Iron Curtain/pre%e2%80%93cold War Usage

Famous quotes containing the words iron, curtain, war and/or usage:

    Wilmer Cook: Keep on riding me, they’re gonna be picking iron out of your liver.
    Sam Spade: The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter.
    John Huston (1906–1987)

    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.
    Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)

    I thought that’s what this war was about. Making people pay taxes when they didn’t have no say so about it.
    Lamar Trotti (1898–1952)

    I am using it [the word ‘perceive’] here in such a way that to say of an object that it is perceived does not entail saying that it exists in any sense at all. And this is a perfectly correct and familiar usage of the word.
    —A.J. (Alfred Jules)