Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gary Gibson

We've seen the last of those white traverse curtain rods.

Douglas Wilson

There is no reason to spend $400 a year on curtain fabric.

William M. Thackeray

The play is done; the curtain drops,Slow falling to the prompter's bellA moment yet the actor stopsAnd looks around to say farewell.It is an irksome word and task:And when he's laughed and said his say,He shows, as he removes the mask,A face that's anything but gay.

Carlo Ratti

One of the ideas that was developed at MIT in a workshop was, imagine this pipe, and you've got valves, solenoid valves, taps, opening and closing. You create like a water curtain with pixels made of water. If those pixels fall, you can write on it: you can show patterns, images, text.

Lesley-Anne Down

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

Dean Karnazes

The first thing I do when I walk into a hotel is find the gym, and if they don't have a gym, I start looking for a handhold where I can do my pull-ups. Sometimes if a shower curtain rod is sturdy enough, I'll do them there.

Peter Jackson

In every house, when the curtains are drawn, there's a story going on, and you never get to hear... You get the public side of things, the happy, smiling, social activities.

William Earl Brown

I was a rabid 'Seinfeld' fan. Then I did the show, and it ruined the show for me. Not that it ruined the quality of the show, but I had seen behind the curtain at Oz.

Robert Frost

Tree at my window, window tree,/ My sash is lowered when night comes on;/ But let there never be curtain drawn/ Between you and me.

Erin Morgenstern

I don't have any particular rituals, I sometimes like to write in longhand when I'm searching for ideas but I do the vast majority by typing, I can't always keep up with my thoughts longhand. I'm not a coffee shop writer because I feel obliged to order more coffee and then I end up over-caffeinated.

Chick Hearn

You can't please everybody all the time, but you can please a majority.

Bertolt Brecht

With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.

Benjamin Tucker

The right of the majority is absolute.

Ashleigh Brilliant

The majority is never right, unless it includes me.

Dennis Prager

The vast majority of those who are famous are not significant and the vast majority of those who are significant are not famous.

Robert A. Heinlein

Was there ever a time when the majority was right? Notebooks of Lazarus Long, Robert A

Zalmay Khalilzad

Since no single party will have a majority there will be a need for a very broad-based coalition.

Ben Horowitz

For example, the vast majority of security break-ins occur as a result of problems with known fixes. With an automated system, you can keep up to date.