Knack Quotes

• Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Success, Failure, Common Sense

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

  Reggie Jackson

  Sports, Thinking, Managers

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

  Temple Grandin

  Teacher, Children, Autistic

  Interview with Dr. Stephen Edelson, www.autism.com. February 1, 1996.

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• Basically, I'm a people pleaser who has a knack for disappointing.

  Kevin Nealon

  People, Disappointing, Pleasers

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• 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

  Christmas, Thank You, Gratitude

  Charles Lamb (1835). “Essays of Elia: To which are Added Letters, and Rosamund, a Tale”, p.288

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• Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

  Douglas Adams

  Funny, Witty, Fear

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Radio Scripts Volume 2: The Tertiary, Quandary and Quintessential Phases”, p.83, Pan Macmillan

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• Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them.

  J. K. Rowling

  Inspirational, Literature, Worst

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• 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, Should

  "Excerpts From Barbara Walters' Interview of Monica Lewinsky". partners.nytimes.com. March 4, 1999.

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

  Josh Billings

  Inspirational, Wrestling, Common Sense

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• As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all - the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them.

  J. K. Rowling

  Wisdom, Money, Two

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• 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

  Country, America, People

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• Killing is like riding, you see. One never really loses the knack.

  Susan Kay

  Riding, Killing, Loses

  "Phantom". Book by Susan Kay, 1990.

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• Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.

  Isaac Newton

  Positive, Wisdom, Art

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• Charisma is a fancy name given to the knack of giving people your full attention.

  Robert Breault

  Names, People, Giving

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• Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.

  Albert Camus

  Stupid, Stupidity, Way

  Albert Camus (1948). “The Plague”, Vintage

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• We are all human beings with our own little knick-knacks and ways of doing things.

  Bernhard Langer

  Littles, Way, Humans

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• There are some pop songs I hate but I can't get them out of my head. Our songs also have the standard pop format: Verse, chorus, verse, chorus, solo, bad solo. All in all, I think we sound like The Knack and the Bay City Rollers being molested by Black Flag and Black Sabbath.

  Kurt Cobain

  Song, Hate, Thinking

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

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  School, Focus, Want

  "New Again: Leonardo DiCaprio". Interview with Ingrid Sischy, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 4, 2012.

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

  Max Frisch

  Wisdom, Science, Technology

  Max Frisch (1994). “Homo Faber”, p.186, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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

  Children, School, Simple

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• How do people go to sleep? I'm afraid I've lost the knack. I might try busting myself smartly over the temple with the night-light. I might repeat to myself, slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound; if I can remember any of the damn things.

  Dorothy Parker

  Beautiful, Sleep, Night

  Dorothy Parker (2002). “Complete Stories”, p.197, Penguin

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• Get the knack of getting people to help you and also pitch in yourself.

  Ruth Gordon

  People, Helping

  Ruth Gordon (1971). “Myself Among Others”

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• Women know the way to rear up children (to be just). They know a simple, merry, tender knack of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes, and stringing pretty words that make no sense. And kissing full sense into empty words.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Mom, Mother, Baby

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.321

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• 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, Guy, Perception

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

  Kurt Russell

  Goes On, Cult, Seems

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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