Pageant Quotations

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.

The pageant movie I'm obsessed with is 'Miss Congeniality', hands down! I could quote everything from that movie. I love so many scenes, but I always find myself quoting the scene when Sandra Bullock goes, 'I really do just want world peace!'

My ancestors fought for the Confederacy during the Civil War; I was raised in Natchez, Miss.; I performed in the Confederate Pageant for a decade; I dug ditches and loaded trucks with black men who taught me more than any book ever could; and I graduated from Ole Miss. Anyone who survived that is a de facto expert on the South.

I must be very clear in one thing... Being a pageant girl is not who I am or what defines me.

History is the great dust-heap... a pageant and not a philosophy.

Tone is so important because you can have a great script just be ruined with the wrong director - if they shtick it up or something. With 'Little Miss Sunshine,' I was so concerned they weren't going to play the pageant official realistically because you don't have to wink to play those kinds of characters.

The whole process of winning the pageant has been so amazing, I'm really excited to move forward into all kinds of projects.

My one main secret I did right after my pageants days, is I only wash my hair once a week. I tell everyone, 'You have to stop washing your hair so much!'

Habitats keep evolving new pageants of species, and we shouldn't interfere.

I think that, if anything, the pageant is great for people who suffer from body issues. It's all about being comfortable with what you're given and what you have and being able to flaunt it without being insecure. It's about empowering women, not making them feel weak or less.

I think the pageant system is about empowering women. I think that aspect of it is great, but when you take parents who are forcing their children to do anything, I don't think it's healthy.

If you're comfortable with yourself, then you'll look beautiful. If you're not feeling comfortable with yourself, than that kind of shows. I think that as cheesy as the pageant industry can be seen at times, it actually does help women - boosting their confidence and growing into their own. I have to give it credit for that.

Watching Chuck Berry walk out on that stage for the first time and looking out at all the people was almost surreal. We were tired after getting it all together, but seeing it actually happen, seeing the Pageant filled with people having a good time, was exhilarating.

History is a pageant and not a philosophy.

(Las Vegas) turned out to be a great city to host a pageant out of. I think that move certainly generated a lot of interest and cast a spotlight on the Miss America Pageant. But where it goes next year, it's too early to tell.

Las Vegas is the perfect host city to bring new energy to the Miss America Pageant. It should make for a fantastic pageant and great television.

She says she can't do both the pageant and the operetta. But she's right across the empty lot at the store. She'll keep a sharp eye out, you can believe.

She's never really done pageant work until she started modeling. It gave her confidence and she started competing and winning.

FUNERAL, n. A pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker, and strengthen our grief by an expenditure that deepens our groans and doubles our tears.The savage dies --they sacrifice a horse To bear to happy hunting-grounds the corse. Our friends expire --we make the money fly In hope their souls will chase it to the sky. --Jex Wopley

The pageant was mobbed. And it's a good thing there were tourists because everyone in town was in it.

The pageant has meaning in the community. I also get to showcase my talent, and spread the word on who I am and what I do.

I think the American culture right now is in a state where we have an unlimited appetite for irony. The great thing about a weird pageant is, if you don't win, is that really a bad thing?

Trump says that if he's elected, he won't let the presidency interfere with the Miss Universe pageant.

While I was never really into pageants, my teacher convinced me to try out and my pageant career started in 2004, when I won the Miss Massachusetts Pre-teen Pageant. I thought it would be a great way to get involved with community service.

The governor is sorry to see the Miss America pageant move on. While it was a great event for New Jersey, the organization asked to be released from their contract, and we respect their wishes.

We don't want them to have to go buy an expensive pageant dress they'd probably never wear again.

These standout ratings for CMT and the Miss America pageant are just the beginning of a long and successful relationship. The buzz and promotion surrounding the pageant were like no other in our history and the ratings were a resounding victory for the network.

A funeral is a pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker.

It was difficult at times to balance my school life with my pageant life. At times all I wanted to do was be a 'normal' college student, but in the back of my mind, I knew the only reason why I was able to attend Syracuse was because of the scholarships I was earning through pageants.

It's always been true that the Miss America pageant has to do whatever is necessary for its prosperity and well-being. It's a bad thing, in that they find themselves in a situation where they can no longer afford to be in Atlantic City. But if that's what it takes, they're obligated to keep the program alive.

It's gotten an amazing reception. It's about the 50th anniversary of a little beauty pageant in a coal-mining town in Pennsylvania. It's a real homage to small-town America.

It's very surreal. When we were little we would watch the pageant as a family, and my sister and I would go into the utility room and play Miss America in our heels.

It was 8:30 a.m. and we were supposed to have basketball practice. We came in and the gym was filled with chairs because we had the Christmas pageant the night before, ... It was so hard to move the chairs and he came in to help us.

These Web sites allege that the woman in the video is Miss West Virginia, but it's not. Some sites even had her pageant picture next to the video.

These Tibetan refugee girls are both from India and from overseas. The beauty pageant will take place in the first week of October.

I'm not a real pageant person because it's so much the external and I think a person is made of inner beauty, ... As I found out more about the pageant then I began to get interested and it's about what you're doing to help other people.

When I got to be about 16,17 I got into a beauty pageant and I was allowed to start playing around with makeup.

Now, how can I be anti-woman? I even judged the Miss America pageant.

The pageant of a former hour, Is Beauty in the Grave.

But how entirely I live in my imagination; how completely depend upon spurts of thought, coming as I walk, as I sit; things churning up in my mind and so making a perpetual pageant, which is to be my happiness.

Our revels now are ended. These our actors,As I foretold you, were all spirits andAre melted into air, into thin air:And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces,The solemn temples, the great globe itself,Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolveAnd, like this insubstantial pageant faded,Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuffAs dreams are made on, and our little lifeIs rounded with a sleep.