Top 1200 Curtain Call Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

The curtain of the universe is moth-eaten, and through its holes we see nothing now but mask and ghost.

There's no perfect life. There's always something going on behind the curtain that people don't know about.

I don't display my plaques and honors. They are hidden behind a black curtain in my work room at home.

You can call me mercenary, or call me madam, but, as I always tell my customers - just call me anytime!

God continues to lift the curtain and allow the enemies of America to give us probably what we deserve.

What's exciting is there's a curtain that divides the audience from this other world. You want to see behind.

Americans have always risen to the moment, from defeating the scourge of fascism to bringing down the Iron Curtain.

It's bleak behind the Iron Curtain, although they do have the strongest vodka I've ever had in my life.

I think the idea of 'Mary Poppins' has been blowing in and out of me, like a curtain at a window, all my life.

People who have followed my career still call me Ron, and that's OK; most of the young kids call me Metta, and then everyone in China calls me Panda. In the Middle East, they call me World Peace.

A heroin-thin boy with enough rings in his eyebrows to resemble a shower curtain rod.

Russians call me German, Germans call me Russian, Jews call me a Christian, Christians a Jew.

I am one of those people who believes that the solution to the world's problems is to be found behind the Iron Curtain.

We are in the black theater of nonexistence. In an eye blink the curtain is up, the stage ablaze, for the vast drama of ourselves.

I don't want to live in a militarised country behind an iron curtain. It's boring. Been there and seen the movie. I've done that.

The majority don't like me before the curtain goes up, and I always have to win them.

You know they call corn-on-the-cob, "corn-on-the-cob", but that's how it comes out of the ground. They should just call it corn, and every other type of corn, corn-off-the-cob. It's not like if someone cut off my arm they would call it "Mitch", but then re-attached it, and call it "Mitch-all-together".

Call it vanity, call it arrogant presumption, call it what you wish, but I would grope for the nearest open grave if I had no newspaper to work for, no need to search for and sometimes find the winged word that just fits, no keen wonder over what each unfolding day may bring.

How often do I call my mom? You can never call your mum enough, and I should call my mum more often. But I speak to my mum very regularly and have a close relationship with my parents.

Everybody wants me to finally close the curtain on the joke that is the Audley Harrison show.

The land of litigation, the courts are like game shows. Take what's behind the curtain the jury cries.

To peel the curtain back, I don't know if I could do Curry Man the same way I did it in TNA and not be racially insensitive.

And if I may, call your mom, everybody. I've told this [to], like, a billion people, or so. Call your mom, call your dad. If you're lucky enough to have a parent or two alive on this planet, call 'em. Don't text. Don't email. Call them on the phone. Tell 'em you love 'em, and thank them, and listen to them for as long as they want to talk to you. Thank you. Thank you, Mom and Dad.

I spent a lot of time behind the Iron Curtain, and their cars were abysmal.

My call for a spiritual revolution is not a call for a religious revolution. Nor is it a reference to a way of life that is somehow otherworldly, still less to something magical or mysterious. Rather it is a call for a radical reorientation away from our habitual preoccupation with self. It is a call to turn toward the wider community of beings with whom we are connected, and for conduct which recognizes others' interests alongside our own.

Joy and truth both have a way of peeking through any dark curtain.

i feel like a curtain has dropped away and i'm seeing people for who they really are, different, and sharp, and unknowable.

Jackie [Kennedy] wore one of my dresses – it was made from kitchen curtain material – and people went crazy.

Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.

you may call a person vain, and they will smile; you may call them immoral, and they may even feel flattered - but call them narrow-minded and they have done with you.

I was an immigrant. I came here at 12. We were caught behind the Iron Curtain until I was 10.

It is well for young men to have a model, but let them draw the curtain over it while they are painting.

Of course, no state accepts [that it should call] the people it is imprisoning or detaining for political reasons, political prisoners. They don't call them political prisoners in China, they don't call them political prisoners in Azerbaijan and they don't call them political prisoners in the United States, U.K. or Sweden; it is absolutely intolerable to have that kind of self-perception.

You'll call me Damon. I see no need for dramatic titles. I, on the other hand will call you beautiful, lover, mine. I'll call you mine." (Damon to Serena)

How much cooler was Oz than seeing the little dude behind the curtain?

Different people call on [God] by different names: some as Allah, some as God, and others as Krishna, Siva, and Brahman. It is like the water in a lake. Some drink it at one place and call it 'jal', others at another place and call it 'pani', and still others at a third place and call it 'water'. The Hindus call it 'jal', the Christians 'water', and the Moslems 'pani'. But it is one and the same thing.

Mass inflation, welfare line, gross economy, trade it all for what's behind curtain number three.

Take it from someone who fled the Iron Curtain: I know what happens when you give the Russians a green light.

Let the thick curtain fall;I better know than allHow little I have gained,How vast the unattained.

From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard.

I think the idea of Mary Poppins has been blowing in and out of me, like a curtain at a window, all my life.

I have more fun and more grand and glorious moments of my life than anyone I've never known. I know that some people call that manic-depress, and that other people call that being touched by God. I just call myself lucky.

When mind knows, we call it knowledge. When heart knows, we call it love. And when being knows, we call it meditation.

Players prefer the FA Cup because it's the end of season curtain-raiser.

What are you doing?" Nothing. Breaking and entering. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.

I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.

Call me a braggart, call me arrogant. People at ABC (and elsewhere) have called me worse. But when you need the job done on deadline, you'll call me.

Pianists call me a composer, composers call me a pianist. The classicists think me a futurist, and the futurists call me a reactionary.

Whether you win or not, the night the Oscars are over, the curtain goes down and you go back to the grind. Period.

Funny is not a color. Being black is only good from the time you get from the curtain to the microphone.

I love telling stories, whether I'm the human instrument that helps tell that story, or I'm the man behind the curtain.

Even the disappointing diffusion of a sheer curtain can suggest the most colorful bouquet of unspeakable secrets.

In theatre, after the curtain rises, it's all about me. I can either elevate myself with my performance or be mediocre.

Not only had I not expected a random call from Joe Biden, but I could never have imagined he would make that call to ask me out. I've been asked if I was starstruck by the fact that a U.S. senator thought I was worth a call, but I honestly wasn't. I was flattered that someone I'd heard of was interested.

I mean you pull the curtain away, and you see I'm just as insecure and neurotic and scared and vulnerable as anybody, you know.

There is someone who looks after us from behind the curtain. In truth we are not here, this is our shadow.

After all, no one is ever taken in by the happy ending, but we are often divinely fuddled by the tragic curtain.

Before the final curtain goes down On my life, I shall say to my Mother-Earth, "My gratitude-heart is all for you, All for you."

The curtain rises on a vast primitive wasteland, not unlike certain parts of New jersey.

I used to get notes from directors, 'Please, Nigel, smile at the curtain calls.' I hate them so much.