Bumbled Quotes & Sayings

There's a shitload of insufferable know-it-all hipsters who will work for next to nothing for the privilege of condescending to customers about their musical knowledge. — Christopher Moore

Hell, was no military man; was computer technician who had bumbled into wrong field. — Robert A. Heinlein

she gathered a leftover dish of pasta (unheated), a napkin, a glass of ice water, and a loaf of half-eaten French bread into the family room. She bumbled through the large room, past a few opened and unopened boxes, setting down her dinner atop a pair of stacked boxes near the couch. She flailed her body down onto the couch, her long, slender arms reaching out to grab the water and the pasta, when she realized she had forgotten a fork. — Joshua Wright

Fairy-tales are nice. — Syd Barrett

What a glorious time they must have in that wilderness, far from mankind and election day! — Henry David Thoreau

I think I gave myself to him as deeply as I could, but I cannot exactly remember. — Senta Holland

I took notes as they divided the world between those who had stuff taken away from them, and those who took, those who did bad things in a good way- gracefully, effortlessly- and those bumblers who bumbled their way through life. — Brock Clarke

Understanding like the eye; whilst it makes us see and perceive all things, takes no notice of itself; and it requires art and pains to set it at a distance and make it its own subject. — John Locke

There is nothing left to watch but fire and the night: circle within circle, light within light. Messages arrive in the net where discrete pulses cross. Parametal engines of joy and disaster give them wave and motion. We interpret and defeat their terms by terminus. The night? What of it. It is filled with bestial watchmen, trammeling the extremities and the interstices of the timeless city, portents fallen,
constellated deities plummeting in ash and smoke, roaming the apocryphal cities, the cities of speculation and reconstituted disorder, of insemination and incipience, swept round with the dark. — Samuel R. Delany

I would describe my dancing talents as incredibly deep. — Taylor Phinney

One of his private vanities was that all the garbage sorting had endowed his hands with killing strength - that he could chop a brick in half like Bruce Lee. "So let's get a brick," replied a girl with whom he had once, injudiciously, shared this conviction. Abdul had bumbled away. The brick belief was something he wanted to harbor, not to test. — Katherine Boo

Any given censor is a fool. The very fact that he is a censor indicates that. — Heywood Broun

Together we all live every moment
On the very brink;
The razor's edge
Of ecstasy or disaster. — Scott Hastie

Many children grow through adolescence with no ripples whatever and land smoothly and predictably in the adult world with both feet on the ground. Some who have stumbled and bumbled through childhood suddenly burst into bloom. Most shake, steady themselves, zigzag, fight, retreat, pick up, take new bearings, and finally find their own true balance. — Stella Chess

I fly close to my man, aim well and then of course he falls down. — Oswald Boelcke

I wasn't one of the cool kids by any stretch. I just bumbled along really. — Matthew Rhys

I really don't think we should dismiss a book because we feel messed about intellectually. Or emotionally. That's the writer's job! — Hilton Als

But then a bumblebee bumbled above us and it stole our attention the way flying things can. — Douglas Coupland