Clumsiness Quotations

Whatever the medium, there is the difficulty, challenge, fascination and often productive clumsiness of learning a new method: the wonderful puzzles and problems of translating with new materials.

I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.

In the arts, foolhardiness is always harmful; even worse, however, is clumsiness.

Perhaps we were each allotted only a certain amount of love - enough for only an initial meeting - a serendipitous clumsiness. When it leaves to find others, the difficulty begins because we are faced with our humanness, our past, our very being.

Sorry. I have technical difficulties making it through a room without bumping into something. Thank God my clumsiness is only restricted to the ground. I’d probably kill myself diving if I was this bad underwater. (Tory)

I rather like a certain clumsiness in a work of art.

My balance is really bad. I just hope my clumsiness doesn't show through.

Sometimes kindness can be delivered in a clumsy way.

. . . clumsiness is often mated with a love of solitude.

Of all the things that oppress me, this sense of the evil working of nature herself -my disgust at her barbarity -clumsiness -darkness -bitter mockery of herself -is the most desolating.