Knack Quotations

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

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

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

I always had a pretty good knack for raising hell

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

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

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

Basically, I'm a people pleaser who has a knack for disappointing.

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

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

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

I have a knack for writing tribute songs for people who will never know about them.

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.

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

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.

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.

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 obviously have a knack for getting on paper what a lot of people have thought and didn't realize they thought. And they say, 'Hey, yeah!' And they like that.

I've always had a knack for hitting the mark perfectly. Even when I'm walking or running, I'm very good at not having to look down.

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.

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.

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.

When I was in the IHL there were a few teams that used to do that. Some goaltenders just have a knack for breakaways and it can give your team a little bit of a boost. You have to know your personnel before you can make those changes and obviously Craig thinks Morrison is the guy on breakaways.

What he does for our team, he does it better than most guys I've been around at this level. He has a knack for playing that outside-linebacker position. He has a knack for knowing who's supposed to block him, at what angle they're supposed to block him, and he has just a knack for defeating those angles.

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

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.

(Wood) has a knack for making plays and getting open and running good routes. He has great hands.

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.

Yes, it is satisfactory the way we finished the first game but there are still three matches to go. I can't say after one victory that we will make it 4-0 because Kenya have a knack to upset world's formidable sides.

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.

When I head that Chris McKeown was available I said 'Yes' I would be interested in having him join us, ... The talk was can two head coaches work together...you know, too many chiefs and not enough Indians. Chris was such a professional person and he told me this was my deal. He was very thoughtful and he is a phenomenal head coach. He is also a great recruiter. He has a knack of finding good talent. I learned so much from him.

Leslie will add dept up front to our lineup. She has the ability to make an immediate impact and will push the other forwards for playing time. She has a knack for finding the goal and is deceptively quick.

She seems to have a knack for finding loopholes for herself.

She had a knack for getting rebounds. She made it tough for anybody under the boards.

She has always had a real knack for this stuff. She has training in something and she can make a living at it.

She has a lot of strengths, besides being such a tireless worker, she has developed a very strong shot, I am waiting for her to rip one in from the outside. She also has a knack for being in the right spot at the right time. Part of it is field sense and the other part is being willing to do the work and actually make the run.

She has a knack to getting to the basket.

Shannon Brown does have a knack for rising to the occasion in big games. He kind of thrives on the pressure. When I told him he had to take over a little bit, he did it in such a controlled way - even with that dunk he had, one of the best I've ever seen here.

She reacts better than anyone I've ever seen. She has a knack of getting to a ball that no one thinks she should.

She makes so many things happen for us on the floor that I can't teach. Most kids don't see the floor, especially defensively, but she has a knack to play the passing lane and has an uncanny ability to get a hand on a pass. It seems like she is always in the right place at the right time.

She is able to do a lot of things. Offensive rebounds, she has a knack for doing that. She's almost like a contortionist the way she can move her body to get the rebound and get it back in.

Mike's a better perimeter shooter than Tim. Tim might be the best leader I've ever coached. But they both play the same position and have great knowledge of the game. Mike's kind of old-school. He's a basketball player. He has long arms, a good jump hook, good fakes inside and a knack around the basket.

Mistakes are at the very base of human thought feeding the structure like root nodules. If we were not provided with the knack of being wrong, we could never get anything useful done.

(Neely) has a knack of finding her teammates and also knows when to take it to the hole. She's unselfish and just a tough competitor.

Pepsi has this incredible knack for being in the right markets at the right time with the right products that people want.

Nicholette (Le Bel) has the knack of changing her style of play in order to keep making plays, ... and tonight's matchup called for her to tip and push the ball more.

New Yorkers seem to have a knack for quickly adopting out-of-towners as their own.

But that guy has no fear of anything like that. Bernard has got a special knack for it.

Bryce is a great athlete with tremendous speed. He has a knack for getting the ball into the goal.

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.

I have a lot of confidence in my shot-blocking ability. It's definitely timing, and you have to be smart enough to keep your body away. I have a knack for it. I always like playing defense.

I have a knack for putting order to chaos and for looking at the big picture. It is wonderful when you find something you are good at and like to do.

From the beginning, I've always had a knack for catchy melodies. But I went through a period when I was trying to be rock n' roll and have a rock n' roll attitude. I was fighting my nature by trying to play really hard and sing really hard. But at a certain point, I realized that I loved syrupy pop music with tons of harmony.

Ignore how it feels when the only real talent you have is for hiding the truth. You have a God-given knack for committing a terrible sin. You have a natural gift for denial. A blessing.

He would make an excellent lieutenant governor for all the people of Maryland. He has a knack of being able to work on issues that have many competing sides, and manages to get people to work together.

He has a great knack of getting on to the next play, ... As soon as it's over, he's disappointed. Now, he's ready to try and win the football game for us.

He has a great knack for picking the right wave and he's a really smart competitor. He might even bust out a superman air. He has a few tricks up his sleeve. He always pulls reverses and airs that other people don't.

He has a good knack at scoring in tight. Michael has tremendous quickness and is a tough rider.

He had the knack for being able to put the bat on the ball. They would bring in side-arming left-handers and he'd go up there and stroke the ball the opposite way. If they would hang a breaking ball, he'd hit it out of the ballpark. He was one of the better hitters I've seen.

He has been solid. He has a knack for scoring and has a quick shot. He is a smart player and doesn't cause any chances against.

He has great instincts. He has a knack for breaking on the ball. It's read slow and act fast. He does things you can't coach. The whole secondary played well.

He has a real knack for coming up with balls. He's picked off some passes and he's excellent at reading quarterbacks. A lot of that is instinctive, but he's gotten better over time. He's a kid back there that surprises you with some of the breaks he gets on the ball.

He has a knack of making a really big pitch at the right time. He had the bases loaded, came up and threw a curveball -- it wasn't a great curveball -- and got the guy to hit it to second base hard.

He has a knack of making a really big pitch at the right time, ... He had the bases loaded, came up and threw a curveball -- it wasn't a great curveball -- and got the guy to hit it to second base hard.

He has a knack of going into troubled situations and being able to see through the forest and see where the opportunity is. A lot of people can figure it out and then they're afraid to pull the trigger. If you go back over Jerry's career, it's very obvious he had no trouble pulling the trigger.

He has a knack for putting the ball in the basket.

He has a knack. Anybody who catches over 300 passes in college has a knack for finding the right spot.

He has tremendous ball hawking instincts, and his quickness and speed helped him deflect and break up many other passes. Swartz also possesses good ball instincts and has a knack for making plays.

He is an intense competitor and he has a knack for making plays, even turning his mistakes into positives. I think he'll get even better as time goes on.

He is a winning player -- he's got a toughness about him that's unique. He has a knack for making other people better. I don't know where we'd be without him.

He had a natural knack for it. I don't think he wasted a whole lot of time on MBAs and law degrees. He just got in there early in life and built his business.

He had a knack of knowing what to do.

He had a knack for getting things out of people that others never got out of them niches and hidden moments that they never shared with anyone. But they did with Mike.

When he steps on the field, he has a knack for coming up with clutch hits when you need it.

He's a leader, he knows how to get the best out of us. He has a lot of energy. When I played with him, he was still vocal, he was still a leader. ... Some people just have a knack and a gift for that sort of thing, and I think he has it.

He's just got a knack for hitting closely guarded shots. And there aren't many players who can do that.

We lost Shawn too many times tonight. I know from experience, he's a very slippery player. If you relax, he slides behind you. He's got a knack of finding cracks in there. We lost him several times, and that was one critical play where we couldn't afford to lose him and we did.

He was our finisher. He was the guy we went to when we needed a big goal. He is a guy you could count on to give you an opportunity to win. He's really got a knack for putting in it the net.

He can score. He has a knack for putting the ball in the basket. He's a natural small forward. All the little things that we have to teach him to play the game at 20 years old is going to take him a little time. But I think he's worth it.

He just seems to have a knack to know what to do in certain situations. He knows how to handle certain defenses and when to check down when he needs to. He just knows the game.

I was always amazed that he had this uncanny knack for being able to pluck a Canadian angle out of almost any overseas story. He was a very gentle man, but had a bulldog's tenacity when it came to chasing down the Canadian angle.

I would say that when Heath is at his best is when we get inside the 20-yard line. He's a big guy who's strong with great hands, and he has a knack for making plays. When you area quarterback and you get out of the pocket and are scrambling around and you can find a 6-foot-5 tight end with beautiful hands, it's a good thing.

Kelly Clarkson will be replacing Rasheed Wallace at power forward, ... She brings a burst of energy - and a special knack for making the players around her better.

John has the ability, he is a slippery player, he is able to use good speed and he has a great change of direction. He has a knack of getting himself to the goal and is also a very good feeder so he is making others better. When John is at his best, there are not many players that are of his ability in the country.

John has a knack for making things happen batting where he does.

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.

Lauren knows how to score and Liz is very fast and is going to cause trouble for other teams. Chloe has a knack to be strong near the cage.

LAUREATE, adj. Crowned with leaves of the laurel. In England the Poet Laureate is an officer of the sovereign's court, acting as dancing skeleton at every royal feast and singing-mute at every royal funeral. Of all incumbents of that high office, Robert Southey had the most notable knack at drugging the Samson of public joy and cutting his hair to the quick; and he had an artistic color-sense which enabled him so to blacken a public grief as to give it the aspect of a national crime.

Jason King has no gimmicks in his game. He's a real heady player and he's a good thinker. Jason is a mature guy, and he thinks the game well. He's got very good talent, really good hands and a knack to score. I was joking that I don't get called into the power-play meeting anymore, which is a good thing. I'm not complaining, I'm happy about us having depth like that. That's a good thing.

Jeff has a knack for being around the basketball.

Jimmy is one of the better vertical wide receivers in the game. He's always had a knack for getting behind guys and making big plays. He got off to a good start.

Jimmy is one of the better vertical wide receivers in the game, ... He's always had a knack for getting behind guys and making big plays.

Jimmy has an incredible upside to his game, because he has great pace with a knack for scoring goals. Jimmy scores goals that only pure finishers can score. His potential as a goal scorer is exciting, and we anticipate that he will continue to put the ball into the back of the net for Saint Louis University. Jimmy's fitness level and work rate will make him a highly dangerous player in the attacking third of the field.

Kyle is a very hard-nosed guard that has a great knack for scoring. He is a proven winner and is dedicated to becoming a better player.

Kristin is a very sophisticated player that is extremely efficient inside the 18-yard box. She is the type of player that possesses the knack for scoring big time goals as well as always being in the right place at the right time. We are very excited about the depth and versatility that she will add to this recruiting class.

Landon has a knack of knowing when it really matters, ... Is that a sense of timing or a really good player? I don't know what it is but he has it: 2001 playoff run, playoff run this year, 2002 World Cup, we could go on and on and on. For the big games he'd done it.

I saw an ad in a Mother Earth News magazine that explained how to make beer. The very first batch I produced turned out really good, so I figured I had a knack for it.

Pat had a knack for taking on the most difficult kind of assignments and making it look easy. She had a wonderful skill and wisdom for calming everyone down and making them play well together.

Steve's been an extremely pleasant surprise to me. He's been fantastic. He changes speeds and explodes out of the block. He's just got a great knack for the game.

Some guys develop a feel and really are good at a particular thing. Bernard has a got a knack special for that.