After all, no one is ever taken in by the happy ending, but we are often divinely fuddled by the tragic curtain.
When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away.
It is well for young men to have a model, but let them draw the curtain over it while they are painting.
. . . until the curtain was rung down on the last act of the drama (and it might have no last act!) he wished the intellectual cripples and the moral hunchbacks not to be jeered at; perhaps they might turn out to be the heroes of the play.
I was a girl in a land where rifles are fired in celebration of a son, while daughters are hidden away behind a curtain, their role in life simply to prepare food and give birth to children.
Obviously some cheap motel is missing a shower curtain.
We will draw the curtain and show you the picture.
Whenever it poured like this, Max felt as if time was pausing. It was like a cease-fire during which you could stop whatever you were doing and just stand by a window for hours, watching the performance, an endless curtain of tears falling from heaven.
Joy and truth both have a way of peeking through any dark curtain.
I don't think it's a director's job to peek behind the curtain too much.
Whatever it is that occurs at death, I believe it deserves to be called a miracle. The miracle, ironically, is that we don't die. The cessation of the body is an illusion, and like a magician sweeping aside a curtain, the soul reveals what lies beyond.
When twilight drops her curtain down And pins it with a star Remember that you have a friend Though she may wander far.
People behind the Iron curtain have such an incredible image of America and jazz. I expected to find a Gerry Mulligan or Miles Davis on every corner. . . I almost expected a Shorty Rogers to deliver the milk, a Bud Shank to be the mailman.
Because God is full of life, I imagine each morning Almighty God says to the sun, "Do it again"; and every evening to the moon and the stars, "Do it again"; and every springtime to the daisies, "Do it again"; and every time a child is born into the world asking for curtain call, that the heart of the God might once more ring out in the heart of the babe.
Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!
Every day a new picture is painted and framed, held up for half an hour, in such lights as the Great Artist chooses, and then withdrawn, and the curtain falls. And then the sun goes down, and long the afterglow gives light.
I see the turning of the page, curtain rising on a new age, see the groom still waiting at the altar.
Jackie [Kennedy] wore one of my dresses – it was made from kitchen curtain material – and people went crazy.
God continues to lift the curtain and allow the enemies of America to give us probably what we deserve.
I understand the psychology of the sport, especially inside the ring. From bell to bell, from when my entrance plays and I step through that curtain, people have to wonder what's going on inside that guy's head.