Clumsiest Quotes & Sayings

The people who lie the most are nearly always the clumsiest at it, and they're easier to fool with lies than most people, too. You'd think they'd be on the look-out for lies, but they seem to be the very ones that will believe almost anything at all. — Dashiell Hammett

The clumsiest literal translation is a thousand times more useful than the prettiest paraphrase. — Vladimir Nabokov

It is not when it is dangerous to tell the truth that its advocates are hardest to find, but when it is boring. — Friedrich Nietzsche

It's catastrophies which turn wise and strong people into philosophers. — Honore De Balzac

Interrogation is largely a process of rebirth done in the clumsiest fashion possible, a system in which the midwife attempts to deliver the same baby a dozen times in a dozen different ways. — Martin Cruz Smith

Silence and clumsiness could of course be taken as rather pitiful proof of desire. It being easy enough to seduce someone towards whom one feels indifferent, the clumsiest seducers could generously be deemed the most genuine. Not to find the right words is paradoxically often the best proof that the right words are meant. — Alain De Botton

On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters. — Gustave Flaubert

Number 4 should have been number 1. Thanks, Honey. — Jack Dempsey

Because, as even the world's clumsiest weaver can tell you, you can't pull one thread without affecting all the others. — Cameron Dokey

The real beauty of democracy is that the average man believes he is above average. — Morrie Brickman

The end of the world hasn't granted the clumsiest among us any measure of grace. — Patricia Hamill

I have written some of the clumsiest, most clogged-yet-vagrant, hobbledehoyish, hitch-slipping sentences ever conceived by the human mind. — Roy Blount Jr.

Things which in my mind blossom will
stumble beneath a clumsiest disguise appear
capable of fragility and indecision — E. E. Cummings

Faith enables you to hold on loosely without letting go. — John Kasich

Creativity comes from applying things you learn in other fields to the field you work in. — Aaron Swartz