Quotes About Embarrassment

Jess went into the loo at the far end, locked herself in, sat down, and dropped her head into her hands. She imagined the sight that must have greeted Mr. Powell when he made his unexpected return to his office. A huge brown stain on his carpet, plus several small red ones (from the pasta). Two socks, one containing pasta and one soaked with brown liquid, lying on the floor. Two shoes, probably smelly, just kicked off anywhere.

You might have thought I'd worry about him, about causing him pain or at least embarrassment. I simply didn't. I felt the kind of desperation, I think, that cancels the possibility of empathy. That makes you unkind. When I described myself as I was at that time to Daniel, I often said to him, "You wouldn't have liked me then.

All theatrical forms of movement - the 'silly walks' and pratfalls, but also the arm-swinging ('I am carefree!') and the deliberate direction-changing ('I am rouge!') - leach out of the room. Unexpected collectivity has slowly emerged in its place. Perhaps most important, embarrassment has been given up. Without their having noticed it, they're no longer embarrassed. Their speed has equalized until they're all traveling at the same rate.

As a young child, I loved the hugs and kisses, but I also remember getting to the age when they no longer felt OK. My parents would kiss me when they dropped me off at school, which was obviously embarrassing because having loving parents makes you a social pariah.

One of the most frightening things about your true nerd, for may people, is not that he's socially inept - because everybody's been there - but rather his complete lack of embarrassment about it.

The only way to amuse some people is to slip and fall on an icy pavement.

Somebody who never got over the embarrassing fact that he was born in bed with a lady.

Why are we embarrassed by silence? What comfort do we find in all the noise?

A child embarrassed by his mother," she said, "is just a child who hasn't lived long enough.

And slowly a discussion begins—as Morrie has wanted all along—about the effect of silence on human relations. Why are we embarrassed by silence? What comfort do we find in all the noise? I am not bothered by the silence. For all the noise I make with my friends, I am still not comfortable talking about my feelings in front of others—especially not classmates. I could sit in the quiet for hours if that is what the class demanded.

He had refused fancy clothes or makeup for this interview. His philosophy was that death should to be embarrassing; he was not about to powder its nose.

She wanted to melt into the ground at that moment, just hot wax into a puddle and disappear through a sewer grate. His eyes. That look. No interest. Total humiliation

Everyone was horrified at the thought of someone seeing them on the can, and yet almost no one got any thrill looking at that.

Ben invented mathematical theories that even he didn't manage to remember and wrote such bizarre tales of adventure that he ended up destroying them a week after they were finished, embarrassed at the thought that he had penned them.

Ik dankte de hemel dat er geen getuigen waren van mijn blos, die voldoende zou zijn geweest om een sigaar op een halve meter afstand te doen ontbranden.

You're dumping me while I'm taking a dump?

Robin fled the room. Back in the main lab, she stood with her back against the wall, eyes closed, gasping. Let me guess. The selkie—male? Rick's tone was politely inquisitive. The flush on Robin's face became one of embarrassment. So much for the biologist and her professional demeanor. Yes. Yes, he is. They have a knack for that. A knack for what? Flustering young women out of their wits. The Temptation of Robin Green

people who say its a long story, mean it's a stupid short one that they are too embarrassed and couldn't be bothered to tell

People who say it's a long story mean it's a stupid short one that they're too embarrassed and couldn't be bothered to tell.

Katie: People who say it's a long story mean it's a stupid short one that they're too embarrassed and couldn't be bothered to tell. Why don't you talk to him?

Kad kažu da je nešto duga pri?a, ljudi obi?no žele re?i da je pri?a kratka, ali toliko glupa da ju se stide ispri?ati.

Despite the failure of Velda Cannon's Depends, we'd had a great time.

To my embarrassment I was born in bed with a lady.

Not everything looks great on Google. Megan's meltdown on Celebrity Big Brother' is not great. A classic - but I'm embarrassed by it.