Facility Quotes

127 quotes by 114 authors

Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you're talking about. — Terence McKenna
I am suspicious of both facility and speed. — Roald Dahl
Dave Rocha is a modern player out of the hard-bop tradition, with a beautiful sound and tremendous facility on the horn. You can hear the… — Dan Feiszli
I never think of an entire book at once. I always just start with a very small idea. In 'Holes,' I just began with the… — Louis Sachar
It seems to me that education has a two-fold function to perform in the life of man and in society: the one is utility and… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Wealth and speed are what the world admires, what each pursues. Railways, express mails, steamships and every possible facility for communications are the achievement in… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If a journalist shows a facility for praise he's liable to be offered a job in public relations or advertising and the next thing you… — P.J. O'Rourke
Many great horror stories are period pieces and English actors have a facility for historic characters. — Robert Englund
To the size of the state there is a limit, as there is to plants, animals and implements, for none of these retain their facility… — Aristotle
I am trying to get the hang of this new fangled writing machine, but I am not making a shining success of it. However, this… — Mark Twain
Just as stinginess is blameworthy so is the fault of facility in paying more for things than they are worth . . . — Vincent de Paul
Academia is alas full of special interests and specialists who presumed it was possible to "leapfrog" over this or that entire line of development. These… — Kenny Smith
I fear we might be losing the basic human facility to be alone - and with that you throw out independent decision-making, what to trust,… — Dylan Moran
The real security of Christianity is to be found in its benevolent morality, in its exquisite adaptation to the human heart, in the facility with… — Thomas B. Macaulay
Tis well for old age that it is always accompanied with want of perception, ignorance, and a facility of being deceived. For should we see… — Michel de Montaigne
Those graces which from their presumed facility encourage all to attempt an imitation of them, are usually the most inimitable. — Charles Caleb Colton
My goal is to make fine art, and fine art comes from the soul. If you have virtuosity and facility, you can take and create… — Richard MacDonald
I started in a research lab for TV cameras, then I worked at a tape duplication facility. That was the first introduction for me to… — Alan Parsons
In learning and argumentation, the quality brain is similar to a facility of maximum security. What passes the logic test, free of fallacy and pretense,… — Criss Jami
People rely on Wikipedia, and a lot of it is wrong. But because there it is on the Internet, they assume it's right. Rumor gets… — Ben Mezrich

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