#pageant

Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space and indefinite in duration. ↗

— DeWitt Clinton

#ecstatic #enjoyment #frame #indefinite #knowledge

Shortly thereafter, some friends encouraged me to try out for the Miss South Carolina World beauty pageant. To my surprise, I won - and was sent to New York City to compete nationally. ↗

— Donna Rice

#carolina #city #compete #encouraged #friends

It seemed to me that this might be a great pageant, which would give a chance for a very interesting picture. ↗

— Henry Ossawa Tanner

#give #great #interesting #me #might

He'd been given an assignment to write about teen beauty pageants [...], which he'd accepted because he enjoyed blood sports as much as the next person. ↗

— David Baldacci

#ambition #beauty-pageants #ruthlessness #sarcasm #satire

Bitches will take your ass down if you try to publish that. Peace out. ↗

— Libba Bray

#humor #pageant #beauty

Maybe if I'd agreed to do the debutante thing like she wanted. Or taken up pageants instead of riding jump bikes with a bunch of grungy boys. I'd always tell her, why can't I do both? Who says you have to be either smart or pretty, or into girly stuff or sports? Life shouldn't be about the either/or. We're capable of more than that, you know? ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#auden-west #bikes #boys #capable-of-more #debutante

I know that I've got big ears and a big forehead and that my hair sticks up. But I'm happy with myself. I'm not necessarily trying to win a beauty pageant here. ↗

— Clay Aiken

#big #ears #forehead #got #hair

I'm only wanted by directors for the image I give off, and it makes me angry. I always wanted to be an actor and not a beauty pageant winner. ↗

— Jude Law

#always #angry #beauty #directors #give

Back in the day after I won my first pageant there was an agency that was getting me work on the side. ↗

— Maria Menounos

#agency #back #day #first #getting

The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#evening #king #like #morning #noon