Clumsy Quotes

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.

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

History seems to be so clumsy.

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

I'm not clumsy, I'm accident-prone!

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

I'm not clumsy, I'm just accident prone.

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.

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 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.