Knack Quotes

108 quotes by 97 authors

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
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
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,… — Andy Rooney
Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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… — Jeanette Winterson
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… — Tiger Woods
The Guide says there is an art to flying", said Ford, "or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at… — Douglas Adams
As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all - the trouble is, humans do… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I am eternally grateful for my knack of finding in great books, some of them very funny books, reason enough to feel honored to be… — Kurt Vonnegut
When a war breaks out, people say: "It's too stupid; it can't last long." But though a war may well be "too stupid," that doesn't… — Albert Camus
...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 have the slightest… — Katherine Paterson
Anyone who knew Violet well could tell she was thinking hard, because her long hair was tied up in a ribbon to keep it out… — Daniel Handler
She was a lucky woman who had established a happy knack of writing what quite a lot of people wanted to read. — Agatha Christie
Creation is a knack which is empowered by practice, and like almost any skill, it is lost if you don't practice it. — Wallace Stegner
My mind, I know, I can prove, hovers on hummingbird wings. It hovers and it churns. And when it's operating at full thrust, the churning… — Dave Eggers
stupidity has a knack of getting its way; as we should see if we were not always so much wrapped up in ourselves — Albert Camus
I wanted to tell her that being loved is a talent too, that it takes as much guts and as much work as loving; that… — Tana French
Its big men are mostly little men with fancy offices and a lot of money. A great many of them are stupid little men, with… — Raymond Chandler
She still cared for me, and the best way I could make amends to her was to be happy. I do have a knack for… — Craig Ferguson
For everyone who, having no artistic sense-that is to say, no submission to subjective reality-may have the knack of reasoning about art till doomsday, especially… — Marcel Proust

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