Quotes About Window Curtains

#1. I entered my room, and undrew the window-curtains, just in time to see the sun burst in glory from his ocean-prison, and clothe the world in the light of a new day.

Lewis Carroll

#2. Zacharias's study bore the marks of his predecessors, whose taste had run decidedly stoicheiotical. They had had a fondness for skulls with burning lights in their eye sockets, crystal balls in which mysterious shapes came and went, and dark velvet window curtains traced with obscure runes.

Zen Cho

#3. Pincushions. I'm a long time threatening to buy one. Sticking them all over the place. Needles in window curtains.

James Joyce

#4. She decided she wanted a cool, starchy independent life, with ruffles of humor like window curtains.

Mary McCarthy

#5. Reading Alan Zweibel makes me laugh out loud. And yet it is not a particularly funny name.

Eric Idle

#6. It wasn't all misery. On one of our halts we lay spreadeagled on the ice and stared up at a sky blazing with the glory of the most wonderful aurora I'd ever witnessed. I groaned beneath the splendour of those silken curtains, yellow, green, and orange, billowing at the window of the heavens.

Beryl Bainbridge

#7. People who suffer learn to laugh about their sadness in public.

Bill Walton

#8. Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you've closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart.

Desmond Tutu

#9. The joke I wanted to put into one of the promos for this new season, was to have a guy come up to me and say, Hey! Tony! I love your show, I've watched you every night since you started! And then I'd say, Ah! You're the one!

Tony Danza

#10. Here at St. Anthony's, they have to close the curtains before it gets dark, since if a resident sees themself reflected in a window they'll think somebody's peeping in at them. It's called "sun-downing." When all the old folks get crazy at sunset.

Chuck Palahniuk

#11. Did not i say that things would come right of themselves? said the Bishop. Then he added, with a smile, To him who contents himself with the surplice of a curate, God sends the cope of an archbishop. Monseigneur, murmured the cure, throwing back his head with a smile. God or the Devil.

Victor Hugo

#12. The ragged curtains were reaching out across the room and the foot of the bed was soaked with rain. She got up and closed the window to protect her from the storm outside. However, there was no protection from the storm that was always brewing in her mind.

Nancy B. Brewer

#13. I had heard some women make comments about my chest, so why not show it off? Nobody wants to see a fat guy in tights. That wouldn't be fair to the fans.

Paul Stanley

#14. Prayer is the window that God has placed in the walls of our world. Leave it shut and the world is a cold, dark house. But throw back the curtains and see His light. Open the window and hear His voice. Open the window of prayer and invoke the presence of God in your world.

Max Lucado

#15. You have to be responsible for the energy you're putting out into the world.

Oprah Winfrey

#16. There should be no telephone in your writing room, certainly no TV or videogames for you to fool around with. If there's a window, draw the curtains or pull down the shades unless it looks out at a blank wall.

Stephen King

#17. When you have a brilliant sun, which is a source of vision, the light from the sun shines through every window of the house, and the brightness of its light inspires you to open all the curtains. In the vision of the Great Eastern Sun, no human being is a lost cause.

Chogyam Trungpa

#18. The drama is a great revealer of life.

George Pierce Baker

#19. Tell about the quality of light coming in through your window. Jump in and write. Don't worry if it is night and your curtains are closed or you would rather write about the light up north - just write. Go for ten minutes, fifteen, a half hour.

Natalie Goldberg

#20. There comes a day when you realise turning the page is the best feeling in the world, because you realise there's so much more to the book than the page you were stuck on.

Zayn Malik

#21. Fuck, that's good. That's habit-formin'.

Garth Ennis

#22. Their cold blue light shone through the silver curtains of river mist as streetlamps might glimmer through a smoke-grimed window

Scott Lynch

#23. All business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to judicious use of sabotage.

Thorstein Veblen