I was always doing something physical. My brothers and I used to have handstand contests. We'd walk around the projects on our… — Florence Griffith Joyner Copy Share Image
Would you believe that I once entered a beauty contest? I must have been out of my mind. I not only came… — Phyllis Diller Copy Share Image
The saddest symptom about many so-called Christians is the utter absence of anything like conflict and fight against spiritual apathy in their… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Now they seemed to be in a contest over who could irritate her more, and she sometimes had to remind herself that… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
If the central contest of the twentieth century has pitted capitalism against socialism, then F. A. Hayek has been its central figure.… — Kenneth Minogue Copy Share Image
Psychopaths view any social exchange as a ‘feeding opportunity,’ a contest or a test of wills in which there can be only… — Robert D. Hare Copy Share Image
I skate all the time, but it's silly for me to do contests when MTV is giving me a boatload of money. — Bam Margera Copy Share Image
Let’s state it clearly: One great idea of the biblical revelation is that God is manifest in the ordinary, in the actual,… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
I’m about to enter a national ass-kicking contest. With no legs. And a massive ass. — Julia Louis-Dreyfus Copy Share Image
I'm still going to love you, always. And in the rock-paper-scissors of life, love is rock. fear, anger, everthing else...no contest. — Sara Zarr Copy Share Image
The music teacher thought I sang like a goat. It was kind of devastating. A few months after that, I participated in… — Shakira Copy Share Image
The Academy Awards are obscene, dirty . . . no better than a beauty contest. — Dustin Hoffman Copy Share Image
In the contest between talent and hard work as to which is the more important element of success, there's no comparison. A… — David Joyner Copy Share Image
I've been asked to do 'American Idol' and 'X Factor.' I'm an Ed McMahon kind of girl. 'Star Search?' I'm in, all… — Pink Copy Share Image
When I begin to doubt my ability to work the word, I simply read another writer and know I have nothing to… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
We view ourselves on the eve of battle. We are nerved for the contest, and must conquer or perish. It is vain… — Sam Houston Copy Share Image
I would read the Shel Silverstein poems, Dr. Seuss, and I noticed early on that poetry was something that just stuck in… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
You can be invincible, if you enter into no contest in which it is not in your power to conquer. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
But the wisdom and authority of the legislator are seldom victorious in a contest with the vigilant dexterity of private interest. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
In holding your antagonist, therefore, you should hold him lightly as if your arms were nothing but chains which connect you with… — Yokoyama Sakujiro Copy Share Image
Oh, by the way…” Jason glanced at Percy. “I resigned my office, gave Frank a field promotion to praetor. Unless you want… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
I stopped playing in the Masters in 2004, I stopped playing in the Par-3 [Contest], and now it's time to end this… — Arnold Palmer Copy Share Image
I'm not in this business to win a popularity contest, I just want to be a good actor. Well, you've failed at… — Roger Moore Copy Share Image
