Clumsy Quotes

I need poise. I’m just so clumsy that it would kind of save me a lot.

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

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.

Increasingly, football fans are arguing that the game is bloated with too much down time. The officiating is clumsy.

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.

I would say that I’m opinionated and clumsy and I am definitely led by my heart over my head.

I’ve always been clumsy, the one who knocks glasses over.

I wish I could blame it on the choreography, but it’s not a musical. I just had a clumsy moment.

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.

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.

It’s hard to pin Beto down on what he really stands for. Between the clumsy apologies and vacant platitudes, he doesn’t seem to have a set of philosophical priorities other than using his goofy ears to do a lot of listening so he doesn’t have to make any truly bold policy declarations.

I’m a great salesman when I believe in a product that somebody else is producing, but I always feel very awkward and clumsy asking for money for my work.

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.

Flowers are an easy, eloquent expression of love at a time when words can seem clumsy and inadequate.

I now make my living by being impolite. I am clumsy at it.

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.

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.

I grew up a clumsy kid with bad hand-eye coordination. Yet here on El Cap, I felt as though I had stumbled into a world where I thrived. Being up on those steep walls demanded the right amount of climbing skill, pain tolerance, and sheer bull-headedness that came naturally to me.

Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.

I’m not a purist – I like films that are narrated and films that aren’t, films that are beautiful and films that are clumsy but heartfelt. Mostly, I just like a good story and good characters.

I’m very clumsy, so I learned to walk very slowly wearing heels every day.

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

In ‘Finding Dory,’ I play a whale shark named Destiny who can’t swim very well. We’re both extremely clumsy!

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.

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.

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!

Sympathy relies on a common experience. If you’re clumsy, you might have sympathy for others who tend to bump into things. Empathy, on the other hand, is the ability to understand another person’s feelings even if you’ve never experienced them yourself.

When I’m not focused, I’m quite possibly one of the more clumsy people on the planet. I’ll walk into doorways and coffee tables.

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

The underlying crime in Watergate was a clumsy, third-rate burglary in an election campaign that turned out to be a landslide.

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.

I reached my full height at age 11, and I was clumsy as all get-out – all elbows and knees, couldn’t get up a flight of stairs without falling down. I wanted to be a cute, petite blonde, but I’m a big ol’ strapping thing, so I just accept it.

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

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.

The content I create reflects my personality: goofy, fun, positive, a bit clumsy, family-friendly, educational and helpful.

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.

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.

The Lux girl is every girl as far as I’m concerned. She can be shy, confident, boisterous, elegant, or clumsy.

There have been times when I reread – or at least leafed through – something because I’d sent a copy to a friend, and what usually happened was that I noticed dozens and dozens of clumsy phrases I wished I could rewrite.

I was a very clumsy Jewish kid.

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.

I’m not clumsy, I’m accident-prone!

Maori get pigeonholed into the idea they’re spiritual and telling stories like ‘Whale Rider’ and ‘Once Were Warriors,’ quite serious stuff, but we’re pretty funny people, and we never really have had an opportunity to show that side of ourselves, the clumsy, nerdy side of ourselves, which is something I am.

One of the hardest aspects of this protracted public persona is not knowing others as well as they feel they know me. It’s a rather clumsy feeling actually; to not know someone who acts as though you’re old friends.

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

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.

I use a ball pen because fountain pens are clumsy, and I get ink all over my fingers by the time I finish with it.

Each season, my balance gets worse, and sometimes I fall. I no longer cook for myself but microwave widower food, mostly Stouffer’s. My fingers are clumsy and slow with buttons.

At 15 I was very clumsy, big feet and my footwork wasn’t great. I was definitely not quick.

Water’s never clumsy.