Pageant Quotes
67 quotes by 57 authors
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Habitats keep evolving new pageants of species, and we shouldn't interfere.
— Diane Ackerman
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The more we are proud that the Bethlehem story is plain enough to be understood by the shepherds, and almost by the sheep, the more…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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In place of equal respect, the nation offered women the Miss America beauty pageant, established in 1920-the same year women won the vote.
— Susan Faludi
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Funeral: a pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker, and strengthen our grief by an expenditure that deepens our…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Nothing impresses the mind with a deeper feeling of loneliness than to tread the silent and deserted scene of former throng and pageant.
— Washington Irving
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The racehorses assemble at the starting barrier in all the finery of a mediaeval pageant, the jockeys in silks like figures from a Tarot pack,…
— Kevin Hart
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The intellectual man requires a fine bait; the sots are easily amused. But everybody is drugged with his own frenzy, and the pageant marches at…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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They are, as it were, train-bearers in the pageant of life, and hold a glass up to humanity, frailer than itself. We see ourselves at…
— William Hazlitt
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I know that I've got big ears and a big forehead and that my hair sticks up, but I'm happy with myself. I'm not necessarily…
— Clay Aiken
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Back in the day after I won my first pageant there was an agency that was getting me work on the side.
— Maria Menounos
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I'm only wanted by directors for the image I give off, and it makes me angry. I always wanted to be an actor and not…
— Jude Law
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Now, how can I be anti-woman? I even judged the Miss America pageant.
— Rush Limbaugh
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All our pride is but a jest. None are worst and none are best. Grief and hope and joy and fear Play their pageant everywhere.
— Thomas Campion
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No festival of martial glory or warrior's renown is this; no pageant pomp of war-like conquest, no glory of fratricidal strife attend this day. It…
— Peter J. McGuire
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The cardinal rule for hosting the Miss USA and Miss Universe beauty pageants is to expect the unexpected.
— Bob Barker
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They have no allegiance to Atlantic City whatsoever, other than nostalgia, and that doesn't pay the bills, ... The Miss America pageant has to do…
— Leonard Horn
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When I create, I feel that I am a participant in the grand pageant of life, a part of the ongoing creative engine of the…
— Greg Graffin
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There is no other Parliament like the English. For the ordinary man, elected to any senate, from Perisa to Peru, they may be a certain…
— Josiah Wedgwood
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The pageant of life is divided into ying and yang. They're two circles. You can follow either circle and manage to develop enough speed to…
— Frederick Lenz
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Shortly thereafter, some friends encouraged me to try out for the Miss South Carolina World beauty pageant. To my surprise, I won - and was…
— Donna Rice Hughes
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