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Quotes About Awkward

I didn't have a whole lot of success getting dates, I was always a bit of a geek.
~ Jim Davis
I ignored them, mostly because I had no idea what I should say and I didn't want to make the situation worse.
~ Jim Murphy
within the souls of the awkward and the overlooked often burns something radiant.
~ Jo Ann Beard
I stood up, and my pants ripped completely across the seam. It was inevitable, but for once in my life, my timing had been decent.
~ Joan Bauer
He went on to the outside door, opened it, and stepped back to let me out. Or I thought he was going to let me out. I stepped forward and he stepped sideways, and we bumped into each other again. Suddenly we were standing in the doorway, nose to nose. This time neither of us moved. We stood just there. The moment would have passed if either one of us had reacted normally. Or maybe we did react normally. It was a heck of a kiss.
~ JoAnna Carl
So far as I knew, Hallmark didn't make a "Sorry I Interrupted Your Oral Sex" card.
~ Joanna Wylde
What the hell is that?" I asked. "I mean, what are you supposed to be dressed like?" "I'm a sexy carrot." I looked at Dad and shook my head slowly. He wouldn't meet my eyes.
~ Joanna Wylde
Hey, sweet butt," he said. That broke the spell. Sweet butt? What the hell kind of guy called a girl he'd never met something like that?
~ Joanna Wylde
POKSI (Physically Okay but Socially Inept)
~ Jody Gehrman
He admitted the truth, even if it made him feel like an awkward schoolboy instead of a worldly man with a history of too many lovers. "I always wanted the chance to talk to you." The disbelief in her short laugh roused another of those unwelcome pangs in his chest. She was so convinced that she was of negligible interest.
~ Anna Campbell
Heat turned his own cheeks red. And didn't that make him a soppy sod? In London, he did a fair job of playing the man of the world. Here with Serena, he felt like the awkward schoolboy who had arrived at Torver eighteen years ago.
~ Anna Campbell
She stumbled then and Geryon caught her other arm, it was like a handful of autumn. He felt huge and wrong. When is it polite to let go someone's arm after you grab it?
~ Anne Carson
I can imagine few worse fates than walking around for the rest of one's life wearing a typo.
~ Anne Fadiman
We've all been there, right? When you meet someone personally and then you find yourself working with them professionally, it's awkward.
~ Gregory Smith
There was an assistant professor I kind of had a crush on, but I was far too awkward and far too nervous to ever say anything.
~ Lauren Stamile
I didn't actually have a prom. In Australia, we call them 'socials,' which is hilarious. I did always find them pretty awkward, because I went to an all-girls school.
~ Robin McLeavy
I don't win anything in life, you know what I mean? I was, like, the awkward kid who didn't go to prom, but I did - nobody noticed, though.
~ Jordan Gavaris
I wore some stupid brocade dress to my prom.
~ Leandra Medine
I went to my junior prom. It wasn't that fun... And I don't dance.
~ Teddy Geiger
I dropped my prompt cards in front of Josh Hartnett once and I've never recovered.
~ Miquita Oliver
I'm a basket case. Yeah, you know, I put my foot in my mouth more than I speak properly.
~ Scott Adsit
A very confused, very juvenile moment of awkward backings and bumpings followed, and everyone found himself talking to the person he least desired to. Isabella manoeuvred herself and Froggy Parker, freshman at Harvard, with whom she had once played hop-scotch, to a seat on the stairs. A humorous reference to the past was all she needed. The things Isabelle could do socially with one idea were remarkable.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
At the reception, she had introduced a man to his own wife. Twice.
~ Fannie Flagg
I do not find it easy to talk to people I don't know.
~ Fitwilliam Darcy