quotes about Tents
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Sawyer: Alone in your tent? Um, no. You're in my tent
-- Abbi Glines -
Critic, relent!Your hope for repentanceWill meet with disapppointment.For this is the life,Not desert tents,Not camel's milk!
-- Abu Nuwas -
To the Christian death is the exchanging of a tent for a building.
-- Billy Graham -
I've been to the Reading festival twice before-as a punter, though I stayed backstage in the hospitality tent!
-- Bruce Dickinson -
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Their houses are all built in the shape of tents, with very high chimneys.
-- Christopher ColumbusSource : Christopher Columbus, Bartolomé de las Casas (1827). “Personal Narrative of the First Voyage of Columbus to America: From a Manuscript Recently Discovered in Spain”, p.50
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We do, in former chairman Lee Atwater's words, offer the party as a big tent, and therefore that message has to be clear. How we do that within the platform, the preamble to the platform or whatnot, that remains to be seen. But that message will have to be articulated with great clarity.
-- Dan Quayle -
We are in the same tent as the clowns and the freaks-that's show business.
-- Edward R. Murrow -
Revolt, for you have nothing to lose but your chains and your [refugee] tents!
-- George Habash -
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When I take action, I'm not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It's going to be decisive.
-- George W. Bush -
Never work for a company that says people are its most important asset. If you wanted to get a mortgage and you said that your only asset was people you would end up living in a tent.
-- Guy BrowningSource : People, 2006.
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We had every problems starting a big top could have. The tent fell down on the first day. We had problems getting people into the shows. It was only with the courage and arrogance of youth that we survived.
-- Guy Laliberte -
Love, why have you sought the horde of spearsmen, why the tent Achilles pitched beside the river-ford?
-- Hilda Doolittle -
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Economies of scale are a good thing. If we didn't have them, we'd still be living in tents and eating buffalo.
-- Jamie Dimon -
I was camped at the same site as her: Broughton Farm. She came over to my tent and showed me her blisters. She asked me whether I knew the reason why a blister can keep on producing fluid ad infinitum. I said that I had always wondered the same thing about mucus. One of the reasons we are together is because we have similar interests.
-- Joe Dunthorne -
The movies have got more corporate, they're making fewer movies in general, and those they are making are all $200-$300m tent-pole releases that eat up all the oxygen.
-- John Cusack -
When someone was so poor that he couldn't afford a horse, a tent or a blanket, he would, in that case, receive it all as a gift.
-- John Fire Lame Deer -
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To fully embark on the whole Phish experience, it's all about going to the city they built beforehand, with the fans and tent city or whatever it's called.
-- Joseph BruceSource : "Insane Clown Posse's Violent J on working at McDonald's and Janet Jackson's curves". Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. May 18, 2015.
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Alex grabbed our things from the bike and bought them inside; then he fastened the tent closed, securing us in. "Come here, babe, I'll keep you warm.
-- L.A. WeatherlySource : L.A. Weatherly (2011). “Angel Fire: The Angel Trilogy”, p.31, Usborne Publishing Ltd
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Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.
-- Lyndon B. JohnsonSource : Quoted in N.Y. Times, 31 Oct. 1971
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I am fortunate enough to have worked on, and continue to work on, evolutionary movies in all formats from just simple good story telling, which still matters most of all, to CG movies to tent-pole size 3D movies, and genre 3D movies like 'Piranha 3D.
-- Mark Canton -
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A newspaper is the center of a community, it's one of the tent poles of the community, and that's not going to be replaced by Web sites and blogs.
-- Michael Connelly -
I got in an argument with a girlfriend inside of a tent. That's a bad place for an argument, because I tried to walk out, and had to slam the flap.
-- Mitch Hedberg -
So let me get this straight. You were living in a tent in the woods, but now you're living with Prince Charming and anger management boy? SERIOUSLY?!
-- Natsuki Takaya -
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We search for patterns, you see, only to find where the patterns break. And it’s there, in that fissure, that we pitch our tents and wait.
-- Nicole Krauss -
There's this absurd situation on a movie set where your trailer's here and the set is here and the lunch tent is here, and you're not allowed to get yourself from these three places.
-- Olivia Williams -
When I first saw The Black Kat Boppers I was sat on a hill at a festival and could hear this music in a tent that literally grabbed me by the lapels and dragged me in
-- Paul Simonon -
We need prefab housing, we need to repair what can be repaired. We have appealed to the whole world to ship tents and blankets to Pakistan.
-- Shaukat Aziz -
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Because of the need to remove all modernism, we stayed in the middle of nowhere all day long, living out of tents. It was cold. It definitely set the scene.
-- Skeet Ulrich -
Then I dive into my tent before I do something stupid like cry.
-- Suzanne Collins -
The guest of our soul knows our misery; He comes to find an empty tent within us - that is all He asks.
-- Therese of Lisieux -
Never sleep in a small tent with your nemesis.
-- Tom Chappell -
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Our plants had now increased to 252: as they were all kept on shore at the tent I augmented the guard there, though from the general conduct of the natives there did not appear the least occasion for so much caution.
-- William BlighSource : William Bligh (1838). “A narrative of the mutiny on board his majesty's ship Bounty”, p.22
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You can certainly shorten things and tighten things, we tightened up Jon's walk to Mance Rayder's tent. That was something that got tightened up a little bit because I had shot the hell out of that.
-- Alex GravesSource : Source: collider.com
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Disney's clearly in the business of doing giant tent pole movies based on properties that they own. And that's what they should be doing because they're great at doing that.
-- Joseph KosinskiSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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There weren't paparazzi standing outside. There weren't all these photographers. People really didn't know what fashion was and what was happening in the tents.
-- Roopal Patel -
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I had this weird, nomadic little tent with a rug over it, like a booth where I'd sing the vocals.
-- Neneh CherrySource : Source: pitchfork.com
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When I first saw The Black Kat Boppers I was sat on a hill at a festival and could hear this music in a tent that literally grabbed me by the lapels and dragged me in
-- Paul Simonon -
I'm God's messenger from the gypsy tent. And it's the message that's important, not the messenger.
-- Rodney "Gipsy" Smith