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You have access to the Tent Of Meeting. -- Francis Chan
I like cottage cheese. That's why I want to try other dwelling cheeses, too. How about studio apartment cheese? Tent cheese? Mobile home cheese? Do not eat mobile home cheese in a tornado. -- Mitch Hedberg
I'd rather be in a tent than in a house. -- Mary Leakey
The thing about me is that I don't judge my audience. I welcome. It is a big tent. -- Willie Geist
It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on a tent. -- Dave Barry
I was not an attractive child. When I didn't use my Girl Scouts uniform as a uniform, I used it as a tent. -- Joan Rivers
I have worked for three decades as a staunch advocate of building a 'big tent' party that includes both pro-choice and pro-life Republicans. -- Olympia Snowe
You don't want to pitch a tent and live inside the Louvre. You want to check it out, appreciate it, and move somewhere else. -- John Oates
I pass my life in preventing the storm from blowing down the tent, and I drive in the pegs as fast as they are pulled up. -- Abraham Lincoln
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
The more you focus on sex without love, and drugs and violence, lifestyle of intimidation and recycling, the less energy you spend on opening up the big tent. -- Jesse Jackson
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
Catholicism is a wide tent in terms of political and legal positions. We could have nine Catholics on the Supreme Court and a great deal of diversity toward the law. -- Cass Sunstein
I had a birthday one night on a farm we were shooting on. I walked into the tent, and there were 150 people waiting for me, all wearing masks of my face. -- Stephen Hopkins
My earliest memory from childhood is of fishing with my father. And I remember vividly we were in a store, and we were buying a pup tent to go on our first camping trip. -- David Suzuki
People think that by living on some mountainside in a tent and being frozen to death by freezing rain, they're somehow discovering reality, but of course that's just another fiction dreamed up by a TV producer. -- J. G. Ballard
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. -- Jesse Jackson
I think Ross Noble is the only person that I've seen really storm a stand-up slot at a festival, and that was when he led 3,000 people on a conga out of the tent and across the entire site to a vegetarian food truck. -- Marcus Brigstocke
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The representation of the tabernacle arose out of the temple of Solomon as its root, in dependence on the sacred ark, for which there is early testimony, and which in the time of David, and also before it, was sheltered by a tent. -- Julius Wellhausen
If I'm doing a story on how a single mother copes in a refugee camp, I'll go to her tent; I'll follow her when she's working, see what her daily life is like, and try to pack that into one composition, with nice light, in one frame. -- Lynsey Addario
Within childhood behaviors, there are known behaviors; there's teasing and there's name-calling, and different kinds of things happen as kids start to socialize. And then there's serious bullying, and then there's actual aggression and behavioral problems. But you can't put it all under the tent of bullying. -- Julianne Moore
The reality of our business is that for every actor who's rolled up his tent and given up and gone home, the next day you hear about some shoe salesman at Macy's who had this audition and now he's Harrison Ford. There's always that carrot out there in our business. -- Scott Bakula
That's what governors do, they wrestle with the issues, they find solutions and they move the agenda forward. At the appropriate time we'll talk about all of these issues, while remembering that our party is a big tent party. We lose when we try to become exclusive to one particular set of issues. -- Jon Huntsman, Jr.
I have long said there are three distinct groups under the GOP's tent: theological warriors, who want to impose their social views on the rest of society; Tea Party zealots, who say with a straight face that they want the government to get out of their Medicare; and remnants of the pro-business moderates. -- Eliot Spitzer
When I was a kid, I worked in the circus. It was a touring circus that was owned by a man named Terrell Jacobs. It was just one big tent, and he was a lion tamer. He didn't have any kids, but the bit was that I would dress up as his son in an identical outfit. -- Christopher Walken
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. -- Jesse Jackson
If you go out on the Appalachian Trail, you have to bring so much more equipment - a tent, sleeping bag - but if you go hiking in England, or Europe, generally, towns and villages are near enough together at the end of the day you can always go to a nice little inn and have a hot bath and something to drink. -- Bill Bryson
Never sleep in a small tent with your nemesis. -- Tom Chappell
The low green tent Whose curtain never outward swings. -- John Greenleaf Whittier
Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home. -- James Montgomery
I am for a huge, huge tent that espouses conservative principles. -- Andrew Breitbart
Sawyer: Alone in your tent? Um, no. You're in my tent -- Abbi Glines
Make time for planning: Wars are won in the general's tent. -- Stephen Covey
We need a real tent city in the heart of Moscow. -- Alexei Navalny
Then I dive into my tent before I do something stupid like cry. -- Suzanne Collins
To the Christian death is the exchanging of a tent for a building. -- Billy Graham
The movies are about big tent pole movies and big action and effects. -- Scott Bakula
What's the sense of sending $2 million missiles to hit a $10 tent that's empty? -- George W. Bush
She was so fat that her clothes are made by Omar the tent maker. -- Rodney Dangerfield
I went to a tent store. "What kind of tent do you need?" "Circus." -- Mitch Hedberg
A man should not be a silkworm; nor a nation a tent of caterpillars. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are in the same tent as the clowns and the freaks-that's show business. -- Edward R. Murrow
Oh, I don't wear a bathing suit. I wear a tent when I go out. -- Greg Proops
Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
I'm God's messenger from the gypsy tent. And it's the message that's important, not the messenger. -- Rodney "Gipsy" Smith
I pour into the world the eternal streams Wan prophets tent beside, and dream their dreams. -- John Vance Cheney
Love, why have you sought the horde of spearsmen, why the tent Achilles pitched beside the river-ford? -- Hilda Doolittle
I believe - figuratively, but in a very real way - we need to tent the White House! -- Pat Boone
Sometimes in my tent, late at night, I think I can hear the stars scraping against the sky. -- Rick Yancey
I can't believe you brought me here to see some guy who heals people out of a tent! -- Dean Winchester
Information is currency. ... Power is a place as well as a verb; it is inside the information tent. -- Lynda Obst
I've been to the Reading festival twice before-as a punter, though I stayed backstage in the hospitality tent! -- Bruce Dickinson
For a while we lived in a tent we'd pitched inside his parents' house and we slept on pillows. -- Shelley Duvall
Sometimes Evil pursues the Warrior of the Light, and when it does, he calmly invites it into his tent. -- Paulo Coelho
Better to have your enemies inside your tent pissing out, then to have them outside your tent pissing in. -- Doris Kearns Goodwin
I was born by the river, in a little tent, and just like the river I've been running ever since. -- Sam Cooke
I had this weird, nomadic little tent with a rug over it, like a booth where I'd sing the vocals. -- Neneh Cherry
Most people don't do something seminal. I've done it twice: with my tent and my bed. Picasso did it with Cubism. -- Tracey Emin
When people ask me about my story, I just go through the positive stuff: the tent-pole moments, the big landmark checkpoints. -- Shia LaBeouf
Humor can bring people under the tent. And a good joke can deflect some of the intensity surrounding a serious subject. -- Ted Danson
But the soul of touring and the heart of it is basically every day is like putting up a circus tent. -- Pat Benatar
They waited. The door did not open. The rain did not stop. The darkness made a tent and covered them completely. -- Timothy Findley
I think that the Democratic Party is a big tent, which means that there are positions I may not agree with. -- Barack Obama
As I turned to leave the tent, she said, "Don't worry. Your own mother wouldn't know you."I said, "She never has. -- Dean Koontz
In Africa, you can make three acres sustainable relatively easily, but 50,000 acres? It's not about picking up towels or sleeping in a tent. -- Jochen Zeitz
I have worked for three decades as a staunch advocate of building a big tent party that includes both pro-choice and pro-life Republicans. -- Olympia Snowe
I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky. -- Oscar Wilde
It's you people dying from nothing that are screwed. I got all sorts of neat gadgets waiting for me...oxygen tent, iron lung. -- Bill Hicks
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
And one rose in a tent of sea and gave A darkening shudder; water fell away; The whale stood shining, and then sank in spray. -- Yvor Winters
Me in a one-man tent crouching over carrier bag. It's not just the lowest point of the trip. It's the lowest point ever. In 38 years. -- Karl Pilkington
Herschel removed the speckled tent-roof from the world and exposed the immeasurable deeps of space, dim-flecked with fleets of colossal suns sailing their billion-leagued remoteness. -- Mark Twain
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
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
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. Weatherly
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
We're wild horses. We're going to eat your food, knock down your tent and poop on your shoes. We're protected by federal law, just like Richard Nixon. -- Dave Barry
I went camping and borrowed a circus tent by mistake. I didn't notice until I got it set up. People complained because they couldn't see the lake. -- Steven Wright
The sword of Gryffindor was hidden they knew not where, and they were three teenagers in a tent whose only achievement was not, yet, to be dead. -- J. K. Rowling
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
The Republican Party is a much bigger tent than people give it credit for. We have a lot of what I guess you all call moderate Republicans. -- Rudy Giuliani
If there 's a hole in a' your coats, I rede ye tent it; A chiel 's amang ye takin' notes, And, faith, he 'll prent it. -- Robert Burns
I think it's very troubling to see the reality of where the American political establishment is going - into this big tent, which is one happy Demo-Republican family. -- Jill Stein
We need to build bridges between the LGBT community and the larger immigrant community. In the end, the bigger the tent we build, the more successful we'll be. -- Luis Gutierrez
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 Bruce
People didn't suddenly wake up one morning and unanimously say 'I'm fed up with midbudget dramas. I'm only going to see action tent poles from now on!' -- Alison Owen
Oh, no way," Leo said. "We've been sitting in a cave and you get the luxury tent? Somebody give me hypothermia. I want hot chocolate and a parka! -- Rick Riordan
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
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. -- James Russell Lowell
If you are lying in a tent in the Congo jungle, you don't want to be reading about rainforest biology. You want to be in a distant world. -- David Quammen
The wound of peace is surety, Surety secure; but modest doubt is called The beacon of the wise, the tent that searches To th' bottom of the worst. -- William Shakespeare
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
The typical computer network isn't like a house with windows, doors, and locks. It's more like a gauze tent encircled by a band of drunk teenagers with lit matches. -- Robert David Steele
A tent, a roll mat, a little bit of food, a bit of petrol in your tank and a vague idea of where you're going and that's all you need. -- Ewan McGregor
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 Kosinski
Make no mistake about it. These are not 'kookie' birds. Right now the greatest player, the big tent on the political scene in America, is called the Tea Party movement. -- Dick Armey
Take your tent and go for the camping! You are dying in the cities! Thousands of stars, hundreds of birds, tens of flowers are waiting for you to heal you! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
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
A writer is someone who has a one-man tent in the desert and occasionally he sees the footprint of an other writer - in the form of a review or something. -- Alan Lightman
You might say it was my return to the living that launched me as a singer. I was placed in an oxygen tent, and the doctors brought me back to life. -- Patsy Cline
I love the protests. And if you think about it, what better way to send a message to Wall Street than by sitting in a pup tent banging on a drum. -- David Letterman
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. -- Edgar Winter
The rebel is doomed to a violent death. The rest of us can look forward to sedated expiration in a coma inside an oxygen tent, with tubes inserted in every bodily orifice. -- Edward Abbey
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. -- Omar Khayyam
And you know, we'd go to church. We were Baptists. And every now and then there'd be a tent would set up, and it was the Holiness folks. And we liked their music. -- Mel Tillis
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
My favorite idea is doing an all-night tent show starring my friend's band Marijuana Deathsquads, where everyone would wear super-loud headphones, and there would be tons of subs and lights. It'd be really dope. -- Justin Vernon
We need a revival in the country," Paul said. "We need another Great Awakening with tent revivals of thousands of people saying, 'reform or see what's going to happen if we don't reform.' -- Rand Paul

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