#knack

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

#been #go #guess #i #knack

This is terrific. What a gorgeous kitchen. You’ve decorated it so beautifully. Now you’re going to have to clear all the counters. Vases. Books. Knickknacks. Get rid of all that stuff. I mean, it is just beautiful. Beautiful. I love what you’ve done with this house. Make sure you put it all away.” ~Real estate agent (p.76) ↗

— Dominique Browning

#counter #decorate #house #kitchen #knickknack

The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#ground #how #knack #learning #miss

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

— Josh Billings

#common sense #doing #done #knack #ought

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

#child #deceptively #developed #hard #i

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

#always #discipline #feel #felt #had

The ancient Greeks have a knack of wrapping truths in myths. ↗

— George Lloyd

#ancient greeks #greeks #knack #myths #truths

The first ingredient to being wrong is to claim that you are right. Geniuses have a knack for raising new questions. Hence by the public they are either admired for their creativity or, even more commonly so, detested for disturbing the daily peace of mind. ↗

— Criss Jami

#challenge #challenger #changes #controversy #creativity