Clumsy Quotes
164 quotes by 145 authors
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This idea that clumsy, stumbling people are real bright is ridiculous, because intelligence is related to neurologic function, and really intelligent people are very well-coordinated.
— Robert Jarvik
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I reached my full height at age 11, and I was clumsy as all get-out - all elbows and knees, couldn't get up a flight…
— Jeannette Walls
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I tried surfing once in Brazil, but I'm kind of clumsy.
— Lee Pace
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If my life was a song the title would probably be 'Clumsy', 'cause I'm clumsy.
— Pia Toscano
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Specifically, I would suggest that the effective organization is garrulous, clumsy, superstitious, hypocritical, monstrous, octopoid, wandering, and grouchy.
— Karl E. Weick
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But although we have noticed the ark as being the first ship, we cannot with propriety place it in the front of the history of…
— R. M. Ballantyne
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I was a dork. I'm still kind of goofy and clumsy and not always the most graceful person.
— Katrina Bowden
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When I was little, I wasn't so little. I had a big old round belly and I was really clumsy, but I was super confident.
— Natalie Coughlin
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I am clumsy, a late and nervous driver, and despise all sports except a little gentle dancing or yoga.
— Emma Donoghue
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I suppose I am one of life's naturally clumsy people; I don't drop stuff all the time, or break things, but I'm just generally a…
— Karen Gillan
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I have my own experience in Indonesia, of course. Sometimes in these transition situations, the new governments are still clumsy and awkward in responding to…
— Sri Mulyani Indrawati
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I felt a kind of numbness, an enervation, but more particularly an odd fragility - as if my body had actually become frail, hypersensitive and…
— William Styron
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One of the things called forth by the Imagist movement in poetry was neatness; and when we say keenness, we mean neatness. A knife that…
— Eli Siegel
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God, the king of artists, was clumsy.
— Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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Moreover, the eye contains a big flaw: the retina is inside out. Why would an almighty designer do such a thing? No intelligent designer, ..…
— Daniel Dennett
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Everywhere there is craft and technique; everywhere there is artistry and form. Art itself, technique, is ponderous and clumsy, and because of its awkwardness it…
— Kazimir Malevich
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What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!
— Charles Darwin
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The traditional mathematician recognizes and appreciates mathematical elegance when he sees it. I propose to go one step further, and to consider elegance an essential…
— Edsger Dijkstra
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A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the…
— Umberto Eco
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As I look back at the span of the Cold War in those early days, in the '50s, for example, there was a great deal…
— Alexander Haig
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