"The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps,……" — H.G. Wells

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• I can do everything with ease on the stage, whereas in real life I feel too big and clumsy. So… — 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… — Arthur Schopenhauer
• Thus, though I have heard of successful military operations that were clumsy but swift, cleverness has never been seen associated… — Sun Tzu
• The suit was so clumsy, being pressurized, it was impossible to get two hands comfortably on the handle and it's… — 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… — 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… — J. B. Priestley
• I don't like the strictly objective viewpoint [in which all of the characters' actions are described in the third person,… — 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

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