Embarrassing Quotes - Page 16

• The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always.

  Arthur Miller

  Writing, Best Work, Verge

  Richard Isadore Evans, Arthur Miller (1969). “Psychology and Arthur Miller”, Praeger Publishers

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• Plus it's just embarrassing when someone - oops.' She pressed a hand to her side, and had the blood draining out of Harper's face. 'What? What?' 'Nothing. baby's moving around. Sometimes it gives me a jolt is all.' 'You should stand up. You should sit down.

  Nora Roberts

  Baby, Moving, Blood

  Nora Roberts (2011). “Nora Roberts' In the Garden Trilogy”, p.150, Penguin

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• And she looks at me with her eyes open wide and a face that says: Oh my God, I'm muckin' around in my sexy Jesus-boots, in my crazy dreamworld, and I've opened the door and let you in on my crazy dreamworld and that's so embarrassing but, actually, who cares? because it's funny.

  Jaclyn Moriarty

  Sexy, Jesus, Crazy

  Jaclyn Moriarty (2010). “The Ghosts Of Ashbury High”, p.2, Scholastic Inc.

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• It's a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.

  Aldous Huxley

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Years

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• I still get a little nervous when talking to girls. Which is awful, and embarrassing, because I feel like I shouldn't.

  Josh Hutcherson

  Girl, Talking, Littles

  "Get to Know Fall's Hot Guys!" by Neha Gandhi, www.seventeen.com. September 19, 2011.

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• I want you to know, chickens aren’t sexy. Not to me.” This was met with silence. “Are you there?” She was slurring her words now, which was embarrassing, so she took a deep breath. “Cam? Can you hear me?” “Yes, chickens aren’t sexy. Uh…I don’t think they’re meant to be.

  Jill Shalvis

  Sexy, Thinking, Silence

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• When I was playing before I retired, I never really understood the appreciation and the respect that people gave me. People had treated me like a god or something, and that was very embarrassing.

  Michael Jordan

  Appreciation, People, Retired

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• I don't read music, which is a shame, actually, and I shouldn't even speak of it because it's embarrassing, but it's true.

  Susanna Hoffs

  Speak, Shame

  "Sweetheart Of The Sun & Modern Art : Chatting With The Bangles’ Susanna Hoffs and Matthew Sweet". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 26, 2011.

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• You can do this" I murmured. "You are my brother. I love you. All the embarrassing bits, all the annoying bits, which I imagine is most of you--a thousand Zias might run away from you if they knew the truth. But I won't. I'll still be here.

  Rick Riordan

  Running, Brother, Love You

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• I am a professional transvestite, so I can run about in heels and not fall over.

  Eddie Izzard

  Running, Fall, Causes

  "Eddie Izzard: Dress to Kill", www.imdb.com. 1999.

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• I think if you like somebody you have to tell them. It might be embarrassing to say it, but you will never regret stepping up. I know from personal experience, however, that you should not keep telling a girl that you like her after she tells you she isn't into it. You should not keep riding your bike by her house either.

  Donald Miller

  Girl, Regret, Thinking

  Donald Miller (2007). “Miller 3-in-1: Blue Like Jazz, Through Painted Deserts, Searching for God”, p.82, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• It was strange and amusing...and, honestly, a bit embarrassing...to realize how much being near Bella had softened me. It seemed like no one was afraid of me any more. If Emmett found out about this, he would be laughing for the next century.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Laughing, Would Be, Next

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• The internet makes it much easier for politicians to communicate directly with voters - think of the interest when David [Cameron] launched WebCameron, or Tony Blair's rather embarrassing attempt to catch up on YouTube.

  Theresa May

  Thinking, Voters, Internet

  Source: conservativehome.blogs.com

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• [A] great embarrassing fact… haunts all attempts to represent the market as the highest form of human freedom: that historically, impersonal, commercial markets originate in theft.

  David Graeber

  Facts, Form, Theft

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• You think you're going to be on TV a year out of college and you're not. Then you tell people and it's embarrassing. And then it's not a big deal at all.

  Nick Kroll

  College, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Somehow Jesus's reputation has survived all the embarrassing things that Christians have done in his name.

  Shane Claiborne

  Christian, Jesus, Names

  "Interview with Shane Claiborne on Common Prayer". www.readthespirit.com. 2012.

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• For three years, I had embarrassing haircuts.

  Chris Hemsworth

  Years, Three, Haircuts

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• This is embarrassing and personal, but once a month, since I was twelve years old, I go to my favorite jewelry store and try on my dream ring.

  Jennifer Love Hewitt

  Dream, Years, Trying

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• A woman, if you're Most Intelligent or Most Likely to Succeed, that's an embarrassing thing. Or something that's not considered attractive, and I think that's what we need to change.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Intelligent, Thinking, Needs

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• The heartbreak of runaway corruption, abuse of power and indefensible criminality by our government and media should, must inspire all good we-the-people Americans to wake the hell up from the embarrassing curse of apathy and start demanding constitutional accountability from our elected employees. How radically non-sheep of me.

  Ted Nugent

  Heart, Media, Sheep

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• It’s the way he had a cup of tea waiting for me when I woke up. It’s the way he turned on his laptop especially for me to look up all my Internet horoscopes and helped me choose the best one. He knows all the crappy, embarrassing bits about me that I normally try to hide from any man for as long as possible… and he loves me anyway.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Men, Long, Waiting

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• Although adults have a role to play in teaching social skills to children, it is often best that they play it unobtrusively. In particular, adults must guard against embarrassing unskilled children by correcting them too publicly and against labeling children as shy in ways that may lead the children to see themselves in just that way.

  Zick Rubin

  Children, Teaching, Play

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• The thing that drives me nuts is when I get stopped in a crowded place, and they look at me and say, 'Who are you?' I don't know if they're friends or fans, and I say, 'I'm Annabella Sciorra', and they say, 'What have you done?' So I start to give them my resume. It's so embarrassing.

  Annabella Sciorra

  Nuts, Giving, Looks

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Well, Harry Reid and other members of congress, they're just furious over this Olympic uniform deal. He says we should burn the uniforms, and it's an embarrassment and a disgrace. Not as embarrassing as congress constantly borrowing money from the Chinese, but still embarrassing.

  Jay Leno

  Funny, London Olympics, Chinese

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• Olympic officials have disqualified a champion race walker after determining that he was doping. They disqualified him. The man said getting caught doping is almost as embarrassing as getting caught being a champion race walker.

  Conan O'Brien

  Funny, Men, Race

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