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I have the knack of easing scruples. -- Moliere
Stupidity has a knack of getting its way. -- Albert Camus
Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them. -- J. K. Rowling
I seem to have a knack for picking movies that go on to be cult favorites. -- Kurt Russell
Some teachers just have a knack for working with autistic children. Other teachers do not have it. -- Temple Grandin
School, I never truly got the knack of. I could never focus on things I didn't want to learn. -- Leonardo DiCaprio
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done. -- Josh Billings
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'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
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 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
I'll be the first to admit we're the 90's version of Cheap Trick or the Knack -- Kurt Cobain
I always had a pretty good knack for raising hell. -- Brandon Lee
The ancient Greeks have a knack of wrapping truths in myths. -- George Lloyd
Basically, I'm a people pleaser who has a knack for disappointing. -- Kevin Nealon
Get the knack of getting people to help you and also pitch in yourself. -- Ruth Gordon
Soberity makes me write dull songs about reorganizing the knick knacks in my house. -- Devin Townsend
The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. -- Douglas Adams
We are all human beings with our own little knick-knacks and ways of doing things. -- Bernhard Langer
Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it. -- Max Frisch
Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it. -- Max Frisch
The greatest manager has a knack for making ballplayers think they are better than they think they are. -- Reggie Jackson
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
The knack is to find your own inspiration and take it on a journey to create work that is personal and revealing. -- Martin Parr
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
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
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
He whose genius appears deepest and truest excels his fellows in nothing save the knack of expression; he throws out occasionally a lucky hint at truths of which every human soul is profoundly though unutterably conscious. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
I always had a knack for improvisation. I can write down the notes I play, but never really had a proper academic musical background. I suppose I'm blessed and cursed by the fact I have that freedom. -- Anthony Hopkins
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
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
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
Netflix has such a knack for giving a new life to those B-movies that you thought and hoped no one would ever see. Especially when you have a new project coming out and they're looking to mine some of your lesser-known films. -- Spencer Grammer
I'm a mother myself, and sometimes mothers get a bad rap just because they've tried to do their job. Some people have more of a knack for it than others do, but almost all of it falls to, 'My mother's suffocating me.' Whatever. -- Annie Potts
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
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
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
I think that if you have a knack for storytelling, and you work really hard at it, you'll have a chance to tap into something deep. But the fact remains that good sentences are hard won. Any writer worth a lick knows constructing a sentence, a paragraph, or a chapter is hard work. -- Adam Ross
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
I have a discipline that has served me very well in my career and in my personal life... and that's gotten stronger as I've gotten older. I've always felt if I don't just have a natural knack for it, I will just out-discipline the competition if I have to - work harder than anybody else. -- Ryan Reynolds
From the beginning, I've always had a knack for catchy melodies. But I went through a period when I was trying to be rock n' roll and have a rock n' roll attitude. I was fighting my nature by trying to play really hard and sing really hard. But at a certain point, I realized that I loved syrupy pop music with tons of harmony. -- Juliana Hatfield
I always had a pretty good knack for raising hell -- Brandon Lee
Some people are born losers; others acquire the knack gradually. -- W. C. Fields
If I had the knack I'd sing like Cherry flakes falling -- Matsuo Basho
A knick-knack is a thing that sits on top of a whatnot. -- Oliver Hardy
Killing is like riding, you see. One never really loses the knack. -- Susan Kay
I have a knack of hoping, which is as good as an estate... -- George Eliot
You are blessed with a knack for sucking the wonder out of the extraordinary. -- Daniel McHugh
Man has the supreme knack of deceiving himself; the Englishman is supremest among men. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I want no men around me who have not the knack of making friends. -- Frank A. Vanderlip
Charisma is a fancy name given to the knack of giving people your full attention. -- Robert Breault
every Jack He must study the knack If he wants to make sure of his Jill! -- W.S. Gilbert
People are born with the knack to write poems and songs. I'm not a poet at all. -- Petra Haden
I don't think anyone enjoys raising money, but for some reason I seem to have a knack. -- Louis Susman
When I am drunk I am at my best. It is the national knack of the French. -- Orson Scott Card
I have a knack of making villainous people a little bit sympathetic, a bit of fun on screen. -- Michael Caine
I am one who fights without a knack of hoping confidentlysimply a Scotch-Irishman who will not be conquered. -- Woodrow Wilson
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
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
Sticking with that uncertainty, getting the knack of relaxing in the midst of chaos, learning not to panic-this is the spiritual path. -- Pema Chodron
She was a lucky woman who had established a happy knack of writing what quite a lot of people wanted to read. -- Agatha Christie
At UCLA I quickly learned the knack of getting grades, a craven surrender to custom, since grades had little to do with learning. -- Hugh Nibley
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
The way Gansey saw it was this: if you had a special knack for finding things, it meant you owed the world to look. -- Maggie Stiefvater
Alex [Da Kid] does have diversity, not just in what he produces, but what he hears. He has this knack for finding talented people. -- Skylar Grey
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Technology as the knack of eliminating the world as resistance,... the technologist's worldlessness.... My mistake lay in the factthat we technologists try to live without death. -- Max Frisch
Empowerment is constantly challenging oneself with something difficult that tests his power of nerve, knack, skill, aptitude, attitude and wisdom to do things diligently, delightfully but differently. -- Anuj
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
The highest art one can learn is the art of loving, and that the ultimate creativity and the highest art are born out of a knack - meditation. -- Rajneesh
As he demonstrated with 'Juno' and 'Up in the Air,' Reitman has an uncanny knack among contemporary directors for tapping into the zeitgeist in dramatically satisfying ways. -- Lou Lumenick
You can have a knack for dancing, but you still have to practice till your feet are bleeding to be worthy of being in front of an audience. -- Bronson Pinchot
I swear I've never met a man who has your knack for lack of social grace. If you weren't naturally charming, someone would have stabbed you by now. -- Patrick Rothfuss
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 finding great women. -- Craig Ferguson
Donald Trump is not going anywhere. And we see as calculated as these are, he has a knack for telling a certain segment of a base what they want. -- Chris Hayes
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 the ground and miss. -- Douglas Adams
When I started designing in school, I discovered that I had a knack for it. I fell completely in love with architecture, and I remain in love with it. -- Cesar Pelli
If you love math, have a knack for numbers, study hard and become a successful accountant; who cares if you can't draw a straight line or sing on key? -- Nick Carter
Life and business are rather simple after all-to make a success of either, you've got to hang on to the knack of putting yourself into the other person's place. -- William Wrigley, Jr.
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It looks as if I were meant to be alone, and that any hope of happiness is not meant. Am I too old to acquire the knack for happiness? -- May Sarton
I think because both of my parents were essentially salespeople, and Italian-Americans, I always seemed to get along with people; I had a knack of finding something to talk about. -- Bob Colacello
When I write, I disturb. When I show a film, I disturb. When I exhibit my painting, I disturb, and I disturb if I don't. I have a knack for disturbing. -- Jean Cocteau
Innumerable are the illusions and legerdemain-tricks of custom: but of all of these, perhaps the cleverest is her knack of persuading us that the miraculous, by simple repetition, ceases to be miraculous. -- Thomas Carlyle
In retrospect, I'm really shocked at how far I put my heart out there on the line with 'Prima Donna'. I seem to have this knack for being able to accomplish that. -- Rufus Wainwright
I sang 'American Pie' a lot in my stage set. It had a knack of uniting an audience in a sing-along. It's a clever song about American history but wrapped in a fantastic tune. -- Johnny Vegas
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 alive, no matter what else might be going on. -- Kurt Vonnegut
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
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 some people, for whatever reason, never learn the knack -- Tana French
If you're an American reader, you can love short stories the way other Americans love baseball; this is our game, people! We have more than two hundred years of know-how and knack, of creativity. -- Amy Bloom
Depend upon it, sir, it is when you come close to a man in conservation that you discover what his real abilities are; to make a speech in a public assembly is a knack. -- Samuel Johnson
I didn't know if I still had it in me to be really dangerous, but I thought so. It's like knocking someone off a bike with a baseball bat; you never really lose the knack. -- Simon R. Green

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