Beauty Pageant Contestants Quotes

#1. This is a strange pocket of the western world where it is still deemed utterly acceptable to take smart, successful women and reduce them to beauty pageant contestants,

Hadley Freeman

#2. You really only learn your place, her mother once said, when you're left in it.

Megan Abbott

#3. 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 we just put all the contestants on Jeopardy! and pick Miss America that way? At least you get the smartest one.

Jay Leno

#4. It's hard to win in the NFL. You have to maintain a very delicate balance putting together the right team to be able to win and have any amount of success.

Barry Sanders

#5. I know I can't do things like love by halves, I know I have love pent up in me, I shall throw myself away, lose my heart and my body and my mind and soul to some cad like G.P. Who'll betray me. I feel it.

John Fowles

#6. When you doubt between words, use the plainest, the commonest, the most idiomatic. Eschew fine words as you would rouge; love simple ones as you would the native roses on your cheek.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

#7. How can you possibly be sympathetic to every fool on the planet? Just the other day, I heard a man whining about his hopeless love of cross-dressing. Call me unenlightened, but I started to laugh.

Deacon Jones

#8. He now realized that right and wrong were intertwined notions. His arms could not differentiate between just and unjust causes. They only knew that they were empty.

Roy L. Pickering Jr.

#9. All the more I study Nature do I revere God, because Nature is all the body of God we will ever know.

Frank Lloyd Wright

#10. Good writing does not succeed or fail on the strength of its ability to persuade. It succeeds or fails on the strength of its ability to engage you, to make you think, to give you a glimpse into someone else's head.

Malcolm Gladwell

#11. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Lee Iacocca

#12. I feel that the social revolution of the sixties is like a revolving door that came our way, and then left. It's back again.

Marianne Williamson

#13. The scope of an intellect is not to be measured with a tape-string, or a character deciphered from the shape or length of a nose.

Christian Nestell Bovee

#14. I know that all cops are not sterling characters. But you have to have someone to root for. I balance it with rotten cops who will take a bribe, who will beat somebody up.

Evan Hunter

#15. In deep meditation we see nothing but purity.

Frederick Lenz

#16. The Cahill girl is dead.

Sarwat Chadda

#17. Me? I slept like the dead, which I hoped wasn't a sign of things to come.

Rick Riordan