Top 18 Gawky Quotes
#1. Language is not the lowborn, gawky servant of thought and feeling; it is need, thought, feeling, and perception itself. The shape of sentences, the song in its syllables, the rhythm of its movement, is the movement of the imagination.
William H Gass
#2. When I was in high school, I was a late bloomer. And just like all those supermodels who said they were gawky and no one liked them, that was me - metaphorically. And so I was ready to rise like a phoenix in later times.
Stephen Malkmus
#3. Next to her, even the prettiest djamphir boys looked gawky.
Lilith Saintcrow
#5. Because if you're drunk on sex and love, then I'm fucking wasted.
Erin McCarthy
#6. I was 17 years old and in my first band, and we played at the university. I was kind of a gawky, unpopular teenager and there was about 400 people smiling and dancing to what we were doing.
Sarah McLachlan
#7. Do you know the phrase, 'The word 'water' will not wet you?' It's one thing to write down an idea and another thing entirely to execute it.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
#8. I was a very gawky-looking teenager, so I was not cute.
Lance Bass
#9. Man hates something in himself. He has been able to defeat every natural obstacle but himself he cannot win over unless he kills every individual. And this self-hate which goes so closely in hand with self-love is what I wrote about. - in a letter to George Albee
John Steinbeck
#10. The leaves hop, scraping on the ground. It is deep January. The sky is hard. The stalks are firmly rooted in ice. It is in this solitude, a syllable, Out of these gawky flitterings, Intones its single emptiness, The savagest hollow of winter-sound.
Wallace Stevens
#11. There are places on planet earth,
where common sense doesn't apply.
Toba Beta
#12. I wondered what I'd end up looking like once I bloomed. I couldn't even guess. If I had to be stuck in my own skinny, gawky, coltish body forever ... well. It probably wouldn't be so bad.
I wouldn't mind a little more in the chest, though. But wild horses wouldn't drag that out of me. Ever.
Lilith Saintcrow
#13. Get over it, I want to tell myself. He's just a gawky guy with a cowlick, not some stud.
Melina Marchetta
#14. Put away these frozenjawed primates and their annals of ways beset and ultimate dark. What deity in the realms of dementia, what rabid god decocted out of the smoking lobes of hydrophobia could have devised a keeping place for souls so poor as is this flesh. This gawky wormbent tabernacle.
Cormac McCarthy
#15. I was terribly gawky, too goofy to become a high-kicking cheerleader, with stringy brown hair and bad posture. Definitely nobody noticeable!
Helen Slater
#16. I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was hopelessly boring and she was endlessly fascinating.
John Green
#18. I feel gawky and morbid as somebody in a sideshow.
Sylvia Plath
