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Quotes About Inept

No fault is ever found within, Supaari thought, listening to them. None among us is dull or inept or shiftless. We are all powerful and triumphant, but for the ones above us.
~ Mary Doria Russell
One symptom that you have bogged down in complexity overload is when you find yourself doggedly applying a method that is clearly irrelevant, at least to any outside observer. It is like the mechanically inept person whose car breaks down—so he puts water in the battery and empties the ashtrays. — P. J. Plauger
~ Steve McConnell
Unfortunately for cosmic justice, many gifted writers are scoundrels, and many inept ones are the salt of the earth.
~ Steven Pinker
She can't even chew gum and walk in a straight line, let alone write a book.
~ Liam Gallagher
You know what I loved about 'Sideways'? Well, the wine, of course. But it was one of the few movies in which being a writer was realistically depicted. I loved how the Paul Giamatti character tries so ineptly to talk about his book.
~ Kristan Higgins
So limp of brain that for them to conceive an idea is to risk a haemorrhage. So limp of body that their purple dresses appear no more indicative of housing nerves and sinews than when they hang suspended from their hooks.
~ Mervyn Peake
After years of hotels, I'm horribly inept at cleaning up after myself.
~ Rufus Wainwright
My emotions lose their force when I endeavor to interpret them, and my words seem very inept.
~ Pierre Loti
That so-called master of hounds was about as much use as a fart in a colander.
~ Faith Martin
A Schwalling is when he does something unintentionally idiotic that makes him look stupid
~ Michael Lewis
In terms of adaptability, humans are pretty amazingly useless.
~ Bill Bryson
A lot of people conclude from this that the FBI and its agents are dangerously inept.
~ Bill Bryson
I saw ten thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken
~ Bob Dylan
I am introverted and a complete klutz.
~ Amy Gerstler
Mick Stranahan's sister was married to a lawyer named Kipper Garth, inept in all aspects of the profession except self-promotion.
~ Carl Hiaasen
Cooking is a dangerous thing for me. I'm pretty inept in the kitchen.
~ Billie Lourd
Ooh, it's too embarrassing to share my innermost romantic secrets - although I have written Danielle the odd poem. If anything they are more comedic than romantic. They used to be well-received but that was before she started studying Shakespeare at drama college. Now I feel so inept.
~ Gary Lineker
It's a well-known fact that Washington-area drivers are completely inept in the rain.
~ Susan Coll
Political journalists, socially inept or no, are not nerds. Most of them can't do math, a fact that campaigns and politicians regularly exploit.
~ Alex Pareene
One of the most frightening things about your true nerd, for may people, is not that he's socially inept - because everybody's been there - but rather his complete lack of embarrassment about it.
~ Neal Stephenson
Performers often can be quite socially inept, you know? And even great comedians are like that.
~ Julian Barratt
I don't think that genius goes hand in hand with being socially inept or being a sociopath or being a misanthrope, but I do think that it is a mind that can think so differently - so beyond how one is supposed to think.
~ Hanya Yanagihara
Socialism is socialism. Government run enterprises are just as inept under democratic governments as they are under autocratic governments.
~ Thomas DiLorenzo
There are five options in war: fight, defend, flee, surrender, or die. You have proven inept at the first two, and now have the temerity to surrender. Death is all you deserve!
~ Sima Yi