Top 30 Ungainly Quotes
#1. I believe life's too short for compromises and bad fitting jeans
Lykke Li
#2. We want to have peace in the region, but peace will not be achieved before the removal of the occupation.
Khaled Mashal
#3. (Bonhoeffer's) change was not an ungainly, embarrassing leap from which he would have to retreat slightly when he gained more maturity and perspective. It was by all accounts a deepening consistent with what had gone before.
Eric Metaxas
#4. Maybe one day we'll get married and we'll have a small house just for us, we'll write crazy books and we'll be famous.
Cristina Nemerovschi
#5. He was fiercely beautiful in the way some young males are, as if their whole being were being lived through their eyes, and their large noses, and their ungainly limbs.
Eloisa James
#6. The British who arrived in the United States in the eighteen-thirties and forties had imagined the young republic as a wide-eyed adolescent, socially ungainly and politically gauche, but with some hint of promise.
Simon Schama
#7. LEIA [to Han:] Hast thou come here in that ungainly heap? Thou art, perhaps, then braver than I thought.
Ian Doescher
#8. She also watched Miss Upchurch as she danced with Mr. Hudson. They bounded through the steps in lively abandon. Mr. Hudson's form was a bit ungainly, but he had never seemed so young and handsome as he did while dancing with Miss Upchurch.
Julie Klassen
#9. And yet she could not forgive herself. Even as an adult, she wished only that she could go back and change things: the ungainly things she'd worn, the insecurity she'd felt, all the innocent mistakes she made.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#10. There are many good reasons to fear a nuclear Iran, but also many good reasons to fear the consequences of launching a preventive military strike against Iran. If the president, whoever it is, wants to do the latter, he or she should - indeed, under the Constitution, must - go to Congress.
Doug Bandow
#11. In cross examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch.
Louis Nizer
#12. For your love for me is very great. You have rescued me from the depths of death. - Psalm 86:13
Gary Chapman
#13. I was born tall. I was awkward and gangly. Before that, I was a really chubby elementary school kid. I've always been sort of a physical abnormality.
Timothy Simons
#14. The other was small, roundish, and moved with an ungainly restlessness, like a number of elderly squirrels trying to escape from a sack. His own age was on the older side of completely indeterminate. If
Douglas Adams
#15. Those who are compelled to paint by force, without being in the necessary mood, can produce only ungainly works, because this profession requires an unruffled temper.
Titian
#16. I work with my acting coach to help me get into character and do pronunciation drills and tongue twisters to help me deliver lines.
Quvenzhane Wallis
#17. She entered with ungainly struggle like some huge awkward chicken, torn, squawking, out of its coop.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#18. ON his way out of the museum Atwater passed Nosworth, arguing in the evening sunshine with a party of negroes, who stood about him in ungainly positions, near in spirit to the Anglo-Saxon attitudes of First Messenger.
Anthony Powell
#19. When Little Richard used to stand up and play it was just fabulous, and Liberace had the candlesticks and the rings and the gift of the gab. The piano's is the most ungainly rock' n' roll instrument of all time but those two people transcended it, as did Jerry Lee Lewis.
Elton John
#20. I grew up around lots of men - my father, my brothers, my uncles - so I wasn't intimidated by them.
Dolly Parton
#21. The early settlers amazed her
they had pluck, they led lives of sweaty drama. Theirs was a world of corsets and whipping posts and indentured servitude. People worked the land and died in ungainly ways. Modern life, in comparison, seemed a cinch.
Jennifer Vanderbes
#22. It seems that they're playing with one leg tied together.
Kenny Sansom
#24. Julia was a tall, ungainly girl, much taller than Gordon, with a thin face and a neck just a little too long - one of those girls who even at their most youthful remind one irresistibly of a goose.
George Orwell
#25. When the very source of creation is within you, all the solutions are within you. The problems are just created by you.
Jaggi Vasudev
#26. Why do fathers look ungainly in their daughter's bedrooms? Like mythical beasts wandered in from the forest of another world?
Mira Jacob
#27. I love computers. I love writing on them. I love gadgetry. The thing is: I am a slow reader. So, if I am going to get my work done, I read, like, a newspaper and that's it. If I got into websites and the internet, I wouldn't get any work done.
Stephen Sondheim
#29. The queen was settling on the edge of the bed, ungainly with hesitation and at the same time exquisite in her grace, like a heron landing in a treetop.
Megan Whalen Turner
#30. Her head is two sizes too large, ungainly, swarming with thoughts. Why?
Joe Hart
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