Rush Limbaugh

Young people have this almost romantic attachment to civil rights, liberties, emancipating people from oppression, etc. The idea that such oppression exists in this country offends me, but it's able to be pushed and sold because education in this country is so woefully incompetent and inept.

American Entertainer

Oscar Wilde

Literature must rest always on a principle, and temporal considerations are no principle at all. For, to the poet, all times and places are one; the stuff he deals with is eternal and eternally the same: no theme is inept, no past or present preferable.

Irish Poet

Eric Church

I don't really get into that whole red-blue-conservative-liberal because I can't tell them apart. They all seem inept. So, for me, it's not something I focus on at all. I probably should be more political than I am. I just don't care.

American Musician

Kristan Higgins

You know what I loved about 'Sideways'? Well, the wine, of course. But it was one of the few movies in which being a writer was realistically depicted. I loved how the Paul Giamatti character tries so ineptly to talk about his book.

American Novelist

Neal Stephenson

One of the most frightening things about your true nerd, for may people, is not that he's socially inept - because everybody's been there - but rather his complete lack of embarrassment about it.

American Writer

Douglas Adams

My absolute favourite piece of information is the fact that young sloths are so inept that they frequently grab their own arms and legs instead of tree limbs, and fall out of trees.

English Writer

Julian Barratt

Performers often can be quite socially inept, you know? And even great comedians are like that.

English Comedian

Jimmy Iovine

Most technology companies are culturally inept. They're never going to get curation right.

American Producer

John Layfield

I just don't think our best are in politics. I think these guys are inept.

American Businessman

Rufus Wainwright

After years of hotels, I'm horribly inept at cleaning up after myself.

Canadian Musician

Using 'inept' suggests a strong lack of skill, often embarrassing. Be cautious as it may offend.

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 York's criticism of their inept handling of the war against France led to his exclusion from court and transfer to Ireland. Meanwhile, mounting military failures, and corrupt rule by Margaret and her allies caused widespread discontent,

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