#expert

Dickens writes that one of his characters, "listened to everything without seeming to, which showed he understood his business. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#expertise #nonchalance #business

I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison. ↗

— W. C. Fields

#applied #chair #electricity #expert #father

Every marriage is a mystery to me, even the one I'm in. So I'm no expert on it. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#every #expert #i #marriage #me

What's an expert? I read somewhere, that the more a man knows, the more he knows, he doesn't know. So I suppose one definition of an expert would be someone who doesn't admit out loud that he knows enough about a subject to know he doesn't really know how much. ↗

— Malcolm Forbes

#admit #definition #enough #expert #how

We have all been empowered by the web: everyone with a keyboard can now effectively broadcast to a national audience. In a sense, it puts each of us on the same footing as the major media conglomerates, except for AOL, who now apparently own all our thoughts and teeth. ↗

— John Hodgman

#areas-of-my-expertise #author #daily-show #funny #john-hodgman

An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while sweeping on to the grand fallacy. ↗

— Steven Weinberg

#errors #expert #fallacy #grand #person

I prefer design by experts - by people who know what they are doing. ↗

— Donald Norman

#doing #experts #i #know #people

Jazz is like wine. When it is new, it is only for the experts, but when it gets older, everybody wants it. ↗

— Steve Lacy

#experts #gets #jazz #like #new

Bush the father did well in placing his sons as governors and did not forget to pass on the expertise in fraud from the leaders of the region to Florida to use it in critical moments. ↗

— Osama bin Laden

#critical #did #expertise #father #florida

Experts always know everything but the fine points. When I took my citizenship exams, no one there knew how the White House came to be called the White House. ↗

— Hedy Lamarr

#called #came #citizenship #everything #exams