Shutter Curtain Shown

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

“The rays which stream through the shutter will be no longer remembered when the shutter is wholly removed.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Old politicians, like old actors, revive in the limelight. The vacancy which afflicts them in private momentarily lifts when, once more, they feel the eyes of an audience upon them. Their old passion for holding the centre of the stage guides their uncertain footsteps to where the footlights shine, and summons up a wintry smile when the curtain rises.”
—Malcolm Muggeridge (1903–1990)

“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)