Clumsiness Quotes
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“All forms of madness, bizarre habits, awkwardness in society, general clumsiness, are justified in the person who creates good art.”
― Rooftop Soliloquy
― Rooftop Soliloquy
“Are you referring to the fact that you can't walk across a flat, stable surface without finding something to trip over?”
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“Oh dear God, I was going down. There was no stopping it. Visions of broken necks danced in my head.”
― Wait for You
― Wait for You
“He [Bloch] was one of those touchy, highly-strung people who cannot bear to have made a blunder, will not admit it to themselves, and whose whole day is ruined by it.”
― The Guermantes Way
― The Guermantes Way
“If you are a clumsy person, you will bang some part of your body, or get it caught and pinched in something, or have something twisted around the wrong way because you have done the wrong thing because you are clumsy. It will hurt, so you will be sore, and it likely someone will be looking at you, wondering how on earth you managed to bang or catch or pinch or twist yourself doing something that everyone else does all the time without incident, so you will be embarrassed. A peculiar thing about being embarrassed is that once you have decided to be embarrassed, you become less embarrassed.”
― Poison for Breakfast
― Poison for Breakfast
“Beyond the clumsy, brute force tools of will, determination and hard work — and free from the heavy attachment of want, and the illusions of burden and blocks, is the true technology of creation through beingness.”
― Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
― Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
“If you are completely surrounded by the enemies, this proves that you are damn stupid in matters of making friends and such a stupidity, such a miserable clumsiness is your biggest enemy!”
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“…her clumsiness, which is only her body wanting contact with things, wanting not to walk through the world but into it”
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“I venerate an honest obliquity of understanding. The more laughable blunders a man shall commit in your company, the more tests he giveth you, that he will not betray or overreach you. I love the safety, which a palpable hallucination warrants ; the security, which a word out of season ratifies. And take my word for this, reader, and say a fool told it you, if you please, that he who hath not a dram of folly in his mixture, hath pounds of much worse matter in his com position.”
― Essays of Elia and Last Essays of Elia
― Essays of Elia and Last Essays of Elia
“Things could be messy and clumsy the first time you try something. But with time, the mess starts to disappear.”
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“Not wanting her to become discouraged, Giles waved the tennis ball over his head, staying her swing before she could miss and send another ball flying backward into the Ashley River or smacking into the net. It was a miracle she hadn’t lobbed a ball through one of the long windows of the house. 'You’ve done wonderfully for your first lesson, but let’s say we call it a day?”
― Hearts of Gold Collection
― Hearts of Gold Collection
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