Both the artist and the lover know that perfection is not loveable. It is the clumsiness of a fault that makes a… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
My balance is really bad. I just hope my clumsiness doesn't show through. — Kim Kardashian Copy Share Image
Its subtlest, most appealing accomplishment may be in how other characters respond to Gregorius' precipitous swerve onto the spiritual path. (...) That… — Michelle Huneven Copy Share Image
Sorry. I have technical difficulties making it through a room without bumping into something. Thank God my clumsiness is only restricted to… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Of all the things that oppress me, this sense of the evil working of nature herself -my disgust at her barbarity -clumsiness… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
In the arts, foolhardiness is always harmful; even worse, however, is clumsiness. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
All forms of madness, bizarre habits, awkwardness in society, general clumsiness, are justified in the person who creates good art. — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker. It has always been hard for me to say exactly what… — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
Whatever the medium, there is the difficulty, challenge, fascination and often productive clumsiness of learning a new method: the wonderful puzzles and… — Helen Frankenthaler Copy Share Image
The linguistic clumsiness of tourists and students might be the price we pay for the linguistic genius we displayed as babies, just… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“Beyond the clumsy, brute force tools of will, determination and hard work — and free from the heavy attachment of want, and… — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
The key, I would say to any fledgling humorist starting out, is to make sure that sloppiness is part of your recipe.… — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
“He [Bloch] was one of those touchy, highly-strung people who cannot bear to have made a blunder, will not admit it to… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Show me a novelist – or, indeed, a reader – who wasn’t a socially awkward, self-conscious adolescent, prone to clumsiness and excessive… — Charlotte Mendelson Copy Share Image
Sometimes kindness can be delivered in a clumsy way. But it's far more sincere in its clumsiness than those distinguished men you… — Ruta Sepetys Copy Share Image
Stop being astounded by the realization that sex is the object of such misunderstanding and of such automatic clumsiness that it implies… — Philippe Sollers Copy Share Image
To disguise nothing, to conceal nothing, to write about those things that are closest to our pain, our happiness; to write about… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
Perhaps we were each allotted only a certain amount of love - enough for only an initial meeting - a serendipitous clumsiness.… — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
“Oh dear God, I was going down. There was no stopping it. Visions of broken necks danced in my head.” — J. Lynn Copy Share Image
Speech, originally, was the device whereby Man learned, imperfectly, to transmit the thoughts and emotions of his mind. By setting up arbitrary… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
To see and feel one's beloved naked for the first time is one of life's pure, irreducible epiphanies. If there is a… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image