We old athletes carry the disfigurements and markings of contests remembered only by us and no one else. Nothing is more lost… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
When I was six, I entered a talent contest. I dyed my hair blond, had a chainsaw and pretended I was Eminem.… — Nico Mirallegro Copy Share Image
They always say the Miss America Pageant isn't a beauty contest, it's really a scholarship program. If that's the case, why don't… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
In America you're conditioned to regard everything as a contest. You have to make the Ten Best Dressed List, win this, win… — Arthur Ashe Copy Share Image
Lutherans, whose arguments and mistakes will not be difficult to contest or discover, do not want to attribute any value to works,… — Michael Servetus Copy Share Image
In all honesty, at that time, I never saw myself as an author... I was just a Mom in a state of… — Leslie Banks Copy Share Image
I'm really interested in revamping the Supernatural contest, so I'm going to put a lot of effort and energy into that going… — Travis Rice Copy Share Image
One day she told me that they'd decided that my gender was divvied into two neat piles-Men and Guys. Basically, all the… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
There's nothing in the First Amendment that even remotely talks about spending money for political contests, and to say that an individual… — Arlen Specter Copy Share Image
To try something longer, I entered a half-hour radio drama contest with the national public broadcaster, CBC. To my surprise, I won.… — Karen Walton Copy Share Image
And it's not just black people. That's the other thing about this issue, it's conflated with just black and white and it's… — Don Cheadle Copy Share Image
My photographs don't go below the surface. They don't go below anything. They're readings of the surface. I have great faith in… — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
Humans are built for endurance, not speed. We're awful sprinters compared to every other animal. We try to run our races as… — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
To proportion the eagerness of contest to its importance seems too hard a task for human wisdom. The pride of wit has… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
In America, snobs who wouldn't be seen dead with a lottery ticket play the stock market. We like to gamble. Winning, we… — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
I have a good sense of my body in a bathing suit around people who appreciate what I'm doing, like a contest.… — Arnold Schwarzenegger Copy Share Image
Electoral contests have nothing but polls, which is why people have grown so obsessed with them; we're desperate for an objective rendering… — John Podhoretz Copy Share Image
A baseball club is part of the chemistry of the city. A game isn't just an athletic contest. It's a picnic, a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Competing is intense among humans, and within a group, selfish individuals always win. But in contests between groups, groups of altruists always… — E. O. Wilson 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
Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do; they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity,… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
I had ordered long legs, but they never arrived. My eyes are weird too, one is gray and the other is green.… — Jane Seymour Copy Share Image
I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I'd draw a big ram's head, really messy. I'd… — Jean-Michel Basquiat Copy Share Image
The liberty of the whole earth was depending on the issue of the contest, and was ever such a prize won with… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I prefer career artists that have spent time honing their craft, as opposed to, 'I won a karaoke contest on a reality… — Conor Oberst 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
People understand contests. You take a bunch of kids throwing rocks at random and people look askance, but if you go and… — Don Murray Copy Share Image
The company calls it 'downsizing' or 'rightsizing.' My own informal "Name the Layoff" contest produced some other euphemisms: Retroactive Hiring Freeze, Resume… — Dale Dauten Copy Share Image
There is a contest old as Eden, which still goes on - the conflict between right and wrong, between error and truth.… — Matthew Simpson Copy Share Image
In a government such as ours we have vigorous contests to determine who should lead. The recent election was no exception. Now… — Matt Blunt Copy Share Image
I guess what I enjoy most is directing, because it incorporates all aspects of filmmaking. Directing is in the same line as… — James Franco 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
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
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
A good 80 percent of the vault is still physical and another percentage of it, 20, 25 percent is mental. Mental is… — Bela Karolyi Copy Share Image
That could be the issue that the party - that the party faces as we get ready to potentially nominate someone who's… — Steve Schmidt 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
At an expense trifling indeed, compared to what she frequently spends upon unprofitable contests, she might place the moral world on a… — John Strachan Copy Share Image
There are in truth three states of the converted: the beginning, the middle, and the perfection. In the beginning they experience the… — Pope Gregory I 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
