Shutter Curtain Shown

Famous quotes containing the words shutter, curtain and/or shown:

“And there is nothing in the eye,
Shut shutter of the mineral man
Who takes the fatherless dark to bed,
The acid sky to the brain-pan;
And calls the crows to peck his head.”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)

“Once the curtain is raised, the actor ceases to belong to himself. He belongs to his character, to his author, to his public. He must do the impossible to identify himself with the first, not to betray the second, and not to disappoint the third.”
—Sarah Bernhardt (1845–1923)

“If human beings were shown what they’re really like, they’d either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)