Curtain Travel Time

Famous quotes containing the words curtain, travel and/or time:

“We are born at the rise of the curtain and we die with its fall, and every night in the presence of our patrons we write our new creation, and every night it is blotted out forever; and of what use is it to say to audience or to critic, “Ah, but you should have seen me last Tuesday”?”
—Michéal MacLiammóir (1899–1978)

“I should like to oblige you, but with people like us, we must be able to travel faster than our clients.”
—Stanley Kubrick (b. 1928)

“Every time I bestow a vacant office I make a hundred discontented persons and one ingrate.”
—Louis XIV (1638–1715)