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Quotes About Awkwardness

I have to say it's a bit traumatic at times, not knowing when the next penis will appear.
~ Melina Marchetta
If the munchkin, whose face I used to wash, tries to explain to us what a sixty-niner is, I'm going to report myself to child protection.
~ Melina Marchetta
The moment he sees a glimpse of underwear, he will be officially in Sicko Land and he will be forced to make some kind of noise. Flushing, coughing, heavy footsteps. Talk to himself out loud. The moment he sees anything that in anyway will be considered a sexual act between. . . "Stani, the bins are done!" he yells out.
~ Melina Marchetta
Having boys around camp is hard. You have to be on the alert. Boys, for example, like exposing themselves. They walk back from the shower blocks with their towels around them, and the next minute either someone flashes at you, or one of his friends grabs his towel off him and makes a run for it. I have to say it's a bit traumatic at times, not knowing when the next penis will appear.
~ Melina Marchetta
armed, Crosetti found, felt a lot like having a broken zipper on your fly, something that made you feel self-conscious and
~ Michael Gruber
For between them, ex-husband and wife, some unspoken body of love has been laid to rest, and they stand awkwardly next to it now, regarding it in its coffin.
~ Michael Paterniti
You know its going to be a bad day when you are having a prostate examination and you feel both of your doctor's hands on your shoulders!
~ Michael Robotham
At school I was very shy. I wasn't funny really.
~ Michel Gondry
Excuse me, but where do you think you're going?" I asked. "I figured I'd put my underwear in with yours. That way they could all get to know each other." One brown eyebrow lifted. "Unless you want to make some formal introductions right now?
~ Michele Bardsley
Those dudes are hot," announced Tamara. Both Lor and Patrick shut up and turned to stare at her. Damian looked up and grinned wolfishly. My daughter's face went bright red. She drew the sheet over her head, muttering, "You can stake me now.
~ Michele Bardsley
For heaven's sake, if you don't know someone's name, just pretend you do. Do that thing everyone else does, where you vaguely say, "Nice to see you!" and make weak eye contact.
~ Mindy Kaling
Our Klutz clangs into Stop signs while riding a bike, and knocks over giant displays of expensive fine china. Despite being five foot nine and weighing 110 pounds, she is basically like a drunk buffalo who has never been a part of human society. But Fred Tom loves her anyway.
~ Mindy Kaling
He tried to press the machine into my hands, but I stepped back. He was getting too close, and besides, I didn't know what this meant. Was he trying to sell me the machine? Was he giving it to me? I had heard that in America, if a girl accepted a ring from a boy, it meant she would marry him. What about accepting a tape-playing machine? Did it mean I might have to dance with him?
~ Unknown
Dac? m? simÈ›eam privit de cineva, paÈ™ii mei deveneau stângaci È™i automaÈ›i, ca È™i când mi-ar fi fost permanent team? c? nu voi mai È™ti cum se merge È™i c? dintr-un moment într-altul m? voi pr?buÈ™i pe asfalt.
~ Unknown
But there is a kindness here, a complicated kindness. You can see it sometimes in the eyes of people when they look at you and don't know what to say.
~ Miriam Toews
I'd known Charlize since the mid-1990s, when she dated a friend of mine, and I'd met John recently. They were both very tall and they looked slightly awkward, like hyper-attractive praying mantises, folded into two of the small plastic chairs next to the picnic table.
~ Moby
her books are shot through with painful parties and awkwardly inane dining-table conversation,
~ Unknown
That man makes me feel like I have my bonnet on backwards.
~ Nancy E. Turner
Look, do you know what I need right now?" "What?" I put my hand at that place at the back of his neck where his hair is short, soft bristles and pulled him toward me. And because it was easy, I guess, or familiar or just because it put an end to the awkwardness, he kissed me back. He smelled exactly like I remembered, maybe even better. And we fell to doing other easy, familiar, forbidden things.
~ Naomi Alderman
Men lose more conquests by their own awkwardness than by any virtue in the woman.
~ Ninon de L'Enclos
Nobody was listening when I learned how to play music. But there's something about being on stage, talking to the audience, looking at them and smiling, that's always been difficult for me. I'm a lot more comfortable now, but there are still moments of awkwardness.
~ Norah Jones
I hate it. It looks like a stickup at 7-Eleven. Five guys standing there with their hands in the air.
~ Norm Sloan
There is nothing quite as painful as a truly awkward silence.
~ Obert Skye
I was afraid to go into a restaurant because I was intimidated by the waiters furtively hovering behind me waiting for my plate to be emptied. Most of all I dreaded paying a bill-my awkwardness when I handed over the money after buying something did not arise from my stinginess, but from excessive tension, excessive embarrassment, excessive uneasiness and apprehension.
~ Osamu Dazai