Clumsly Quotes & Sayings

I think the moments that are difficult for anybody are when you see what your life could be, if only you had the courage to take the steps needed. — John Slattery

Can all this just be an accident? Or could there be some alien intelligence behind it? — Gene Roddenberry

The comfort zone is the great enemy to creativity; moving beyond it necessitates intuition, which in turn configures new perspectives and conquers fears. — Dan Stevens

Clever deceivers rarely tell outright falsehoods. It's too risky. The art of deception is closely related to the magician's craft: it involves knowing how to draw attention to a harmless place, to deflect it away from the action. Deeply entrenched patterns of perceptual, emotional, and cognitive dispositions serve as instruments of deception. A skilled deceiver is an illusionist who knows how to manipulate the normal patterns of what is salient to their audience. He places salient markers - something red, something anomalous, something desirable - in the visual field, to draw attention just where he wants it. — Clancy Martin

When you work with somebody for a long period of time, you develop a shorthand with everything. — Beck

It is the nature of being the general manager of a baseball team that you have to remain on familiar terms with people you are continually trying to screw. — Michael Lewis

I've definitely seen that Texas is certainly a right-wing area politically. I think if you talk to the average Texan, some people may still think that alternative energy is some sort of hippie mumbo-jumbo, you know. I think there's still a strong movement to continue to drill and continue to find these other sources of oil within the country. — Jesse Metcalfe

Boys and girls hid in the library stacks or behind the gym and flew at each other with no promise of love or even kindness, tasting one another in clumsly attempts to steal pleasure before they could be hurt or hated. — Laura Whitcomb

It was then I felt a sort of wave of indignation spreading through the courtroom, and for the first time I understood that I was guilty. — Albert Camus

The evil never attains to any real friendship, either with good or evil. — Plato