stupidity has a knack of getting its way; as we should see if we were not always so much wrapped up in ourselves
I know I haven't much sense or sobriety, but I've got what is ever so much better — the knack of making people like me.
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.
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.
The way Gansey saw it was this: if you had a special knack for finding things, it meant you owed the world to look.
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.
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 of her eyes. Violet had a real knack for inventing and building strange devices, so her brain was often filled with images of pulleys, levers, and gears, and she never wanted to be distracted by something as trivial as her hair.
I don't think anyone enjoys raising money, but for some reason I seem to have a knack. . .
At UCLA I quickly learned the knack of getting grades, a craven surrender to custom, since grades had little to do with learning.
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 can't draw a stick person. I can't play a musical instrument. But I've always had a knack for making money.
When I am drunk I am at my best. It is the national knack of the French.
I want no men around me who have not the knack of making friends.
Man has the supreme knack of deceiving himself; the Englishman is supremest among men.
I used to collect knick-knacks, like wizards, trolls and little buddhas, and arrange them like precious things on a shelf.
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.
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?
Happiness isn't about what happens to us - it's about how we perceive what happens to us. It's the knack of finding a positive for every negative, and viewing a setback as a challenge. If we can just stop wishing for what we don't have, and start enjoying what we do have, our lives can be richer; more fulfilled - and happier. The time to be happy is now.
I have a knack of hoping, which is as good as an estate.
Killing is like riding, you see. One never really loses the knack.