X Factor Contestant Quotes

#1. It's funny because the perception is that the typical 'X Factor' contestant is the person who's just working 9 to 5 and just decides to one day go and audition. So yeah, for me, it was a very different story.

Fleur East

#2. It's hard to explain how this works, and I admit that it's fairly implausible or untenable as a way of life, but that seems to be how I go about my days: peaceably in person, fiercely on paper.

Katie Roiphe

#3. Death and resurrection are what the story is about and had we but eyes to see it, this has been hinted on every page, met us, in some disguise, at every turn, and even been muttered in conversations between such minor characters (if they are minor characters) as the vegetables.

C.S. Lewis

#4. I think when you're a TV presenter, you have to have a reason for doing it, and a lot of them have been around a long time and grafted for that. The reason why it works with me on 'The Xtra Factor' is because I was a contestant on it, and I have a relationship with the viewers at home.

Olly Murs

#5. If we are looking for a soft and malleable God who will stay safely within the boundary limits of conventional religious normalcy in His participation and impact upon our lives, then we are looking for a God who is not the God of the Bible.

Barton Jahn

#6. It was your inner spirit and not your outward appearance that mattered,

Jeannette Walls

#7. The big journals and Nobel laureates are the equivalent of Congressional leaders in science journalism.

Michael Pollan

#8. Your sensitivity is power. Don't let people transform your qualities into weaknesses.

Tariq Ramadan

#9. Before the seed there comes the thought of bloom.

E.B. White

#10. The look on his face frightened me terribly, but at the same time I was pleased not to be alone any more.

Edgar Allan Poe

#11. I'm totally twisted. Instead of, "Oh god, I don't have platforms - they won't like me," I was much more, "I'm doing what I'm doing, and if you don't want to buy it, then don't buy, but that's just what I'm gonna do." It gave me strength. It worked for me.

Manolo Blahnik

#12. And that was the thing about truths and secrets. Sometimes the truth didn't need to be known. The lie was healthier than the truth and, while some secrets could set people free, other secrets could destroy them.

Jennifer L. Armentrout