Quotes About Awkwardness

Seventh and eighth grade? That's the worst. I think it's the lowest point of life. All I remember is painful acne and terrible clothes. And lots of getting dumped.

In California, of course, they never break up couples at dinner for fear of what might happen if someone's husband were seated next to someone else's very young girlfriend. But dinners with couples seated next to one another are always deadly dull, which is why there are almost no good dinner parties in the entire state of California.

At parties, I'll start talking and notice everyone is looking at me and feel dumb and say, 'Forget it,' and then start eating things.

Awkwardness gives me great comfort. I've never been cool, but I've felt cool. I've been in the cool place, but I wasn't really cool - I was trying to pass for hip or cool. It's the awkwardness that's nice.

She said I could come back to her room if I liked. 'I'll check if you've got testicular cancer,' she said without a trace of humour. It kind of killed the mood.

There was a long silence while they sat there staring at each other, a moment that was rudely interrupted by the sound of Max breaking wind.

I must remember the awkwardness, too, the botched gestures, the abruptness, the missed beats, because these too are signs of love.

Erano indefinibili e questo creava maggior imbarazzo.

My life is an awkward visit from the kids table.

I was a sensitive kid. I remember being really loving - and putting my head on people's shoulders when I was little until people started telling me I was weird.

I know I've said, 'Do you know what I mean?' an awful lot, and every time I've said it, I've cringed inside.

Awkward is a state of being.

I always thought I was sort of awkward and goofy-looking. I'm still kind of gangly.

I'm always awkward when someone recognizes me.

It's very awkward to watch yourself on TV because I hate the sound of my voice. It's those moments where you're like, 'I do that?'

I'm just a bit awkward, but people think I'm rude.

I think fans are going to get everything you'd expect from 'The Office', from awkwardness, to a lot of humor and heart.

I think I have a certain awkwardness, and I don't know how that works on screen.

Do I ever get questions that are rude or impertinent? Yes, but I love to use them. The audience immediately perceives the emotional awkwardness of the situation.

I think my speed and awkwardness is hard to deal with for any fighter.

Is Obama satanic?" he asked me. I was grateful for the conversation starter — I consider anything that staves off social awkwardness to be a blessing — but I couldn't lie.

For three years, all through junior high, my social death was grossly overdetermined. I had a large vocabulary, a giddily squeaking voice, horn-rimmed glasses, poor arm strength, too-obvious approval from my teachers, irresistible urges to shout unfunny puns, a near-eidetic acquaintance with J.R.R. Tolkien, a big chemistry lab in my basement, a penchant for intimately insulting any unfamiliar girl unwise enough to speak to me, and so on.

Enid and Sylvia resumed relations stiffly, their emotional muscles pulled and aching from last night's overuse.

They rode an elevator in silence. Too-precipitous intimacy had left in its wake a kind of dirty awkwardness.