#clumsy

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

#before #better #clumsy #enemy #force

I think space will be conquered through the mind rather than the clumsy medium of space travel. ↗

— Patrick Troughton

#conquered #i #i think #medium #mind

When I was little, I wasn't so little. I had a big old round belly and I was really clumsy, but I was super confident. ↗

— Natalie Coughlin

#big #clumsy #confident #had #i

History seems to be so clumsy. ↗

— Robert Johnson

#history #seems

If a ballet dancer falls over, it's knowing how to get out looking clumsy that counts. ↗

— Ritchie Blackmore

#ballet dancer #clumsy #counts #dancer #falls

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

#also #book #books #clumsy #creature

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

#actually #aspects #clumsy #feel #feeling

I'm not clumsy, I'm accident-prone! ↗

— Daniel Radcliffe

#i

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

#clumsy #consider #elegance #essential #further

He was rather clumsy and shy and looked as if he'd spent the last ten years of his life locked up in a library - hardly the kind of man any girl your age dreams of ... ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

#dreams #library #shy #age