- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
Curtains Quotes
Quotes where curtains set the scene.
These quotes use curtains to set a mood, from a suburban childhood to classic poetic imagery of dawn and shadow. See Beauty quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Contests
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- Nov 07, 2020
It used to happen in villages and towns in China that they would have - I guess you'd call them beauty contests - where all of the women of a particular village or town would be seated behind these screens or curtains with only their feet showing.
- Daily
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a weird contrast between my usual daily routine and then my book coming out. It's like someone's just suddenly opened the curtains in a dark room, and everyone's looking at you.
- Pose
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- Nov 07, 2020
The curtains would open and it would be just her standing in some ludicrous pose, like Aphrodite.
- Fire
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was still quite light out of doors, but inside with the curtains drawn and the smouldering fire sending out a dim, uncertain glow, the room was full of deep shadows.
- Dawn
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- Nov 07, 2020
Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.
- Fool
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- Nov 07, 2020
Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?
- Nov 07, 2020
We are all just little dolls of ourselves. Who occasionally pull back the curtains to reveal the real us.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I envisioned an extremely long network of floating barriers - they're like curtains floating in the ocean which are attached to the seabed. So what happens is that the current comes around and plastic gets pushed towards these barriers. And because it's in a V-shape, the plastic gets push towards the center.
- Mistakes
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- Nov 07, 2020