Ungainly Quotes

8 quotes by 8 authors

• Nothing is more dangerous in wartime than to live in the temperamental atmosphere of a Gallup Poll, always feeling ones pulse and taking ones temperature.… — Winston Churchill
• In cross examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch. — Louis Nizer
• Such young men are often awkward, ungainly, and not yet formed in their gait; they straggle with their limbs, and are shy; words do not… — Anthony Trollope
• When Little Richard used to stand up and play it was just fabulous, and Liberace had the candlesticks and the rings and the gift of… — Elton John
• The queen was settling on the edge of the bed, ungainly with hesitation and at the same time exquisite in her grace, like a heron… — Megan Whalen Turner
• Staring at her face, she began to fancy her outer layer had begun to melt away while she wasn't paying attention, and something -- some… — Laini Taylor
• And yet she could not forgive herself. Even as an adult, she wished only that she could go back and change things: the ungainly things… — Jhumpa Lahiri
• The British who arrived in the United States in the eighteen-thirties and forties had imagined the young republic as a wide-eyed adolescent, socially ungainly and… — Simon Schama

Who Wrote These Ungainly Quotes

8 authors contributed a total of 8 Ungainly Quotes as follows:

• 1 Ungainly Quote by Winston Churchill
• 1 Ungainly Quote by Louis Nizer
• 1 Ungainly Quote by Anthony Trollope
• 1 Ungainly Quote by Elton John
• 1 Ungainly Quote by Megan Whalen Turner
• 1 Ungainly Quote by Laini Taylor
• 1 Ungainly Quote by Jhumpa Lahiri
• 1 Ungainly Quote by Simon Schama