Clumsy Quotes:

Even the most deft pen is a clumsy tool.

- Alex Ebert

topic: Tools, Pens, Clumsy

I have proven a danger to both myself and those around me when carrying these weapons. I'm extraordinarily clumsy.

- Kate Siegel

source: "Crazy Jewish Mother's Day with Kate Siegel and Kim Friedman". Interview with Penny Mann, www.amazonbookreview.com. April 18, 2016.

topic: Weapons, Danger, Clumsy

Clumsy jesting is no joke.

- Aesop

source: Aesop (2015). “Aesop's Fables”, p.11, Pelekanos Books

topic: Humor, Jokes, Clumsy

I'm not clumsy; just accident prone.

- Daniel Radcliffe

topic: Accidents, Clumsy

I'm not clumsy, I'm just accident prone.

- Daniel Radcliffe

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Accidents, Clumsy

The Jews are just clumsy bakers.

- Zach Braff

topic: Bakers, Jew, Clumsy

Writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for wordlessness.

- Ernest Hemingway

topic: Writing, Symbols, Clumsy

I was a dork. I'm still kind of goofy and clumsy and not always the most graceful person.

- Katrina Bowden

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Goofy, Kind, Dork, Clumsy

I'm the most uncoordinated clumsy, klutzy person. I always had a bruise, I always tripped and fell.

- Katherine Heigl

topic: Bruises, Persons, Clumsy

Be yourself. I much prefer seeing something, even it is clumsy, that doesn't look like somebody else's work.

- William Klein

topic: Photography, Being Yourself, Looks, Street Photography, Clumsy

If you're OK with being clumsy, it's funny. But if you are super embarrassed, people are going to laugh at you.

- Leo Howard

topic: People, Laughing, Embarrassed, Clumsy

Sometimes kindness can be delivered in a clumsy way.

- Ruta Sepetys

source: Ruta Sepetys (2011). “Between Shades of Gray”, p.107, Penguin

topic: Kindness, Way, Sometimes, Clumsy, Clumsiness

I may be ugly and clumsy, but one thing I'm not, I'm not retarded.

- Maxine Hong Kingston

topic: Ugly, May, Retarded, Clumsy

Awkward gestures, clumsy gestures, fist pumps. I just do whatever I feel like is right in the moment. If I need to be hyped, I'm hyped. If I need to talk to myself, I talk to myself. Whatever it takes to win, I'm going to do it.

- Victoria Azarenka

source: Victoria Azarenka during U.S. Open Press Conference, www.asapsports.com. September 5, 2015.

topic: Winning, Awkward, Needs, Clumsy

A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend.

- Sophie Swetchine

topic: Enemy, Malicious, Clumsy

Truth is a clumsy servant that breaks the dishes while washing them.

- Karl Kraus

source: Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms”

topic: Philosophical, Truth Is, Break, Washing, Clumsy

What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!

- Charles Darwin

source: Letter to J. D. Hooker, 13 July 1856

topic: Chaplains, Clumsy

The Bhagavad Gita—that ancient Indian Yogic text—says that it is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else’s life with perfection. So now I have started living my own life. Imperfect and clumsy as it may look, it is resembling me now, thoroughly.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

source: Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.100, Bloomsbury Publishing

topic: Destiny, Perfection, Looks, Clumsy

I don't tend to redraft, I will try to tidy it up, but basically I feel what I write down first has got the impetus, it may be clumsy, it may be repetitive, but a good editor can take that out. That first writing bit is the best thing you will do.

- Gerald Seymour

source: Source: www.theguardian.com

topic: Writing, Editors, Trying, Repetitive, Clumsy

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 differently? Paperback romances and fairy tales promote an ideal of a first and only love, but few of us can claim to have had such uncomplicated good fortune. For most people, the process of finding the perfect partner is one trial and error: breakups, makeups, missed opportunities and misunderstandings. Human love is a fragile creation, and sometimes the smallest thing - the wrong choice of words or a single clumsy gesture - can make love shatter, stall or fade away.

- Haruki Murakami

topic: Breakup, Reality, Love Is, Perfect Partner, Wrong Choices

I'm very headstrong and I know what I want from life. I listen to peoples' opinions, but a lot of the time I'll trust my own instincts. I'm also really clumsy, so I'm always getting hurt.

- Ashley Tisdale

source: Source: www.movieweb.com

topic: Hurt, Want, Opinion, Getting Hurt, Headstrong

So now I have started living my own life. Imperfect and clumsy as it may look, it is resembling me now, thoroughly.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

topic: Looks, May, Imperfect, Clumsy

A book is a fragile creature. It suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements, clumsy hands.

- Umberto Eco

source: Umberto Eco (1994). “The Name of the Rose”, p.42, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Book, Hands, Suffering, Clumsy

I think space will be conquered through the mind rather than the clumsy medium of space travel.

- Patrick Troughton

source: "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

topic: Thinking, Space, Mind, Space Travel, Clumsy

I'm very clumsy, so there's been a lot of times I've tripped in front of girls I'm in love with, or spilled food all over myself. My friends and I were the class clowns in high school, so one day we were showing off at our seats and I fell off my chair! I had to get stitches, and I had a bloody lip. I was trying so hard to be a cool class clown!

- Prince Royce

source: Source: www.seventeen.com

topic: Girl, School, Class, Clumsy, Trying So Hard

If you can't imagine it, think clumsy silence. Think bits and pieces of floating despair. And drowning in a train.

- Markus Zusak

source: Markus Zusak (2013). “The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.21, RH Childrens Books

topic: Thinking, Silence, Despair, Clumsy

Very few people realise that sex is a psychic and not a physical act. The clumsy coupling of human beings is simply a biological paraphrase of this truth - a primitive method of introducing minds to each other, engaging them. But most people are stuck in the physical aspect, unaware of the poetic rapport which it so clumsily tries to teach.

- Lawrence Durrell

source: Lawrence Durrell (2012). “The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea”, p.272, Faber & Faber

topic: Sex, Psychics, People, Paraphrase, Clumsy

This idea that clumsy, stumbling people are real bright is ridiculous, because intelligence is related to neurologic function, and really intelligent people are very well-coordinated.

- Robert Jarvik

topic: Real, Intelligent, Ideas, Clumsy

Girls of all kinds can be beautiful - from the thin, plus-sized, short, very tall, ebony to porcelain-skinned; the quirky, clumsy, shy, outgoing and all in between. It's not easy though because many people still put beauty into a confining, narrow box...Think outside of the box...Pledge that you will look in the mirror and find the unique beauty in you.

- Tyra Banks

topic: Beauty, Beautiful, Girl, Inspirational Body, Body Image

I reached my full height at age 11, and I was clumsy as all get-out - all elbows and knees, couldn't get up a flight of stairs without falling down. I wanted to be a cute, petite blonde, but I'm a big ol' strapping thing, so I just accept it.

- Jeannette Walls

topic: Petite, Clumsy

A bouquet of clumsy words: you know that place between sleep and awake where you're still dreaming but it's slowly slipping? I wish we could feel like that more often. I also wish I could click my fingers three times and be transported to anywhere I like. I wish that people didn't always say 'just wondering' when you both know there was a real reason behind them asking. And I wish I could get lost in the stars. Listen, there's a hell of a good universe next door, let's go.

- e. e. cummings

topic: Dream, Stars, Real, Clumsy

[Hillary Clinton] sort of very cautious kind of uncomfortable, clumsy interaction with the black lives movement, who are very smart in recognizing that historical memory matters, that those legacies live on when you don't identify them, when you're not willing to be in dialog with them, when you're not willing to be self-reflective about the very part that you played as part of that apparatus of power.

- Henry Giroux

source: Source: www.truth-out.org

topic: Memories, Smart, Self, Clumsy, Black Lives

Believe it or not, I'm a bit clumsy with technology. It's probably why I'm so excited about the touchscreen - even an idiot can use it!

- Bjork

source: "Bjork: 15 Years". Interview with Brandon Stosuy, pitchfork.com. August 15, 2011.

topic: Believe, Technology, Use, Clumsy

Men were not gods after all, but as human and as clumsy as girls.

- E. M. Forster

source: E.M. Forster (2012). “A Room with a View”, p.125, Courier Corporation

topic: Girl, Men, Room With A View, Clumsy

To pry into the secrets of this world, we must make experiments. But experiment is a clumsy instrument, afflicted with a fatal determinacy which destroys causality.

- Banesh Hoffmann

topic: Secret, World, Causality, Clumsy

Language to me is a tool a very clumsy tool. And words are garden tools with which to till the soil of one's life.

- Joy Kogawa

topic: Garden, Tools, Soil, Clumsy

The heart outstrips the clumsy senses, and sees - perhaps for an instant, perhaps for long periods of bliss - an undistorted and more veritable world.

- Evelyn Underhill

topic: Heart, Long, World, Clumsy

Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.

- Oscar Wilde

source: Oscar Wilde (2010). “Epigrams & Aphorisms”, p.56, BoD – Books on Demand

topic: Love, Funny, Relationship, Humor Love, Humorous Love

When animals do something noble we say they are behaving ‘like humans’. When humans do something disgusting we say they are behaving ‘like animals’. Clumsy use of the English language perpetuates the myth that animals are inferior and disposable beings.

- Philip Wollen

topic: Animal, Noble, Use, Clumsy

Words felt so clumsy when she was talking about feelings and not facts.

- Sarah Rees Brennan

topic: Talking, Feelings, Facts, Clumsy

I have an incredible talent for tripping everywhere. And I find that rather boring. Tripping and walking out of my shoes; I do it all the time when I am out at work. I'm a bit clumsy.

- Mette-Marit, Crown Princess of Norway

topic: Shoes, Tripping, Talent, Clumsy

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 a deep sound came from him, almost a growl and instinctively I knew it was a sound of approval.

- J. Lynn

topic: Kissing, Sound, Approval, Clumsy

True power is invisible and impeccable, like good taste. It is never clumsy or artless. Powerful people whisper, suggest, seduce, in order to coerce. They only use volume for effect. This is how you can tell a blowhard from a mogul. ... Most powerful people don't need to coerce; their mere presence is coercive.

- Lynda Obst

topic: Powerful, Order, People, Moguls, Blowhards

Whatever experimental film aromas cloaked my movies were because I'm a gleefully clumsy, primitive filmmaker. I really like traditional pleasingly narrative films, but I also just couldn't resist throwing in the disruptive. It seems to me that art-house film is at its glorious zenith right now, maybe it can even get better? There's just so many good films, you know Cemetery Of Splendour, Arabian Nights, Miguel Gomes, just so much great work coming out.

- Guy Maddin

source: Source: thequietus.com

topic: Art, Night, House, Zenith, Clumsy

People do seem to think that I'm going to be some wicked witch, and then they're always surprised to find out I'm just a little clumsy nerd.

- Lena Headey

source: "Not My Job: We Quiz Lena Headey On Games Worse Than 'Game Of Thrones'". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. February 6, 2016.

topic: Thinking, People, Nerd, Wicked Witch, Clumsy

Writing isn't generally a lucrative source of income; only a few, exceptional writers reach the income levels associated with the best-sellers. Rather, most of us write because we can make a modest living, or even supplement our day jobs, doing something about which we feel passionately. Even at the worst of times, when nothing goes right, when the prose is clumsy and the ideas feel stale, at least we're doing something that we genuinely love. There's no other reason to work this hard, except that love.

- Melissa Scott

source: Melissa Scott (1997). “Conceiving the Heavens: Creating the Science Fiction Novel”, Heinemann Drama

topic: Jobs, Writing, Ideas, Clumsy, Best Sellers

Feminism died in 1998 when Hillary allowed henchlings and Democrats to demonize Monica as an unbalanced stalker, and when Gloria Steinem defended Mr. Clinton against Kathleen Willey and Paula Jones by saying he had merely made clumsy passes, then accepted rejection, so there was no sexual harassment involved. As to his dallying with an emotionally immature 21-year-old, Ms. Steinem noted, 'Welcome sexual behavior is about as relevant to sexual harassment as borrowing a car is to stealing one.' Surely what's good for the Comeback Kid is good for the Terminator.

- Maureen Dowd

topic: Kids, Years, Car, Unbalanced, Clumsy

A subtle-witted man is like an arrow, which, rending little surface, enters deeply, but they whose minds are dull resemble stones dashing with clumsy force, but never piercing.

- Magha

topic: Men, Arrows, Mind, Dashing, Clumsy

People expect it to be easy because there you are, out there, doing the thing that you want and making lots of money out of it. But, you know, I'm not that smooth. I can get clumsy around certain people. Like if I were to sit down and think, 'OK, I'm really famous, how am I going to conduct myself in public?' I wouldn't know who that person would be! It would be a lot easier if I could, but I can't.

- Kristen Stewart

source: "Kristen Stewart’s Vogue Cover". Interview with Ella Alexander, www.vogue.co.uk. September 4, 2012.

topic: Thinking, People, Would Be, Clumsy

The sweet small clumsy feet of april came into the ragged meadow of my soul.

- e. e. cummings

source: e. e. cummings (2014). “100 Selected Poems”, p.29, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

topic: Sweet, Feet, Soul, Meadows, Ragged

Our federal income tax law defines the tax y to be paid in terms of the income x; it does so in a clumsy enough way by pasting several linear functions together, each valid in another interval or bracket of income. An archeologist who, five thousand years from now, shall unearth some of our income tax returns together with relics of engineering works and mathematical books, will probably date them a couple of centuries earlier, certainly before Galileo and Vieta.

- Hermann Weyl

topic: Couple, Book, Engineering, Clumsy, Tax Returns

I readily admit that I have such a great respect for what happens in the human soul that I would be afraid of disturbing and distorting the silent operation of nature by clumsy interference.

- Carl Jung

source: Carl Gustav Jung (1977). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung”, Bollingen

topic: Soul, Would Be, Silent, Clumsy

Sanctification is like a clumsy, slow walk rather than a light switch that we turn from off to on.

- Edward T Welch

topic: Light, Walks, Turns, Sanctification, Clumsy

Boxing is fascinating. It's good for the soul to be made to feel clumsy. I swank around during the week thinking I'm a big cheese, but you don't feel like that when you're in the ring with a chap who knows what he's doing. It's ritual humiliation. I'm going to be slugged about and probably killed, but I love it and have to do something to keep fit.

- Hugh Laurie

topic: Thinking, Boxing, Soul, Swank, Clumsy