Upmanship Quotes

#1. Traditional angling is to escape the noise and one-upmanship of modern angling in favour of something simple and beautiful.

Fennel Hudson

#2. I do love one-upmanship sometimes, like when you see kids breakdancing and who can do the best tricks. It's common, it's in our nature as animals, like the birds of paradise who've got the best feathers and that sort of stuff. But it's fun when it's impulsive and it's about fun.

Bjork

#3. In the metropolitan haunts of the highly sophisticated, the cocktail is no longer an instrument of friendship but a competitive fashion statement, or one-upmanship.

Barbara Holland

#4. Would there be that subtle one-upmanship like there was between mothers? "It's so stressful having a gifted child." What would be the equivalent for a prison wife? "It's such a strain when your husband is a model prisoner! The others are constantly beating him up!

Liane Moriarty

#5. Quotations have always been supremely effective rhetorical devices, instruments of one-upmanship, ways of supporting any position under the sun with borrowed or stolen authority.

Justin Kaplan

#6. Regardless of its causes, thoughtlessly blaming the present is a weakness which, even if it is never outlawed, ought to be resisted. Though commonly flaunted as a sign of sophistication, it can be an opportunity for one-upmanship and an excuse for misanthropy, especially against the young.

Steven Pinker

#7. Happiness needs one-upmanship.

Zygmunt Bauman

#8. And like a fool, I bought into it.

Suzanne Collins

#9. I don't really like to work with actors that work a lot and are very well established already. In a way, I like to nurture talent and have it burst on the scene.

Maiwenn

#10. I'm at the age where I've got to prove that I'm just as good as I never was.

Rex Harrison

#11. I still can't believe I won the Olympics. That's what I feel right now - completely alive as a human being. It's a really beautiful moment.

Clara Hughes

#12. GOD CAN TURN A MESS INTO A MASTERPIECE!

Trinisa M. Pitts

#13. I know where the Iberian Peninsula is, Iris."
"I know, I know, you probably built the first road or furrowed the first wheat field ever sown there."
"Brat."
"Cradle robber."
"Grave robber.

Molly Harper

#14. Sometimes wearing a mask is the best way to show our true selves.

Lisa Mangum

#15. That is because most people believe not so much in truth as in things they wish were the truth.

Haruki Murakami

#16. Just because the pool's got a diving board, doesn't mean it's got a deep end.

Sophie McManus

#17. Should we freeze or postpone prospective tax cuts and avoid any new tax cuts until we are sure we have the money to pay for the war on terrorism and the war in Iraq.

Tim Russert