Why don’t the Grammys matter? Because it feels rigged and cheap - like a popularity contest that the insiders club has decided.
A good marriage is a contest of generosity.
I'm not in a contest. I make movies. I'm not a racehorse.
Charlie Chaplin and I would have a friendly contest: Who could do the feature film with the least subtitles?
And we shall most likely be defeated, and you will most likely be victors in the contest, if you learn so to order your lives as not to abuse or waste the reputation of your ancestors, knowing that to a man who has any self-respect, nothing is more dishonourable than to be honoured, not for his own sake, but on account of the reputation of his ancestors.
Winners expect to win before the contest starts; losers don't. Any individual becomes what he or she thinks about most. If you want to be a champion, then that thought must dominate your life. But most important, winners dwell on the rewards of winning; losers dwell on the penalties of failure.
The debate analysis in the media is rampant with contest analogies of war, baseball, boxing, football; you name it. Any testosterone contest imaginable is fair game.
For forms of government let fools contest; Whate'er is best administer'd is best. For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right. In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity.
The fact is, the contest has always been invulnerability, and even when you win, you still lose.
I don't make the mistake of thinking it's a major musical event. I love the Eurovision Song Contest and it will continue long after I'm gone. Just please don't ask me to take it seriously.
I was in a beauty contest once. I not only came in last, I was hit in the mouth by Miss Congeniality.
I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine.
I wouldn't support Limp Bizkit being on some snuff backyard brawling, fighting contest.
It's not a contest, and I ain't on no conquest for no mate.
I got my first laugh when my mother entered me in a baby contest.
What I loved in the man was his health, his unity with himself; all people and all things seemed to find their quite peaceable adjustment with him, not a proud domineering one, as after doubtful contest, but a spontaneous-looking peaceable, even humble one.
Compare sending someone a text message and getting a love letter delivered by carrier pigeon. No contest.
I always try to use my medium, and if I get into a normal sitcom-writing contest with normal sitcom writers, I'm going to lose.
The Academy Awards are obscene, dirty. . . no better than a beauty contest.
In a contest between me and a bulldog, you would say the bulldog is cuter.