Top 313 Tent Quotes & Sayings

We are in the same tent as the clowns and the freaks - that's show business.

You have more and more people coming into the tent with the creative guys [on Hollywood films]. You have marketing and concept testers, advertising people. What you find gets the high numbers is easily appealing subjects: a baby, a big broad joke, a high concept. Everything is tested. The effect is to lessen the gamble, but in fact you destroy a writer's confidence and creativity once so many people are invited into the tent.

I think the Women's March is actually reflective of this idea that you can create a big tent, but that doesn't mean the people inside of the tent are going to agree on everything. In fact, they might have very public fights about the things that they don't agree with.

To the Christian death is the exchanging of a tent for a building.

I'm trying to figure out how to record at home because I have a tiny house and a seven-year-old and my wife also works at home. So I can't work in the house because she's trying to write, so I pitched a tent in the backyard. I'm literally trying to record in the tent.

You do sequels because they are tent poles. They open well, and they hold the tent up. But in between, you make a movie you respect.

Hopefully I won't have to sleep with my feet out of the tent.

We ought to be doing that with decent standard housing but if we have people who are absolutely on the streets in this case, I think it makes sense that tent cities are preferred to not having tent cities.

Then I dive into my tent before I do something stupid like cry.

She was so fat that her clothes are made by Omar the tent maker.

My bed is my weird little haven. It's like a deflated tent.

Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.

Labour has to be a big tent that appeals to everyone - not just its activists.

Sometimes Evil pursues the Warrior of the Light, and when it does, he calmly invites it into his tent.

The low green tent Whose curtain never outward swings.

The outsiders have become kings and queens of the castle. It is a whole lot easier to sit outside the tent and throw firecrackers inside; it is much, much harder to sit inside the tent and govern not only your enemies, but your close friends as well.

The thing about me is that I don't judge my audience. I welcome. It is a big tent.

Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Most people don't do something seminal. I've done it twice: with my tent and my bed. Picasso did it with Cubism.

Better to have your enemies inside your tent pissing out, then to have them outside your tent pissing in.

Make time for planning: Wars are won in the general's tent.

I had this weird, nomadic little tent with a rug over it, like a booth where I'd sing the vocals.

This body is a tent which for a space Does the pure soul with kingly presence grace; When he departs, comes the tent-pitcher, Death, Strikes it, and moves to a new halting-place.

An angel stood and met my gaze, Through the low doorway of my tent; The tent is struck, the vision stays; I only know she came and went.

What is the American dream? The American dream is one big tent. One big tent. And on that big tent you have four basic promises: equal protection under the law, equal opportunity, equal access, and fair share.

Those powers that control the tent are not threatened at all by any activity that you engage in, in the shadows, that's not moving toward the tent. And I am rather convinced that we have a generation that is so preoccupied with life in the shadows, they never even focus on getting to the sunlight where you open up the big tent.

Never sleep in a small tent with your nemesis.

[Jack Nash] was very different than anything I'd played. In fact, there's a scene I have in a tent with Louis Ferreira, who just did an episode of Travelers. He was in the fourth episode of Travelers playing another team leader, and we really have it out, not unlike the way we did in the tent in Andromeda.

When I was 13, I was in my tent at Girl Scout camp, trying to change out of my bathing suit and talking at the same time. I fell out of the tent in front of everyone with my bathing suit around my ankles. I was humiliated - but no amount of humiliation has ever seemed to stop me.

I've been to the Reading festival twice before-as a punter, though I stayed backstage in the hospitality tent!

Each evening, I ached for the shelter of my tent, for the smallest sense that something was shielding me from the entire rest of the world, keeping me safe not from danger, but from vastness itself. I loved the dim, clammy dark of my tent, the cozy familiarity of the way I arranged my few belongings all around me each night.

I'm a big-tent Republican.

I did not allow tent encampments on the streets when I was mayor of San Diego.

I'd rather be in a tent than in a house.

You have access to the Tent Of Meeting.

I think that the Democratic Party is a big tent, which means that there are positions I may not agree with.

We need a real tent city in the heart of Moscow.

I absolutely loathe sleeping in a tent, regardless of the weather.

I believe - figuratively, but in a very real way - we need to tent the White House!

One of the happiest times of my life, I lived in a tent on a porch on Hawaii.

I can't believe you brought me here to see some guy who heals people out of a tent!

For more than a quarter of a century on active duty, my house has been my tent, and my home the battlefield.

For a while we lived in a tent we'd pitched inside his parents' house and we slept on pillows.

Sawyer: Alone in your tent? Um, no. You're in my tent

I went to a tent store. "What kind of tent do you need?" "Circus."

I used to go to these old tent revivals and listen to the gospel singers. If you think rock and roll is energetic, it pales in comparison to a Pentecostal tent revival.

My view of the alt-right was that it was a big tent.

What's the sense of sending $2 million missiles to hit a $10 tent that's empty?

I pour into the world the eternal streams Wan prophets tent beside, and dream their dreams.

Which tent is your favourite?" he asks. "The Ice Garden," Celia answers, without even pausing to consider. "Why is that?" Marco asks. "Because of the way it feels," she says. "It's like walking into a dream. As though it is someplace else entirely and not simply another tent.

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.

A man should not be a silkworm; nor a nation a tent of caterpillars.

The advantage that Democrats have is that they're a big-tent party.

And now for the vapor-bath: on a framework of three sticks, meeting at the top, they stretch pieces of woolen cloth, taking care to get the joints as perfect as they can, and inside this little tent they put a dish with red-hot stones in it. Then they take some hemp seed, creep into the tent, and throw the seed on to the hot stones. At once it begins to smoke, giving off a vapor unsurpassed by any vapor-bath one could find in Greece. The Sythians enjoy it so much that they howl with pleasure. This is their substitute for an ordinary bath in water, which they never use.

Sometimes in my tent, late at night, I think I can hear the stars scraping against the sky.

He used to have a tent show, a little tent show, and I thought I was going to get a job working one year on the tent show, but he closed it down and I never got to go out there, but anyway, he had a sax and played drums.

Republicans have always talked about having a big tent, but it doesn't do any good if the tent doesn't have any chairs in it. Bringing Latinos to the forefront, bringing women in is absolutely critical.

Ultimately, as players, we are inside the tent, and we have got to deal with what happens between the white lines.

When Gaddafi came to Paris in 2007, he was supposed to stay at the Hôtel de Marigny, which is the best hotel. But Gaddafi came with a tent. It was this huge flagged tent - just him and his army guards, who were all girls. They were in these crazy leopard outfits. I mean, Gaddafi is way better dressed than any pop star in the world.

If you allow people to live in a tent encampment then you are condemning them to die there.