I did one pageant in sixth grade, and I loved it! I loved the dresses and the big hair. — Molly Quinn Copy Share Image
I entered the Miss Nigeria in America pageant - yes, it's a thing that existed. This was when I was getting my… — Yvonne Orji Copy Share Image
I think that the pageant world overall is pretty spectacular, it just makes you feel good about yourself and leaves you with… — Abbey Curran Copy Share Image
My family took me to church when I was like 4 years old, and I had to be in a pageant, and… — David Walton Copy Share Image
I think pageant girls just have a way of faking it until you make it, almost. — Hannah Brown Copy Share Image
I can't constantly live in the past, thinking that 'Oh my God, I was Miss Universe.' — Lara Dutta Copy Share Image
I never thought of becoming an actress, but I always dreamt of winning a beauty pageant, and I achieved that. — Urvashi Rautela Copy Share Image
To be brutally honest, when you win a title like Miss Universe, your entire life turns topsy-turvy for one year. — Lara Dutta Copy Share Image
'Housewives' are a million times cattier than pageant girls! I know pageant girls have a reputation for being catty, but 'Housewives' are… — Joyce Giraud Copy Share Image
Funeral: a pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker, and strengthen our grief by an expenditure… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Becoming Miss Universe made me realize that women worldwide face the same challenges daily, such as various forms of violence and crime,… — Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters Copy Share Image
Contest doesn't just judge solely on beauty, if you have a dream you must pursue it. Go for it is my advice.… — Gisel Rifmily Copy Share Image
The first time I joined the gym was during the Miss Sri Lanka pageant in 2006. Then, I went for the Miss… — Jacqueline Fernandez Copy Share Image
This is a strange pocket of the western world where it is still deemed utterly acceptable to take smart, successful women and… — Hadley Freeman Copy Share Image
I wouldn't say there are alliances at the pageant, but I understand if you can't speak the language, you would want to… — Pia Wurtzbach Copy Share Image
Many girls prepare their whole lives for this one moment. For me, I see Miss USA as an opportunity to reach new… — Katherine Webb Copy Share Image
A mirror does not develop because an historical pageant passes in front of it. It only develops when it gets a fresh… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
It is a truism that as long as man loves but himself and his art he can never attain to the full… — Percy Jewett Burrell Copy Share Image
Especially as a title-holder, you can do great things with charities, because people suddenly care about what you have to say. I… — Joyce Giraud Copy Share Image
My only experience in the world of tiaras was as a contestant in a homecoming queen pageant that featured all the high… — Cynthia Bailey Copy Share Image
We debase the richness of both nature and our own minds if we view the great pageant of our intellectual history as… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“What’s the biggest problem facing teenagers today? Ourselves. We’re a generation of lazy underachievers who need to learn that hard work pays… — Nadria Tucker Copy Share Image
At the demonstration of sixty feminists against the Miss America Pageant in 1968, when the women filled a trash can with bras,… — Hilda Scott Copy Share Image
I've lived in New York all my life, and we went to the Mormon Pageant each year in upstate New York. It… — Renee Fleming Copy Share Image
T.V. style pageant of people parading through Rudy Giuliani, now on the phone, if he doesn't come in person today to get… — Chuck Todd Copy Share Image
Back in the day after I won my first pageant there was an agency that was getting me work on the side. — Maria Menounos Copy Share Image
Miss USA is a woman of the new millennium pretty, sexy, intelligent, opinionated, and feels strong about expressing her opinion. — Shandi Finnessey Copy Share Image
My life since the Miss Universe win has changed completely, in fact I do not think my life will ever be the… — Zozibini Tunzi Copy Share Image
Modeling and pageants help me overcome feeling insecure about the way that I look and my height. — Katherine Webb Copy Share Image
When I got to be about 16,17 I got into a beauty pageant and I was allowed to start playing around with makeup. — Halle Berry Copy Share Image
Trump says that if he's elected, he won't let the presidency interfere with the Miss Universe pageant. — David Letterman Copy Share Image
The Miss America Pageant reinforces a belief that women are merely how they look and how they please. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Miss World is about coming together, taking the reigns and fighting for a cause. — Manushi Chhillar Copy Share Image
When I was in Class XI, I started preparing for medical college, and after that, the Miss India pageant. — Manushi Chhillar Copy Share Image
When I am dead, no pageant train shall waste their sorrows at my bier. Nor worthless pomp of homage vain stain it… — Edward Everett Copy Share Image
Coming from a pageant title that celebrates diversity, I've come to appreciate all kinds of beauty. — Pia Wurtzbach Copy Share Image
I am so not a pageant girl, but I signed up for the Miss Junior Florida contest because I thought it would… — Amanda Latona Copy Share Image
I genuinely don't care about the 'number one' tag. That's not my goal. You know, no one does that with heroes, but… — Anushka Sharma Copy Share Image
But how entirely I live in my imagination; how completely depend upon spurts of thought, coming as I walk, as I sit;… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I know that I've got big ears and a big forehead and that my hair sticks up, but I'm happy with myself.… — Clay Aiken Copy Share Image
