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Quotes About Clumsiness

And what? Accidentally cuts off three fingers postmortem? 'Oops, oh, no, my girlfriend just died! Clumsy me, in trying to perform CPR, I chopped off some fingers! Guess I'll just take them with me.... Oh, darn, where did that middle finger go?
~ Barry Lyga
Benny let out a moan as everything fell to the floor.
~ Gertrude Chandler Warner
One time I tried to use the bathroom in the dark, and I missed the toilet, and I fell on the floor.
~ Rita Ora
I'm about to rupture something," he was informed, as the big, gaily wrapped box she was carrying smacked into the small of his back again. She had an uncanny ability to hit the same spot every time.
~ Karen Chance
I spill water on myself all the time at nice restaurants. I've run into poles and knocked myself out.
~ Kristin Kreuk
I trip over my legs all the time. I'll wave to somebody, look up, and end up eating pavement.
~ Maggie Grace
When Liesel left that day, she said something with great uneasiness. In translation, two giant words were struggled with, carried on her shoulder and dropped as a bungling pair at Ilsa Hermann's feet. They fell off sideways as the girl veered with them and could no longer sustain their weight. Together, they sat on the floor, large and loud, and clumsy.
~ Markus Zusak
There are those who believe that clumsiness and truthfulness go together. But cumbersomeness does not necessarily imply a sincere heart.
~ bellow saul iii
I'm the classic absent-minded professor: I'm very focused on something, and meanwhile, I've left the refrigerator door open for hours.
~ Jewel
Being cursed with human hands is no excuse for clumsiness!
~ Greg Rucka
It took real talent to be that inept.
~ Shanna Swendson
Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by stupidity
~ Barry Eisler
Language acquisition might be like other biological functions. The linguistic clumsiness of tourists and students might be the price we pay for the linguistic genius we displayed as babies, just as the decrepitude of age is the price we pay for the vigor of youth.
~ Steven Pinker
Not, like, that, boychik, you sound like a herd of elephants charging through a music store.
~ Jordan Sonnenblick
En general, el político es político precisamente porque es torpe.
~ Jose Ortega y Gasset
that I slipped on some wet leaves, went nose over paws, and crashed into a tree. Great StarClan, it hurt! And what hurt even more was that I was pretty sure Firestar had to stop himself from laughing.
~ Erin Hunter
I can't dance on ice, because I'm like Bambi on ice.
~ Martine McCutcheon
Klutziness is endearing. I like imperfection.
~ Elizabeth Banks
Bosheit ist bloß eine Art Ungeschicklichkeit.
~ Bertolt Brecht
No win, no fee, no basis in reality. Just a room above a minicab office in Acton and a steady stream of greedy simpletons whose delusion is only matched by their clumsiness.
~ Bill Bailey
On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.
~ Gustave Flaubert
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
He had fallen out of the ugly tree, and hit every branch.
~ Lee Child
I'm very headstrong and I know what I want from life. I listen to peoples' opinions, but a lot of the time I'll trust my own instincts. I'm also really clumsy, so I'm always getting hurt.
~ Ashley Tisdale