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A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out.

Quote by Virginia Woolf about literature, quality, good, good luck

An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I've left the opera house.

Quote by Maria Callas about end, home, house, imagination, life

From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.

Quote by Winston Churchill

It's just an ice bucket with a bottle in it. The two flute glasses are little tray. I got to shut the curtains. I'm in my boxer shorts and shirt. I'm going to take a bath and go to bed. But I want to shut the blinds so it's really dark in the room.

Quote by Danny DeVito about dark

It's the very British thing of reserve and keeping everything shut in, that's what people do with their emotions, shut the curtains on them.

Quote by Simon Pegg about emotions, things, people

My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down.

Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot about opinion