Arena famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I'd still prefer to do five nights at a club than one night at Allstate Arena.
-- Al Jourgensen -
I did the best I could, and in some arenas, my best was not good enough. I've made some bad choices.
-- Amy Grant -
I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest.
-- Aneurin Bevan -
We don't catch hold of an idea, rather the idea catches hold of us and enslaves us and whips us into the arena so that we, forced to be gladiators, fight for it.
-- Anna Funder -
The rules of survival never change, whether you're in a desert or in an arena.
-- Bear Grylls -
Since we live in a society that promotes faddism and temporary superficial adaptation of different values, we are easily convinced that changes have occurred in arenas where there has been little or no change.
-- Bell Hooks -
One of the most critical reasons believers experience defeat is because we categorize only a few areas of our lives as Christ's arena.
-- Beth Moore -
Today, you're either very big or you're playing stadiums or you're not playing anymore. You're either popular where everybody will go to a 20,000 seat arena to see you or they won't go to see you at all.
-- Bobby Vinton -
I am not a jazz singer. I wouldn't place myself on that footing. I wouldn't even enter that arena.
-- Boz Scaggs -
If you're not in the arena also getting your ***** kicked, I'm not interested in your feedback.
-- Brené Brown -
We are indeed drifting into the arena of the unwell.
-- Bruce Robinson -
I was scared, because I knew that in the political arena, you have to satisfy so many different types of people at once, and I wasn't sure that I could speak for everybody and be politically correct.
-- Camryn Manheim -
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
-- Carl Sagan -
Satan must be defeated in the arena he dominates, this world. So Christ was sent into this world to destroy Satan's works.
-- Charles Caldwell Ryrie -
The most dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men but between a man and himself - where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.
-- Clark Moustakas -
There is no greater thing than standing victorious in the arena.
-- Crixus -
We was sneakin' in and it was general admission, Now we ownin' the arena and decidin' who allowed in it.
-- Curren$y -
I've never been good in the financial and business arenas. I handle the creative side of things
-- Daryl Hannah -
Music will never go away, and I will never stop making music; it's just what capacity or what arena you decide to do it.
-- Dave Grohl -
They didn't have a problem with me being wild and crazy when it came time to fill the arenas.
-- Dennis Rodman -
In 2007, when I was governor of New York, I proposed that our state once again permit undocumented immigrants to obtain a driver's license. To say the proposal lit a firestorm in the political arena is an understatement.
-- Eliot Spitzer -
I would always rather be in the arena fighting than be a spectator.
-- Evel Knievel -
Beginning in 1973 and then acts in '77, '78, 1980, 1994 and then into the 21st century in the international arena, governments have steadily gotten out of the transportation business.
-- Frederick W. Smith -
We need to remember that politics is all about people, not programs. We shouldn't want to take the humanness out of the political arena.
-- J. C. Watts -
Thus, during the winter of 2003 I ventured into a new arena as a professional photographer.
-- Janine Turner -
I love the gallery, the arena of representation. It's a commercial world, and morality is based generally around economics, and that's taking place in the art gallery.
-- Jeff Koons -
The contest is not over, the strife is not ended. It has only entered upon a new and enlarged arena.
-- Jefferson Davis -
The comedy I like the best is comedy I can't do, stuff that doesn't touch my arena.
-- Jenny Eclair -
Well, I've been in the political arena all of my life, and 10 years of that as a candidate and elected official, and that's about enough.
-- Jim Hightower -
I don't know anyone in the hunting or sporting arena that goes out with an assault rifle.
-- Joe Manchin -
I'm a fine artist working in a commercial arena, so that's my cross to bear
-- Joni Mitchell -
Television ... the new gladiatorial arena.
-- Josephine Hart -
I feel that the work that I have done in the comedy arena, is priceless in terms of what I learned, timing, everything that these incredibly talented performers were generous enough in teaching me.
-- Khandi Alexander -
The endgame is an arena in which miraculous escapes are not uncommon.
-- Leonid Shamkovich -
I'd rather play a few nights at the Fillmore than play one night at an arena.
-- Lucinda Williams -
I'm not a fighter, but I would love to be a boxer because I love the courage and toughness. I mean, there can be nothing more terrifying than walking into an arena and looking at Mike Tyson in the ring.
-- Mark McGrath -
Walks work for me. I enter some arena that is neither conscious or unconscious.
-- Mary Oliver -
The word 'tolerance' once meant we all have the right to argue rationally for our deepest convictions in the public arena. Now it means those convictions are not even subject to rational debate.
-- Nancy Pearcey -
The prayer closet is the arena which produces the overcomer.
-- Paul Billheimer -
The place where the system and people's intentions meet is the political arena.
-- Peter Garrett -
What you should want from life is an arena big enough to express your talents and gifts.
-- Pleasant Rowland -
To live is to fight. We just fight in different arenas.
-- Rashad Evans -
You cannot win a battle in any arena merely by defending yourself.
-- Richard M. Nixon -
Nature's arena has a way of humbling and energizing us.
-- Scott Jurek -
You know, I play in small, intimate venues; I'm not an arena performer.
-- Sondre Lerche -
Prayer is the arena where our faith meets God's abilities.
-- Steven Furtick -
I think love has something to do with allowing a person you claim to love to enter a larger arena than the one you create for them.
-- Sting -
The place to find the explanation for the liberal-activist mindset of the courts is in the political arena.
-- Stockwell Day -
Listen up. You're in trouble. Word is the Capitol's furious about you showing them up in the arena. The one thing they can't stand is being laughed at and they're the joke of Panem
-- Suzanne Collins -
Something inside me twists as I remember another voice. Rue. In the arena. When I gave her the leg of groosling. “Oh, I've never had a whole leg to myself before.†The disbelief of the chronically hungry.
-- Suzanne Collins -
As a Business Ambassador, I am delighted to help both new and established British designers receive the recognition they deserve in the global fashion arena.
-- Tamara Mellon -
Theology, however implausible many of its truth claims, is one of the most ambitious theoretical arenas left in an increasingly specialized world
-- Terry Eagleton -
It is not the critic who counts...The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena...
-- Theodore Roosevelt -
I've never liked talking about my personal life, ever. Ever since I was 20, I've lived in a kind of public arena; and there have been stalkers, blackmailers, death threats, physical violence and threats to friends of mine, colleagues of mine, to myself.
-- Timothy Dalton -
A defendant on trial for a specific crime is entitled to his day in court, not in a stadium or a city or nationwide arena.
-- Tom C. Clark -
It seems to me there are good deficits and bad deficits. Now, we have a deficit that comes from the militarization of our society and our policy and our approach to the global arena.
-- Victor Saul Navasky -
My involvement in the political arena is to make sure there's a place for culture.
-- Yo-Yo Ma -
America is now the only global superpower, and Eurasia is the globe's central arena. Hence, what happens to the distribution of power on the Eurasian continent will be of decisive importance to America's global primacy and to America's historical legacy.
-- Zbigniew Brzezinski -
At the end of OK Computer we were playing big, big arenas and it wasn't right. You can do those things occasionally but at the time it didn't feel right.
-- Ed O'Brien -
When you do an arena show, and the lights have to sync up to the sound, and the sound has to sync up to the music, and all of that - things are really mapped out, and you lose some of that spontaneity.
-- Gary LeVox -
The uncluttered arena grants every living thing its unique existence. Including me.
-- John Nichol -
Health systems usually deal with the consequences of violence. We normally, in the health system, don't have the tools to prevent it, because these require policy interventions in every arena.
-- Julio Frenk -
I think that at its best you just have to respect each arena for what they can do well.
-- Kehinde Wiley -
I happen to believe, and I think many others do, Donald Trump is probably the great public speaker in those large arenas since William Jennings Bryan.
-- Stephen K. Bannon -
Your mom was right when she told you never to discuss politics and religion because emotions run so high in those arenas. Especially religion.
-- Bill O'Reilly -
I felt a certain modicum of success because I had been paid well to be an actor for the first time in my life, but I felt like I had done adolescent work on the show, and stepping into the New York theater arena was the first time I felt like I'd come into my own. I felt like I was proving myself in a gladiatorial arena.
-- Chris Carmack -
Most of my films I call arena films. I deal with a confined area -- an arena -- and I try to cover every aspect of it.
-- Robert Altman -
Media scrutiny is a great trademark of the American political arena.
-- Duncan Hunter -
My business in the beginning was very lawless and the more trouble I go into, the more the promoters liked me back then. I was on the front page for doing something wrong, the arena was full. Then, all of a sudden, everything changed somehow and they put rules in. You put rules in a gunfight? I'm not so good at following those rules. I don't' know what will happen at WrestleMania.
-- Roddy Piper -
My scare value is high. My arena is controversy. My tough front is my biggest asset.
-- Roy Cohn -
Somehow, Rush can still sell out arenas. If I was sitting in row one, I would take my chair, unbolt it from the ground and run away.
-- Kaki King
