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Quotes About Awkwardness

I was born in Copenhagen, and when I was a year old, we moved to Bangalore. I was always a shy person and was happy with just a few friends and that came from my own social awkwardness. I did not know how to make conversations.
~ Deepika Padukone
Once upon a time, they thought I was a sweet, wide-eyed boy that was just trying to figure out how to kiss the girl. Lots of comic relief and adolescent yearnings.
~ Ben Mendelsohn
The first temptation, upon meeting an old friend after many years, is always to - look the other way.
~ Ugo Betti
I have no idea what I'm doing. I feel like I'm just kind of hanging on right now. I feel like a kid out of control and incredibly inept." The man nodded again. "Yes, you feel like there's no holes in your bowling ball. It feels big and clumsy and awkward and you can't get a good grip on it. You can't control it.
~ Skip Coryell
Jacinda, join us. We're grilling on the back deck." "Dad, I don't think-" "I would love that," I lie. Eating with Will's dad ranks right up there with having my teeth drilled, but I have to get inside.
~ Sophie Jordan
Raramente se llega a observar la gratitud de los hombres; los agradecidos no saben por lo común cómo exteriorizarlo, se sienten cohibidos, callan avergonzados y, con harta frecuencia, desean ocultar sus sentimientos y se muestran con una extrema torpeza.
~ Stefan Zweig
You know how dreadful intelligent people are when you take them to dances.
~ Stella Gibbons
How about I kiss you so we can get past this awkwardness?
~ Stephanie Bond
Don't even tell me you're going to pull the old 'we both have to be naked' thing to warm you up, she mumbled.
~ Stephanie Rowe
Although in the past I had seen a few exchanges of genuine affection between them, the Warshaw men were awkward and ill at ease with each other.
~ Michael Chabon
He's making an attempt to look at his ease, but some men just don't know how to stand around with their hands in their pockets and look natural.
~ Michael Chabon
When she caught him staring, he would even more artlessly look down at the food on his plate with a show of puzzlement, as if he kept forgetting what supper was and how it was supposed to work.
~ Michael Chabon
Who wouldn't want to fuck these people up? Which of us does not understand, in our own less presentable depths, the demons and wizards compelled to persecute human mutations clearly meant, by deities thinking only of their own entertainment, to make almost everyone feel even lonelier and homelier, more awkward, more doubtful and blamed, than we actually are?
~ Michael Cunningham
Como marioneta dirigida por manos inexpertas, camina calle abajo dando traspiés, se le doblan las rodillas, recupera el equilibrio y prosigue su marcha vacilante.
~ Michael Ende
small talk plunged to its death around him.
~ Michael Ondaatje
In general, sincerity is awkward.
~ Alexandra Petri
I think part of the fun about walking around in ski boots is making it look as awkward as possible. I really think that's enjoyable. I don't know why.
~ Mikaela Shiffrin
I was 5' 10 when I was 14, skinny and flat, with huge feet, and I never had a boyfriend.
~ Jerry Hall
When two people were in love you had to leave them to it. Especially when you weren't in love and wished that you were. That could embarrass. That could hurt.
~ Irvine Welsh
The rooms were small and airless and cramped. To make matters worse, somebody in our group was making the most dreadful silent farts. Fortunately, it was me, so I wasn't nearly as bothered as the others.
~ Bill Bryson
So what is your star sign?' Said Mary Ellen 'Cunnilingus' Katz answered looking profoundly unhappy.
~ Bill Bryson
Eventually he made it to Buckingham Palace, where the king famously startled Lindbergh by asking him how he had peed during the flight. Lindbergh explained, a touch awkwardly, that he had brought along a pail for the purpose.
~ Bill Bryson
So what's your sign?' said Mary Ellen. 'Cunnilingus,' Katz answered and looks profoundly unhappy. She looked at him. 'I don't know that one.' She made an I'll-be-darned frown and said, 'I thought I knew them all. Mine's Libra.' She turned to me. 'What's yours?' 'I don't know.' I tried to think of something. 'Necrophilia.
~ Bill Bryson
Suddenly, this romantic agony was enriched by a less romantic one: I had to go to the bathroom. Needless to say, I couldn't let her know about this urge, for great lovers never did such things. The answer to Romeo Romeo, wherefore art thou, Romeo? was not In the men's room, Julie.
~ Bill Cosby