Clumsiest Quotes

#1. On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.

Gustave Flaubert

#2. The clumsiest literal translation is a thousand times more useful than the prettiest paraphrase.

Vladimir Nabokov

#3. Things which in my mind blossom will
stumble beneath a clumsiest disguise appear
capable of fragility and indecision

E. E. Cummings

#4. The end of the world hasn't granted the clumsiest among us any measure of grace.

Patricia Hamill

#5. I have written some of the clumsiest, most clogged-yet-vagrant, hobbledehoyish, hitch-slipping sentences ever conceived by the human mind.

Roy Blount Jr.

#6. Because, as even the world's clumsiest weaver can tell you, you can't pull one thread without affecting all the others.

Cameron Dokey

#7. Interrogation is largely a process of rebirth done in the clumsiest fashion possible, a system in which the midwife attempts to deliver the same baby a dozen times in a dozen different ways.

Martin Cruz Smith

#8. The people who lie the most are nearly always the clumsiest at it, and they're easier to fool with lies than most people, too. You'd think they'd be on the look-out for lies, but they seem to be the very ones that will believe almost anything at all.

Dashiell Hammett

#9. You can enjoy encouragement coming from outside, but you cannot need for it to come from outside.

Vladimir K. Zworykin

#10. There always has been a mystique and a romance about aviation, but in terms of the principles involved of satisfying your customer there's no difference between selling airlines seats and chocolate bars.

Mike Batt

#11. I figured that when there's no way of knowing what the future holds it's just as easy to believe it'll be good as to believe it'll be bad.

Jean Ferris

#12. Usually, as a fiction writer, you get e-mails saying, 'I liked your book,' or 'I didn't like it.' You don't get something saying, 'I'm really glad this is in the world.'

Darin Strauss

#13. Fortune, that favors fools.

Ben Jonson

#14. There is no question we are having a difficult time rounding up the votes.

Jim Nussle

#15. It is not the role of the United States to dictate change, but to enter into discussions with our friends.

Colin Powell

#16. You can't eat beauty. It doesn't feed you.

Lupita Nyong'o

#17. Bye Felicia get the fuck off my property." "Who is Felicia?" "You bitch! Now, bye.

Danielle Santiago

#18. I had such an amazing experience on 'The Pillowman' that it was hard to think what else is going to live up to that.

Zeljko Ivanek

#19. Once we have found our passion, we feel a strange contradiction: On one hand, we could die today and life would have been worth it, and at the same time, we want to live forever to continue our connection to our passion.

Janet Hagberg

#20. The Covenant of the League of Nations had envisaged sponsoring only the protection of certain categories of men: national minorities and populations of territories controlled by other countries.

Rene Cassin

#21. If Raymond Chandler came from the South, his name would be Ace Atkins.

Kinky Friedman

#22. Somewhere there is a drummer calling to you too, and playing your special beat.

Pooja Ruprell