Innumerable are the illusions and legerdemain-tricks of custom: but of all of these, perhaps the cleverest is her knack of persuading us… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I took two fiction-writing courses in college and majored in literature. I felt that I had a knack though I wouldn't go… — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
Netflix has such a knack for giving a new life to those B-movies that you thought and hoped no one would ever… — Spencer Grammer Copy Share Image
They are deceptively simple. I admit that. But for me, all my life I try to simplify things. As a child in… — Eric Carle Copy Share Image
...I just gave up trying to be a Christian... Let's face it, I ain't got the knack for holiness. Besides, I didn't… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
Even though novels were the love of my life, I started off writing poetry. I think because I had a knack for… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
God is the creativity, so if you really want to enter into the world of God you will have to learn the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Its big men are mostly little men with fancy offices and a lot of money. A great many of them are stupid… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Some people have a knack, for example, of being able to tell when someone's lying to them. They may not know what… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
My mind, I know, I can prove, hovers on hummingbird wings. It hovers and it churns. And when it's operating at full… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
“Are people who have been crazy held to unfair standards? Of course, but it’s not in your best interest to complain. If… — Mark Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Mistakes are at the very base of human thought, embedded there, feeding the structure like root nodules. If we were not provided… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
Some people have a knack of putting upon you gifts of no real value, to engage you to substantial gratitude. We thank… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I don't think anyone enjoys raising money, but for some reason I seem to have a knack. — Louis Susman Copy Share Image
When I write, I disturb. When I show a film, I disturb. When I exhibit my painting, I disturb, and I disturb… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
“I would dazzle you with brilliance, if I only had the knack. Cause I like you just the way you are.” — Danny Elfman Copy Share Image
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… — Kenny Rogers Copy Share Image
stupidity has a knack of getting its way; as we should see if we were not always so much wrapped up in… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
You can have a knack for dancing, but you still have to practice till your feet are bleeding to be worthy of… — Bronson Pinchot Copy Share Image
The highest art one can learn is the art of loving, and that the ultimate creativity and the highest art are born… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“Technology is the knack of arranging the world in such a way that you don't have to experience it.” — Max Frisch Copy Share Image
“Marketing is so powerful that it can make even an extremely untalented musician a one-hundred-hits wonder.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I can't draw a stick person. I can't play a musical instrument. But I've always had a knack for making money. — Tilman J. Fertitta Copy Share Image
Technology as the knack of eliminating the world as resistance,... the technologist's worldlessness… My mistake lay in the factthat we technologists try… — Max Frisch Copy Share Image
After a tongue has once got the knack of lying, it is not to be imagined how impossible almost it is to… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
How do people go to sleep? I'm afraid I've lost the knack. I might try busting myself smartly over the temple with… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
You wonder how they do it and you look to see the knack You watch the foot in action, or the shoulder… — Grantland Rice Copy Share Image
I am eternally grateful for my knack of finding in great books, some of them very funny books, reason enough to feel… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
If there is some good in me, it is because I was born in the subtle atmosphere of your country of Arezzo.… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
I wanted to tell her that being loved is a talent too, that it takes as much guts and as much work… — Tana French Copy Share Image
I've maintained old friendships, like with people I knew in the nineteen-seventies, but have lost the knack for meeting new people. This… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
He has an awareness of what's happening around him on the edge of the box which is better than most players. As… — Alex Ferguson Copy Share Image
There may be dead ground in between; and I may not have got The knack of judging a distance; I will only… — Henry Reed Copy Share Image
From the beginning, I've always had a knack for catchy melodies. But I went through a period when I was trying to… — Juliana Hatfield Copy Share Image
When a war breaks out, people say: "It's too stupid; it can't last long." But though a war may well be "too… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I've always had that knack for staying pretty even keel and the more the situation gets tense the more I see things… — Tiger Woods Copy Share Image
The emotions of men, however, were of a different order. They were pesky annoyances, small dust devils at her feet. Her knack… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
I'm a mother myself, and sometimes mothers get a bad rap just because they've tried to do their job. Some people have… — Annie Potts Copy Share Image
The first ingredient to being wrong is to claim that you are right. Geniuses have a knack for raising new questions. Hence… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
You know, every country needs another country to mock, and Australians seem to be pretty good at impersonating American people. Maybe it's… — Callan McAuliffe Copy Share Image
