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Quotes About Clumsy

Also there were people going round in such clumsy ways, stopping and starting, and hordes of schoolchildren like the ones I used to keep in order. Why so many of them and so idiotic with their yelps and yells and the redundancy, the sheer un-necessity of their existence, Everywhere an insult in your face. As the shops and their signs were an insult, and the noise of the cars with their stops and starts. Everywhere the proclaiming, this is life. As if we needed, more of life.
~ Alice Munro
I see you hurt your face." She shrugged. "I fell. I'm a clumsy fool." "I know how you feel. I'm such a fool I knocked half my teeth out and hacked my leg to useless pulp. Look at me now, a cripple. It's amazing where a little foolishness can take you, if it goes unchecked. We clumsy types should stick together, don't you think?" She looked at him thoughtfully for a moment, stroking the bruises on her jaw. "Yes," she said, "I suppose we should.
~ Joe Abercrombie
She shrugged. "I fell. I'm a clumsy fool." "I know how you feel. I'm such a fool I knocked half my teeth out and hacked my leg to useless pulp. Look at me now, a cripple. It's amazing where a little foolishness can take you, if it goes unchecked.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Men, she thought, were one of the world's few sure comforts, like a fire on a cold October night, like cocoa, like broken-in slippers. Their clumsy affections, their bristly faces, and their willingness to do what needed to be done—cook an omelet, change lightbulbs, make with hugging—sometimes almost made being a woman fun.
~ Joe Hill
I do like Christmas on the whole.... In its clumsy way, it does approach Peace and Goodwill. But it is clumsier every year.
~ E.M. Forster
You don't want to lose the foreign feel of a book entirely, but for me the prime requisite is to get it sounding good in English. If it sounds clumsy, readers will pounce on it of course.
~ Anthea Bell
Marty took the key out of his pocket, pushed the green button, and tore an opening in the side of the Orb. "Now look what you've done!" Luther said. "You've wrecked Ted's Orb." "How clumsy of me," Marty said.
~ Roland Smith
The room stank like the scene of a gunfight, so I opened the window and let the hot New Orleans air slip heavily into the room like a clumsy burglar.
~ John Connolly
In so many areas of life, I'm a spaz and incompetent.
~ Dave Matthews
I suppose I am one of life's naturally clumsy people; I don't drop stuff all the time, or break things, but I'm just generally a bit flustered.
~ Karen Gillan
At 15 I was very clumsy, big feet and my footwork wasn't great. I was definitely not quick.
~ Alex de Minaur
I am that clumsy human, always loving, loving, loving. And loving. And never leaving.
~ Frida Kahlo
I wish I could blame it on the choreography, but it's not a musical. I just had a clumsy moment.
~ Delta Burke
Happiness is an elusive state of mind not to be gained by clumsy pursuit.It is given to those who do not sue for it:to be unconcerned about a desired good is probably the only way to possess it.
~ Ruskin Bond
Believe it or not, I'm a bit clumsy with technology. It's probably why I'm so excited about the touchscreen - even an idiot can use it!
~ Bjork
History is a litany of injustice, no one denies it. But when has a simple solution ever been anything but evil? Only in complexity do we find answers. Through complexity men struggle towards fairness; it is slow and clumsy, but it's the only way. Simplicity demands too great a sacrifice. It always has. - Lestat
~ Anne Rice
Only in complexity do we find answers. Through complexity men struggle towards fairness; it is slow and clumsy, but it's the only way. Simplicity demands too great a sacrifice. It always has.
~ Anne Rice
Nate liked money. It was a sleek and clever invention, beautiful in the way it lubricated power and focused people's attention. But it had a clumsy, brutal side, too. Money bludgeoned people without it into silence, shut them away in neighborhoods like this.
~ Scott Westerfeld
And you are? (Elfa) One of the reviewers who wrote that you were a piss-poor substitute for Kiara and that the entire system is saddened by the loss of her from the show. I was just telling her that if she doesn't return soon and they leave your clumsy ass in, the show'll be closing prematurely for sure. (Syn) You're a pig! (Elfa) Oink, oink. (Syn)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
I thought you'd be home by now," he said as she neared him. Then he realized how stupid that comment was since he was standing right in front of her motorcycle. Der…He might as well be wearing a sign that said I'm a moron. Please help me remember where I live. Oh yeah, it's right behind me. -Dev
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
If my life was a song the title would probably be 'Clumsy', 'cause I'm clumsy.
~ Pia Toscano
Language to me is a tool a very clumsy tool. And words are garden tools with which to till the soil of one's life.
~ Joy Kogawa
I am not graceful.
~ Analeigh Tipton
I'm not graceful.
~ Karlie Kloss