When The Curtain Falls Quotes

#1. 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

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

Harold Macmillan

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

Bobby Darin

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. There's time to slow down, after you're dead.

Donatella Versace

#7. When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.

Hermann Hesse

#8. 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

#9. An ocean which thinks there is nothing to learn from a lake is not a wise ocean!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

Waldemar Young

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

Elizabeth Berg

#12. 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

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

Timothy Pina

#14. Journaling is one of the most overlooked and undervalued spiritual disciplines. In my estimation, it's on a par with praying, fasting, and meditating. It's the way we document what God is doing in our lives.

Mark Batterson

#15. 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

#16. I don't like to see a scary image because it sticks in my mind. Which is maybe why I get hired to do the scary movies because I'm truly scared and upset.

Shawnee Smith

#17. 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

#18. There is no such thing as a natural fit between form and content. Seamless elegance would be tantamount to erasure.

Stacey D'Erasmo

#19. When the curtain falls no one is ready

Olive Schreiner

#20. It's well known that the greatest defense against an intruder is the sound of a gun hammer being pulled back.

Vince Vaughn