Quotes About Awkward

There was something uncomfortably intimate in Hadith's manner, an intimacy I was unfamiliar with.

Her excitement at finally landing this choice morsel was concealed behind her urbane talk of investment. For over a year, she would have given two of her best operatives in exchange for Zambia Crevecoeur, but the boy had been so awkward, resisting all her proud, veiled offers of employment to suffer starvation in the name of autonomy.

Verity grimaced, wondering whether she could stomach a whole evening of Barbara Eager's forced jollity

Alkan even wrote a piece for four feet, called Bombardo-Carillon, in which the player's legs are likely to get entangled during performance. (When Swiss-American pianist Rudolph Ganz was asked to perform Bombardo-Carillon with a female pianist, he declined on the grounds that he didn't know her well enough.)

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.

I'm so socially awkward. I really had to put myself out there and meet new people.

I was a nervous kid, not great socially.

Turing was fearless. He's extremely direct, which can be seen as socially awkward, and that becomes both his big obstacle but also, in many ways, his strength.

Performers often can be quite socially inept, you know? And even great comedians are like that.

'Awkward' implies both solidarity and implication. Nobody is exempt.

Nashville is a boys' club of redneck conservative ideas. But they're ready to embrace gay people. I never felt for one second that someone was judging me. Some people are like, 'Oh, I love gay people' in that 'I have lots of black friends' kind of way. It's awkward, but you have to appreciate that they're trying.

It's really hard when you break up with somebody, or somebody breaks up with you, and you're in this band; guess who you have to see in the next day in the hotel in the breakfast room? That person.

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

I don't have any fancy story, about the way we fell in love.It was that one awkward move, and the next I remember, I was looking at you.

Oh dear, Laurence said; he felt rather awkward explaining that the main attraction was the abundance of harbor prostitutes and cheap liquor. Well, a city has a great many people in it, and thus various entertainments provided in close proximity, he tried. Do you mean such as more books? Temeraire said.

everyone everywhere suddenly was to 'distance learn,' that awkward, heartless neologism

He was rather clumsy and shy and looked as if he'd spent the last ten years of his life locked up in a library - hardly the kind of man any girl your age dreams of ...

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

More clumsily,he put his arm around her and tried to hug. They were definitely amateurs at showing affection.

But I have no sex feelings about you, and I kind of feel the sleeping-together thing is just odd. So we're not doing the fairy sleep-athon of comfort anymore.

We are not cool at all. We are probably the most lame couple ever.

Whenever you're starting a new show, you have these awkward first lunches and meetings that are sort of mandatory, and everybody shows up, but nobody knows each other.

If ever you want to get rid of somebody you don't want to talk to, just mention God. They're out of there.

I either enjoy things or not. And things either make me think, or they don't. Or they mess with me, and I feel awkward.