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  • Just beyond the ticket booth Father had painted on a wall in bright red letters the question: DO YOU KNOW WHICH IS THE MOST DANGEROUS ANIMAL IN THE ZOO? An arrow pointed to a small curtain. There were so many eager, curious hands that pulled at the curtain that we had to replace it regularly. Behind it was a mirror.

    Zoos   Wall   Father  
    Yann Martel, Canongate Books (2007). “Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition”, p.45, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Let the thick curtain fall;I better know than allHow little I have gained,How vast the unattained.

    Fall   Littles   Curtains  
    John Greenleaf Whittier (2012). “Poems of Nature, Poems Subjective and Reminiscent and Religious Poems, Complete Volume II., the Works of Whittier”, p.102, tredition
  • It's nowhere near as intense as what I imagine an actor experiences backstage, but I feel a fluttering nervousness before a curtain goes up on a play. I mean, any play, anywhere - on Broadway or the Bowery or in a church basement.

    Mean   Play   Church  
  • One of the few things in dance to match the Royal Ballet's curtain calls is the Royal Ballet's dancing.

    Dance   Dancing   Ballet  
  • When the ice of winter holds the house in its rigid grip, when curtains are drawn against that vast frozen waste of landscape, almost like a hibernating hedgehog I relish the security of being withdrawn from all that summer ferment that is long since past. Then is the time for reappraisal: to spread out, limp and receptive, and let garden thoughts rise to the surface. They emerge from some deep source of stillness which the very fact of winter has released.

    Summer   Winter   Past  
  • Lift the curtain and 'the State' reveals itself as a little group of fallible men in Whitehall, making guesses about the future, influenced by political prejudices and partisan prejudices, and working on projections drawn from the past by a staff of economists.

    Past   Men   Political  
    John Enoch Powell, John Wood (1970). “Freedom and reality”, Arlington House Publishers
  • It is said that ridicule is the test of truth; but it is never applied except when we wish to deceive ourselves - when if we cannot exclude the light, we would fain draw the curtain before it. The sneer springs out of the wish to deny; and wretched must that state of mind be, that wishes to take refuge in doubt.

    Spring   Light   Doubt  
  • I don't think it's a director's job to peek behind the curtain too much.

  • Sometimes someone coming in doesn't have the natural passion for it, but they find it through the coaching or mentoring I give them. I'm sort of opening curtains or blinds and all of a sudden they see it, they get it.

    Source: www.bbc.co.uk
  • I feel sorry for a culture that depends too much on delegating its musical expression to professionals. It is fine to have heroes, but we should do our own singing first, even if it is never heard beyond the shower curtain.

    Music   Sorry   Hero  
  • You have won the Cold War. ... [Your] underappreciated valor [helped] topple the Berlin Wall, and bring down dictators the world over. ... For the past four decades the world behind the Iron Curtain ... looked to Americans for hope, and America looked to you to get the job done. Today, the free world says thank you.

    Jobs   Wall   War  
  • Somewhere, sometime, somehow you got tangled up in garbage, and you've been avoiding God. You've allowed a veil of guilt to come between you and your Father. You wonder if you could ever feel close to God again. The message of the torn flesh is you can. God welcomes you. God is not avoiding you. God is not resisting you. The curtain is down, the door is open, and God invites you in

    Father   Doors   Tangled  
    Max Lucado (2012). “He Chose the Nails”, p.191, Thomas Nelson Inc
  • It's the first time I'm going to be on my own this Christmas and I'm really looking forward to not having any cards or decorations up. So I'll be in London, sit on my couch, arms folded, curtains drawn, having a drink.

  • But I have never had the privilege of unhappiness in Happy Valley. California is about the good life. So a bad life there seems so much worse than a bad life anywhere else. Quality is an obsession there—good food, good wine, good movies, music, weather, cars. Those sound like the right things to shoot for, but the never-ending quality quest is a lot of pressure when you’re uncertain and disorganized and, not least, broker than broke. Some afternoons a person just wants to rent Die Hard, close the curtains, and have Cheerios for lunch.

    Good Life   Wine   Lunch  
  • Opportunities may come along for you to convert something -something that exists into something that didn't yet. That might be the beginning of it. Sometimes you just want to do things your way, want to see for yourself what lies behind the misty curtain. It's not like you see songs approaching and invite them in. It's not that easy. You want to write songs that are bigger than life. You want to say something about strange things that have happened to you, strange things you have seen. You have to know and understand something and then go past the vernacular.

    Song   Lying   Writing  
  • You cannot see the Grand Canyon in one view, as if it were a changeless spectacle from which a curtain might be lifted, but to see it you have to toil from month to month through its labyrinths.

    Views   Labyrinth   Toil  
    John Wesley Powell (2008). “Canyons of the Colorado”, p.397, Cosimo, Inc.
  • You grow old when you lose interest in life, when you cease to dream, to hunger after new truths, and to search for new worlds to conquer. When your mind is open to new ideas, new interests, and when you raise the curtain and let in the sunshine and inspiration of new truths of life and the universe, you will be young and vital.

    Joseph Murphy (2011). “The Power of Your Subconscious Mind: Unlock the Secrets Within”, p.184, Penguin
  • There are two sighs of relief every night in the life of an opera manager. The first comes when the curtain goes up The second sigh of relief comes when the final curtain goes down without any disaster, and one realizes, gratefully, that the miracle has happened again.

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

    Book   Night   Fire  
  • The land of litigation, the courts are like game shows. Take what's behind the curtain the jury cries.

    Land   Games   Politics  
    Song: The Windfall, Album: Night Ride Home
  • Come, evening, once again, season of peace; Return, sweet evening, and continue long! Methinks I see thee in the streaky west, With matron step, slow moving, while the night Treads on thy sweeping train; one hand employ'd In letting fall the curtain of repose On bird and beast, the other charged for man With sweet oblivion of the cares of day.

    Sweet   Moving   Fall  
    William Cowper, James Montgomery (1859). “Poems ... With an introductory essay by James Montgomery. [With plates.]”, p.215
  • Tuesdays and Thursdays, I didn't do any press, I didn't do any meetings, I just wrote all day, 'cause I'd meet, via Skype, with the creative team, at five p.m., and then I would have my seven o'clock curtain.

    Team   Tuesday   Creative  
    Source: kellystilwell.com
  • It was like falling off a building and suddenly, bang, you hit the bottom. The first time it happened was on an ordinary day at home. I was taking down some curtains. I took one step, turned around, took another step and then I fell and hit my head hard on the rowing machine.

    "Jonah Lomu - The road back" by Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. May 29, 2005.
  • What are you doing?" Nothing. Breaking and entering. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.

    Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.136, Simon and Schuster
  • I miss theater. I miss living the arc of the character, from curtain to curtain, and I miss the immediate audience response.

    Source: collider.com
  • The town was glad with morning light; places that had shown ugly and distrustful all night long, now wore a smile; and sparkling sunbeams dancing on chamber windows, and twinkling through blind and curtain before sleepers’ eyes, shed light even into dreams, and chased away the shadows of the night.

    Dream   Morning   Eye  
    Charles Dickens (2017). “The Complete Novels of Charles Dickens: 20 Illustrated Classics in One Volume: Oliver Twist, The Pickwick Papers, Hard Times, A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations, Nicholas Nickleby, The Old Curiosity Shop, Barnaby Rudge, Martin Chuzzlewit, Dombey and Son, David Copperfield…”, p.2072, e-artnow
  • Out- out are the lights- out all! And, over each quivering form, The curtain, a funeral pall, Comes down with the rush of a storm, While the angels, all pallid and wan, Uprising, unveiling, affirm That the play is the tragedy, "Man," And its hero the Conqueror Worm.

    Hero   Angel   Men  
    Edgar Allan Poe, Thomas Ollive Mabbott (1969). “Complete Poems”, p.326, University of Illinois Press
  • I remember one play [when I was kid] was about this murderous mad scientist, and my whole part was to be the guy who got thrown into a vat of acid as the curtain went up. I was very pissed off at these older kids; they'd outsmarted me.

    Kids   Play   Mad  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • If Everton were playing down the bottom of my garden, I'd draw the curtains.

    Garden   Curtains   Draws  
    Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).
  • I am convinced that of all the people on the two sides of the great curtain, the space pilots are the least likely to hate each other. Like the late Erich von Holst, I believe that the tremendous and otherwise not quite explicable public interest in space flight arises from the subconscious realization that it helps to preserve peace. May it continue to do so!

    Hate   Believe   Space  
    Konrad Lorenz (2002). “On Aggression”, p.273, Psychology Press
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