Awkward Quotes - Page 20

• I get so nervous. I happen to be socially awkward and shy. I spent a lot of my time as an adult not going places.

  Christina Ricci

  Adults, Shy, Nervous

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• I went through an awkward adolescence and had braces.

  Christina Ricci

  Braces, Adolescence

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• Actors, you know, they're often awkward people in real life.

  Liev Schreiber

  Real, People, Actors

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• The girl with the long brown hair turned around. "Are you her boy friend?" she asked. Summer glanced from Crystal to Nate and back. Then question made her feel a little awkward. After all, she had saved him a seat. No, I'm her fiance," Nate said. We've been promised to each other since birth." Summer added. Our wedding isn't until March.

  Brandon Mull

  Girl, Summer, Boys

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• You’re here.” “I am.” Jason boldly took in the way she looked. “I take it you don’t often wear that dress in court.” “Probably not a good idea.” He grinned. “Yes, I can imagine it would be somewhat awkward standing before a judge who has a huge hard-on.” “Is that the effect this dress has?” Taylor’s eyes traveled downward, to the zipper of Jason’s pants, and he was momentarily caught off guard by her bluntness. Her eyes sparkled, amused. “You’re blushing, Jason. That’s cute.

  Julie James

  Cute, Eye, Here I Am

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• Martin is your best friend, isn't he?' a sweet and well-intentioned girl once said when both of us were present: it was the only time I ever felt awkward about this precious idea, which seemed somehow to risk diminishment if it were uttered aloud.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Best Friend, Girl, Sweet

  Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Hitch 22: A Memoir”, p.306, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Being in the mood to write, like being in the mood to make love, is a luxury that isn't necessary in a long-term relationship. Just as the first caress can lead to a change of heart, the first sentence, however tentative and awkward, can lead to a desire to go just a little further.

  Julia Cameron

  Writing, Heart, Love Is

  Julia Cameron (1999). “The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life”, p.37, Penguin

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• Nothing is more curious and awkward than the relationship of two people who only know each other with their eyes — who meet and observe each other daily, even hourly and who keep up the impression of disinterest either because of morals or because of a mental abnormality. Between them there is listlessness and pent-up curiosity, the hysteria of an unsatisfied, unnaturally suppressed need for communion and also a kind of tense respect. Because man loves and honors man as long as he is not able to judge him, and desire is a product of lacking knowledge.

  Thomas Mann

  Eye, Men, Hysteria

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• Nudity was an inconvenient but unavoidable part of pack life. We'�d all thought nothing of it before Leah came along. Then it got awkward. - Jacob Black

  Stephenie Meyer

  Black, Nudity, Werewolf

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• The existence of other people is essentially awkward.

  Lionel Shriver

  People, Existence

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• As far as rapprochements go, it's awkward and vague, but the advantage of being as emotionally inarticulate as we are is that it will do the trick.

  Jonathan Tropper

  Advantage, Inarticulate, Tricks

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• They were involved in that awkward procedure of getting to unknow each other.

  John Irving

  Regret, Procedures, Involved

  John Irving (1978). “The world according to Garp”, Pocket

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• The problem is that it has become politically awkward to draw attention to absolutes of bad and good. In place of manners, we now have doctrines of political correctness, against which one offends at one's peril: by means of a considerable circular logic, such offences mark you as reactionary and therefore a bad person. Therefore if you say people are bad, you are bad.

  Lynne Truss

  Mean, People, Political

  "Talk to the Hand: The Utter Bloody Rudeness of the World Today, or Six Good Reasons to Stay Home and Bolt the Door". Book by Lynne Truss, 2005.

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• It's like a bear stumbling into a beehive or a honey cache: I'm stumbling right into it and getting stuck, and it's delicious and it's horrible and I'm in it and it's not very graceful and it's very awkward and it's very painful and yet there's something inevitable about it.

  Leonard Cohen

  Cache, Honey, Bears

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• It's awkward and silent as I wait for you to say, what I need to hear now, your sincere apology. When you mean it, I'll believe it, if you text it I'll delete, let's be clear. Oh, I'm not coming back, you're taking 7 steps here.

  Miley Cyrus

  Believe, Mean, Apology

  "One Day As A Lion And Dr. Dog". Interview with Alison Stewart, www.npr.org. July 22, 2008.

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• After the fire, when I'd tried to express my gratitude for their kindness to our customers, they'd been awkward, uncomfortable. My father had had to explain to me that giving thanks is not a common practice in India. 'Then how do you know if people appreciated what you did?' I'd asked. 'Do you really need to know?' my father had asked back.

  Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

  Gratitude, Kindness, Father

  Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (2007). “Queen of Dreams”, p.295, Anchor

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• Though we are incomplete, God loves us completely. Though we are imperfect, He loves us perfectly. Though we may feel lost and without compass, God's love encompasses us completely. ... He loves every one of us, even those who are flawed, rejected, awkward, sorrowful, or broken.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Broken, May, Imperfect

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• It's always awkward when someone doesn't realize you're joking and devotes thought time to what you've said. Double that when the person is wearing tinfoil.

  Maureen Johnson

  Realizing, Said, Persons

  John Green, Lauren Myracle, Maureen Johnson (2009). “Let It Snow: Three Holiday Stories”, p.23, Penguin

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• Does everyone grow the way you do?" puffed Milo when he had caught up. "Almost everyone," replied Alec, and then he stopped a moment and thought. "Now and then, though, someone does begin to grow differently. Instead of down, his feet grow up towards the sky. But we do our best to discourage awkward things like that." "What happens to them?" insisted Milo. "Oddly enough, they often grow ten times the size of everyone else," said Alec thoughtfully, "and I've heard that they walk among the stars." And with that he skipped off once again toward the waiting woods.

  Norton Juster

  Stars, Growing Up, Sky

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• There are moments when, like all of us, you get a bit self-conscious and you'd rather not be living any of your day in public. Those are the awkward times, but you've got to have fun with it.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Fun, Self, Moments

  "Benedict Cumberbatch: Code Breaker Alan Turing Was A Puzzle Himself". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. November 21, 2014.

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• I was at an all-girls' school, so there were a lot of us who were really awkward. I was this tall when I was 11, so I was really awkward and self-conscious. No one would really have wanted to be mean to me. I was too unimportant.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Girl, School, Mean

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 22, 2010.

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• When you start becoming a pop star, you think, Hold on a second, maybe my life is different now - maybe all these people that I thought of as celebrities are going to be normal, and when I walk into a room I'm going to be really cool and so is everyone else. But that's not what happens at all - I was awkward, and then I just retreated from any social engagement for about a year.

  Matthew Healy

  Stars, Thinking, Years

  "The 1975's Matt Healy on That Time Usher Mistook Him for Skrillex". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. June 27, 2016.

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• My parents, though very loving, were not what one would ever describe as outgoing and therefore when I was young I was quite shy and socially awkward. Having a camera changed all that. It gave me an excuse to go anywhere and approach anybody.

  Derek Ridgers

  Parent, Cameras, Shy

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Here's what I hadn't realized: the mother you haven't seen for almost thirty-six years isn't your mother, she's a stranger. Sharing DNA doesn't make you fast friends. This wasn't a joyous reunion. It was just awkward.

  Jodi Picoult

  Mother, Dna, Years

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• The result of this is that so-called peace propaganda is just as dishonest and intellectually disgusting as war propaganda. Like war propaganda, it concentrates on putting forward a ‘case’, obscuring the opponent’s point of view and avoiding awkward questions.

  George Orwell

  War, Views, Opponents

  George Orwell (1968). “The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell: My country right or left, 1940-1943”

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