Top Curtain 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
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.
Rudolf Bing
Conscience is the window of our spirit, evil is the curtain.
Douglas Horton
One of the few things in dance to match the Royal Ballet's curtain calls is the Royal Ballet's dancing.
Clive Barnes
My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down.
T. S. Eliot
Dwight D. Eisenhower 
Jerry Falwell 
E. B. White 
Maria Callas 
Angie Stone 
Eli Wallach 
Virginia Woolf 
James Russell Lowell 
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Kate Chopin All Curtain Quotes
Hurried and worried until we're buried, and there's no curtain call, Lifes a very funny proposition after all.
George M. Cohan 
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God continues to lift the curtain and allow the enemies of America to give us probably what we deserve.
Jerry Falwell
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You could get in rehearsals, pre-production, anything that would actually contribute to the understanding of how a film gets made. I actually find those things increase people's interest in a movie and like that better than worrying about showing the tricks behind the curtain.
Jay Roach
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Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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Well, I go to the theater today, and its curtain - there is no curtain in this play; the lights go down and go up - and we start. And I live this character for two hours. There are only two of us in the play. And It's a complete experience.
Eli Wallach
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Why do we need to wait until somebody sells 10 million records to give people a show like that? What about us smaller, hungry folk? At least gimme a curtain!
Angie Stone
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I had a jeep made up for Michael, and he would take it on tour, and he would hide behind it, like a curtain.
Rick Dees
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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
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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 wasn't.
Thomas Gold
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Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain.
James Russell Lowell
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Popular Curtain Authors
Henry David ThoreauWinston ChurchillDwight D. EisenhowerVirginia WoolfGroucho MarxJames Russell LowellT. S. EliotDouglas HortonJerry FalwellRainer Maria RilkeE. B. WhiteEli WallachJoseph RotblatNatan SharanskyNorman Lear
Harold MacMillanJay RoachJohn CameronGrover ClevelandDavid GeffenJennifer BealsMaria CallasMartha GellhornRobert CaroSarah BernhardtDavid KnopflerKel MitchellKate ChopinAngela LansburyJames Stewart
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