Top 151 Pageant Quotes & Sayings

Hosting the Miss America Pageant is a job all TV hosts dream of one day holding.

Coming from a pageant title that celebrates diversity, I've come to appreciate all kinds of beauty.

History is a pageant and not a philosophy.

When I was in Class XI, I started preparing for medical college, and after that, the Miss India pageant.

Being a pageant girl taught me to be polished, poised and slap on a smile.

I accidentally entered a youth pageant when I was 14. That's like a beauty pageant, but without the beauty. It was terrible.

I entered the Miss Nigeria in America pageant - yes, it's a thing that existed. This was when I was getting my masters.

There is no other Parliament like the English. For the ordinary man, elected to any senate, from Perisa to Peru, they may be a certain satisfaction in being elected... but the man who steps into the English Parliament takes his place in a pageant that has ever been filing by since the birth of English history... York or Lancaster, Protestant or Catholic, Court or Country, Roundhead or Cavalier, Whig or Tory, Liberal or Conservative, Labour or Unionist, they all fit into that long pageant that no other country in the world can show.

OVATION, n. n ancient Rome, a definite, formal pageant in honor of one who had been disserviceable to the enemies of the nation. A lesser "triumph."

People told me that I was the best-looking girl in my college. But it was only after I won a beauty pageant in 2002 that I became confident.

I do an international beauty pageant called Queen of the Universe for UNESCO, and what we do is we build kindergartens around the world.

I was told I would never win a pageant because I was too little. But not only did I win, but then when I was told I would never be able to model because I was a pageant girl, I became a model and I was successful at it.

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

Just about every town in Texas has a beauty pageant. Ours was called The Dogwood Fiesta. I was in one of those. I played the guitar and sang - and lost.

Nothing impresses the mind with a deeper feeling of loneliness than to tread the silent and deserted scene of former throng and pageant.

I've been awarded fur coats and I'm hoping to stop it in our pageant community.

I wouldn't say there are alliances at the pageant, but I understand if you can't speak the language, you would want to hang out with someone who understands you.

I kind of like to think of myself as the bad girl Olympian that would get kicked out of the Miss America pageant.

The pageant has passed. That day is over. But we linger, loath to think we shall see them no more together - these men, these horses, these colors afield.

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

I'm a pageant girl from Texas, so I like makeup and hairspray. And the smoky eye? I think I was born with it!

Pageant makeup is so different from your day-to-day look. When you're on stage you really have to pack it on.

I wasn't the typical pageant girl - I was a little more nerdy, and they gave me a voice. I created the Queen of the Universe pageant, which is charity-based, to benefit UNESCO. For me, the most important thing is that contestants have a charity-based platform or charity ambition.

Unlike the people you see in Mathew Brady's photographs from the Civil War, the men and women of the Revolution seem more like characters in a costume pageant. And it's a pageant in which the performers are all handsome as stage actors, with uniforms and dress that are always costume perfect.

I was studying communications and acting, and I decided over the summer that I wanted to work on my acting skills and perform in a pageant. I didn't have any other way of practicing, so I entered the Miss Rhode Island pageant. I ended up wearing a dress that was a $20 rental. It was too short, and there was a hole in the back of it.

When you become a pageant winner, you become a known face. So, winning a pageant helps us in making inroads into the industry.

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

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

Authenticity is extremely important and throughout the pageant Miss Universe looks for that.

In Trump's mind, women derive their primary value from how they look, which is probably why he owned a major beauty pageant for so many years.

I think pageant girls just have a way of faking it until you make it, almost.

Music is a beauty pageant. When I go put myself out there, I'm going to compete.

Earthquakes would be great if they could hit specific areas, like the parent lounge at a children's beauty pageant.

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

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

I was always focused on my studies and wanted to be a doctor, but like every girl, I would also dream to be at a beauty pageant at least once in life.

I'm probably not going to shed all the pageant girl, because that's who I am. If you don't like it, that's too damn bad.

My family took me to church when I was like 4 years old, and I had to be in a pageant, and I was playing Jesus.

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.

No Life can pompless pass away - The lowliest career To the same Pageant wends its way As that exalted here -

I won Miss Teen World, and then a movie rep saw me on the pageant website and thought that I had the perfect image for the role in 'Madrasapattinam.'

I did one pageant in sixth grade, and I loved it! I loved the dresses and the big hair.

When I am dead, no pageant train shall waste their sorrows at my bier. Nor worthless pomp of homage vain stain it with hypocritic tear.

Especially as a title-holder, you can do great things with charities, because people suddenly care about what you have to say. I wanted to make a difference, which is why I created the Queen of the Universe pageant. I want to change all of those stigmas in the beauty pageant world.

On the long dusty ribbon of the long city street, The pageant of life is passing me on multitudinous feet, With a word here of the hills, and a song there of the sea And-the great movement changes-the pageant passes me.

'Housewives' are a million times cattier than pageant girls! I know pageant girls have a reputation for being catty, but 'Housewives' are even cattier. But I do think that it's a total different world, and it can't compare.

I am really happy that Miss World pageant takes keen interest in my projects.

I fell in love with the pageant world. People that don't compete in pageants, I think they have a negative feeling for them, but really, they are incredible.

I think that the pageant world overall is pretty spectacular, it just makes you feel good about yourself and leaves you with great friends.

Winning a beauty pageant and the Miss India title was always a dream.

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.

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

I never thought of becoming an actress, but I always dreamt of winning a beauty pageant, and I achieved that.

You're filmed that one very special day of the pageant, and you want to make sure you're as ready to go as you can be.

T.V. style pageant of people parading through Rudy Giuliani, now on the phone, if he doesn`t come in person today to get his two cents in.

Miss America is a scholarship pageant, and they actually define themselves as a talent pageant.

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

One thing led to another and I was selected from Hyderabad for the Miss India pageant. I remember my mother being really surprised that I wanted to take part!

Since I wore a bikini at the Miss India pageant, I have no inhibitions wearing it on screen.

When I'm wearing makeup, I choose between doing my eyes or mouth because I don't want to look like a beauty pageant child.