Lionel Shriver Quotes

You don't want to see me dance. That's not a pretty thing. Trust me.

I'm a terrible dancer.

Trump is not charismatic. He is artless and politically clumsy and wears his egotism on his sleeve.

Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.

I am not eloquent.

I'm a pretty goofy person. I'm an awkward dancer, for instance, and a terrible singer.

I'm such a klutz!

I'm, like, super-clumsy and weird and funny and dorky.

I'm a klutz, through and through.

… slobby Michael Moore

I'm quite ungainly.

I've played a lot of untalented people.

I have never been graceful, never been elegant.

I'm bad with speaking. I ramble a lot.

Words do not necessarily make us moral. And there have been presidents before who have stumbled over syntax and looked foolish when the words they have been forced to speak have been their own. But Trump is uniquely stunted. A child listening to two of his speeches could reproduce a third without the use of a dictionary.

I was born with two left feet.

I'm basically klutzy.

Any man with a microphone can tell you what he loves the most.

I'm a better talker than writer.

He (Don Drysdale) talks very well for a guy who's had two fingers in his mouth all his life.

Asking others for input puts you in the driver's seat, and may feel less awkward than having to watch yourself on video.

Chauncy Burr ... talks well, possibly better than he thinks. But this is a common failing.

I go back and forth as to whether I think Nancy Pelosi's really this dumb or not. Although, every time I hear her speak I get closer and closer to concluding that she is this dumb.

You have no right to go before a public without an adequate technique, just because you feel. Anything feels - a leaf feels, a storm feels - what right have you to do that? You have to have speech, and it's a cultivated speech.

I am not going to engage in the kind of behavior that you see from Donald Trump.