Quotes with curtains

  • At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
  • 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.
  • Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

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  • Arne Jacobsen And when an architect has designed a house with large windows, which is a necessity today in order to pull the daylight into these very deep houses, then curtains come to play a big role in architecture.
    Arne Jacobsen
    Danish architect and designer (1902 - 1971)
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  • E. M. Forster At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
    E. M. Forster
    English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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  • Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn 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.
    Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn
    Russian Novelist (1918 - 2008)
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  • John Donne Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?
    John Donne
    English poet (1572 - 1631)
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  • Bill Shankly If Everton were playing down the bottom of my garden, I'd draw the curtains.
    Bill Shankly
    Scottish football player and manager (1913 - )
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  • Robert Eldridge Willmott Joy and grief are never far apart. In the same street the shutters of one house are closed while the curtains of the next are brushed by the shadows of the dance. A wedding party returns from the church; and a funeral winds to its door. The smiles and
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  • Bruce Chatwin The history of Buenos Aires is written in its telephone directory. Pompey Romanov, Emilio Rommel, Crespina D. Z. de Rose, Ladislao Radziwil, and Elizabeta Marta Callman de Rothschild - five names taken at random from among the R's - told a story of exile, desolation, disillusion, and anxiety behind lace curtains.
    Bruce Chatwin
    English travel writer, novelist and journalist (1940 - 1989)
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  • Bruce Eric Kaplan We are all just little dolls of ourselves. Who occasionally pull back the curtains to reveal the real us.
    Bruce Eric Kaplan
    American cartoonist
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