Quotation Explorer - 'Knack'

Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we do not experience it. - Max Frisch
Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them. - J. K. Rowling
There is an art, or, rather, a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. - Douglas Adams
I have this uncanny knack of falling for the most irrelevant men,my love story would be comprising of short stories. - Pushpa Rana
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
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
Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it. - Max Frisch
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done. - C. E. Stowe
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are and doing things as they ought to be done. - Josh Billings
Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy. - Isaac Newton
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
Sunday lay so heavily in the air as to become almost nauseating. Maigret used to claim openly, half seriously, half in fun, that he had always had the knack of sensing a Sunday from his bed, without even having to open his eyes. - Georges Simenon
Tact is the knack of keeping quiet at the right time; of being so agreeable yourself that no one can be disagreeable to you; of making inferiority feel like equality. A tactful man can pull the stinger from a bee without getting stung. - George Horace Lorimer
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