Quotes About Beauty Contests

#1. It used to happen in villages and towns in China that they would have - I guess you'd call them beauty contests - where all of the women of a particular village or town would be seated behind these screens or curtains with only their feet showing.

Lisa See

#2. There was no question about it- the girl in the photograph was staggeringly beautiful. She was Miss Canal Zone, a runner-up in the Miss Universe Contest
and in fact far more beautiful than the winner of the contests. Her beauty had frightened the judges.

Kurt Vonnegut

#3. Evolving technologies that allow economists to gather new types of data and to manipulate millions of data points are just one factor among several that are likely to transform the field in coming years.

Ben Bernanke

#4. Having lost the training and rites that prepare a girl for becoming truly queenly, a mature woman, we have instead beauty-queen contests for five-year-olds.

Bill Plotkin

#5. I think I'd make a loving, caring, understanding boyfriend, who's in touch with his emotions. Or at least I'd like to be.

Brian Littrell

#6. How can I come from a nation? How can a human being come from a concept?

Taiye Selasi

#7. Elections are not a beauty contest. It is all about tolerance.

Vladimir Franz

#8. [Rangers] discover the truth though it is surrounded by a bodyguard of lies.

Ysbeau Wilace

#9. When you demand the nature of my motives, you reveal the style of your thinking to be callow, captious, superficial, craven, uncertain and impudent.

Jack Vance

#10. People are created in God's image. Homosexuality is an identity adopted through societal factors. It's an identity disorder.

Christine O'Donnell

#11. Your tonal will enable you to deal with the world well, to do well in a career and interact with others.

Frederick Lenz

#12. Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.

Oscar Wilde

#13. His eyes widen. Then he laughs. "Elissa isn't my girlfriend. Jesus, that's disgusting. She's my sister." It's my turn to be surprised. "Your sister?" "Yes." Relief has never felt more odious.

Leisa Rayven

#14. I felt as though I was rushing into a burning building to discover the ideas I needed for my own life.(239)

Leslie Feinberg

#15. All the problems of the nation are nothing, in comparison to the might of God

Sunday Adelaja