Quotes about Clumsy

Clumsy jesting is no joke. Votes: 3

When animals do something noble we say they are behaving ‘like humans'. When humans do something disgusting we say they are behaving ‘like animals'. Clumsy use of the English language perpetuates the myth that animals are inferior and disposable beings. Votes: 3

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? Votes: 3

If my life was a song the title would probably be 'Clumsy', 'cause I'm clumsy. Votes: 2

If you're OK with being clumsy, it's funny. But if you are super embarrassed, people are going to laugh at you. Votes: 2

Water's never clumsy. Votes: 1

I'm not clumsy, I'm accident-prone! Votes: 1

History seems to be so clumsy. Votes: 1

I'm not clumsy, I'm just accident prone. Votes: 1

Patients know in a heartbeat if they're getting a clumsy exam. Votes: 1

International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge. Votes: 1

If a ballet dancer falls over, it's knowing how to get out looking clumsy that counts. Votes: 1

I'm the most uncoordinated clumsy, klutzy person. I always had a bruise, I always tripped and fell. Votes: 1

I was a dork. I'm still kind of goofy and clumsy and not always the most graceful person. Votes: 1

I am terribly clumsy, so there is a plethora of walking into lamp-posts, falling over, dropping things, and ruining sofas. Votes: 1

I wish I could blame it on the choreography, but it's not a musical. I just had a clumsy moment. Votes: 1

What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature! Votes: 1

I do like Burial; he's so curiously clumsy, you can't help but be moved. It's so un-Hollywood, and the rhythms are so un-danceable. Votes: 1

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! Votes: 1

I can do everything with ease on the stage, whereas in real life I feel too big and clumsy. So I didn't choose acting. It chose me. Votes: 1

I had a Super Grover doll growing up. Super Grover was very clumsy, he wasn't very good-looking. But in his own way he'd always save the day. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

In order to have an enemy, one must be somebody. One must be a force before he can be resisted by another force. A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend. Votes: 1

The traditional mathematician recognizes and appreciates mathematical elegance when he sees it. I propose to go one step further, and to consider elegance an essential ingredient of mathematics: if it is clumsy, it is not mathematics. Votes: 1

If I loved all the world as I do you, I shouldn't write books to it: I should only write letters to it, and that would be only a clumsy stage on the way to entire telepathy. Votes: 1

I have my own experience in Indonesia, of course. Sometimes in these transition situations, the new governments are still clumsy and awkward in responding to this new environment in which they operate. The only thing in their DNA is the old regime. Votes: 1

A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion. Votes: 1

A career path is rarely a path at all. A more interesting life is usual a more crooked, winding path of missteps, luck and vigorous work. It is almost always a clumsy balance between the things you try to make happen and the things that happen to you. Votes: 1

As I look back at the span of the Cold War in those early days, in the '50s, for example, there was a great deal of Soviet propaganda here in the United States, but it was clumsy, and it was anchored to a lot of ideological support in certain circles in America itself. Votes: 1

It will be the mother of all telescopes, and you can bet it will do for astronomy what genome sequencing is doing for biology. The clumsy, if utilitarian, name of this mirrored monster is Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, or LSST. You can't use it yet, but a peak in the Chilean Andes has been decapitated to provide a level spot for placement. Votes: 1

The most able seems clumsy. Votes: 0

The Jews are just clumsy bakers. Votes: 0

I'm not clumsy; just accident prone. Votes: 0

God, the king of artists, was clumsy. Votes: 0

Dreams are fragile. Reality is a clumsy postman. Votes: 0

I'm, like, super-clumsy and weird and funny and dorky. Votes: 0

A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend. Votes: 0

Sometimes kindness can be delivered in a clumsy way. Votes: 0

Even the most deft pen is a clumsy tool. Votes: 0

Writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for wordlessness. Votes: 0

I tried surfing once in Brazil, but I'm kind of clumsy. Votes: 0

Truth is a clumsy servant that breaks the dishes while washing them. Votes: 0

Guilt and rage, hatred and fear were pathways to weakness and clumsy choices. Votes: 0

I'm home! Yuki-Kun, Tohru-Kun, I'm home! Oh, and let's not forget Stupid-clumsy-Kyo-Kun-who-lost-yet-another-fight!" -Shigure Votes: 0

Words felt so clumsy when she was talking about feelings and not facts. Votes: 0

I am that clumsy human, always loving, loving, loving. And loving. And never leaving. Votes: 0

Men were not gods after all, but as human and as clumsy as girls. Votes: 0

I may be ugly and clumsy, but one thing I'm not, I'm not retarded. Votes: 0

Only I am clumsy, like drifting on the waves of the sea, without direction. Votes: 0

The sweet small clumsy feet of april came into the ragged meadow of my soul. Votes: 0

The living all assemble! What's the cue?-- Do what the clumsy partner wants to do! Votes: 0

I need poise. I'm just so clumsy that it would kind of save me a lot. Votes: 0

I know a lot about health, wellness, and nutrition. I make my own kombucha. I'm clumsy. Votes: 0

The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness. Votes: 0

Let's face it, the human eye is clumsy, sloppy, and unintelligible when compared to the camera's eye. Votes: 0

I think space will be conquered through the mind rather than the clumsy medium of space travel. Votes: 0

Illness is a clumsy attempt to arrive at health: we must come to nature's aid with intellect. Votes: 0

Specifically, I would suggest that the effective organization is garrulous, clumsy, superstitious, hypocritical, monstrous, octopoid, wandering, and grouchy. Votes: 0

Be yourself. I much prefer seeing something, even it is clumsy, that doesn't look like somebody else's work. Votes: 0

Pop music is not just a clumsy mass fanaticism, connected to a deceitful enchantment totally lacking in moral rigour. Votes: 0

Feeling important makes one heavy, clumsy and vain. To be a warrior one needs to be light and fluid. Votes: 0

The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it. Votes: 0

I am clumsy, a late and nervous driver, and despise all sports except a little gentle dancing or yoga. Votes: 0

A book is a fragile creature. It suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements, clumsy hands. Votes: 0

I have proven a danger to both myself and those around me when carrying these weapons. I'm extraordinarily clumsy. Votes: 0

...this clumsy collision of two very impatient forms of ignorance was known as the quarrel of Science and Religion. Votes: 0

Sanctification is like a clumsy, slow walk rather than a light switch that we turn from off to on. Votes: 0

However hard we try to bring in the new; it comes into being only in the midst of clumsy deals. Votes: 0

If you can't imagine it, think clumsy silence. Think bits and pieces of floating despair. And drowning in a train. Votes: 0

Everything that is ponderous, vicious and pompously clumsy, all long-winded and wearying kinds of style, are developed in great variety among Germans. Votes: 0

So now I have started living my own life. Imperfect and clumsy as it may look, it is resembling me now, thoroughly. Votes: 0

I do like Christmas on the whole.... In its clumsy way, it does approach Peace and Goodwill. But it is clumsier every year. Votes: 0

You should not translate for more than two hours at a time. After that, you lose your edge, the language becomes clumsy, rigid. Votes: 0

I'd like to make it very clear that getting bitten by a venomous snake is dumb, clumsy and nothing to be proud of. Votes: 0

Thus, though I have heard of successful military operations that were clumsy but swift, cleverness has never been seen associated with long delays. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Ava said her hand accidentally slipped and made contact with her guy's nose. I said Repeatedly? And she said, 'Uh, yeah. I'm really clumsy. Votes: 0

It is a clumsy experiment to make; for it involves the destruction of the very consciousness which puts the question and awaits the answer. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

This idea that clumsy, stumbling people are real bright is ridiculous, because intelligence is related to neurologic function, and really intelligent people are very well-coordinated. Votes: 0

A diary is more or less the work of a man of clay whose hands are clumsy and in whose eyes there is no light. Votes: 0

To pry into the secrets of this world, we must make experiments. But experiment is a clumsy instrument, afflicted with a fatal determinacy which destroys causality. Votes: 0

The heart outstrips the clumsy senses, and sees - perhaps for an instant, perhaps for long periods of bliss - an undistorted and more veritable world. Votes: 0

We're not destroying the world because we're clumsy. We're destroying the world because we are, in a very literal and deliberate way, at war with it. Votes: 0

One could not live without delicacy, but when / I think of love I think of the big, clumsy-looking / hands of my grandmother, each knuckle a knob ... Votes: 0

I'm very clumsy, so there's been a lot of times I've tripped in front of girls I'm in love with or spilled food all over myself. Votes: 0

I was playing baseball, and I tripped over first base - I'm very clumsy - and I fell and broke my wrist. That was pretty painful. Votes: 0

People do seem to think that I'm going to be some wicked witch, and then they're always surprised to find out I'm just a little clumsy nerd. Votes: 0

Women always think you need a man, you need a father, as if they'd be the slightest use. Men are a dead weight, they're clumsy and maladjusted. Votes: 0

Dogs are actually very smart, it's just that they're rather clumsy, but it's this trait that makes humans attracted to them and why I love dogs so much. Votes: 0

The human soul is heavy, clumsy, held in the mud of the flesh. Its perceptions are still coarse and brutish. It can divine nothing clearly, nothing with certainty. Votes: 0

God is a too palpably clumsy answer; an answer which shows a lack of delicacy towards us thinkers-fundamentally, even a crude prohibition to us: you shall not think! Votes: 0

Raw, real human conversation can be the most direct path to greater awareness and stronger relationships, even when it's unrehearsed and clumsy-perhaps especially when it's unrehearsed and clumsy! Votes: 0

A subtle-witted man is like an arrow, which, rending little surface, enters deeply, but they whose minds are dull resemble stones dashing with clumsy force, but never piercing. Votes: 0

Everywhere there is craft and technique; everywhere there is artistry and form. Art itself, technique, is ponderous and clumsy, and because of its awkwardness it obstructs that inner element... Votes: 0

I admire writers such as Elmore Leonard who can nail a character in three or four lines of dialogue, so he doesn't need pages of back story or clumsy exposition. Votes: 0

Wherever goodness lay, it did not lie in ritual, unthinking obeisance before a deity but rather, perhaps, in the slow clumsy, error-strewn working out of an individual or collective path. Votes: 0

A way of describing performances that I admire is that there is an absence of careerism. It's a clumsy way of describing it but it sort of does it for me. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

There is always something rough and tumble about planting - because with our clumsy implements we must reach from our atmospheric element down into another, down into the darkness of the soil. Votes: 0

You have, let us say, a promising politician, a rising artist that you wish to destroy. Dagger or bomb are archaic, clumsy and unreliable - but teach him, inoculate him with chess. Votes: 0

If you ask me to describe my relationship, I mean - words are too clumsy to accurately describe how I feel in that regard, particularly in an interview. It's a strange thing. Votes: 0

Drawing is like studying Greek and piano- you can't speak or play in your conscious, which is clumsy. You must get it into your subconscious, which is graceful. But that takes time. Votes: 0

There is also a particular frustration that I have with language. It's so clumsy. And the reason I'm feeling that is more because on your breathing and your intonation than the actual words. Votes: 0

FORTRAN, the infantile disorder, by now nearly 20 years old, is hopelessly inadequate for whatever computer application you have in mind today: it is now too clumsy, too risky, and too expensive to use. Votes: 0

I am sorry the only outlet for her troubled mind was in clumsy foreplay with an inadequate partner." He threw the rest of her sandwich at the swinging door as she passed through it. Votes: 0

I readily admit that I have such a great respect for what happens in the human soul that I would be afraid of disturbing and distorting the silent operation of nature by clumsy interference. Votes: 0

I am sorry the only outlet for her troubled mind was in clumsy foreplay with an inadequate partner."He threw the rest of her sandwich at the swinging door as she passed through it. Votes: 0

The suit was so clumsy, being pressurized, it was impossible to get two hands comfortably on the handle and it's impossible to make any kind of a turn. It was kind of a one-handed chili-dip. Votes: 0

Without competition we would be clinging to the clumsy antiquated processes of farming and manufacture and the methods of business of long ago, and the twentieth would be no further advanced than the eighteenth century. Votes: 0