Dan Simmons Quotes

Strategy is buying a bottle of fine wine when you take a lady out for dinner. Tactics is getting her to drink it.

Seduction is merely encouraging a man to do something he already wants to do.

Scarlett O'Hara didn't think she was manipulating. That's just the way she got what she wanted.

Tactics are manipulative.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

You've got to look and pick your shots - and that's where your class and skill comes out.

If you can't convince them, confuse them.

I'm told I'm an incredible flirt because I don't know I'm doing it. I don't want to even analyse it, but I seduce people, apparently; I suck them in.

If you find someone attractive, you try to make them find you attractive. That is called seduction. And seduction is a bit ugly. You could say it's a bit ugly to use your charisma.

You women could make someone fall in love even with a lie.

Diplomacy is the art of saying “Nice Doggie!” till you can find a rock.

The Politician uses the language of diplomacy of which he is a master, and it consists in telling some of the truth without necessarily exhausting it.

Negotiating is an art—it is a real art.

Put the fight on the court, and you will have a chance to win.

To me, it's just another game of football - 11 players, a grass pitch. Regardless what shirt I have on, it's important you win the game, and I'm competitive as anyone, and I want to win every game, whether it's a Sunday league game, a five-a-side tournament, or a World Cup qualifier.

I work my angles and things like that.

What soccer and coaching gave me was sort of a stage.

I think defending is more of, like, a science, and it's fun to learn that. And then I see attacking as an art.

A disciplined, patient, defensive period in a Test match is not old fashioned and boring - it's essential.

The key to victory lies more in manipulation and cooperation than in exceptional personal skills.

If you give a good player time, he can kill you.

Pitching is both an art and a science.

Defending is definitely an art.

Part of the art of bowling spin is to make the batsman think something special is happening when it isn't.

Persuasion is not a science but an art