we seize only a bit of the curtain that hides the infinite from us. - Maria Mitchell Quotes
God continues to lift the curtain and allow the enemies of America to give us probably what we deserve. - Jerry Falwell Quotes
Once the curtain is raised, the actor is ceases to belong to himself. He belongs to his character, to his author, to his public. He must do the impossible to identify himself with the first, not to betray the second, and not to disappoint the third. - Sarah Bernhardt Quotes
From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. - Winston Churchill Quotes
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 Quotes
But scientists on both sides of the iron curtain played a very significant role in maintaining the momentum of the nuclear arms race throughout the four decades of the Cold War. - Joseph Rotblat Quotes
Believe me, it jabs you. When youre on the side of buses and New York loves you, you love to go out there every night. Its like a race. Curtain opens, out you go, and New York is yours. - Angela Lansbury Quotes
Hurried and worried until were buried, and theres no curtain call, Lifes a very funny proposition after all. - George M Cohan Quotes
The road passed through a curtain of pine forest and came out on a flat, rolling snow field. In this field the sprawled or bunched bodies of Germans lay thick, like some dark shapeless vegetable. - Martha Gellhorn Quotes
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 Quotes
My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down. - T S Eliot Quotes
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 Quotes
We didnt know anything about comedy duos - Abbot and Costello, Martin and Lewis - we didnt 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 Quotes
He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain - no matter what - after he had bought it and placed it among his household gods. - Kate Chopin Quotes
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 Quotes
When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away. - Harold Macmillan Quotes
Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star. - Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes
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 Quotes
The moment the curtain rose on that first ballet, I knew something wonderful and new had come into my life. I can still see the first scene. The ballet was Divertimento No. 15. - Robert Caro Quotes
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 youre in another world. - Robert Caro Quotes
I wrote somewhere during the Cold War that I sometimes wish the Iron Curtain were much taller than it is, so that you could see whether the development of science with no communication was parallel on the two sides. In this case it certainly wasnt. - Thomas Gold Quotes
Theres the fatigue that you have to forget about, because the red curtain still has to rise. - Mireille Mathieu Quotes
On the morrow the horizon was covered with clouds- a thick and impenetrable curtain between earth and sky, which unhappily extended as far as the Rocky Mountains. It was a fatality! - Jules Verne Quotes
I didnt like the play, but then I saw it under adverse conditions - the curtain was up. - Groucho Marx Quotes
I always liked the magic of poetry but now Im just starting to see behind the curtain of even the best poets, how theyve used, tried and tested craft to create the illusion. Wonderful feeling of exhilaration to finally be there. - David Knopfler Quotes
Its not scary to make a horror film because you get to pull back the curtain and see that none of its real. When youre watching one, the terror bombards you. - Josh Hartnett Quotes
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