Top 60 Knack Quotes

Cobain the writer is funny and self-aware and snotty with a knack for off-the-cuff profundity. Remarking to a friend that his band will be called ‘Nirvana,’ he scribbles next to it the words ‘Oooh eerie mystical doom.’

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

I did have a knack for playing weirdos. There’s still sort of this perception of me out there as being this crazy guy.

I have a knack – and still do – where I can look at a guy and tell you if he’s going to draw you money or not. That’s very difficult to do. I haven’t met too many people who can do that.

I think I’m a good passer and can make plays, but there’s definitely a knack to putting the puck in the net.

Throughout my career as a songwriter, I’ve had a knack for writing songs that were about me and my life experiences and observations.

I guess nobody can teach you the knack, or whatever it is, that helps you come to life on stage.

I would love to do a comedy, and I think physical comedy is something I probably have a knack on.

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

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

I have the knack of easing scruples.

Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them.

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

I took two fiction-writing courses in college and majored in literature. I felt that I had a knack though I wouldn’t go so far as to call it a talent. But it scared me. I felt it was a childish thing wanting to write and that I would forget about it eventually.

I think I had a knack for music, but I think what I was more sort of talented at more than anything, because I don’t think I’m a great singer, I think that I grew up imitating different voices that I heard.

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.

Obviously fitness matters and at a certain age batsmen get the knack, batsmen get an idea how to get runs and I think he got the idea about 2-3 years ago how to get runs, what sort of shots to play and reading the situation.

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.

The Knack were a very, very powerful band, and you got to understand, when they came in, all the punk stuff was still going on. There was an amazing conflict within the scenes.

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

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

I haven’t the knack of being colorful.

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 always had a pretty good knack for raising hell.

School, I never truly got the knack of. I could never focus on things I didn’t want to learn. Math is just the worst. To this day, I can’t concentrate on it. People always say, ‘You should have tried harder.’ But actually, I cheated a lot because I could not sit and do homework.

I seem to have a bit of a knack for accents; I can pick them up quick enough.

Actually, I do have a knack of pulling things off with a straight face, guess it runs in my family.

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.

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.

I came to the Unites States and realised I had a knack for coming up with rhymes and lyrics.

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.

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.

There’s no point playing up front just because you want to be the one who scores the goals. Make sure you have a knack for it.

Obsession is a synonym for magic. Magic is a synonym for genius. It’s a knack. It’s an aptitude.

Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.

From my first days in training, I had a knack for the nuts and bolts of my profession.

I initially wanted to work in the music industry more on the A&R side. While I was in school, I began working in the New Business department of an advertising firm, and very quickly I was responsible for roughly 70% of their business, so you could say I had a natural knack for the advertising world.

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 always ending up in L.A. whenever I have some days off, because I really like going there… and I really like hanging out on the beach and all the hiking and opportunities and things you can do outside.

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.

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

We’re no good at holidays, the wife and I. We just don’t have the knack. We had one good one, early on, but that was a fluke. Everything since then has been a nightmare.

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

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.

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

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.

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

It’s a knack that my mother doesn’t have. The only audiobook she ever did she had to leave after the first day, because she couldn’t string two sentences together. It’s about the only thing she can’t do.

My dad’s a scratch golfer and I’ve got the knack of seeing something and then replicating it. I saw my dad swing a club and I worked out how to do the same thing. My backswing and follow-through have been basically the same since I was two.

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

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.

Some teachers just have a knack for working with autistic children. Other teachers do not have it.

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.

I don’t attribute any ‘luck’ to ‘Bol Bachchan”s success. It was an entertaining commercial film which was bound to do well, and I guess I have the knack of picking up such universally appealing, fun masala movies which turn to be successful.

Lion Face Boy’ is the first single from Seabear’s sophomore album, ‘We Built a Fire,’ and it’s a perfect display of the band’s knack for constructing mountains of instrumentation on a simple idea.

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.

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.

The SNP are far from radical, but they do have a knack for producing the odd simple, progressive policy that’s hard to argue against.

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.