Clumsy Quotes
164 Clumsy quotes by 145 unique authors
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If you can't imagine it, think clumsy silence. Think bits and pieces of floating despair. And drowning in a train.
— Markus Zusak
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There is nothing dictators hate so much as that unassailable, eternally elusive, eternally provoking gleam. One of the main reasons why the very gallant Russian…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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. . .only the victims and survivors can truly comprehend the awfulness of that time and place; the rest of us live on the other…
— John Boyne
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I am sorry the only outlet for her troubled mind was in clumsy foreplay with an inadequate partner." He threw the rest of her sandwich…
— Jennifer Armintrout
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What did I care about my hammer, about my bolt, about thirst or death? There was, on one star, on one planet, on mine, the…
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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We're not destroying the world because we're clumsy. We're destroying the world because we are, in a very literal and deliberate way, at war with…
— Daniel Quinn
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Sometimes kindness can be delivered in a clumsy way.
— Ruta Sepetys
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I have desired, like every artist, to create a little world out of the beautiful, pleasant, and significant things of this marred and clumsy world,…
— William Butler Yeats
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Sometimes kindness can be delivered in a clumsy way. But it's far more sincere in its clumsiness than those distinguished men you read about in…
— Ruta Sepetys
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But I hope I will never have a life that is not surrounded by books, by books that are bound in paper and cloth and…
— Rick Bragg
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You know what I do? I listen to other people, stumbling about with their half thoughts and half sentences and their clumsy feelings that they…
— Samuel R. Delany
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The children who are appreciated for what they are, even if they are homely, or clumsy, or slow, will grow up with confidences in themselves…
— Benjamin Spock
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It was Alec who brought their lips together. Seregil's first reaction was disbelief. But Alec was insistent, clumsy but determined. It lasted an instant, an…
— Lynn Flewelling
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So do I wish I was to be king? That is not a question I ask myself. I ask myself, Would I be a good…
— Sharon Shinn
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You'd think that would have been forgotten long ago. But no, no sooner has a little grass grown over it than some clumsy camel comes…
— Kerstin Gier
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There is no insurmountable solitude. All paths lead to the same goal: to convey to others what we are. And we must pass through solitude…
— Pablo Neruda
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Sam loved to listen to music and make his own songs, to wear soft velvets, to play in the castle kitchen beside the cooks, drinking…
— George R. R. Martin
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Men were not gods after all, but as human and as clumsy as girls.
— E. M. Forster
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Frank didn’t drop you on purpose,” she said. “He’s not like that. He’s just a little clumsy sometimes.” “Oops,” Leo said, in his best Frank…
— Rick Riordan
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Guilt and rage, hatred and fear were pathways to weakness and clumsy choices.
— Jonathan Maberry
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How many times have you said, 'This is it. I've finally found my one true love'? And how many times has the reality turned out…
— Haruki Murakami
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The human soul is heavy, clumsy, held in the mud of the flesh. Its perceptions are still coarse and brutish. It can divine nothing clearly,…
— Nikos Kazantzakis
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I started to kiss him back, slower and clumsy where his had been sure, practiced. I was worried I was doing it wrong, but then…
— Unknown Author
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Ava said her hand accidentally slipped and made contact with her guy's nose. I said Repeatedly? And she said, 'Uh, yeah. I'm really clumsy.
— Gena Showalter
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Men, she thought, were one of the world's few sure comforts, like a fire on a cold October night, like cocoa, like broken-in-slippers. Their clumsy…
— Joe Hill
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