Tents Quotes - Page 10

• There's nothing wrong with enjoying looking at the surface of the ocean itself, except that when you finally see what goes on underwater,you realize that you've been missing the whole point of the ocean. Staying on the surface all the time is like going to the circus and staring at the outside of the tent.

  Dave Barry

  Beach, Ocean, Sea

  219 Copy quote

• 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

  Fashion, People, Photographer

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• What I think networks do so well are big, fun, accessible, invite everybody into the tent kinds of storytelling, akin to an early Spielberg movie or a Michael Crichton novel. That's not to say that there aren't scary parts 'cause there are, and that there aren't sexy parts and edgy parts, just like early Spielberg would have, but there's a lot of heart, a lot of emotion and complicated characters.

  Eric Kripke

  Sexy, Fun, Heart

  "‘Timeless’ Showrunner Eric Kripke & Shawn Ryan on Building a Better Villain and Exploring Different Eras". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 3, 2016.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'd love to go and camp out and live in a tent in the middle of nowhere and see how long I could live and survive.

  Rita Ora

  Long, Middle Of Nowhere, Camps

  10 Copy quote

• The sugar maple is remarkable for its clean ankle. The groves of these trees looked like vast forest sheds, their branches stopping short at a uniform height, four or five feet from the ground, like eaves, as if they had been trimmed by art, so that you could look under and through the whole grove with its leafy canopy, as under a tent whose curtain is raised.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Art, Feet, Tree

  Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “A Yankee in Canada: With Anti-slavery and Reform Papers”, p.6

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Mountaineering is one of the most difficult sports - we are away from routine life for days, living in tents, and it requires high degree of physical and mental strength.

  Samina Baig

  Sports, Routine Life, Degrees

  4 Copy quote

• 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.

  James L. Brooks

  Baby, Creativity, Hollywood Films

  4 Copy quote

• Westerns just thematically, as a genre, have kind of a few tent poles that I really admire, and one of them is this perception that life was simpler back then. And with that perception goes that people were good or people were bad. You survived by your strengths or you perished by your weaknesses.

  Kiefer Sutherland

  People, Perception, Weakness

  "Kiefer Sutherland on finally playing Donald's son and destroying the first '24' action figure". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. March 7, 2016.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Mock on, mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau! Mock on, mock on: 'Tis all in vain! You throw the sand against the wind, And the wind blows it back again. And every sand becomes a gem Reflected in the beams divine; Blown back they blind the mocking eye, But still in Israel's paths they shine. The atoms of Democritus And Newton's particles of light Are sands upon the Red Sea shore, Where Israel's tents do shine so bright.

  William Blake

  Eye, Science, Blow

  'MS Note-Book' p. 7

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'd like to refocus everyone's attention away from the Kardashians and onto Doctors Without Borders or aid workers. Let's redefine scandal. Scandal is not who so-and-so is dating; scandal is the fact that 1.2 million people are still living in tents in Haiti, and cholera is rampant because Nepalese U.N. soldiers dumped s- from their Porta-Potties into the river. That's a f-ing scandal. If the average 15-year-old was hearing about that instead of so-and-so's plastic surgery or cheating in Hollywood, I'd feel better about our future.

  Olivia Wilde

  Cheating, Feel Better, Rivers

  "Olivia Wilde Knows What A Real Scandal Is" by Kat Rosenfield, www.mtv.com. July 13, 2011.

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• Music is never stationary; successive forms and styles are only like so many resting-places - like tents pitched and taken down again on the road to the Ideal.

  Franz Liszt

  Music, Taken, Style

  21 Copy quote

• Marlee, what are you doing? Get under a tent before you burn your skin." She gave me a polite smile. "I'm happy here." "No, really," I said, putting a hand around her arm. "You'll look like my hair.

  Kiera Cass

  Hair, Hands, Skins

  5 Copy quote

• 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

  Girlfriend, Argument, Slam

  11 Copy quote

• Shiva... is the only hunter that will ever catch the wild swan; The prey she will take last is the wild white swan of the beauty of things. Then she will be alone, pure destruction, achieved and supreme, Empty darkness under the death-tent wings. She will build a nest of the swan's bones and hatch a new brood, Hang new heavens with new birds, all be renewed.

  Robinson Jeffers

  Swans, Wings, White

  Robinson Jeffers, “Shiva”

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• All great religions, in order to escape absurdity, have to admit a dilution of agnosticism. It is only the savage, whether of the African bush or the American gospel tent, who pretends to know the will and intent of God exactly and completely.

  H. L. Mencken

  Order, Religion, Atheism

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.89, Vintage

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• I have no complaints about my path and the places it has taken me; enough complaints to fill a circus tent about other things, maybe, but the path I've chosen has always been the right one, and I wouldn't have had it any other way.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Taken, Circus, Way

  Nicholas Sparks (2011). “The Notebook”, p.5, Hachette UK

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• But the soul of touring and the heart of it is basically every day is like putting up a circus tent.

  Pat Benatar

  Heart, Soul, Circus

  12 Copy quote

• Anyone who has spent a few nights in a tent during a storm can tell you: The world doesn't care all that much if you live or die.

  Anthony Doerr

  Night, Storm, World

  17 Copy quote

• Your silent tents of green
  We deck with fragrant flowers;
  Yours has the suffering been,
  The memory shall be ours.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Uplifting, Memorial Day, Memories

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1074, Delphi Classics

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• During the Gold Rush, most would-be miners lost money, but people who sold them picks, shovels, tents and blue-jeans (Levi Strauss) made a nice profit.

  Peter Lynch

  Nice, Blue, Jeans

  Peter Lynch (2012). “One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

  28 Copy quote

  Show source

• I wanted to quit and to do this forever, sleep in a bed and in a tent, see what was over the next hill and never see a hill again. All of this all at once, every moment, on the trail or off.

  Bill Bryson

  Sleep, Forever, Bed

  7 Copy quote

• 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.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Dark, Night, Vastness

  Cheryl Strayed (2012). “Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found”, p.86, Atlantic Books Ltd

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Yes, you have cancer. Yes, your kids are on drugs. Yes, there is an elephant outside your tent. Now the question becomes, What are you going to do about it? Subsequent emotions may not be pleasant, but the hysteria stops. Hysteria accompanies an unwillingness to look at what is really going on; it promotes an unwillingness to look. We feel we are afraid to look, when actually it is not-looking that makes us afraid. The minute we look, we cease being afraid.

  Michael Crichton

  Cancer, Kids, Elephants

  Michael Crichton (2012). “Travels”, p.219, Vintage

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• The drive of the Rockefellers and their allies is to create a one-world government combining super capitalism and Communism under the same tent, all under their control.... Do I mean conspiracy? Yes I do. I am convinced there is such a plot, international in scope, generations old in planning, and incredibly evil in intent.

  Larry McDonald

  Mean, Government, Order

  104 Copy quote

• Tavi grinned. "Are you with me?" "The plan is insane," Ehren said. "YOU are insane." He looked around the inside of the tent. "I'll need some pants.

  Jim Butcher

  Insane, Needs, Pants

  6 Copy quote