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Quotes About Awkward

I'm super shy, especially at parties.
~ Sara Gilbert
If you're OK with being clumsy, it's funny. But if you are super embarrassed, people are going to laugh at you.
~ Leo Howard
You can let the size of the crowd, when you do Super Bowl, overwhelm you if you want, and that opening on camera is one of the most intense, awkward feelings you can ever have.
~ Joe Buck
Are you sought out at parties? No. Sorted out sometimes, and then slung out.
~ Ray Galton & Alan Simpson
He felt awkward because she was going to murder him.
~ Joseph Heller
Okay. So...serious wedgie...
~ Joss Whedon
We can't be direct, so we end up saying the weirdest things.
~ Wallace Shawn
The last time you gave me 'Hightower detail' he caught me with his underwear in my hands." "I'm sorry I missed that." Nicole's voice rang with suppressed laughter. "We're all sorry we missed that," Deirdre added. "I can't tell you how much I wish I'd missed that," Maddie said drily.
~ Wendy Wax
You should have been in Atlanta right after she got her iPhone and texted all of us her plans to 'masterbate penis primavera,'" Kyra said, unsnapping Dustin's bib and scooping him up out of the high chair. Chase snorted with laughter. Maddie could see the curve of Troy's smile beneath the camera. "It seems clear that people over forty should not be allowed to text,
~ Wendy Wax
but one of the things that drew me to science fiction and then into fantasy was how it rewarded me for using my imagination. And it wasn't just using my imagination to picture myself on a space station or riding a dragon;* it was using my imagination to visualize and believe in a world where the things that made me weird and awkward would actually make me cool and valuable.
~ Wil Wheaton
They sat in an awkward, embarrassed silence for a moment, the way Englishmen are apt to do after sharing private thoughts.
~ Daniel Silva
If the goal of science is to make us feel awkward and ignorant in the presence of things we once understood perfectly well, then psychology has succeeded above all others.
~ Daniel Todd Gilbert
To an adolescent, there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent.
~ Dave Barry
As you get older; you've probably noticed that you tend to forget things. You'll be talking with somebody at a party, and you'll know that you know this person, but no matter how hard you try, you can't remember his or her name. This can be very embarassing, especially if he or she turns out to be your spouse.
~ Dave Barry
LEO: We're the last to leave. BARKEEP: Ahuhrumhuh...koff, koff, humn... LEO: Do you think he wants us to leave? KAREN: No, no, probably just a bit of sarcasm gone down the wrong way.
~ Dave McKean
All Sera could do was shake her head. "Please understand, Dak. The only reason the older me is walking so close to the older you is because there's not a whole lot else to choose from." "Whatever you say," Dak told her. "Come here, let's hook our arms together and see if it's a good fit." "Gross," Sera said. "I'd rather make out with my dog.
~ James Dashner
Can I come in? No! I'm in a towel! I'm blind!
~ James Patterson
Can I come in? No! I'm in a towel! I'm blind!
~ James Patterson
You have the singular ability to turn up exactly where you are most unwanted." She
~ James Swallow
It seemed the best thing was just to come right out and say it. You know, I said, I'm really not attracted to you. I mean, not that- Isn't that interesting, he said coolly. I'm really not attracted to you, either. But- You were there.
~ Donna Tartt
Angrily, I concentrated on her flaws, willfully studying the photographs that caught her at awkward ages and less flattering angles - long nose, thin cheeks, her eyes (despite their heartbreaking color) naked-looking with their pale lashes - Huck-Finn plain. Yet all these aspects were - to me - so tender and particular they moved to despair.
~ Donna Tartt
What'll Geoffrey do when you pull off your First, my child? demanded Miss Haydock. Well, Eve -- it will be awkward if I do that. Poor lamb! I shall have to make him believe I only did it by looking fragile and pathetic at the viva.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
The seat received him in a loose and distant kind of way, like an aunt who disapproves of the last fifteen years of your life and will therefore furnish you with a basic sherry, but refuses to catch your eye.
~ Douglas Adams
Well, you look well on it.' `I feel well. You look well.' `I'm well. I'm very well.' `Well, that's good.' `Yes.' `Good.' `Good.' `Nice of you to drop in.' `Thanks.' `Well,' said Arthur, casting around himself. Astounding how hard it was to think of anything to say to someone after all this time.
~ Douglas Adams