Contest 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.

This is very unprofessional, but at 'The Toxic Avenger,' Demond Green, Matt Saldivar and I had a contest to see who could say the word 'ochre' the most times during the show. Well, I had a song called 'Choose Me Oprah,' so I just said ochre instead of Oprah the whole time.

The story grew, got way bigger than the contest rules called for, and next thing I knew I had a book.

Anything that could give rise to smarter-than-human intelligence - in the form of Artificial Intelligence, brain-computer interfaces, or neuroscience-based human intelligence enhancement - wins hands down beyond contest as doing the most to change the world. Nothing else is even in the same league.

I actually started out as a poet in high school. I published in small literary magazines for probably about ten years. I entered the Yale Younger Poet contest every year, until I was too old to be a younger poet, and I never got more than a form rejection letter from them.

I think I have the ability to win any contest I enter. As long as I stay healthy and keep having fun with my skiing, there's no regressing.

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

I was able to participate in New York Fashion Week and walk down the runway. I participated in a pizza contest in Canada.

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.

I will not contest my parliamentary seat in a sad election that will not produce a Parliament capable of endorsing a realistic reform agenda for Greece.

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

The Book of Revelation is all about the conflict, the contest between the forces of Good and Evil.

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

The Academy Awards were basically created by the industry to promote pictures. They weren't really to acknowledge the performances. Then it became sort of this a great popularity contest and now, it's an incredible show and it's seen all over the world.

A trial is not a search for truth. It is a contest and, often, one that produces no winners.

I didn't really see a way to make a living on the farm. I always loved writing. I was the guy who won the D.A.R. essay contest and things like that, and it was the era of Watergate, and I decided I would be the next Woodward and Bernstein, and then retire to the farm.

The presidency is more than a popularity contest.

The intimate contest for self-command never ends, and lifetime happiness requires finding the right balance between present impulses and future well-being.

Few Westerners know Iran as well as Robin Wright: her first trip there as a journalist was in 1973, and she has covered every important milestone since, from the Islamic revolution and the hostage crisis to the more recent staring contest with the West over Tehran's nuclear program.

No. 1, I think we gotta keep them off the glass. And we can't let them get open looks. You gotta contest shots. If we contest shots and control the boards, it's anybody's game.

When I got to high school, the best thing I knew how to do was art. I never really took a class. It was the oddest thing. It wasn't until I was in ninth-grade when I did a paper collage and my teacher put it in an art contest downtown.

One highlight of the annual meeting is a just-for-fun hunting contest where we use our dogs to find, point and retrieve pen-raised and released quail, pheasants or chukar partridge. Though there is an element of competition in the contest, most participants are doing this for the joy of hunting with their dogs.

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.

Now when a guy drives baseline, that's how I wanna to see you jump and contest the shot.

I don't have the time to steal other people's material even if I wanted to, ... The reason why these rumors got started is that I don't really contest them because I don't believe they deserve contesting. I really don't.

If this is just a process, a legal contest and you'll play for any team that asks you to play, it raises a question about where would you draw the line, if you would ever draw the line.

Lott's re-election is something close to a sure thing, but if he had vacated his seat, the contest to replace him would have been very competitive, giving Democrats a boost in their efforts to pick up seats in November.

She's a good player. She's going to get her points, we just need to make it as tough as possible for her and contest every shot.

She didn't say anything, her teacher didn't say anything, the mother didn't say anything. So the contest proceeded.

She does have some aspirations to be an artist. She's participated in a duck painting contest and got a ribbon for it.

Olive was a beautiful and ambitious young girl and went to stay with an aunt in New York City, where she took a job in a department store. In 1914, she entered and won The Most Beautiful Girl in New York City contest run by celebrated commercial artist Howard Chandler Christy.

The prime minister has decided to contest the result and to use a 'mutilated victory' as a long-term weapon.

The Prince and Princess of Dickens contest has been extended through the end of September. We currently have 10 contestants.

Group cookery classes as corporate team events are set to be very popular next year. Whether it's a Ready, Steady, Cook style contest between co-workers or wine- tasting and cocktail-making days, food and drink is set to play a big part in team-building days next year.

I am the only candidate who is going into this contest with a positive vision of the future,

Fred had been getting to the basket on us all night. I was just trying to stay in front of him and contest the shot and I was able to get a hand on it.

Getting into a bidding war with J&J is bad enough. But getting into a cash-throwing contest with J&J is even scarier.

Give him credit for winning the pre-season. His strategy is to make sure that the contest never gets to the people. My strategy is to make sure it does.

I am deeply dismayed at the athletic director's behavior before the contest, during the contest, after the contest and then after the dust has settled.

I am excited about the 2005-06 basketball schedule, ... It includes teams we haven't had an opportunity to see play. I am especially looking forward to our contest with South Alabama so we can begin to measure ourselves against our future Sun Belt rivals.

If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquillity of servitude than the animating contest of freedom, go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen!

If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.

If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquillity of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.

I entered the contest to tell people about how I got inspired, and how I try to inspire other people. It's about finding strength and motivation to go for your goals and dreams.

From the point of view of the people in the streets, they are going ahead with their protests whether we contest the elections or not. So it's between him and the people on the streets.

I felt Nikki was trying to take over the game when they were up six. The thing we were able to do was put a few more inches on Nikki down the stretch, wall her off and contest the 3. That helped us, thank goodness.

But this isn't going to be a contest between 'urban versus rural' or 'everybody against Des Moines'. We got to recognize all of the values that we share and the vision that we share.

Barnes accepts the legal responsibility. We don't like it, but we don't contest the law.

Have children in the home suggest songs from school. Hold a contest for the happiest song, the best song about animals or another topic. Give ribbons or certificates to the best songs.

Have you been watching American Idol? They have Simon Cowell and Paula Abdul judgin' the singin. Paula Abdul?! Gettin' Paula Abdul to judge a singin' contest is like gettin' Christopher Reeve to judge a dance contest!

We've got to stop them from shooting the 3's and contest their three guards. We want to keep Luther Suggs off the backboards and contain Justin Ray, who is one of the best guards in the state.

We suited up eight girls for the contest and those eight played their hearts out. Early foul trouble on three of our starters forced us to back off the defensive pressure early, but it was 16 missed free throws that ultimately cost us the game.

I look forward to the months ahead as a vigorous contest of issues and ideas,

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.

We matched Silence against Vargas to contest a title eliminator. Marquez turned down the fight with Silence, saying he was not interested to fight in South Africa.

He was actually an image pulled from our logo, and we had a contest to name him. We thought he would make for a great mascot.

He (Crawford) didn't have enough time to pass so I knew he was going to shoot. I just tried to contest the shot. I contested it and he hit the shot.

He has brought a new dynamic to the leadership contest and will put pressure on some candidates who perhaps are struggling for support.

He's got to be more diligent. He's got to find a way to get over and contest the ball without fouling.

I first decided I wanted to be an artist when I was 7 or 8. I won a citywide contest and then later I won the high school division of the South Plains Fair at Lubbock Coronado.

This was not a popularity contest or a mission to save Gary Condit's career,

He hit a big shot. He's a good player, and played well all game. What can I say; I tried the best I could. I tried to contest it. I had a hand up, but he just hit it.

We try to make a big deal out of the whole contest because there are huge career opportunities available for students with the aptitude, computer skills and repair savvy in this challenging field.

We're proud of the job our schools have done in keeping pace with technology and preparing students for success in a technology-dominated world. This contest reflects our high school students' achievements, and recognizes the talents they have developed.

Many foreigners are deprived of their liberty, some with legal residence papers, some claiming asylum, who say they have been arrested arbitrarily and are not able to contest the validity of their detention.

Lafayette gave us fits in the first half. They can really score some points. I was happy with how we played in the zone. We were smart and were able to contest the people we were supposed to contest. We stopped the bleeding.

That epic contest was not sold out. There were unsold seats in Yankee Stadium.

That contest was a real challenge. I don't really cook with convenience products.

That'd be like a home run hitting contest where you don't hit it out and you get to do it over until you do hit it out. Thank God he finally made one.

I said, 'Did you have a contest to come with the stupidest name in the world and then award yourself the blue ribbon?'

Recently, we have played very well against Mexico. We will work hard over the next two months to prepare for this contest and give ourselves the best chance to win.

Recreational interests of our members was not sufficient to give us a claim to be able to contest the permit. However, one of the three state environment commissioners disagreed with the majority and indeed felt that Sierra Club should have standing. So, we think we have a pretty strong case to argue that because of the recreational interests of our members in Sam Rayburn.

States are now being forced to join an international beauty contest to compete for foreign investment.

Participating in this contest was a great experience. It is an honor to rank among the top college Christian radio Web designers in the U.S..

I think the race is clearly narrowing. If you look at the results in Tennessee and Virginia tonight and look at the results of the week before where I won in South Carolina and I beat Sen. Kerry in Oklahoma, this is becoming very focused, ... He's in front and I'm the underdog. We're going to have a tough contest here in Wisconsin but this is going to go on for weeks to come.

People are really interested in the human contest but obviously in very high performance machines. If you have too much technology and not enough driver, the public will start to lose interest.

My work was having a contest to see who could lose the most weight.

It all depends. If there's a really heated election contest and people bring it up in a concerted way, there's enough there to hurt him. The tapes are out there and the swaggering we heard is distasteful to many people.

I thought it was going to be a contest to see which one of us would score 50. He's at the level where I want to be. You want to bring your 'A' game against him, because you know he's going to bring it against you.

I was just trying to stay in front of him and use my lift to contest him. I didn't think I did that good of a job, because I fouled out.

I was kind of a frustrated cook. Being at home with the kids I wasn't working so I thought what if I enter a contest and win $50,000? Wouldn't that be cool. So I just tried it.

It is going to be a contest of giants,

I think the contest demonstrates that games can not only be entertaining, but beneficial to society on a grander scale. The public often sees press on all the negative aspects of games. This is a fight, in a way, for better games.

Rip did a great job and Redd didn't have a lot of breathing room. One of the reasons we aren't a big fouling team is that we don't produce a lot of steals. We don't jump out and we don't gamble. We play position defense. That's why so often our man-to-man looks like a zone. We try to make teams beat us over the top and contest every shot.

Our goal is just to contest every shot and then rebound. We are pretty long, and if we can just get a hand up on every shot, it makes it tough for teams to score. We try to play sound defense and just get a lot of deflections and stay active.

Our focus with the boys was we just needed to defensively contest every shot, and we wanted to make things difficult for them.

I was trying not to let her (Laub) get the ball at all. And if she did, contest the shot. I know she likes to get fouled when she drives, so I wasn't going to do that.

I tell our guys that we're not out here trying to prevent shots, but we want to contest shots.

I was extremely proud of our guys. We knew we were facing elimination, our backs to the wall, and even down to the last 30 seconds of that contest we were battling tooth and nail. I couldn't be more proud of the group of kids in that locker room.

Just try to make him take tough shots and don't let him get any free looks. We just got to be there to contest their shots and not let them get anything easy.

I think the key for us is we finally started moving in our defense better, and adjusting and having quicker feet. And being able to contest every shot....We did that. We boarded and then we were able to run and get transition baskets.

It is a forum in which developing countries have to struggle in an uneven and unequal contest with powerful vested interests in developed countries.

I think it all worked out pretty good. I didn't do any work so I wasn't going to try to win the stage. The others had worked, so I wasn't going to try to contest the sprint.

I think it is a great thing to do and we can be flexible with what happens down the road. For instance, the Paint Crew, which is a student run organization, has asked us to facilitate a contest for its shirt.

It became a free throw contest at the end. But we hit 21 of those and that was good for us.

I think it'll be a good proxy for a popularity contest for James Cramer.

I take pride in presenting the best shooter and dunker a prize for being the best in our area. We're looking forward to the 3-point contest and dunk contest becoming an event that people in our community can enjoy.

I thought we were having a contest on who could get to 50 first.

We were starting to get several requests from groups asking us to name different things after people. We started thinking about that thing: Who's really the valid person to name a facility after? It gets to be a naming contest if you encourage that. A no-naming policy is the best way to avoid conflicts.

To have a really good, close, tight contest like that is invaluable and if you could orchestrate it, that's the sort of game you'd orchestrate I reckon - a good hard tussle for the whole game and then to think it's over and then having to go again - that's priceless.