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Quotes About Embarrassment

It went okay. Kaye shifted her eyes to one side and shrugged. Rachel Browning tried to pull down my shorts. Did she succeed? Cross asked. Got them down to my curlies, Kaye said. The young men looked ready to appear shocked, should Cross be. Cross laughed. Jesus, Kaye. I never know what I'm going to hear from you. You drive my PR folks nuts.
~ Greg Bear
You smell bad," Riser observed. "I want to piss my pants," I said. "Me, too," Riser said. "Let's not and say we did.
~ Greg Bear
But what refuses to leave my mind is the image of Drew and Kate making love before the camera. Mia viewed that photograph with me and felt no embarrassment at all. On the contrary, she wants to experience the same intensity she saw there with me. More than that, she's telling me beforehand that I'll have no obligation to her. Evolutionary nirvana, Caitlin called it. God, was she right.
~ Greg Iles
I felt myself reddening slightly, not from embarrassment, but from shame, that she'd said so easily the very words, I like you, that I wouldn't let myself say to her.
~ Gregory David Roberts
Such silly things, children -- and so embarrassing -- because they keep changing themselves out of shame, out of a need to be loved or something. While animals are born who they are, accept it, and that is that. They live with greater peace than people do.
~ Gregory Maguire
I've worn a 100% polyester cheerleading outfit in stadiums full of people - it is pretty hard to embarrass me.
~ Jonathan Van Ness
I shop once in six months. My friends often point at my shoes to tell me that they've worn out. It's embarrassing, but it doesn't affect me too much. I shop when I have to.
~ Mithila Palkar
A lot of older parents worry about being older parents. I hear people say, 'I don't want to be too old to play baseball with my son.' They worry that their kids will be embarrassed by their parents' age.
~ Penn Jillette
There's nothing worse than trying to be funny and not being funny.
~ Neal Brennan
If something can be said to make an awkward moment even worse, I'm going to say it.
~ Carrie Underwood
The worst is when you bomb and when you bomb in front of someone you're trying to impress. That's the worst.
~ Ari Shaffir
Visitors to a future Donald J. Trump presidential library may find a whole section dedicated to his demolition of the 2015 Iran nuclear accord: 'worst deal ever;' 'horrible' and 'one-sided;' 'major embarrassment;' 'defective at its core.'
~ Antony Blinken
The worst was when my skirt fell down to my ankles, but I had on thick tights underneath.
~ Naomi Campbell
I fell off stage and bruised some ribs. The worst part was that the audience didn't realize I was gone.
~ Richard Marx
The worst thing that ever happened to me on stage is someone ran forward to tell me they loved me and projectile vomited all over the stage. It was horrible.
~ Joan Rivers
People bursting into song in unison and then pointing it at me is maybe the worst thing I can think of, never mind that you have to pay good money to go be yelled/danced at.
~ Mary H.K. Choi
I have a huge author crush on Stephen King. Have never met him. Would probably embarrass myself. But it would be worth it.
~ Lisa Gardner
Have you ever gotten the feeling that you aren't completely embarassed yet, but you glimpse tomorrow's embarrassment?
~ Tom Cruise
I've been having this really weird anxiety dream about arriving too late or too early, and the people in charge are like, 'You have to leave! You have to go back to the hotel and get ready!' And I use the wrong exit, and I'm running down the red carpet in pyjamas, like, 'No! Don't look at me!'
~ Florence Welch
I've long believed that if you're not embarrassed by your first product release, you've released too late.
~ Reid Hoffman
It's an embarrassment that we don't have a broad enough consensus among political leaders that true reform should take place. I could count the members of Congress on one hand that took these issues seriously.
~ DeForest Soaries
I was in a fashion show and I had on a strapless top. When I got to the end the top was down.
~ Adriana Lima
More likely it was boxed in a closet after his death, an enduring embarrassment like a dead minister's porn stash or an old soldier's necklace of dried ears or collection of Nazi paraphernalia.
~ Sean Tejaratchi
For the church as we know it is a tragically dysfunctional family, in which some children are starving while others have food stashed in their closets. Some of us are living on the street while others have empty rooms in our homes. And, of course, there are all sorts of things being done that bring great dishonor and embarrassment to the family name.
~ Shane Claiborne