A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.
Umberto Eco
History seems to be so clumsy.
Robert Johnson
I can do everything with ease on the stage, whereas in real life I feel too big and clumsy. So I didn't choose acting. It chose me.
Ingrid Bergman
I think space will be conquered through the mind rather than the clumsy medium of space travel.
Patrick Troughton
I wish I could blame it on the choreography, but it's not a musical. I just had a clumsy moment.
Delta Burke
I'm not clumsy, I'm accident-prone!
Daniel Radcliffe
I'm the most uncoordinated clumsy, klutzy person. I always had a bruise, I always tripped and fell.
Katherine Heigl
If a ballet dancer falls over, it's knowing how to get out looking clumsy that counts.
Ritchie Blackmore
If I loved all the world as I do you, I shouldn't write books to it: I should only write letters to it, and that would be only a clumsy stage on the way to entire telepathy.
Laurence Housman
If my life was a song the title would probably be 'Clumsy', 'cause I'm clumsy.
Pia Toscano
In order to have an enemy, one must be somebody. One must be a force before he can be resisted by another force. A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend.
Sophie Swetchine
International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge.
Rebecca West
One of the hardest aspects of this protracted public persona is not knowing others as well as they feel they know me. It's a rather clumsy feeling actually; to not know someone who acts as though you're old friends.
Christopher Knight
The traditional mathematician recognizes and appreciates mathematical elegance when he sees it. I propose to go one step further, and to consider elegance an essential ingredient of mathematics: if it is clumsy, it is not mathematics.
Edsger Dijkstra
There have been times when I reread - or at least leafed through - something because I'd sent a copy to a friend, and what usually happened was that I noticed dozens and dozens of clumsy phrases I wished I could rewrite.
Peter Straub
What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!
Charles Darwin
Your physicality is this great thing, but it is also the thing that makes you clumsy and limits you in the world, so to speak.
Amy Ray
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