Clumsy Quotes

164 Clumsy quotes by 145 unique authors

I can do everything with ease on the stage, whereas in real life I feel too big and clumsy. So I didn't choose acting. It… — Ingrid Bergman
If a ballet dancer falls over, it's knowing how to get out looking clumsy that counts. — Ritchie Blackmore
Feeling important makes one heavy, clumsy and vain. To be a warrior one needs to be light and fluid. — Carlos Castaneda
Suicide may also be regarded as an experiment - a question which man puts to Nature, trying to force her to answer. The question is… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Thus, though I have heard of successful military operations that were clumsy but swift, cleverness has never been seen associated with long delays. — Sun Tzu
The suit was so clumsy, being pressurized, it was impossible to get two hands comfortably on the handle and it's impossible to make any kind… — Alan Shepard
However hard we try to bring in the new; it comes into being only in the midst of clumsy deals. — Peter Weiss
The seductiveness of baseball is that almost everyone with an abiding interest in it knows exactly how it should be played. And secretly believes that… — George V. Higgins
Truth is a clumsy servant that breaks the dishes while washing them. — Karl Kraus
There is romance, the genuine glinting stuff, in typewriters, and not merely in their development from clumsy giants into agile dwarfs, but in the history… — J. B. Priestley
I don't like the strictly objective viewpoint [in which all of the characters' actions are described in the third person, but we never hear what… — George R. R. Martin
Be yourself. I much prefer seeing something, even it is clumsy, that doesn't look like somebody else's work. — William Klein
When you're photographing anything to do with war and conflict you're photographing something impossible. Everything you do is just clumsy and stupid and half witted.… — Unknown Author
The idea that it is funny to see wild animals coerced into acting like clumsy humans, or thrilling to see powerful beasts reduced to cringing… — Desmond Morris
I'm the most uncoordinated clumsy, klutzy person. I always had a bruise, I always tripped and fell. — Katherine Heigl
I'm really clumsy, so I trip and fall a lot. And every time I perform in New York my pants split onstage. That's happened four… — Jessica Simpson
In trying to make a broader historical point about the range of atrocities the Germans committed against many people, I made a clumsy association about… — Oliver Stone
Conservatives say the government can't end poverty by force, but they believe it can use force to make people moral. Liberals say government can't make… — Harry Browne
When we believe or say we have been offended, we usually mean we feel insulted, mistreated, snubbed, or disrespected. And certainly clumsy, embarrassing, unprincipled, and… — David A. Bednar
Early on a difficult climb, especially a solo climb, you’re hyper-aware of the abyss pulling at your back, constantly feeling its call, its immense hunger.… — Jon Krakauer
Today's environment is beginning to threaten today's organizations, finding them seriously deficient in their nervous system design... The degree of coordination, perception, rational adaptation, etc.,… — Douglas Engelbart
My God, what a clumsy olla putrida James Joyce is! Nothing but old fags and cabbage stumps of quotations from the Bible and the rest,… — D. H. Lawrence
Without competition we would be clinging to the clumsy antiquated processes of farming and manufacture and the methods of business of long ago, and the… — William McKinley
To remember love after long sleep; to turn again to poetry after a year in the market place, or to youth after resignation to drowsy… — Mary Stewart
What is called music today is all too often only a disguise for the monologue of power. However, and this is the supreme irony of… — Jacques Attali

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