Inept Quotes

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One place that I really feel comfortable is being a comedienne. I'm very socially inept. There's so many things that I can not do in… — Margaret Cho
[Presently, science undergraduates] do not learn to write clearly and briefly, marshalling their points in due and aesthetically satisfying order, and eliminating inessentials. They are… — William Lawrence Bragg
My own view on capital punishment is that it is morally justified, but that the government is often so inept and corrupt that innocent people… — Ed Crane
In societies that worship money and success, the losers become objects of scorn. Those who work the hardest for the least are called lazy. Those… — Michael Parenti
I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. ... I'm probably writing music now for the same… — Billy Joel
If you bound the arms and legs of gold-medal swimmer Michael Phelps, weighed him down with chains, threw him in a pool and he sank,… — Peter Boettke
Housework is the only activity at which men are allowed to be consistently inept because they are thought to be so competent at everything else. — Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Ultimately, any type of discipline is flawed because it keeps the person who is being disciplined inept. As long as the experience is happening to… — Cecile Reynaud
The good news, to relieve all this gloom, is that a democracy is inherently self-correcting. Here, the people are sovereign. Inept political leaders can be… — Theodore C. Sorensen
Ooh, it's too embarrassing to share my innermost romantic secrets - although I have written Danielle the odd poem. If anything they are more comedic… — Gary Lineker
One of the most frightening things about your true nerd, for may people, is not that he's socially inept - because everybody's been there -… — Neal Stephenson
My emotions lose their force when I endeavor to interpret them, and my words seem very inept. — Pierre Loti
Most technology companies are culturally inept. They're never going to get curation right. — Jimmy Iovine
Men hid behind religion to keep others from seeing how frightened they were, how inept. — Alma Katsu
In these days before antiseptics, doctors themselves also suffered high mortality rates. Florence Nightingale, a nurse during the Crimean War (1853-1856), watched one particularly inept… — Sam Kean
It took me thirty-six years; and, in some fifty stories, ranging in length from short-shorts to novels, I think I must have touched, in one… — Isaac Asimov
The Samoan puts the burden of amatory success upon the man and believes that women need more initiating, more time for maturing of sexual feeling.… — Margaret Mead
The Israelis are very smart about politics and strategy, but there are a few exceptions. One is Lebanon, the other is Gaza, where they were… — Daniel Pipes
I dislike a picture that is too suave or too skilfully done. But, contrariwise, I also dislike a picture that looks too inept or blundering. — Robert Motherwell
I don't like to think that I am a slave to technique, or so inept that I have to restrict myself to one method. — Walter J. Phillips

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