Knack Quotes

Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.
Albert Camus

Stupidity, Getting

The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
Douglas Adams

Learning, Yourself, Miss

I obviously have a knack for getting on paper what a lot of people have thought and didn't realize they thought. And they say, 'Hey, yeah!' And they like that.
Andy Rooney

Thought, Getting, Realize

Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them.
J. K. Rowling

Worst, Choosing, Humans

Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
Josh Billings

Done, Sense, Common

I have the knack of easing scruples.
Moliere

Easing, Scruples

Some people have a knack of putting upon you gifts of no real value, to engage you to substantial gratitude. We thank them for nothing.
Charles Lamb

Gratitude, Nothing, Real

Some teachers just have a knack for working with autistic children. Other teachers do not have it.
Temple Grandin

Children, Working, Teachers

Writers have to have a knack for listening. I need to be able to hear what is being said to me by the voices I create.
Jeanette Winterson

Said, Able, Hear

I've always had that knack for staying pretty even keel and the more the situation gets tense the more I see things clearly and I think that's just a knack that I've always had.
Tiger Woods

Pretty, Situation, Clearly

I did have a knack for playing weirdos. There's still sort of this perception of me out there as being this crazy guy.
Gary Oldman

Crazy, Playing, Guy

School, I never truly got the knack of. I could never focus on things I didn't want to learn.
Leonardo DiCaprio

School, Focus, Learn

I don't actually have a lot of discipline. I've worked hard at music. But I feel like you know, I felt like kind of natural at it. I always had a knack for it.
Norah Jones

Music, Hard, Actually

I've been told by the prosecutors and by my own attorneys I should go to law school. I guess I have a knack for it.
Monica Lewinsky

School, Law, Guess

I love Cate Blanchett. She's extremely classy and has this knack for taking on roles and being very, very strong, but also embedding vulnerability. She has this relatable quality. I like the path she chose.
Ashley Greene

Love, Strong, Path

Working on 'Drive', a lot of fun. This is Tim Minear whom I've worked with before on 'Firefly' of course. He called me up and said, 'I've got a part for you that you will love,' and I love Tim's writing. I love his stories. I love his characters, his dialogue. He has a knack for reveals and he has a knack for moments.
Nathan Fillion

Love, Fun, Writing

My dad's a scratch golfer and I've got the knack of seeing something and then replicating it. I saw my dad swing a club and I worked out how to do the same thing. My backswing and follow-through have been basically the same since I was two.
Rory McIlroy

Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.
Max Frisch

Experience, Technology, Arranging

Comedy is just to me, maybe it's a natural knack, if I can see where the joke is in the writing and I can see where the setup is and I can tell this is the way to make it.
Matt LeBlanc

Writing, Tell, Joke

You know, I've always said, I've never felt I was a particularly good singer, but I've always thought I had a great knack for picking hit songs.
Kenny Rogers

Good, Great, Thought

Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.
Max Frisch

Experience, Technology, Arranging

The greatest manager has a knack for making ballplayers think they are better than they think they are.
Reggie Jackson

Greatest, Making, Manager

You know, every country needs another country to mock, and Australians seem to be pretty good at impersonating American people. Maybe it's because all the movies and music and TV you see there is from America, so we just have the knack for it.
Callan McAuliffe

Music, Good, Movies

I seem to have a knack for picking movies that go on to be cult favorites.
Kurt Russell

Movies, Seem, Cult

I left school at 16 but I wish I'd gone to university - I think I would have studied English literature. I had a knack for that. But I don't think you have the kind of wisdom at 16 to make that decision.
Brendan Coyle

Wisdom, School, Decision

I took two fiction-writing courses in college and majored in literature. I felt that I had a knack though I wouldn't go so far as to call it a talent. But it scared me. I felt it was a childish thing wanting to write and that I would forget about it eventually.
Ben Fountain

Forget, Two, College

The ancient Greeks have a knack of wrapping truths in myths.
George Lloyd

Ancient, Truths, Myths

They are deceptively simple. I admit that. But for me, all my life I try to simplify things. As a child in school, things were very hard for me to understand often, and I developed a knack, I think. I developed a process to simplify things so I would understand them.
Eric Carle

Life, School, Simple

I don't think anyone enjoys raising money, but for some reason I seem to have a knack.
Louis Susman

Money, Reason, Anyone

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