Top Contest Quotes & Sayings

I like intelligent women. When you go out, it shouldn't be a staring contest.

Frank Sinatra

#Staring #Contest #Women #Intelligent

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

Ambrose Bierce

#Principles #Advantage #Politics #Conduct #Contest #Strife

Leadership is not a popularity contest; it's about leaving your ego at the door. The name of the game is to lead without a title.

Robin S. Sharma

#Game #Ego #Door #Leadership #Contest

Compare sending someone a text message and getting a love letter delivered by carrier pigeon. No contest.

Bryan Callen

#Letter #Delivered #Contest #Text #Love Letter

A whopping 89 percent of buyers start their home search online. How your house looks online is the modern equivalent of 'curb appeal.' Rent a wide-angle lens and good lighting, get rid of your clutter and post at least eight great photos to win the beauty contest.

Barbara Corcoran

#Online #Lens #Contest #Rent #Angle #Lighting

An unforgettable experience happened on December 15, 1996 when I won the Supermodel contest while still in school. I was just seventeen years old then. Winning that competition was the turning point of my life. That's how I got into modeling and later started acting.

Bipasha Basu

#Experience #Contest

The company calls it 'downsizing' or 'rightsizing.' My own informal "Name the Layoff" contest produced some other euphemisms: Retroactive Hiring Freeze, Resume Revision Days, Amway Opportunity Time, and Corporation Lite.

Dale Dauten

#Produced #Hiring #Contest #Revision #Euphemisms #Corporation #Resume

A good 80 percent of the vault is still physical and another percentage of it, 20, 25 percent is mental. Mental is always the mental strength, the confidence building up to that contest or repetition, practice, practice, and practice.

Bela Karolyi

#Contest

I am so not a pageant girl, but I signed up for the Miss Junior Florida contest because I thought it would be good experience.

Amanda Latona

#Signed #Contest

The Academy Awards are obscene, dirty . . . no better than a beauty contest.

Dustin Hoffman

#Awards #Contest #Academy

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

Ishmael Reed

#Contest #Blacks

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.

Rosemary Clooney

#Contest #Entered #Bob #Singer #Break Up

Charlie Chaplin and I would have a friendly contest: Who could do the feature film with the least subtitles?

Buster Keaton

#Contest #Charlie

...China has announced that...it will hold the beach volleyball contest at the site of the 1989 massacre. Even Hitler didn't have the chutzpah to stage the 100-yard dash at Dachau.

Don Feder

#Massacre #Yard #Site #China #Contest #Volleyball

I don't think anybody says to Coetzee or Dostoyevsky or Kafka, "Your characters aren't likeable." It's not about your character winning a popularity contest. That's not the writer's job.

Lynne Tillman

#Contest #Dostoyevsky

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

Al Gore

#Bush #Personality #George #Contest #Engaging

Politics isn't a reality show or a gong show. It's not show business for ugly people. It's the arena where we define our common life in a rough and ready contest that has winners and losers.

Michael Ignatieff

#Contest #Rough #Winners #Losers

People came to the All-Star Game to see the dunk contest.

Dominique Wilkins

#Star #Game #Contest #Dunk

There is a contest old as Eden, which still goes on - the conflict between right and wrong, between error and truth. In this conflict every human being has a part.

Matthew Simpson

#Contest #Eden #Goes On

My child was one of Nature's Tories pitted against a mother who was one of nurture's Lefties: it was no contest.

Allison Pearson

#Contest #Mother Child #Mother Nature