Quotes About Awkwardness

I dread handshakes. I've got some problems with my hands, and everywhere I go, people want to impress me with their grip. To make it worse, now women are coming up with that firm shake.

I was like this weird, edgy 10-year-old. I was figuring out who I was, obviously at the worst time. I had braces and bangs, and it was a nightmare.

The worst is when you bomb and when you bomb in front of someone you're trying to impress. That's the worst.

Performers like Tommy Cooper, who are always getting things wrong, are much more endearing than comedians who are sassy and smart.

Edward Heath and Richard Nixon took personal awkwardness with each other to new and excruciating levels.

It's painful for me to watch someone who isn't funny. It's horrifying to sit in the back and watch some guy who just totally sucks.

I cannot hardly speak to myself let alone to him. I feel the world is against me and at the same time I feel miserably at odds with everything. I have the awkward sense that if I open my mouth people will know me for the villain I am. At the same time, or in the next breath, tears keep surging up into my eyes, tears of some righteousness, because my mind keeps rising to righteousness. All in all I am like a ragged wind in a tangled hedge.

A man you've had to conceal in some unsatisfactory hiding place, who then begins to snore.

It took real talent to be that inept.

THE SPECIALISTS MODEL SPY: "Sorry," David mumbles right before crushing his mouth to mine. Oh my God, I'm sixteen, and I've never been kissed. Please let me be doing this right. Except . . . this is it? This is about as exciting as kissing my laptop.

Well, hell," muttered Drake. "Do you do that to all the human women?" "No. Usually they've already started taking off their clothes by now. She's beginning to hurt my feelings." "We need to get you a paper bag or a giant scar or something." "Yeah," said the man, his tone dry. "I'll get right to work on that

foot-in-mouth disease

Who am I kidding? What am I going to do with a girl like her?" "We had this talk when we were fourteen. I even brought my brother's Hustler for visual assistance.

I want to awkwardly hug you.

The first time my mom found condoms in my room, she literally started crying hysterically.

Robert had laughed, looking endearingly handsome and at ease in this very uncomfortable situation.

still found it difficult to look him in the face. She smiled vaguely in the direction of

Dammit, I gotta go," Clint rasped. He slid off the bed, and faltered. His gown bunched at the waist and Greer looked away, but not before glimpsing something she knew she could never unsee.

An hour? What do you do with a dead person for an hour? Mom had been sick for a long time; we'd done our grieving and crying and saying goodbye. It was like being served a slice of pie you didn't want to eat. We felt it would be rude to leave, after all the trouble they'd gone to.

we are also creatures with a fear of approaching others because we are afraid of the unknown and cannot totally predict how a stranger will respond to our approach, or to the first words that pour out of our mouths. This oxymoronic fact made me wonder why and how can we get past this strange awkwardness or discomfort. After

Don't get stabbed. It makes everything awkward.

He's been in love with Miss Gina since high school, but he doesn't really know how to talk to girls, so he's just been...staying around her since then. He just tends to go where she goes. Isn't that stalking? Jazza said. Legally, no, I replied. I asked my parents this when I was little. What he does is creepy and socially awkward, but it's not actually stalking.

Unlike before, when everyone was listening, now there was a dance breaking out and David was doing this weird smirk and Janelle, Vi, and Nate looked vaguely uncomfortable. You know when your moment is over.

In summer a young rooster's fancy turns to…how can I say this delicately? The most ham-fisted attempts at courtship I've ever had to watch. (And yes, I'm including high school.)