Awkward Quotes - Page 3

• A new constitution should be more amendable. A needlessly confusing system of courts should be altered to produce an arrangement that would be simple, responsible, and less awkward.

  Charles Edison

  Simple, Confusing, Would Be

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• If you believe that there’s a heaven and hell and people could be going to hell—or not getting eternal life or whatever—and you think that, well, it’s not really worth telling them this because it would make it socially awkward. . . . How much do you have to hate somebody to not proselytize? How much do you have to hate somebody to believe that everlasting life is possible and not tell them that?

  Penn Jillette

  Life, Faith, Hate

  "A Gift of a Bible". "Penn Says" episode 192, videolog on Crackle.com, December 9, 2008.

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• We change and it's uncomfortable. We flow for a time and then it's awkward.

  Frazey Ford

  Flow, Uncomfortable

  "Frazey Ford Interview: Finding Beauty". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• It is remarkable what fine hands men of genius write, even when they are as awkward in all other uses of the hand as a cow with a musket.

  Sara Coleridge

  Writing, Men, Hands

  Sara Coleridge Coleridge (1873). “Memoir and Letters of Sara Coleridge”, p.380

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• There are those who are awkward in the face of sorrow, fearing to say the wrong thing; to them, I say, there is no wrong in comfort, ever. A kind word, a consoling arm ... these things are ever welcome.

  Jacqueline Carey

  Sorrow, Faces, Comfort

  Jacqueline Carey (2002). “Kushiel's Dart”, p.769, Macmillan

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• I am gennerally understood tho I do not use that awkward squad of pointings called commas colons semicolons etc.

  John Clare

  Squad, Use, Etc

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• Dating is kind of hard. Like dinner or something like that. Like a forced awkward situation is very strange. Especially for me, for some reason.

  Zac Efron

  Dating, Dinner, Strange

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• I know kids are supposed to go through these awkward stages, but I just never even thought about that. I was too busy worrying about getting my education while I was working.

  Kirsten Dunst

  Kids, Worry, Busy

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• Yes, we could talk to you for days on end about all the bad first dates. Those are stories. Funny stories. Awkward stories. Stories we love to share, because by sharing them, we get something out of the hour or two we wasted on the wrong person. But that's all bad first dates are: short stories. Good first dates are more than short stories. They are first chapters. On a good first date, everything is springtime. And when a good first date becomes a relationship, the springtime lingers. Even after it's over, there can be springtime.

  David Levithan

  Two, Stories, Firsts

  David Levithan (2014). “Two Boys Kissing”, p.21, Egmont UK

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• My level of awkward makes everyone else feel normal

  Taylor Swift

  Levels, Normal, Feels

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• I don't like to fly. I've never been a good flyer. I have a lot of friends that have permanent nail marks in their arms... The moaning that comes from me when there is turbulence. It's awkward for everyone around.

  Sandra Bullock

  Nails, Lots Of Friends, Arms

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• She does not want to feel even the faintest temptation to call his mobile number, as she had done obsessively for the first year after his death so she could hear his voice on the answering service. Most days now his loss is a part of her, an awkward weight she carries around, invisible to everyone else, subtly altering the way she moves through the day. But today, the Anniversary of the day he died, is a day when all bets are off.

  Jojo Moyes

  Moving, Loss, Years

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• Hiding here, are you? That’s awkward.” “Why?” “Because I had intended to hide here myself.” “You may hide here with me, if you wish.

  Cassandra Clare

  Wish, May, Hiding

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• I want people to treat me as normally as they can. Anybody who doesn't, I feel awkward with.

  Daniel Craig

  People, Want, Treats

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• In New York and L.A., there is sort of that silent competition to be on the cutting edge of something. You end up having a conversation with how the world receives your work, especially if you are writing narrative, not fiction. Sometimes it is an awkward conversation. It's like group therapy.

  Sloane Crosley

  New York, Writing, Cutting

  "Sloane Crosley Adjusts To The Writerly Life". Interview with Shane Ferro, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 22, 2011.

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• Great endowments often announce themselves in youth in the form of singularity and awkwardness.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Time, Youth, Form

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Parke Godwin (1848). “The Auto-biography of Goethe: Truth and Poetry: from My Own Life”, p.59

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• For TV you also get those pre-interviews when researchers ask you what you're going to say. The pre-interview drives me insane. If they've already decided the outcome, why don't I just hand in an essay? Maybe if we talk we'll find something out. I'd rather just have an awkward pause.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Hands, Insane, Outcomes

  "Jarvis Cocker: the iceman cometh". Interview with Lucy Siegle, www.theguardian.com. June 2, 2012.

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• It's something we, guys, have all done. Made tapes for girls, trying to impress them, to meet them on a shared plane of aesthetics. Read them someone else's poetry because they do poetry better than you could do it, because you're too awkward to do it.

  John Cusack

  Girl, Guy, Trying

  "Being John Cusack". Interview with Suzie Mackenzie, www.theguardian.com. July 1, 2000.

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• It's kind of awkward to eat alone in a restaurant because everybody's looking at me.

  Louis C. K.

  Kind, Restaurants

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• I find it really awkward to do a scene where I'm supposed to seem like I'm in love.

  Lena Dunham

  Scene, Seems

  "Lena Dunham's 'Girls': Still Sex, Still The City, Different Show". "All Things Considered" with Laura Sullivan, www.npr.org. April 8, 2012.

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