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Quotes About Inept

He'd kill you all right. No sweat. But for the wrong reasons. Amateur's reasons. Of course, you'll be just as dead.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Science may carry us to Mars, but it will leave the earth peopled as ever by the inept.
~ Agnes Repplier
wretched set of incompetent noodles.
~ Adam Hochschild
Raging rivers, bottomless mud and bitter cold', wrote a contemporary commentator, 'completed the destruction of an Italian offensive that was politically inept and militarily under-prepared.
~ Andrew Roberts
My performances in auditions were so inept that I hardly got any jobs in film or TV. I just could not learn the lines and the thought of doing theatre terrified me. What if I forgot my lines in the middle of a scene with an entire audience watching?
~ Charley Boorman
A surprising number of American skyjackers were not yet old enough to drink or sometimes even drive. These adolescents were generally inept at planning their crimes, and few of their capers met with any success; most seemed to end within moments of starting, usually after a fatherly pilot convinced the nervous teen to hand over his gun.
~ Brendan I. Koerner
I'm a basket case. Yeah, you know, I put my foot in my mouth more than I speak properly.
~ Scott Adsit
You're worse than evil. You're inefficient .
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
You're worse than evil. You're inefficient.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
Bureaucracy destroys initiative. There is little that bureaucrats hate more than innovation, especially innovation that produces better results than the old routines. Improvements always make those at the top of the heap look inept. Who enjoys appearing inept? —A GUIDE TO TRIAL AND ERROR IN GOVERNMENT, BENE GESSERIT ARCHIVES
~ Frank Herbert
Bureaucracy destroys initiative. There is little that bureaucrats hate more than innovation, especially innovation which produces better results than the old routines. Improvements always make those at the top of the heap look inept. Who enjoys appearing inept?
~ Frank Herbert
One place that I really feel comfortable is being a comedienne. I'm very socially inept. There's so many things that I can not do in life, and this is, like, the one thing that I have mastery over. It's my world. And anybody who's coming to the show, it's like they're coming because they know that this is my world.
~ Margaret Cho
In so many areas of life, I'm a spaz and incompetent.
~ Dave Matthews
Most technology companies are culturally inept. They're never going to get curation right.
~ Jimmy Iovine
I suppose I should just be thankful that since you are so much given to treachery, you're so reassuringly inept at it.
~ Sharon Kay Penman
I cannot cook to save my life. I'm really frighteningly useless, when you get down to it.
~ Nikki Cox
Intellectual cowardice is only one of the problems of the academic community. Fort rubbed their noses in the swill generated by their gibberish and illiteracy. It was no secret then or now that academic publications are designed to protect the inept and to conceal ignorance. People with nothing to say, who even lack the ability to say nothing, can hide behind the academic method for a lifetime.
~ John Keel
A scene, a day of shooting, can often make you feel kind of stupid and inept because your one job is to anticipate and react and know what to go for.
~ Ron Howard
I call it the 'House of Reprehensibles.' We don't have any real political resistance to this growth of the domestic state across the board. So I'm much more focused on that than on the Patriot Act, which is a real effort, however inept, to deal with a real problem.
~ M. Stanton Evans
You really ARE incompetent, untrustworthy, disrespectful, immoral, ignorant, inept, egotistical, constrained, disgusting. You are a social embarrassment, an unappreciative partner, an inadequate parent, a disappointment, a sexual flop, a financial liability.
~ Sam Vaknin
Maybe he's a savant," Hannah mused from the pool. "One of those guys who's brilliant at one thing and stupid at everything else.
~ Barbara Dunlop
I'm a horrible drawer. I have no artistic ability in my hands.
~ Katharine McPhee
Singed," he said, assuming that air of phony dignity cats adopt after some particularly inept performance. Something like, "That's what I meant to do all along.
~ Glen Cook
I am the worst cook. I make a mess making a bowl of cereal... like, I'm just such a klutz in the kitchen.
~ Lyndsy Fonseca