#contest

Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision. The more a man can achieve, the more he may be certain that the devil will inhabit a part of his creation. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#argue #awakens #certain #contest #creation

I won the first contest I ever entered, when I was 6. ↗

— Ryan Sheckler

#entered #ever #first #i #won

Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

#antithesis #between #contest #define #ever

We now have contestants who will not let anything get in their way of victory. Some contestants have thrown each other under the bus this season. ↗

— Ryan Seacrest

#bus #contestants #each #get #now

I skate all the time, but it's silly for me to do contests when MTV is giving me a boatload of money. ↗

— Bam Margera

#contests #giving #i #me #money

I remember I was so crabby in my third trimester - I got gestational diabetes because I'd been acting like I was in a one-woman pie-eating contest. ↗

— Caroline Rhea

#because #been #contest #diabetes #got

We are all in the middle of nature beauty contest. ↗

— Toba Beta

#survival-of-the-fittest #beauty

The fact is, the contest has always been invulnerability, and even when you win, you still lose. ↗

— Brenna Yovanoff

#life #life

In all honesty, at that time, I never saw myself as an author... I was just a Mom in a state of panic, trying to enter a short story contest to win the prize money in order to keep the lights on in my home. ↗

— Leslie Banks

#contest #enter #home #honesty #i

We are constantly reminding them that they are in a competition. I had a word with all my contestants and I know Kelly Rowland had a word with hers. It's reality check time. ↗

— Gary Barlow

#competition #constantly #contestants #had #hers