At 15 I was very clumsy, big feet and my footwork wasn't great. I was definitely not quick. — Alex de Minaur Copy Share Image
Early on a difficult climb, especially a solo climb, you’re hyper-aware of the abyss pulling at your back, constantly feeling its call,… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
Democracy is the worst form of government. It is the most inefficient, the most clumsy, the most unpractical.... It reduces wisdom to… — Robert Briffault Copy Share Image
Conservatives say the government can't end poverty by force, but they believe it can use force to make people moral. Liberals say… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
I am very, very old-fashioned and clumsy. I use those long reporter notebooks. This is what a troglodyte I am. The night… — David Quammen Copy Share Image
You should not translate for more than two hours at a time. After that, you lose your edge, the language becomes clumsy,… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
The underlying crime in Watergate was a clumsy, third-rate burglary in an election campaign that turned out to be a landslide. — George T. Conway III Copy Share Image
I readily admit that I have such a great respect for what happens in the human soul that I would be afraid… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“His life was a constant war with insensate objects that fell apart, or attacked him, or refused to function, or viciously got… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
But at the same time, in reality, what a difference there is between the world today, and what it used to be!… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
A diary is more or less the work of a man of clay whose hands are clumsy and in whose eyes there… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
Believe it or not, I'm a bit clumsy with technology. It's probably why I'm so excited about the touchscreen - even an… — Bjork Copy Share Image
I am clumsy, a late and nervous driver, and despise all sports except a little gentle dancing or yoga. — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
In a novella, a whole lot of crap can happen, and you can build momentum and suspense and leave room for a… — Robert Reed Copy Share Image
Feeling important makes one heavy, clumsy and vain. To be a warrior one needs to be light and fluid. — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
One could not live without delicacy, but when / I think of love I think of the big, clumsy-looking / hands of… — Mona Van Duyn Copy Share Image
The Lux girl is every girl as far as I'm concerned. She can be shy, confident, boisterous, elegant, or clumsy. — Mahira Khan Copy Share Image
I don't like the strictly objective viewpoint [in which all of the characters' actions are described in the third person, but we… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
Ignorance, which is contented and clumsy, will produce what is imperfect, but not offensive. But ignorance dis contented and dexterous, learning what… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Without competition we would be clinging to the clumsy antiquated processes of farming and manufacture and the methods of business of long… — William McKinley Copy Share Image
I'd like to make it very clear that getting bitten by a venomous snake is dumb, clumsy and nothing to be proud… — Romulus Whitaker Copy Share Image
It has long been my personal view that the separation of practical and theoretical work is artificial and injurious. Much of the… — Christopher Strachey Copy Share Image
Everything that is ponderous, vicious and pompously clumsy, all long-winded and wearying kinds of style, are developed in great variety among Germans. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When animals do something noble we say they are behaving ‘like humans’. When humans do something disgusting we say they are behaving… — Philip Wollen Copy Share Image
