Top 208 Curtains Quotes & Sayings

We humans have always needed rituals to draw like curtains over the chasms of the unknown. Without them we go mad, I think.

I made her the queen of my double wide trailer with the polyester curtains and redwood deck.

If Everton were playing down the bottom of my garden, I'd draw the curtains.

(You wouldn't believe how many people will hang up a picture of an electric chair? especially if it matches the color of their curtains.

I have a lot of gadgets, remote controls for everything - the curtains, pool cover - it's like The Jetsons!

I can't wait until this show gets on the road," he said. "You and me are going to have so much fun, Rose. Picking out curtains, doing each other's hair, telling ghost stories..." The reference to "ghost stories" hit a little closer to home than I was comfortable with. Not that choosing curtains or brushing Christian's hair was much more appealing.

There weren't any curtains in the windows, and the books that didn't fit into the bookshelf lay piled on the floor like a bunch of intellectual refugees.

Fall the deep curtains, delicate the weave, fair the thread.

The curtains would open and it would be just her standing in some ludicrous pose, like Aphrodite.

For a modern look, hang curtains from the ceiling with a very simple pleat at the top so they will hang straight.

You and me are going to have so much fun, Rose. Picking out curtains, doing each other's hair, telling ghost stories.

... and the very folds of the curtains contained secrets and sighs.

Performing at Prithvi was a novel experience, because unlike other theatres, it was very different - it didn't have any curtains and the audience was at close proximity to the actors.

Hell take curtains! Go with some show of inconvenience; sit openly - to the weather as to grief. Or do you think you can shut your grief in?

I am the Wizard of Oz of housewives (in that I am both "Great and Terrible" and because I sometimes hide behind the curtains

As soon as you just walk through the curtains and the crowd's there, everything's good after that.

You might be a redneck if your house doesn't have curtains, but your truck does.

Moonlight slipped in through the lace curtains, slicing everything with its sliver cracks. That's how I felt right now - cold and cracked and hollow and empty.

Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which are so dear to you - you do not even suspect that the day has already dawned outside.

I have these lacy shirts that look kind of like my grandma's curtains that I wear.

Weigh down your curtains with a proper 5-inch hem. It makes them much more proportioned and professional-looking.

The hardest skill to master was finding the right lash for my eye. Eyes are the windows to the soul, and some windows need blinds instead of curtains.

That's it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.

The drab brown front of the house made it look as if it had been built from rusty spare parts. Someone always put lace curtains in the windows of dreary houses, and Nick was unsurprised to see the curtains making their attempts in every window of this place. There was a china garden gnome on the doorstep, wearing a desperate, crazy smile. "It's not so bad," Alan said. "You never take me nice places anymore, baby." said Nick, and was mildly gratified by Alan's ring of laughter, like a living bell that had been caught by surprise when it was struck.

All I'm doing is rearranging the curtains in the insane asylum.

Open the curtains of your mind, my friend; let the world know who you are! Do not hide your ideas; set them free, let them free! Open the curtains! Feel no fear! If there is truth in your ideas, you become invincible!

I might occasionally forget how to open a car door and have too many shower curtains, but I've got some standards.

It's curtains for you, Mighty Mouse! This gun is so futuristic that even I don't know how it works!

At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.

I'll never forget the first time I went to the Hacienda. It was like walking into a big butcher's fridge, with the plastic curtains hanging down. It was everything we had ever dreamed of in a nightclub.

Nothing good about the sun if you're trying to watch television with out curtains.

A persistent breeze lifted the thin curtains, fluttering a few moments of tranquility into the turbulent day.

I don't live for stuff and things, and if I had to live in a cardboard box, I would put curtains on it.

Her beauty climbed the rolling slope, it came into the room, rustling ghost-like through the curtains.

If you want to gnaw greenery in the morning for health reasons, do it in your own home with the curtains drawn.

We all feel the riddle of the earth without anyone to point it out. The mystery of life is the plainest part of it. The clouds and curtains of darkness, the confounding vapors, these are the daily weather of this world.

We are surrounded by curtains. We only perceive the world behind a curtain of semblance. At the same time, an object needs to be covered in order to be recognized at all.

When the tea is brought at five o'clock And all the neat curtains are drawn with care, The little black cat with bright green eyes Is suddenly purring there.

You see these thick curtains shut out the daylight: artificial light suits me a great deal better; it's absolutely steady, and much more exciting.

Just build a classic horseshoe of wood and plaster, and fill it with statuary and curtains, then sit back and savor the beautifully blended results.

O timid one, awaken, exert yourself, draw back the curtains your training and background have hung over the windows of your soul.

Spring is beautiful, and smells sweet. Spring is when you shake the curtains, and pound on the rugs, and take off your long underwear, and wash in all the corners.

The first time I ever went to Texas was on a bus with curtains draped over the windows. I just joined the military and got shipped off to basic training in San Antonio.

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.

Well, when I was a kid I used to hide behind the curtains at home at Christmas and I used to try and be Elvis. There was a certain ambience between the curtains and the French windows, there was a certain sound there for a ten year old. That was all the ambience I got at ten years old... I think! And I always wanted to be a certain, a bit similar to that. But I didn't want to sell pizza.

Then she did see it there - just a face, peering through the curtains, hanging in midair like a mask. A head-scarf concealed the hair and the glassy eyes stared inhumanly, but it wasn’t a mask, it couldn’t be. The skin had been powdered dead-white and two hectic spots of rouge centered on the cheekbones. It wasn’t a mask. It was the face of a crazy old woman. Mary started to scream, and then the curtains parted further and a hand appeared, holding a butcher’s knife. It was the knife that, a moment later, cut off her scream. And her head.

My dad was a cop, you know, and I grew up three houses down from people who used Confederate flags as curtains.

You had to make sure that the tone of your dress was not the same tone as the curtains, for instance.

Sometimes someone coming in doesn't have the natural passion for it, but they find it through the coaching or mentoring I give them. I'm sort of opening curtains or blinds and all of a sudden they see it, they get it.

The fringed curtains of thine eye advance, And say what thou seest yond.

Something that had the quality of a dimly lit stage set just before the curtains rise on opening night. There was a rhythm to it, a beckoning, and a bittersweet tear in time.

The entire room was so yellow that it looked like the sun had thrown up on the walls and wiped its mouth afterward on the dresser and curtains. ---Cole

...It all seemed to him to have disappeared as if behind a curtain at a theater. There are such curtains that drop in life. God is moving on to the next act.

We are all just little dolls of ourselves. Who occasionally pull back the curtains to reveal the real us.

Comics were always the lowest rung on the ladder, front of cloth at the Royal Variety Performance. What that means is you're only there so Take That can set up behind the curtains.

Beige curtains... there's nothing wrong with them. You're not like, 'Ew, gross! Beige curtains!' You just don't notice them either way. They're just, like, fine.

The curtains were made for moving Cause you know sometimes you're not always there

You know you knit too much when ... Before you buy anything, such as a hammock or curtains, you seriously wonder whether you could knit it.

I drew the curtains to conceal the sight of my father's farewell; my spite was sharp as broken glass.

I would have it inscribed on the curtains of your bed and the walls of your chamber: "If you do not rise early you can make progress in nothing."