Every time people ask me, 'Did you know that you would be Miss Universe?', my answer is, 'I didn't know that I… — Zozibini Tunzi Copy Share Image
That year I went to Miss America, that was the first year I had competed in an adult pageant, if you could… — Shannon Bream Copy Share Image
I was always passionate about the Miss India pageant. Though I was a medical student, I never had a plan B. I… — Manushi Chhillar Copy Share Image
At the age of 18, I had participated in a beauty pageant. I represented India and won the title. That was my… — Koena Mitra Copy Share Image
Captain of our fairy band, Helena is here at hand, And the youth, mistook by me, Pleading for a lover's fee. Shall… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The pageant was such a fluke. I mean, I was living in an orphanage, and my foster mother bet me $150 to… — Charlotte Ayanna Copy Share Image
During my first summer in college, I travelled to California for the first time for a beauty pageant. It was solely for… — Fala Chen Copy Share Image
Victims receive attention and social clout, so why not play the victim role? This has been going on for quite some time,… — Brett Cooper Copy Share Image
Unlike the people you see in Mathew Brady's photographs from the Civil War, the men and women of the Revolution seem more… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
And when I won Miss Universe, I got a global platform, which gave me a louder voice to be able to reach… — Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters Copy Share Image
with a country of rare picturesqueness for a background, a people of rare beauty for actors, everybody more or less permeated with… — Inez Haynes Irwin 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
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
“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
The really valuable thing in the pageant of human life seems to me not the political state, but the creative, sentient individual,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
My small jobs were basically... cut a ribbon somewhere or fly to be a judge in some pageant in Darjeeling. It was… — Dino Morea Copy Share Image
I saw pageants as a way to be a role model. I think that was always very important to me, to live… — Hannah Brown Copy Share Image
As Miss World, you are a face for beauty with a purpose. You can't just be beautiful. You have to have the… — Manushi Chhillar Copy Share Image
I love beauty pageants. I love the idea of representing my country at an international level and being able to meet women… — Priscila Perales Copy Share Image
I felt so out of place at the Miss India pageant. I had just come back from America, and I was told… — Priyanka Chopra Copy Share Image
OVATION, n. n ancient Rome, a definite, formal pageant in honor of one who had been disserviceable to the enemies of the… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I prepared myself for Miss Universe for a very long time, for years, and I would always try to imagine what it… — Pia Wurtzbach Copy Share Image
Alicia Machado is the former Miss Universe that gained a lot of weight and Donald Trump made mention of the fact I… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The reigning Miss Canada has been arrested for punching out another woman in a bar fight.Quite frankly, I think it's refreshing to… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
The racehorses assemble at the starting barrier in all the finery of a mediaeval pageant, the jockeys in silks like figures from… — Kevin Hart Copy Share Image
“She taught us that the combination of false confidence and Hawaiian Tropic could result in a painful and unsightly burn, certain to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We like to say Miss America is the classy one. It has a talent category. I would have been dead last in… — Gretchen Carlson Copy Share Image
Pageantry is something I celebrate and support and... the role of these winners is to be an ambassador for everybody, whatever race,… — Shanna Moakler Copy Share Image
Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I want to be Miss USA or Miss America. I would bring the trophy back to Nebraska. My interests are agriculture and… — Gabrielle Union Copy Share Image
I entered beauty pageants in much the same spirit most people enter politics - with high ideals and ambitions. Similarly, I had… — Elizabeth Ray Copy Share Image
With Las Vegas being so bright lights-big city, I'm not sure that women really have a clear understanding of what pageantry is… — Shanna Moakler Copy Share Image
As a young girl, I would watch the Miss South Africa competition wishing with all my heart that one day I, too,… — Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters Copy Share Image
If I were to be Miss Universe, I will use my voice to influence the youth and I would raise awareness to… — Pia Wurtzbach Copy Share Image
I'm so grateful to have been able to go to the world and tell the story of South African women and South… — Zozibini Tunzi Copy Share Image
I'm so glad I never lost my drive because turns out, I was right! Now I'm finally wearing the Philippine sash in… — Pia Wurtzbach Copy Share Image
In pageants, you are evaluated from head to toe and its obviously all about looks, and as vain as that is, they… — Katherine Webb Copy Share Image
I think Miss Universe is wonderful platform that we promote diversity and women empowerment. Why? Because we are achieved women who have… — Catriona Gray Copy Share Image
