Knack Quotes

Alex [Da Kid] does have diversity, not just in what he produces, but what he hears. He has this knack for finding talented people.

I can’t draw a stick person. I can’t play a musical instrument. But I’ve always had a knack for making money.

I don’t have the same knack for the business end that my old man did. Recruiting people has been tough. I don’t envy anyone in that spot, especially some of the great non-WWE promoters like ‘Evolves’ Gabe Sapolsky, Beyond Wrestling’s Drew Cordeiro, or Markus Mac at All Pro Wrestling.

I have a feeling the writers who find screenwriting difficult are usually just not lazy enough for the job. They don’t know how to stop before the task is done. I’ve always had a knack for leaving things unfinished, which makes screenwriting easier for me than most.

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.

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

I can’t go to a party and just smile at people and walk away. There are big actors, directors who come to a party and stay for not more than 20 minutes. They have a knack for making a quick exit but I have not been successful in doing that. So I try to avoid such gatherings.

She was a lucky woman who had established a happy knack of writing what quite a lot of people wanted to read.

Satish Kaushik has a knack of coming up with very good remakes.

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.

Creation is a knack which is empowered by practice, and like almost any skill, it is lost if you don’t practice it.

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.

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

The knack is to find your own inspiration and take it on a journey to create work that is personal and revealing.

The streets would have chewed me up and spit me out and I knew that, but I found my own ways and different knacks for getting in trouble and being reckless with my life. And I’ve overcome a lot of personal demons and to be alive is really my greatest achievement.

Man has the supreme knack of deceiving himself; the Englishman is supremest among men.

Sports is just something I have a knack to figure out how to play.

Among the multitude of scholars and authors, we feel no hallowing presence; we are sensible of a knack and skill rather than of inspiration; they have a light, and know not whence it comes, and call it their own; their talent is some exaggerated faculty, some overgrown member, so that their strength is a disease.

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.

I don’t think anyone enjoys raising money, but for some reason I seem to have a knack.

I don’t think I think things through like regular people would. I could be a real hateful person, and I also don’t really care about my own well-being, I guess. I just kind of have that knack about me. I just don’t care.

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.

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.

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

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?

When I was in college, at Wheaton-I inadvertently got cast in a play, and I had a really great time doing it. I didnt know I had any knack for it, but I really enjoyed myself. It was a complete surprise.

I developed a knack for storytelling early on around the kitchen table with my family. I just happen to be a funny guy.

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.

I’ve maintained old friendships, like with people I knew in the nineteen-seventies, but have lost the knack for meeting new people. This has a lot to do with my writing schedule. I don’t want to be disturbed, and the willingness to be disturbed is, I think, part of being a good friend.

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

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.

I was in high school. A couple of my friends and I decided we had to be in a class together where we could fool around, and drama was it because we’d do improvs, beating each other up. They left a year later, and I stayed in and got a knack for it, and enjoyed the whole process.

I’m certainly no Cleopatra. I have legs like a schoolgirl and I don’t know how I acquired the knack of attracting producers with very attractive offers for very attractive film roles.

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.

I have some kind of knack for getting to know or becoming very close with people I’ve long admired.

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.

The way Gansey saw it was this: if you had a special knack for finding things, it meant you owed the world to look.

I’m very interested in music, but I was not born musical. I honestly do think some people have the knack. I can’t play an instrument. I’m a terrible singer. I’m not about to launch my album!

I used to collect knick-knacks, like wizards, trolls and little buddhas, and arrange them like precious things on a shelf.

If I had the knack I’d sing like Cherry flakes falling

We were always in church, and always singing, so once I realized that music was something that I had a knack for, I sort of latched onto it, and it helped give me an identity and figure out who I was as a person. It informed my way into theater, which informed my way into television.

I would feel dead if I didn’t have the ability periodically to put my world in order with a poem. I think to be inarticulate is a great suffering, and is especially so to anyone who has a certain knack for poetry.

A lot is gained through experience, but experience teaches some and not others. Effectiveness and excellence, whether or not they were attained by simply having the knack or through the school of hard knocks, is really what you want to reward.

Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.

Ultra-aggressive players have a knack of making otherwise sound players commit huge stacks of chips with relatively weak hands, like A-Q.

I didn’t really discover that I had a knack for comedy until I landed ‘Married w/ Children.’

You wonder how they do it and you look to see the knack You watch the foot in action, or the shoulder or the back, But when you spot the answer where the higher glamours lurk You’ll find in moving higher up the laurel covered spire That most of it is practice and the rest of it is work.

A knick-knack is a thing that sits on top of a whatnot.

Brook’s always had a knack for putting the ball in the bucket, and I would have to go out there and try to stop him. That would be my thing.

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.

I signed with Big Yellow Dog and have been with them for years. The president of the company is a woman named Carla Wallace, who is an amazing publisher who just has a knack for female artists.

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

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

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.

I’ve sung my whole life. I did a lot of musical theater growing up, I sing in the shower, sing in the car, sing everywhere really, on set at Chuck, all the time. I like it, and I’ve always felt like I’ve had a knack for it, or a talent for it, on some level, I don’t know.

I always had a knack for putting the peanut butter on the bread. My brother Kevin knew how to spread the jelly around real good. When we found out Joe could cut off the crusts, well, that’s when we knew we had something special.

I want no men around me who have not the knack of making friends.

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.

The reason I was drawn to the Band Perry was because they have a knack for doing rollicking country music that can sound a little rock and a little pop.

I have a knack for getting the ball and it’s something I take pride in.

It’s just always been a knack for me to play defense.

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

When I was a kid, I could make music out of anything, whether it be a rubber band, a tin can. Whatever it was I made music out of it and so that was my knack.

There may be dead ground in between; and I may not have got The knack of judging a distance; I will only venture A guess that perhaps between me and the apparent lovers, (Who, incidentally, appear by now to have finished,) At seven o’clock from the houses, is roughly a distance Of about one year and a half.

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.

I haven’t the knack of being colorful.

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

Soberity makes me write dull songs about reorganizing the knick knacks in my house.

I don’t think anyone enjoys raising money, but for some reason I seem to have a knack…

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.

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

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 prevent its lasting. Stupidity has a knack of getting its way; as we should see if we were not always so much wrapped up in ourselves.

I just always had a knack for handling and passing the rock and making things happen.

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.

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.

I’ve always loved movies, and enjoyed theater and stand-up comedy and I had a knack for writing and performing.

He just has the knack, the ability, to do something special and crucial. This is Messi.

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.

every Jack
He must study the knack
If he wants to make sure of his Jill!

I’m the type of guy, I get mad if I see you keep dribbling in front of me. I’m going to try to get it eventually. I just got a knack for the ball, I guess.

Alex Dumas was a consummate warrior and a man of great conviction and moral courage. He was renowned for his strength, his swordsmanship, his bravery, and his knack for pulling victory out of the toughest situations. But he was known, too, for his profane back talk and his problems with authority.

I have a knack for choosing the wrong people.