Contest Quotes

1. "It was a hole in one contest and I had a three."
Author: Abe Lemons

2. "Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage."
Author: Ambrose Bierce

3. "–Ya cásate conmigo doctor, te estás haciendo viejo –le propuso.–Tengo un hijo con otra mujer y te llevo veinte años –contestó el doctor Cuenca.–Ya lo sé –dijo ella–, por eso te estoy apurando."
Author: Ángeles Mastretta

4. "Maybe happiness didn't have to be about the big, sweeping circumstances, about having everything in your life in place. Maybe it was about stringing together a bunch of small pleasures. Wearing slippers and watching the Miss Universe contest. Eating a brownie with vanilla ice cream. Getting to level seven in Dragon Master and knowing there were twenty more levels to go. Maybe happiness was just a matter of the little upticks- the traffic signal that said "Walk" the second you go there- and downticks- the itch tag at the back of your collar- that happened to every person in the course of the day. Maybe everybody had the same allotted measure of happiness within each day. maybe it didn't matter if you were a world-famous heartthrob or a painful geek. Maybe it didn't matter if your friend was possibly dying. Maybe you just got through it. Maybe that was all you could ask for."
Author: Ann Brashares

5. "It was quiet in the cell. Rubashov heard only the creaking of his steps on the tiles. Six and a half steps to the door, whence they must come to fetch him, six and a half steps to the window, behind which night was falling. Soon it would be over. But when he asked himself, For what actually are you dying? he found no answer.It was a mistake in the system; perhaps it lay in the precept which until now he had held to be uncontestable, in whose name he had sacrificed others and was himself being sacrificed: in the precept, that the end justifies the means. It was this sentence which had killed the great fraternity of the Revolution and made them run amuck. What had he once written in his diary? "We have thrown overboard all conventions, our sole guiding principle is that of consequent logic; we are sailing without ethical ballast."
Author: Arthur Koestler

6. "Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote."
Author: Benjamin Franklin

7. "Who's judging American Idol? Paula Abdul? Paula Abdul judging a singing contest is like Christopher Reeve judging a dance contest!"
Author: Chris Rock

8. "Who but the sports-mad [Norman] Mailer would liken the battle between God and the Devil to a game of American football? The contest, for sure, has with [sic] own laws (so that after God and the Devil 'tackle a guy, they don't kick him in the head'), but each side is not above cheating—with God breaking the rules occasionally by throwing in 'a miracle'. Strangely, Mailer doesn't mention Jesus in this agonising analogy, but then the notion of the 'super-sub' may be an image too far even for him."
Author: Christopher Hitchens

9. "Humans are built for endurance, not speed. We're awful sprinters compared to every other animal. We try to run our races as if they were speed races, but they are not. They're endurance races. Even a marathon, the way it's run now, it's not an endurance contest."
Author: Christopher McDougall

10. "And when they finally demanded that I had to stop keeping score and that I needed to play every future contest as an exhibition, I casually made the kind of statement sixteen-year-olds should not make to forty-six-year-old Midwestern housewives: "Why are you telling me how to do my job?" I asked. "It's not like I show up in your kitchen and tell you when to bake cookies."
Author: Chuck Klosterman

11. "Each season I find myself constantly inspired by 'The Biggest Loser' contestants. Their tenacity and willingness to learn new, healthy habits is tremendous and the results speak for themselves. I am honored to be part of such an inspiring program that helps inspire positive change in so many lives."
Author: Curtis Stone

12. "It had been a contest between the vampire and an Uzi. The Uzi had won."
Author: D.B. Reynolds

13. "- Hoy es mi cumpleaños -le contestó Katrin.- ¿En serio? -preguntó él.- Treinta -respondió ella con rotundidad.- ¡No me digas! Entonces tenemos que celebrarlo -dijo él- ¿Qué te gustaría de regalo?- Tú -contestó ella.- Bueno, mejor algo que no tengas, ¿no? -insistió él."
Author: Daniel Glattauer

14. "Breathed like a contestant in a polka marathon, sit-up contest, stationary bike race."
Author: Dennis Vickers

15. "Competing is intense among humans, and within a group, selfish individuals always win. But in contests between groups, groups of altruists always beat groups of selfish individuals."
Author: E. O. Wilson

16. "The tinkle of wind chimes announcing the return of our fairy guests made us both look up. Our chance to be alone was going to be shorter than either of us had hoped.I sighed and brushed an errant dragon scale from Eadric's tunic. "Someday when we have lots of time, remind me to tell you what you mean to me."Eadric tilted my head back so he could gaze into my eyes. "I can tell you what you mean to me with just one word."Let me guess," I said, smiling up at him. "Maybe I make you happy because you no longer have to enter kissing contests to find the best kisser? Do I bring excitement into your life because I can wisk you away to exotic lands on my magic carpet? Or do you find me delightful because I can conjure food whenever you're hungry?"No, that's not. . . Wait, what was that last one?"I laughed and shook my head. "Never mind. So tell me in one word, what do I mean to you?"That's easy," said Eadric. "Everything!"
Author: E.D. Baker

17. "Given the choice between accomplishing something and just lying around, I'd rather lie around. No contest."
Author: Eric Clapton

18. "I like intelligent women. When you go out, it shouldn't be a staring contest."
Author: Frank Sinatra

19. "I wouldn't support Limp Bizkit being on some snuff backyard brawling, fighting contest."
Author: Fred Durst

20. "Le contestaban que durante muchos años habían estado sin cura, arreglandonegocios del alma directamente con Dios, y habían perdido la malicia del pecado mortal."
Author: Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

21. "El chófer me previno: Cuidado, sabio, en esa casa matan. Le contesté: Si es por amor no importa."
Author: Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

22. "What is more beautiful than a sea of water with a number of white-winged boats skirting its surface? Poetry and beauty contesting with the wind and the waves!"
Author: George Matthew Adams

23. "(Dominic after winning King & Queen contest at Prom along with Tess) "You like me, you really like me!" he said in a mock high-pitched voice, channeling his inner Sally Fields. "First of all, I have to thank my first grade teacher, what was her name? Mrs. Johnson? Nichols? Jameson? Prescott? Yeah, that was it. Man, I had such a crush on her. Even at five, I had awesome taste in women—just look at Tess. Isn't she banging? Anyway, I need to thank Mrs. Pentecostal, because she told me I'd never win anything, and that hurt, man. But I guess I showed her. So take that, Mrs. Presley!"
Author: J.M. Darhower

24. "Some people choose to go on 'American Idol' or another singing contest, and some people choose to beat down barrooms before anyone even knows who they are, in order to get a fan base, so when they do get a record deal, they have that to put in front of a label."
Author: Jake Owen

25. "A contest was held in 1994 to rename the Los Angeles Convention and Exhibition Center after an extensive renovation and expansion. The winning name, chosen from over ten thousand entries, was the Los Angeles Convention Center."
Author: James Frey

26. "Diversity and independence are important because the best collective decisions are the product of disagreement and contest, not consensus or compromise."
Author: James Surowiecki

27. "I was always a clown. In the eighth grade I won a city speech contest by doing an Eddie Murphy routine. I'm no good at public speaking, but if I can assume a role and speak as that person, then I'm fine. When I had to give a book report, I always did it in character."
Author: Jason Wiles

28. "I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I'd draw a big ram's head, really messy. I'd never win painting contests. I remember losing to a guy who did a perfect Spiderman."
Author: Jean Michel Basquiat

29. "I didn't get hurt in the contest. I hurt it the next day."
Author: Jimmy Piersall

30. "When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies in me; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tombs of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow; when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind. When I read the several dates of the tombs, of some that died yesterday, and some six hundred years ago, I consider that great Day when we shall all of us be contemporaries, and make our appearance together"
Author: Joseph Addison

31. "We cannot calculate our important contests, adventures, and great loves to the end. The only thing we can really count on is getting surprised. No matter how much preparation we do, in the real tests of our lives, we'll be in unfamiliar terrain. Conditions might not be calm or reasonable. It may feel as though the whole world is stacked against us. This is when we have to perform better than we ever conceived of performing. I believe the key is to have prepared in a manner that allows for inspiration, to have laid the foundation for us to create under the wildest pressures we ever imagined."
Author: Josh Waitzkin

32. "Every author these days is an award-winning novelist. Why? Because they set up an award contest and they dub themselves the winner."
Author: Karen E. Quinones Miller

33. "I can't take a dick-measuring contest.". . ."I know Meshack has a big one. And from what I've felt, Zulu is big. Both of your dicks are equally big."
Author: Kenya Wright

34. "¿Ov yilo isi? —Le preguntó suavemente.—Sí —dijo Kev, contestando en inglés—. Hay corazón aquí.Y Win sonrió mientras él se sentaba para besarla."
Author: Lisa Kleypas

35. "Football is controlled violence, but it is violence, which people have loved to watch since the gladiatorial contests in ancient Rome."
Author: Michael Mandelbaum

36. "A quienes me preguntan la razón de mis viajes les contesto que sé bien de qué huyo pero ignoro lo que busco"
Author: Molière

37. "One should regard one's religious or denominational affiliation as a point of departure, a point of entry, not the point of arrival because on cannot confine God to a particular religion or faith tradition, and therefore should not claim one's exclusive ownership of God. Regarding one's religious or denominational affiliation as _accidentality_; not as _inevitability_, is important in religious discourse and practice because such a sense of _accidentality_ of one's affiliation allows a space of _alterity_ of reciprocal contestation and challenge, and a space of planetary gaze that sees others as fellow human beings, _regardless_."
Author: Namsoon Kang

38. "Pro scienta atque sapienta-Latin- for science and wisdomIt's a Darwinian popularity contest. at all times, the question on everyone's mind is, "who's coolest?" Do you want the Spanish Inquisition in here? you better start acting with a little sobriety, or your mother is going to put two and two together"
Author: Ned Vizzini

39. "Oh, be still my beating heart. I offer no contest to your words."
Author: Nely Cab

40. "Although the rival cereals of rye, barley,oats, buckwheat and millet have continued to exist in Europe, the triumphal march of king wheat was uncontestable"
Author: Norman Davies

41. "It's not just tougher out there. It's become a situation where the contest is how much you can destroy the system, rather than how much you can make it work. It makes no difference if you have a ‘D' or an ‘R' after your name. There's no sense that this is about democracy, and after the election you have to work together, and knit the country together. The people in the game now just think to the first Tuesday in November, and not a day beyond it."
Author: Peter Hart

42. "Literature isn't a moral beauty contest. Its power arises from the authority and audacity with which the impersonation is pulled off; the belief it inspires is what counts."
Author: Philip Roth

43. "From my years of work with so many game show production companies and their producers I'm probably no longer eligible to be a contestant on any American game show."
Author: Randy West

44. "Let's state it clearly: One great idea of the biblical revelation is that God is manifest in the ordinary, in the actual, in the daily, in the now, in the concrete incarnations of life, and not through purity codes and moral achievement contests, which are seldom achieved anyway."
Author: Richard Rohr

45. "It might be said of Miss [Djuna] Barnes," [T.S. Eliot] wrote, "who is incontestably one of the most original writers of our time, that never has so much genius been combined with so little talent."
Author: Ross Wetzsteon

46. "No prizefighter can go with high spirits into the strife if he has never been beaten black and blue; the only contestant who can confidently enter the lists is the man who has seen his own blood, who has felt his teeth rattle beneath his opponent's fist, who has been tripped and felt the full force of his adversary's charge, who has been downed in bloody but not it spirit, one who as often as he falls, rises again with greater defiance than ever."
Author: Seneca

47. "Staring GirlI once knew a girlwho would just stand there and stare.At anyone or anything,she seemed not to careShe'd stare at the ground,She'd stare at the sky.She'd stare at you for hours,and you'd never know why.But after winning the local staring contest,she finally gave her eyesa well-deserved rest."
Author: Tim Burton

48. "Today was the dance contest, the one where Squidward takes over Spongebob's body...During the competition, Squidward gets a cramp and Spongebob's body ends up writhing on the floor in agony. The audience thinks this is pretty cool and gives him First Prize. Quite a metaphor. The person in the most pain wins. Does that mean I get a Blue Ribbon?"
Author: Tom Perrotta

49. "-Tienes una soberbia imaginación, Billy.No sé qué le contesté. Probablemente "gracias" o algo por el estilo.-Aunque no logro sacarle partido -prosiguió-. ¿Por qué será?-Creo que a lo mejor es porque necesito gafas y no puedo leer, ya que veo las palabras muy borrosas. Eso explica por qué me paso todo el rato pestañeando. A lo mejor, si fuese a un oculista, podría recetarme gafas y, entonces, sería el mejor lector del curso y usted no tendría que hacerme quedar tantas tardes después de clase.Se limitó a señalar detrás de ella y a ordenarme:-Ponte a borrar las pizarras, Billy.-Sí, señorita.Lo de borrar las pizarras se me daba de maravilla.-¿Las ves borrosas? -me preguntó la señorita Roginski al cabo de un rato.-¡No, qué va! Me inventé la historia."
Author: William Goldman

50. "A politician, a man engaged in party contests, must be an opportunist. Let us give up saying that word as if it contained a slur. If you want to win in party action, I take it for granted that you want to lure the majority to your side. I never heard of any man in his senses who was fishing for a minority."
Author: Woodrow Wilson

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