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Quotes About Clumsiness

Les hommes sont parfois si maladroits qu'on les prend pour le contraire de ce qu'ils sont vraiment.
~ Philippe Claudel
I'm constantly bumping and banging into things.
~ Jayma Mays
Damn, Claire. Warn a guy before you do a face-plant on the floor next time. I could have looked all heroic and caught you or something -Shane
~ Rachel Caine
I trip walking down the stairs, but I can skate them probably.
~ Shaun White
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
Among people, particularly those I love, I so easily get talking and give out everything possible in conversation, so that it is not available for my work. It is a stupid piece of clumsiness that I am so wanting in the gift of sociability, the talent for easy but at the same time recreative conversations, in which one does not exert and expend onesel
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
They will put that on my gravestone. 'Here lies Tinker, her heart was in the right place, but her foot was in her mouth and god knows where her brain went.
~ Wen Spencer
I never had a piece of toast Particularly long and wide, But fell upon the sanded floor, And always on the buttered side.
~ James Payn
My absolute favourite piece of information is the fact that young sloths are so inept that they frequently grab their own arms and legs instead of tree limbs, and fall out of trees.
~ Douglas Adams
It's reassuring to realize that everybody is as stupid as you are and that all we are doing when we are standing in the kitchen wondering what we came in here for is woking.
~ Douglas Adams
He dragged me back - just in time. A tree had crashed down on to the side walk, just missing us. Poirot stared at it, pale and upset. "It was a near thing that! But clumsy, all the same - for I had no suspicion - at least hardly any suspicion. Yes, but for my quick eyes, the eyes of a cat, Hercule Poirot might now be crushed out of existence - a terrible calamity for the world. And you, too, mon ami - though that would not be such a national catastrophe." "Thank you," I said coldly.
~ Agatha Christie
Your physicality is this great thing, but it is also the thing that makes you clumsy and limits you in the world, so to speak.
~ Amy Ray
I wanted to be a brain surgeon, but I had a bad habit of dropping things.
~ Gilbert Gottfried
Of course, there were no paper towels to clean up with…just hand dryers. I rubbed my wet fingers over the ice cream, creating a big wet spot right in the center of my chest. Oh, yeah, beauty and poise contest, here I come.
~ Rachel Hawthorne
Man is a great blunderer going about in the woods, and there is no other except the bear makes so much noise.
~ Mary Hunter Austin
Sometimes kindness can be delivered in a clumsy way. But it's far more sincere in its clumsiness than those distinguished men you read about in books. Your father was very clumsy.
~ Ruta Sepetys
I wasn't a very good waitress, always spilling things on people and forgetting things. I once spilled ashes all over Mike Wallace's table.
~ Tracy Pollan
My balance is really bad. I just hope my clumsiness doesn't show through.
~ Kim Kardashian
Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
I hit two trees and fell down a ditch. And that was just walking from the lodge.
~ Bill Engvall
That dude," he snorted. "The damn fool, he would tread on his own balls just as quick as he would on his neighbor's
~ Edmund Morris
I'm always ripping clothing. It's so embarrassing.
~ Rebel Wilson
People who know me know that I am very clumsy, always fumbling, and I talk rubbish most of the times.
~ Dimple Kapadia
Carlus hated furniture to be moved, for then he would stumble over it;
~ Ken Follett