Quotes About Awkwardness

He gave her his phone number, in a peculiar reversal of dating procedure. She might have considered kissing him, even after the horrible first date, but he just didn't seem to know what to do. However, Jeremy does have one outstanding quality. He likes her. And this quality in a person makes them infinitely interesting to the person who is being liked.

introductions are hard to come by when your natural state is shyness

She has simply never quite learned to walk or hold herself comfortably

The conversation at dinner hadn't been successful either; it bore the marks of an old married couple who had very little left to say to each other.

She has simply never quite learned to walk or hold herself comfortably, which makes her come off as an attractive wallflower.

shoeburyness n. The vague uncomfortable feeling you get when sitting on a seat which is still warm from someone else's bottom.

An empty silence descends upon them. How the hell is this supposed to work, anyway? People meet people every day. They talk, they go out, they kiss, they fuck, they fall in love, they make families, and all because they managed to push past any initial introversion and awkwardness to make contact. He wishes they were drunk.

I'll probably just stand in a corner, trying not to be noticed, until the decoration committee accidentally packs me into a box at the end of the night. There I will lie, crammed in between rolls of crepe paper, until the New Year's dance two months from now. Jeffrey thought about this for a moment and said, Won't they notice the box is too heavy when they go to put it away?

Not, like, that, boychik, you sound like a herd of elephants charging through a music store.

Did she want me to kiss her? How weird was this going to be? Should it be like a real kiss, with passion and stuff? Or more of an experimental, pecking kind of deal?

my little blurb wasn't going to win me any speaker-of-the-year awards, but at least I hadn't tripped and fallen off the stage, crushing and killing three elderly jazz fans.

Iest?j?s klusums. It k? starp jums b?tu nost?jies nel?gts apnikums. Tu redz?ji, ka ar? vi?š nož?lo, ka uzaicin?jis tevi.

At the end of the day, I was still a virgin, all alone in a dark room, humping a lubed-up robot.

Og gave the Sega Ninja cabinet an awkward pat, as if it were an unfamiliar Labrador. Then he shoved both his hands into his pockets and grinned at me like a lovestruck idiot. He looked as if his pupils might change into cartoon hearts at any second.

Where are the others?" I asked. "They all snuck off to bone each other," Milo announced. "Whoadie and Chén slipped away first, then Debbie snuck off with Graham." I had no idea how to respond to this information.

Fear is not to be dismissed. A moment of fear is actually a message that we are in a new and unfamiliar place within the network of interdependence. Fear is the awkwardness of stepping into a new neighborhood of our mind. Dismissing it actually keeps us comfortable for even less time than a poorly made pair of expensive sneakers. But if we let it in, something new and unexpected is bound to happen.

Even if it's just a tiny flicker of awkwardness, there will always be fear, every moment, as long as there are beings who live in a network of change and interdependence. To be a being inherently implies change and interdependence ; these are the true brands of our existence. Getting connected necessarily means experiencing fear.

There's something about being rejected - when I go out without my friends, I'm reminded of how I'm actually quite antisocial. I don't look like a guy who feels like that, but it's very hard for me to start up a conversation. At a party, I'm lost.

All religions throughout history have been concerned about - and have sometimes fought over - what it means to represent God, and they have found elegant, intriguing, and awkward ways to confront that dilemma.

It's kind of an embarrassing story - that's why it's called 'The Idiot.' But looking back at your past self, you see that this person had reasons for everything she did. There's a whole lot of awkwardness, but really, what should one be embarrassed about?

I don't watch 'American Idol' - that'd be like getting divorced from somebody and then hanging out with them.

Horrible dates are when you're with people who are immature and can't really be comfortable in their own skin.

I'm very bad with improvisation. I hate it.

I do bits about dating but mainly about what I did and how incompetent I am, not any genuine people writing to me.