Contest Quotes

For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.

Ethnic life in the United States has become a sort of contest like baseball in which the blacks are always the Chicago Cubs.

In those days, boxing was very glamorous and romantic. You listened to fights on the radio, and a good announcer made it seem like a contest between gladiators.

Gore will not win a popularity contest, he will not win a personality contest, but he can win an idealogical battle, and he can win a battle of experience.

Art has never been a popularity contest.

I actually really suck at naming books, so lots of years ago, readers were sending in their ideas for titles, and what we realized is that they were smarter than us. So we thought, Hey, go for it. So now we have a contest every year.

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.

In all honesty, at that time, I never saw myself as an author... I was just a Mom in a state of panic, trying to enter a short story contest to win the prize money in order to keep the lights on in my home.

Trials are no longer about freeing the innocent, punishing the guilty, and making restitution to the injured. They have devolved into a contest over who will win.

The voice of the Republican party is up for grabs. It's a contest right now.

When Bob came through Cincinnati, he wanted a girl singer to be on his show. There was a local contest, and my sister and I entered, but Bob said, Gee, I wouldn't break up the team.

I wouldn't support Limp Bizkit being on some snuff backyard brawling, fighting contest.

Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue.

As the contest proceeded, public interest increased and the entire country watched to see which company would win the big government subsidies through the mountains.

Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty.

The presidency is more than a popularity contest.

You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.

I remember I was so crabby in my third trimester - I got gestational diabetes because I'd been acting like I was in a one-woman pie-eating contest.

I had ordered long legs, but they never arrived. My eyes are weird too, one is gray and the other is green. I have a crooked smile and my nose looks like a ski slope. No, I would not win a Miss contest.

It was a hole in one contest and I had a three.

I thought it might be a good move to get into a beauty contest so I tried for Miss Pennsylvania and won. I think that helped me get noticed, at least by the people of Pennsylvania.

Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

Given the choice between accomplishing something and just lying around, I'd rather lie around. No contest.

He asked if I was a songwriter, and I said yeah, that I was in town because I'd won this contest. He said, okay, then he was gonna play me his hit, and started singing 'When it's time to relax, one beer stands clear... '

I'm not out here to win a beauty contest.

A bumper of good liquor will end a contest quicker than justice, judge, or vicar.

Throughout this primary process the voters have vetted each candidate and after a spirited contest they have made clear who they believe is right person to lead our ticket and that is Governor Mitt Romney. I believe they have come to this conclusion because they know that Governor Romney will begin working on day one to turn around our economy.

They did that little thing on South Park, and they mentioned my name and had a character of me judging a Halloween contest. It was really funny.That made me the coolest aunt on earth.

I am planning to return and contest the October elections in Pakistan.

I think George W. Bush has a warm, engaging personality. But, you know, the presidency is more than just a popularity contest.