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Letter "K" » knack
«Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.»
«Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.»
«To get it right, be born with luck or else make it. Never give up. Get the knack of getting people to help you and also pitch in yourself. A little money helps, but what really gets it right is to never -- I repeat -- never under any conditions face the facts.»
«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.»
Author: Charles Lamb
(Critic, Essayist, Poet)
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Gifts
| Keywords:
engage, knack, substantial, The Knack
«Women know the way to rear up children (to be just). They know a simple, merry, tender knack of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes, and stringing pretty words that make no sense. And kissing full sense into empty words.»
«School, I never truly got the knack of. I could never focus on things I didn't want to learn.»
«Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| About:
Stupidity
| Keywords:
knack, stupidity, The Knack
«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 nightlight. I might repeat to myself, slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound; if I can remember»
Author: Dorothy Parker
(Poet, Writer)
| About:
Sleep
| Keywords:
busted, busting, busts, go to sleep, knack, list, List of, nightlight, quotations, smartly, soothingly, temple, The Knack, The temple
«The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.»
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