Contests were so pertinent that you had to think that way but today, it's not like that. You have your contest skaters,… — Christian Hosoi Copy Share Image
You will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal. For, in… — Adlai E Stevenson Copy Share Image
I don't make the mistake of thinking it's a major musical event. I love the Eurovision Song Contest and it will continue… — Terry Wogan Copy Share Image
The poet and the painter are only truly great by the mutual influences of their studies, and the jealousy of glory has… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
The Socratic teacher turns his students away from himself and back onto themselves; he hides in paradoxes, makes himself inaccessible. The intimate… — Karl Jaspers 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
It's almost like my career has been [based on voting]. I won a dancing contest to get into wrestling. That involved fans… — Stacy Keibler Copy Share Image
As we are now engaged in this contest, all my wishes, all my desires and all the energies of my hand and… — Jubal Early Copy Share Image
To put is still more plainly: the desire for security and the feeling of insecurity are the same thing. To hold your… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This swallowing up of life in nothingness, this obliteration of life by nothingness is what the emotion of malice ultimately desires. The… — John Cowper Powys 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
Will you be wanting to contest the divorce?" I asked Mrs. Davis. "I should think not," she said calmly, "although I suppose… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
Football is controlled violence, but it is violence, which people have loved to watch since the gladiatorial contests in ancient Rome. — Michael Mandelbaum Copy Share Image
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
To contest an author's right to create a poetic or realistic work is to want to force him to change his temperament,… — Guy de Maupassant 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
Clay Aiken ran for Congress in North Carolina. But he didn't make it. Clay Aiken is famous for coming in second in… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
In terms of content, you can make a problem for yourself, I mean, make the contest difficult, let's say, with certain subject… — Garry Winogrand 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
They did that little thing on South Park, and they mentioned my name and had a character of me judging a Halloween… — Tina Yothers 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
Pakistan would be confident after their series win over England. The series will be a very close and good contest and if… — Greg Chappell 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
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