Clumsiness Quotes

• Stop being astounded by the realization that sex is the object of such misunderstanding and of such automatic clumsiness that it implies either a universal loathing or a universal veneration (which are much the same thing).

  Philippe Sollers

  Sex, Realization, Loathing

  Philippe Sollers (1994). “Watteau in Venice: A Novel”, Scribner

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• My balance is really bad. I just hope my clumsiness doesn't show through.

  Kim Kardashian

  Balance, Shows

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• Sea cual sea el medio, existe la dificultad, el reto, la fascinación y, a menudo, la torpeza productiva de aprender un nuevo método: los maravillosos rompecabezas y problemas de traducir con nuevos materiales.

  Helen Frankenthaler

  Challenges, Fascination, Problem

  Helen Frankenthaler, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute (1980). “Helen Frankenthaler prints, 1961-1979”, HarperCollins

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• Of all the things that oppress me, this sense of the evil working of nature herself -my disgust at her barbarity -clumsiness -darkness -bitter mockery of herself -is the most desolating.

  John Ruskin

  Evil, Darkness, Bitterness

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• I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  Habladores

  Gwendolyn Brooks, Gloria Jean Wade Gayles (2003). “Conversations with Gwendolyn Brooks”, p.21, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Sometimes kindness can be delivered in a clumsy way.

  Ruta Sepetys

  Kindness, Way, Sometimes

  Ruta Sepetys (2011). “Between Shades of Gray”, p.107, Penguin

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• 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.

  Ruta Sepetys

  Kindness, Father, Book

  Ruta Sepetys (2011). “Between Shades of Gray”, p.107, Penguin

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• Me gusta bastante cierta torpeza en una obra de arte.

  Edgard Varese

  Art, Certain, Works Of Art

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• La clave, le diría a cualquier humorista novato que esté empezando, es asegurarse de que la torpeza forma parte de tu receta. De ese modo, llegan a esperar torpeza y torpeza y dicen: "Oh, debe ser una parte encantadora de su personalidad".

  Nick Offerman

  Claves, Personalidad, Descuido

  "Entrevista: Nick Offerman sobre su voz de 'Los Simpson' y su vida televisiva después de 'Parks and Recreation'". Entrevista con Daniel Fienberg, uproxx.com. 3 de octubre de 2014.

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• In the arts, foolhardiness is always harmful; even worse, however, is clumsiness.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Arte

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• I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker. It has always been hard for me to say exactly what I mean in speech But if I have written a clumsiness, I may erase it.

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  Mean, Speech, May

  Gwendolyn Brooks, Gloria Jean Wade Gayles (2003). “Conversations with Gwendolyn Brooks”, p.21, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Sorry. I have technical difficulties making it through a room without bumping into something. Thank God my clumsiness is only restricted to the ground. I’d probably kill myself diving if I was this bad underwater. (Tory)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Sorry, Thank God, Underwater

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2008). “Acheron: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.498, Macmillan

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• Speech, originally, was the device whereby Man learned, imperfectly, to transmit the thoughts and emotions of his mind. By setting up arbitrary sounds and combinations of sounds to represent certain mental nuances, he developed a method of communication--but one which in its clumsiness and thick-thumbed inadequacy degenerated all the delicacy of the mind into gross and guttural signaling.

  Isaac Asimov

  Communication, Men, Mind

  Isaac Asimov (1986). "Trilogía de la Fundación", Del Rey

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• To disguise nothing, to conceal nothing, to write about those things that are closest to our pain, our happiness; to write about our sexual clumsiness, the agonies of Tantalus, the depth of our discouragement-what we glimpse in our dreams-our despair. To write about the foolish agonies of anxiety, the refreshment of our strength when these are ended; to write about our painful search for self, jeopardized by a stranger in the post office, a half-seen face in a train window, to write about the continents and populations of our dreams, about love and death, good and evil, the end of the world.

  John Cheever

  Dream, Pain, Writing

  "From the Sixties—I" by John Cheever, www.newyorker.com. January 21, 1991.

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• Its subtlest, most appealing accomplishment may be in how other characters respond to Gregorius' precipitous swerve onto the spiritual path. (...) That said, Night Train to Lisbon is a very long, ambitious book that's feverishly overwritten. (...) Think of W.G. Sebald recast for the mass market: stripped of nuance, cooked at high temperature and pounded home, clause after clause. Some of the clumsiness derives from Barbara Harshav's inelegant translation -- we're often aware of her struggle -- but she can't be blamed for the pervasive bloat.

  Michelle Huneven

  Spiritual, Struggle, Book

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• Both the artist and the lover know that perfection is not loveable. It is the clumsiness of a fault that makes a person lovable.

  Joseph Campbell

  Artist, Perfection, Faults

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• . . . clumsiness is often mated with a love of solitude.

  Virginia Woolf

  Soledad

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.407, Wordsworth Editions

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• Muéstrenme a un novelista -o, de hecho, a un lector- que no haya sido un adolescente socialmente torpe y acomplejado, propenso a la torpeza y a la lectura excesiva y... bueno, probablemente me golpee el hombro contra el marco de la puerta al salir enfadado. Muchas de las protagonistas femeninas de ficción más inolvidables son desmañadas, dudan de sí mismas, son simples y piensan demasiado.

  Charlotte Mendelson

  Leer, Pensar, Puertas

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• To see and feel one's beloved naked for the first time is one of life's pure, irreducible epiphanies. If there is a true religion in the universe, it must include that truth of contact or be forever hollow. To make love to the one true person who deserves that love is one of the few absolute rewards of being a human being, balancing all of the pain, loss, awkwardness, loneliness, idiocy, compromise, and clumsiness that go with the human condition. To make love to the right person makes up for a lot of mistakes.

  Dan Simmons

  Sex, Pain, Mistake

  Dan Simmons (2011). “Rise of Endymion”, p.403, Spectra

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• 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 in the price we pay for the vigor of youth.

  Steven Pinker

  Baby, Age, Tourists

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• Perhaps we were each allotted only a certain amount of love - enough for only an initial meeting - a serendipitous clumsiness. When it leaves to find others, the difficulty begins because we are faced with our humanness, our past, our very being.

  Simon Van Booy

  Past, Enough, Certain

  Simon van Booy (2014). “The Secret Lives of People in Love”, p.225, Oneworld Publications

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