quotes about Inadequate
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It's embarrassingly plain how inadequate language is.
-- Anthony DoerrSource : Anthony Doerr (2014). “All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel”, p.503, Simon and Schuster
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I know that I'm inadequate, but I never thought that at seventeen. I thought I was doing the best I could. I thought I was being idealistic.
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You have to discover when you're inadequate to be funny and you don't know you're inadequate when you're a kid.
-- Larry David -
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Words, he decided, were inadequate at best, impossible at worst. They meant too many things. Or they meant nothing at all.
-- Patricia A. McKillipSource : Patricia A. McKillip (2015). “Patricia McKillip SF Gateway Omnibus Volume One: In the Forests of Serre, Alphabet of Thorn, The Bell at Sealey Head”, p.56, Hachette UK
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Questions about form seem as hopelessly inadequate as questions about content.
-- Robert SmithsonSource : Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, p.11, Univ of California Press
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We have to learn how to live with our frailties. The best people I know are inadequate and unashamed.
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Is it conceivable that mysticism is a mark of inadequate art?
-- Susanne Katherina Langer -
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Prose is a poor thing, a poor inadequate thing, compared with poetry which says so much more in shorter time.
-- Vita Sackville-West -
In our deepest moments we say the most inadequate things.
-- Edna O'BrienSource : Edna O'Brien (2013). “The Love Object: Selected Stories of Edna O'Brien”, p.115, Faber & Faber