Quotes About Ineptitude

Most criminals are stupid. They creep $500,000 homes in the Garden District, load up two dozen bottles of gin, whiskey, vermouth, and Collins mix in a $2,000 Irish linen tablecloth and later drink the booze and throw the tablecloth away.

Boy, you couldn't pour pee out of a boot with instructions on the heel.

Government is inherently incompetent, and no matter what task it is assigned, it will do it in the most expensive and inefficient way possible.

Idiocy flows uphill towards power.

The last decade has seen a steady drumroll of reports like these, portraying an uptick in emotional ineptitude, desperation, and recklessness in our families, our communities, and our collective lives.

Government was founded on the working premiss of being primarily an asylum for ineptitude and indigence.

The writing is never what takes the most time. It's trying to figure what you're going to put down that fills the days. With anger at your own ineptitude, with frustration that nothing is happening inside your head, with panic that maybe nothing will ever happen inside your head, with blessed little moments that somehow knit together so that you can begin to visualize a scene.

The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is its inefficiency.

I have to confess here that I am a useless cook.

Who knows better than artists how much ugliness there is on the way to beauty, how many ghastly, mortifying missteps, how many days of granitic blockheadedness and dismaying ineptitude there is on the way to accomplishment, how partial all accomplishment is, how incomplete?

You speak like a green girl / unsifted in such perilous circumstances.

Inconsiderate, rude behavior drives me nuts. And I guess the inconsiderate rudeness of social ineptitude definitely fuels my work.

She can't even chew gum and walk in a straight line, let alone write a book.

the picture would be up – very crooked and insecure, the wall for yards round looking as if it had been smoothed down with a rake, and everybody dead beat and wretched – except Uncle Podger.

How our government works... it doesn't.

Watson told her that the sorry help at Chatham Bend these days couldn't pour piss out of a boot that had the instructions written on the heel.

The words were clumsy in my mouth, like typing with hammers.

Cualquier cosa puede interponerse entre tú y el conocimiento, si eres inepto para éste.

He couldn't organize a fuck in a barrel full of whores.

He had shit for timing, Aidan knew it. Shit for timing and he had no charm to speak of. When

I sense a learning: that much dumber people than you end up in charge.

I have experienced bad dating and ineptitude with women all across the globe, from Vietnam to Paris. When I was 21, women were an enigma; they were this code that had to be cracked. They were 'The Other.' I have often thought writing this stuff into stand-up and shows would be an exorcism, but it hasn't been; it makes no difference.

The problem is, that no matter where you work there's going to be people that are so dumb you wonder how the hell they remember to breathe every morning.

Confidence without skill is just emptiness.