Writing Competitions Quotes

#1. People like you are the reason People like me need medication.

Cheyenne McCray

#2. We have a host of English teachers in the family. My mum is an English teacher, and so are my dad, my aunt and my uncle. I have grown up with family writing competitions, and I can't remember a birthday or Christmas present that didn't include books.

Alexandra Adornetto

#3. An unconsidered life is not one worth living.

Socrates

#4. I used to go to the gym regularly and swim an awful lot, but that was when I was unemployed and knew leisure intimately.

Mark Gatiss

#5. I'm a warrior and a fighter, I race fair and I race clean.

Chrissie Wellington

#6. This Earth is our only home. Together, we must protect and cherish it.

Ban Ki-moon

#7. Quite literally, you would not have put your shirt on him two weeks ago.

Clive Tyldesley

#8. It takes real courage to do battle in the unspectacular task. We always listen for the applause of our co-workers. He is courageous who plods on, unlettered and unknown ... In the last analysis it is this courage, developing between man and his limitations, that brings success.

Alice Foote MacDougall

#9. People sometimes ask if I want to be a solo artist, but it just wouldn't be any fun being on your own.

Liam Payne

#10. my father...there was never any mistaking his love for me. When I walked into the room, his eyes lit up and he wrapped me in his arms as if it was Christmas morning and I was the best gift imaginable.

Eric Ripert

#11. I've always written. When I was in school, the only teacher who ever liked me was my creative writing teacher. I used to enter poetry competitions, and I don't think I ever lost one. So I had the idea for a while of being some kind of poet.

Justin Townes Earle