Curtains Quotes

Curtains Quote of the day

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.

When the tea is brought at five o'clock And all the neat curtains are drawn with care, The little black cat with bright green eyes Is suddenly purring there.

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

If Everton were playing down the bottom of my garden, I'd draw the curtains.

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.

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

Leave the shower curtain on the inside of the tub.

The curtain of the universe is moth-eaten, and through its holes we see nothing now but mask and ghost.

We are surrounded by curtains. We only perceive the world behind a curtain of semblance. At the same time, an object needs to be covered in order to be recognized at all.

My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down.

At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.

He had never known such gallantry as the gallantry of Scarlett O'Hara going forth to conquer the world in her mother's velvet curtains and the tail feathers of a rooster.

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.

Sometimes I feel like tap-dancing, screeching, unscrewing light bulbs, pulling curtains, combing hair, doing knee bends, handstands and turning somersaults out there.

Remember to tuck the shower curtain inside the bathtub.

I would have it inscribed on the curtains of your bed and the walls of your chamber: "If you do not rise early you can make progress in nothing."

I don't live for stuff and things, and if I had to live in a cardboard box, I would put curtains on it.

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

Bring down the curtain, the farce is over

I made her the queen of my double wide trailer with the polyester curtains and redwood deck.

Obviously some cheap motel is missing a shower curtain.

It is well for young men to have a model, but let them draw the curtain over it while they are painting.

Not only would I never want to belong to any club that would have me for a member--if elected I would wear street shoes onto the squash court and set fire to the ballroom curtains.

As soon as you just walk through the curtains and the crowd's there, everything's good after that.

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.

Pessimism drops the curtain on tomorrow.

When the curtain falls no one is ready

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

You know you knit too much when ... Before you buy anything, such as a hammock or curtains, you seriously wonder whether you could knit it.

The fringed curtains of thine eye advance, And say what thou seest yond.

I have always found it difficult to wait for things - whether it was to see my father or sailor brother, Alan, again after their long sea trips, or the chance of a better job, or even new curtains.

With the black and white films, one was concerned with tone... You had to make sure that the tone of your dress was not the same tone as the curtains, for instance.

Spring is beautiful, and smells sweet. Spring is when you shake the curtains, and pound on the rugs, and take off your long underwear, and wash in all the corners.

That's it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.

When we went on the air, I didn't want to be interrupted for an act-one curtain.

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

You might be a redneck if your house doesn't have curtains, but your truck does.

Lillian Gish may be a charming person, but she is not Ophelia. She comes on stage as if she had been sent for to sew rings on the new curtains.

Moonlight slipped in through the lace curtains, slicing everything with its sliver cracks. That's how I felt right now - cold and cracked and hollow and empty.

If you want to gnaw greenery in the morning for health reasons, do it in your own home with the curtains drawn.

(You wouldn't believe how many people will hang up a picture of an electric chair? especially if it matches the color of their curtains.

You and me are going to have so much fun, Rose. Picking out curtains, doing each other's hair, telling ghost stories.

Hell take curtains! Go with some show of inconvenience; sit openly - to the weather as to grief. Or do you think you can shut your grief in?

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

...It all seemed to him to have disappeared as if behind a curtain at a theater. There are such curtains that drop in life. God is moving on to the next act.

We humans have always needed rituals to draw like curtains over the chasms of the unknown. Without them we go mad, I think.

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

The one charm about the past is that it is the past. But women never know when the curtain has fallen.

It's curtains for you, Mighty Mouse! This gun is so futuristic that even I don't know how it works!

Au contraire..." "What?" Constance demanded. Curtain blinked. ~ The Perilous Journey