The Curtain Falls Quotes

#1. It's like a pistol in a stage play: when someone waves a pistol during the first act, you can bet your bottom dollar that someone will be shot with it before the curtain falls. That's the law of drama. The law that says no pistol must appear if no one's going to fire it.

Herman Koch

#2. But Nature cast me for the part she found me best fitted for, and I have had to play it, and must play it till the curtain falls.

Edwin Booth

#3. Other artists - poets, painters, sculptors, musicians - produce something which lives after them and enshrines their memories in positive evidences of their divine mission; but we, - we strut and fret our hour upon the stage, and then the curtain falls and all is darkness and silence.

Charlotte Saunders Cushman

#4. We can see the film stars of yesterday in yesterday's films, hear the voices of poest and singers on a record, keep the plays of dead dramatists upon our bookshelves, but the actor who holds his audience captive for one brief moment upon a lighted stage vanishes forever when the curtain falls.

Daphne Du Maurier

#5. 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day a new picture is painted and framed, held up for half an hour, in such lights as the Great Artist chooses, and then withdrawn, and the curtain falls.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.

Henry David Thoreau

#6. When the curtain falls no one is ready

Olive Schreiner

#7. When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away.

Harold Macmillan

#8. In the whole history of this country, we have probably won more friends from the power of our example than from the power of our military.

William J. Clinton

#9. A hair in the head is worth two in the brush.

William Hazlitt

#10. I would recommend it to everybody, every now and again you just put a dress on, see what it feels like, because it's, its interesting. A whole complex series of thoughts and feelings assail you as you look at yourself.

Tom Wilkinson

#11. If you find my stories dirty, the society you are living in is dirty. With my stories, I only expose the truth

Saadat Hasan Manto

#12. That summer rain I mean that is so quiet and matter of fact and falls straight down like a curtain. Now

Elizabeth Berg

#13. When Amos sat up, Peabody pounded him on the back until he coughed out water. "I have fed you, clothed you, given you all I ever possessed. And you would walk away from me." A

Erika Swyler

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Toddler Books

#15. In the end when the last curtain falls, if all you have is gold ... then you truly have nothing at all!

Timothy Pina

#16. We don't have a single big advantage," he once told an old adversary, publisher Tim O'Reilly, back when they were arguing over Amazon protecting its patented 1-Click ordering method from rivals like Barnes & Noble. "So we have to weave a rope of many small advantages.

Brad Stone

#17. One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.

Joseph Addison

#18. There's no twilight in the tropics. Night falls like a curtain.

Waldemar Young

#19. I had a terrible fear of not being normal - of not seeming normal. So I went to the library and read every psychology book I could find. Anything about how normal people behave.

Woody Norris

#20. My continuing passion is to part a curtain, that invisible veil of indifference that falls between us and that blinds us to each other's presence, each other's wonder, each other's human plight.

Eudora Welty

#21. Think about who you are. Think about how nice you can be to another person. By the same token then, to have your own opinion about life, you as an individual, with respect. But I think that's what the key to success is.

Tommy Wiseau

#22. I have a secret goal with my editor - he has asthma and uses his inhaler, and after I send him a new manuscript, I'll have his assistant phone me and tell me how many times he had to get his inhaler out while reading a draft. It's my secret laugh meter.

Chuck Palahniuk

#23. People say I was made for this
Nothin' else would I trade for this
And just think I get paid for this...

Bobby Darin

#24. Speaking as a man, it's not a woman's issue. Us men are tired of losing our women.

Dan Quayle

#25. Praise and glory to God for whom nothing is too hard

Elisabeth Elliot

#26. Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain.

A.P. Herbert

#27. Grief is a little like being in a fresh snowfall. A light, cold curtain falls between you and the rest of the world.

Elise Forier Edie