Clumsy Quotes - Page 4

• When I was little, I wasn't so little. I had a big old round belly and I was really clumsy, but I was super confident.

  Natalie Coughlin

  Littles, Bigs, Belly

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• I suppose I am one of life's naturally clumsy people; I don't drop stuff all the time, or break things, but I'm just generally a bit flustered.

  Karen Gillan

  People, Stuff, Break

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• Everywhere there is craft and technique; everywhere there is artistry and form. Art itself, technique, is ponderous and clumsy, and because of its awkwardness it obstructs that inner element.

  Kazimir Malevich

  Art, Technique, Elements

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• I have my own experience in Indonesia, of course. Sometimes in these transition situations, the new governments are still clumsy and awkward in responding to this new environment in which they operate. The only thing in their DNA is the old regime.

  Sri Mulyani Indrawati

  Government, Dna, Awkward

  "Sri Mulyani Indrawati: 'You must make growth inclusive - you have to protect the poor'". Interview with Heather Stewart, www.theguardian.com. February 11, 2012.

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• I tried surfing once in Brazil, but I'm kind of clumsy.

  Lee Pace

  Surfing, Brazil, Kind

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

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• If my life was a song the title would probably be 'Clumsy', 'cause I'm clumsy.

  Pia Toscano

  Song, Causes, Titles

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• I felt a kind of numbness, an enervation, but more particularly an odd fragility - as if my body had actually become frail, hypersensitive and somehow disjointed and clumsy, lacking normal coordination. And soon I was in the throes of a pervasive hypochondria.

  William Styron

  Numbness, Body, Normal

  William Styron (1990). “Darkness visible: a memoir of madness”, Random House Incorporated

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• One of the things called forth by the Imagist movement in poetry was neatness; and when we say keenness, we mean neatness. A knife that is keen is also a knife that cuts neatly; it isn't brutal. Sharpness is different from brutality. Brutality is clumsy: it is wide - it has a lot of fist and thumb and no delicate finger.

  Eli Siegel

  Mean, Cutting, Knives

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• I have been lately introduced to the famous Thomas Paine, and like him very well. He is vain beyond all belief, but he has reason to be vain, and for my part I forgive him. He has done wonders for the cause of liberty, both in America and Europe, and I believe him to be conscientiously an honest man. He converses extremely well; and I find him wittier in discourse than in his writings, where his humour is clumsy enough.

  Wolfe Tone

  Believe, Writing, Men

  Theobald Wolfe Tone (1893). “The Autobiography of Theobald Wolfe Tone. 1763-1798; Ed. with an Introduction by R. Barry O'Brien”

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• The living all assemble! What's the cue?--
  Do what the clumsy partner wants to do!

  Theodore Roethke

  Desire, Want, Partners

  Theodore Roethke (2011). “The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke”, p.161, Anchor

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• History seems to be so clumsy.

  Robert Johnson

  Seems

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• It was Alec who brought their lips together. Seregil's first reaction was disbelief. But Alec was insistent, clumsy but determined. It lasted an instant, an eternity, that one awkward kiss, and it spoke silent volumes of bewildered honesty. The moment that followed was too fragile for words.

  Lynn Flewelling

  Honesty, Kissing, Awkward

  Lynn Flewelling (2010). “Stalking Darkness: The Nightrunner Series”, p.443, Spectra

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• Suicide may also be regarded as an experiment - a question which man puts to Nature, trying to force her to answer. The question is this: What change will death produce in a man's existence and in his insight into the nature of things? It is a clumsy experiment to make; for it involves the destruction of the very consciousness which puts the question and awaits the answer.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Suicide, Nature, Suicidal

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.232, Simon and Schuster

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• Thus, though I have heard of successful military operations that were clumsy but swift, cleverness has never been seen associated with long delays.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, Military, War

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• The suit was so clumsy, being pressurized, it was impossible to get two hands comfortably on the handle and it's impossible to make any kind of a turn. It was kind of a one-handed chili-dip.

  Alan Shepard

  Golf, Hands, Two

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• However hard we try to bring in the new; it comes into being only in the midst of clumsy deals.

  Peter Weiss

  Business, Trying, Midst

  Peter Weiss (1998). “Marat/Sade ; The Investigation ; and The Shadow of the Body of the Coachman”, p.63, A&C Black

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• The seductiveness of baseball is that almost everyone with an abiding interest in it knows exactly how it should be played. And secretly believes that he could do it, if only God had seen fit to make him just a little bit less clumsy.

  George V. Higgins

  Baseball, Believe, Abiding

  George V. Higgins (1990). “The progress of the seasons: forty years of baseball in our town”, Prentice Hall

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• Early on a difficult climb, especially a solo climb, you’re hyper-aware of the abyss pulling at your back, constantly feeling its call, its immense hunger. To resist takes tremendous conscious effort, you don’t dare let your guard down for an instant. The void puts you on edge, makes your movements tentative and clumsy. But as the climb continues, you grow accustomed to the exposure, you get used to rubbing shoulders with doom, you come to believe in the reliability of your hands and feet and head. You learn to trust your self-control.

  Jon Krakauer

  Believe, Self, Hands

  FaceBook post by Jon Krakauer from Feb 11, 2012

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• When you're photographing anything to do with war and conflict you're photographing something impossible. Everything you do is just clumsy and stupid and half witted. Because it is impossible to portray the full width and breadth of everything that you are up against.

  Simon Norfolk

  Photography, War, Stupid

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• The idea that it is funny to see wild animals coerced into acting like clumsy humans, or thrilling to see powerful beasts reduced to cringing cowards by a whip-cracking trainer, is primitive and medieval. It stems from the old idea that we are superior to other species and have the right to hold dominion over them.

  Desmond Morris

  Powerful, Animal, Ideas

  "Rose-Tinted Menagerie" by William Johnson, (p. 10), 1990.

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• Feeling important makes one heavy, clumsy and vain. To be a warrior one needs to be light and fluid.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Attitude, Warrior, Reality

  Carlos Castaneda (2009). “The Wheel Of Time: The Shamans Of Mexico Their Thoughts About Life De”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Jobs, Writing, Ideas

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

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• You'd think that would have been forgotten long ago. But no, no sooner has a little grass grown over it than some clumsy camel comes along and rakes it all up again." Caroline giggled. She was probably imagining Aunt Glenda as a camel. "This is not a TV series, Maddy," said Lady Arista sharply. "Thank goodness, no, it isn't," said Great-aunt Maddy. "If it were, I'd have lost track of the plot ages ago.

  Kerstin Gier

  Aunt, Thinking, Long Ago

  Kerstin Gier (2014). “The Ruby Red Trilogy”, p.225, Macmillan

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• There is no insurmountable solitude. All paths lead to the same goal: to convey to others what we are. And we must pass through solitude and difficulty, isolation and silence in order to reach forth to the enchanted place where we can dance our clumsy dance and sing our sorrowful song - but in this dance or in this song there are fulfilled the most ancient rites of our conscience in the awareness of being human and of believing in a common destiny.

  Pablo Neruda

  Song, Believe, Destiny

  "Towards the Splendid City". Pablo Neruda's Nobel lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 13, 1971.

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• So do I wish I was to be king? That is not a question I ask myself. I ask myself, Would I be a good king? Would I be quick witted and generous of spirit and full of that boundless energy? Or would I be clumsy and stupid and dulled by my own prejudices? I try to be a good man, since I am alive at all, and hope that that teaches me what I would need to know if I was ever faced with a higher challenge.

  Sharon Shinn

  Kings, Stupid, Men

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