Top 45 Clumsy Quotes

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

It’s hard to pin Beto down on what he really stands for. Between the clumsy apologies and vacant platitudes, he doesn’t seem to have a set of philosophical priorities other than using his goofy ears to do a lot of listening so he doesn’t have to make any truly bold policy declarations.

When I’m not focused, I’m quite possibly one of the more clumsy people on the planet. I’ll walk into doorways and coffee tables.

I had a Super Grover doll growing up. Super Grover was very clumsy, he wasn’t very good-looking. But in his own way he’d always save the day.

Each season, my balance gets worse, and sometimes I fall. I no longer cook for myself but microwave widower food, mostly Stouffer’s. My fingers are clumsy and slow with buttons.

Sympathy relies on a common experience. If you’re clumsy, you might have sympathy for others who tend to bump into things. Empathy, on the other hand, is the ability to understand another person’s feelings even if you’ve never experienced them yourself.

I have my own experience in Indonesia, of course. Sometimes in these transition situations, the new governments are still clumsy and awkward in responding to this new environment in which they operate. The only thing in their DNA is the old regime.

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 don’t find writing easy. That is because I do take great care: I rewrite a lot. If anything is sort of clumsy and not possible to read aloud to oneself, which I think one should do… it doesn’t work.

I am clumsy, a late and nervous driver, and despise all sports except a little gentle dancing or yoga.

I’ve always been clumsy, the one who knocks glasses over.

I do like Burial; he’s so curiously clumsy, you can’t help but be moved. It’s so un-Hollywood, and the rhythms are so un-danceable.

History seems to be so clumsy.

When Cody won the Ring of Honor title, I rushed out of my seats, tripped on the steps, and bruised my leg in front of a couple fans. I just didn’t want to miss a moment with him. That is how much I care about my husband, I care so much I get clumsy.

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.

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.

I would say that I’m opinionated and clumsy and I am definitely led by my heart over my head.

I’m not clumsy, I’m accident-prone!

Maori get pigeonholed into the idea they’re spiritual and telling stories like ‘Whale Rider’ and ‘Once Were Warriors,’ quite serious stuff, but we’re pretty funny people, and we never really have had an opportunity to show that side of ourselves, the clumsy, nerdy side of ourselves, which is something I am.

I am terribly clumsy, so there is a plethora of walking into lamp-posts, falling over, dropping things, and ruining sofas.

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

I now make my living by being impolite. I am clumsy at it.

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.

Trump is not charismatic. He is artless and politically clumsy and wears his egotism on his sleeve.

I’m very clumsy, so I learned to walk very slowly wearing heels every day.

Increasingly, football fans are arguing that the game is bloated with too much down time. The officiating is clumsy.

As I look back at the span of the Cold War in those early days, in the ’50s, for example, there was a great deal of Soviet propaganda here in the United States, but it was clumsy, and it was anchored to a lot of ideological support in certain circles in America itself.

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.

I’m a tomboy and quite clumsy, so I’m more like the anti-sexy icon.

People who know me know that I am very clumsy, always fumbling, and I talk rubbish most of the times.

I’m not a purist – I like films that are narrated and films that aren’t, films that are beautiful and films that are clumsy but heartfelt. Mostly, I just like a good story and good characters.

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.

I was a very clumsy Jewish kid.

Flowers are an easy, eloquent expression of love at a time when words can seem clumsy and inadequate.

I use a ball pen because fountain pens are clumsy, and I get ink all over my fingers by the time I finish with it.

I find it quite hard to connect with the songs where I portray myself as this clumsy, adorable, love-struck man-child.

I’d like to make it very clear that getting bitten by a venomous snake is dumb, clumsy and nothing to be proud of.

The content I create reflects my personality: goofy, fun, positive, a bit clumsy, family-friendly, educational and helpful.

In ‘Finding Dory,’ I play a whale shark named Destiny who can’t swim very well. We’re both extremely clumsy!

Believe it or not, I’m a bit clumsy with technology. It’s probably why I’m so excited about the touchscreen – even an idiot can use it!

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.

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

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.

If you ask me to describe my relationship, I mean – words are too clumsy to accurately describe how I feel in that regard, particularly in an interview. It’s a strange thing.

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.