Best Beauty Pageant Quotes

#1. It sounded artificial, like a beauty pageant contestant pledging world peace. I did feel sad, but articulating it seemed cheap to me.

Gillian Flynn

#2. 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

#3. You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage - pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically, to say "no" to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger "yes" burning inside. The enemy of the "best" is often the "good.

Stephen R. Covey

#4. Sarah Palin and her virtual burqa have me and my friends retching into our handbags. She's such a power-mad, backwater beauty-pageant casualty, it's easy to write her off and make fun of her. But in reality I feel as horrified as a ghetto Jew watching the rise of National Socialism.

Cintra Wilson

#5. When times change, as they inevitably do, one finds it impossible to give up on one's faith; in fact, one clings to it with renewed vigour. Difficult times make men cling to their faith even more strongly.

Amish Tripathi

#6. I do an international beauty pageant called Queen of the Universe for UNESCO, and what we do is we build kindergartens around the world.

Joyce Giraud

#7. Della had recently remarried and promised my mother that she and her new husband

Hillary Rodham Clinton

#8. The reigning Miss Canada has been arrested for punching out another woman in a bar fight.Quite frankly, I think it's refreshing to finally find one beauty pageant winner who is against world peace.

Jay Leno

#9. High-pitched squeal like a beauty pageant contestant found best in show, Oprah audience member given a new Chevy, rookie actress surprised with an unlikely Oscar.

Dennis Vickers

#10. I can't choose the most meaningful song that I've written. That would be like choosing one child over another. But first borns are always special.

Matisyahu

#11. You can get away with saying much more with humor than you can with a straight face

Sherry Argov

#12. 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

#13. My mother really wanted me to be in possibly a beauty pageant, not only for if I could win, but it helped improve my self-image because of trauma in my childhood and other issues.

Pam Grier

#14. 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

#15. One must take what comes, with laughter.

Olivia De Havilland

#16. I accidentally entered a youth pageant when I was 14. That's like a beauty pageant, but without the beauty. It was terrible.

Zooey Deschanel

#17. 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

#18. After living with their dysfunctional behavior for so many years, people become invested in defending their dysfunctions rather than changing them.

Marshall Goldsmith

#19. Love God Today: Seek God for your future and trust Him to bring it about in His timing.

Joyce Meyer

#20. 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 a beauty pageant winner.

Jude Law

#21. Then it hits me: High school is exactly like a beauty pageant. Of course. Walking down a hallway is like being on stage, being judged by your appearance.

Elizabeth Eulberg

#22. If the thing is feasible, the first to do it ought to be an Englishman.

Jules Verne

#23. The pageant of a former hour, Is Beauty in the Grave.

Roger Scruton

#24. Somewhere a woman is praying her toddler wins a beauty pageant. I say this because sometimes people wonder why God lets tornadoes happen.

Dana Gould

#25. What do you want ?
It was a hard question, especially if I had to bat en down the sarcasm. I mean, there was the beauty pageant answer of world peace, although I'd probably have to render it in the beauty pageant spelling of world peas.

Rachel Cohn

#26. 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 trying to win a beauty pageant here.

Clay Aiken

#27. If she had anything to say about it, the pageant would be called off and the dignity of Sweet Valley womanhood would be preserved. The truth was, no one seemed to care as much about the beauty pageant issue as she did.

Francine Pascal

#28. In life's rich beauty pageant we put children on a stage, said flash your soft white belly child, but just don't act your age.

Rodney Crowell

#29. Shortly thereafter, some friends encouraged me to try out for the Miss South Carolina World beauty pageant. To my surprise, I won - and was sent to New York City to compete nationally.

Donna Rice

#30. What can I say: I'm a writer - I enjoy forcing pain and suffering on my characters!

Marie Lu

#31. Especially as a title-holder, you can do great things with charities, because people suddenly care about what you have to say. I wanted to make a difference, which is why I created the Queen of the Universe pageant. I want to change all of those stigmas in the beauty pageant world.

Joyce Giraud

#32. Earthquakes would be great if they could hit specific areas, like the parent lounge at a children's beauty pageant.

Dana Gould

#33. The truth isn't meant to be pretty, that's for beauty pageants.

Marc Marcel