Embarrassing Quotes - Page 18

• Because I was single, there was a chance I was a homosexual. Because I went to Syracuse, wherever that was, then I was probably a Communist. Or worse, a Liberal. Because I was from Memphis, I was a subversive intent on embarrassing Ford County.

  John Grisham

  Memphis, Chance, Communist

  John Grisham (2004). “The Last Juror”, Doubleday Books

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• Alex Riley and I will be driving from live event to live event and if Ke$ha comes on it is blasted throughout the entire car and we are singing at the top of our lungs. So if you ever see A-Ry and me in a car you might catch us in an embarrassing moment of two 30-year-old grown men screaming 'You know we're Superstars.' We are who we are. DJ turn it up up up.

  The Miz

  Men, Wwe, Two

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• I read the last Harry Potter, and I cried for at least the last 70 pages. Awful! I was curled into a ball and I just kept sobbing. It was embarrassing. I was loud, and I just kept wiping tears away so I could see the page.

  Jesmyn Ward

  Tears, Balls, Potters

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• Does it seem sometimes that you are always the one to break an embarrassing silence — and always by saying something more embarrassing than the silence?

  Robert Breault

  Silence, Doe, Sometimes

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• I am a graphic artist heart and soul, though I find the term artist rather embarrassing.

  M. C. Escher

  Heart, Artist, Soul

  "On Being a Graphic Artist" by M. C. Escher, 1981.

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• Sometimes I try a Mai Tai. It's so fruity. It's a little embarrassing, but I like it.

  J. Cole

  Trying, Littles, Sometimes

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• If you look at a lot of people's careers, the first couple of movies, usually, are the most embarrassing.

  Michael Ealy

  Couple, Careers, People

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• I really am profoundly grateful just in general in my life. I've had an embarrassing amount of good fortune.

  Edie Falco

  Grateful, Fortune, Amount

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• I like pot, I enjoy pot, I like to smoke it. But, the one thing I don't like about pot is the subculture it's spawned. I think it's embarrassing and really juvenile and uncreative

  David Cross

  Weed, Thinking, Smoking

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• Most of my conscious efforts have ended in embarrassing failure.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Failure, Effort, Conscious

  "The Magic Lantern: An Autobiography". Book by Ingmar Bergman translated by Joan Tate, 1988.

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• I think there is a danger there of being mean to people and humiliating people and embarrassing people just because it might get you ratings. It is a disturbing trend.

  Bruce Nash

  Mean, Thinking, People

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• I work with really cool people, and so far I haven't been approached in any embarrassing manner when it comes to image.

  Sondre Lerche

  People, Really Cool, Havens

  "Sondre Lerche is more than 'a Bacharach-obsessed indie kid from Norway'" by Derk Richardson, www.sfgate.com. May 27, 2004.

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• My mom was a professional fitness competitor, so I go into the gym with her. I train with my dad and mother. It's embarrassing, because she's really strong.

  Booboo Stewart

  Mom, Mother, Strong

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

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• The word beauty is unavoidable … it accounts for my decision to photograph … There appeared a quality, beauty seemed the only appropriate word for it, in certain photographs, and I am compelled to live with the vocabulary of this new sight … through over many years [I] still find it embarrassing to use the word beauty, I fear I will be attacked for it, but I still believe in it.

  Robert Adams

  Believe, Vocabulary, Sight

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• I did a commercial when I was, like, 5 or 6 years old for... what was it called?... Cabbage Patch Kids! That was the first thing I ever did. Little bit embarrassing.

  Logan Lerman

  Kids, Years, Cabbage

  "Q&A: Logan Lerman Saves the Day (and D'Artagnan) in 'Musketeers'". Interview with Kevin Polowy, www.mtv.com. October 18, 2011.

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• Now that I've had a book published, it is quite validating, but a bit embarrassing.

  Jon McGregor

  Book, Bits

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• I don't have Facebook or Twitter accounts yet. Being a compulsive storyteller, I always make up for myself discouraging stories about how such accounts will get me into embarrassing and time-consuming situations.

  Etgar Keret

  Stories, Discouraging, Situation

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• Everything you listen to when you are 17 should be embarrassing, otherwise you are way too cool.

  Jessica Brown Findlay

  Way, Should, Too Cool

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

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• I don't really deal with the attention I receive to be honest. I build up a fantasy world around me that I inhabit. I cherry pick elements of literature, music, film, history and art, then weave them together to construct a fantasy reality to live in. It doesn't always work out though, I got evicted from my own fantasy once, which was quite embarrassing.

  Pete Doherty

  Art, Reality, Film History

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• I do read very, very quickly. I do process data very quickly. And so I write very quickly. And it is embarrassing because there is a conception that the things that you do quickly are not done well. I think that's probably one of the reasons I don't like the idea of prolific.

  Jackie French

  Writing, Thinking, Data

  "Jackie French, author". Sunday Profile with Monica Attard, www.abc.net.au. May 15, 2011.

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• Our job is to love people. When it hurts. When it's awkward. When it's uncool and embarrassing. Our job is to stand together, to carry the burdens of one another and to meet each other in our questions.

  Jamie Tworkowski

  Hurt, Jobs, Nursing

  Jamie Tworkowski (2015). “If You Feel Too Much DELUXE: Thoughts on Things Found and Lost and Hoped For”, p.82, Penguin

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• Every interview is as much an impression of the journalist as it is the artist or subject. You look at interviews and you see a portrait of two people. The worst thing that can happen is if you're misquoted and then that quote is misquoted. That does drive one crazy. The most embarrassing thing is when your words are misrepresented or sometimes you say something stupid and you live to regret it.

  Antony Hegarty

  Regret, Crazy, Stupid

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I feel like I'm being too Zen. I'm inhaling too much patchouli and incense. It's embarrassing.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Too Much, Incense, Patchouli

  "Jimmy Fallon Interviews Jimmy Fallon". Interview with Eric Spitznagel and Peter Yang, www.menshealth.com. December 23, 2014.

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• You know what really makes this embarrassing? The other day the president said the leaders in Iraq are 'ready to take off the training wheels.' That's what he said, 'take off the training wheels.' Then he goes out and falls off his bicycle. And they wonder why the rest of the world doesn't take us seriously.

  Jay Leno

  Fall, Iraq, Leader

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• I enjoy the fact that, as a gay man, there's relatively little pressure on me to act like a grown-up, but also I see the pitfalls that we're susceptible to, addiction, isolation, loneliness, mental illness, not to mention the embarrassing fashion choices.

  Vestal McIntyre

  Fashion, Loneliness, Gay

  Source: roosterweathervane.tumblr.com

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