Stephen Potter One Upmanship Quotes

#1. I am the servant of my score.

Grantland Rice

#2. The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.

Baron De Montesquieu

#3. When you're young you believe it when people tell you how good you are. And that's the danger, you inhale. Everyone will tell you you're a genius, which you are not, and if you understand that, you win.

George Clooney

#4. Hughes might discuss Calvinism ably, but he did not live it, he was - by Time corporate standards - just a little lazy.

David Halberstam

#5. Furthermore
though it was quite irrelevant now
he had no idea his killer, Kazuo Kiriyama, had, in his mansion that was much larger than Toshinori's home in Shiroiwa-cho, mastered the violin at a level far superior to Toshinori's a long time ago
and then tossed his violin into the trash.

Koushun Takami

#6. My will enkindled by mine eyes and ears, Two traded pilots 'twixt the dangerous shores Of will and judgment.

William Shakespeare

#7. I have a theory that self-made, first-generation actresses don't feel entitled to success.

Natasha Lyonne

#8. The feelings of politicians are rarely transparent.

John Ferling

#9. Men tell stories," I say. It is the truest, simplest answer to his question. "Women get on with it.

Kristin Hannah

#10. There was so much I was trying not to say. I guess it was easier to talk about nothing than about how much I missed you.

Jennifer E. Smith

#11. There are some really interesting celebrities and people who are fun to interview, but when you have to do it every day because you have to fill a slot, the allure wears off.

Chelsea Handler

#12. A transitional government is the beginning of a transfer of sovereignty. It's a question of Iraqi security and moving forward with the political process.

Joschka Fischer