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Quotes About Awkward

What's the worst thing you can hear while you're blowing Willie Nelson? "I'm not really Willie Nelson.
~ David Sedaris
we want to avoid creating a "time bomb"—something that sits around unnoticed and blows up at an awkward moment later in the project. By emphasizing testing against contract, we can try to avoid as many of those downstream disasters as possible.
~ David Thomas
With me he [Lamin] would wait till I finished each sentence, and leave long gaps of silence before he replied, silences I came to think of as conversational graveyards, where anything awkward or unpleasant I might have presented to him was sent to be buried.
~ Zadie Smith
I live in dread of being asked to clap along to music in a public place.
~ Zoë Heller
Can broadcasters please be a little bit more careful in choosing the adverts that they show at half-time in televised football matches? Watching in a crowded pub I, like many other customers, took advantage of the break to visit the men's room and found myself wedged between two complete strangers. Our discomfort wasn't eased when the paper-thin walls failed to muffle a loud chorus of "Go Compare". Clive Pilley Westcliff-on-Sea, Esssex
~ Unknown
rather than hanging around like a fart under a duvet.
~ Ian Rankin
He is very dry but also very funny... I think people tend to feel odd when I do my act. Unless you are an ironic person, it's not a good place for you to be.
~ Colin Quinn
He had shit for timing, Aidan knew it. Shit for timing and he had no charm to speak of. When
~ Unknown
I've always played some version of a nerdy guy or something like that. I mean, one of my story lines on 'Silicon Valley' is that I am very bad with women!
~ Kumail Nanjiani
It's easier to think of you as an adversary." Devon smiled faintly. "That puts us in an awkward situation, then, as I've decided against selling the estate." Kathleen was too astonished to reply. She couldn't believe it. Had she heard him correctly? "Eversby Priory's situation is so desperate," Devon continued, "that few men could conceivably make it worse. Of course, I'm probably one of them.
~ Lisa Kleypas
You have no sympathy for Theo because you didn't like him," she said awkwardly, "but--" "I haven't yet decided whether I like you either. That doesn't change my opinion of the situation.
~ Lisa Kleypas
She felt awkward and stiff at most gatherings, although Ross's mother assured her that she would feel more comfortable as time passed. She found it somewhat easier to mix with "second-tier" sorts, such as Sir Grant and his wife, Victoria, and the crowd of professionals who were not nearly as rarefied as those in the first circles. These people were far less pretentious, and far more aware of ordinary matters like the cost of bread and the concerns of the poor.
~ Lisa Kleypas
I went out with this one guy. I was very excited about it. He took me out to dinner; he made me laugh; he made me pay. He's like, "Oh, I'm sorry. I forgot my wallet." "Really? I forgot my vagina."
~ Unknown
Whoa dude. My belt came undone when you said that.
~ Unknown
Humor will relieve an awkward moment.
~ Loretta Chase
All in all, the next minutes surely ranked among the most calamitously awkward of Ronans life.
~ Jill Mansell
Oh good Lord. She definitely hadn't put on enough deodorant for this.
~ Jill Shalvis
They took the elevator up with another couple who were lip locked for the entire ride. And not just lip locked but hand and leg locked too, really going to town, running their hands over each other like they were searching for ticks.
~ Jill Shalvis
Her gaze ran over him. "You're… in just your undies." "Yes, that's what happens when you don't knock." She gave him a long once-over. "You grew up right nicely, Knox.
~ Jill Shalvis
You told everyone when I locked myself out last week. I fielded calls on that one all day long." "Yes, well, that's because you were wearing only your towel, which you dropped when you climbed in the window, mooning Mr. Kletzy across the street. Word is he hadn't seen a naked woman in fifty years. He's now requesting that next time you lose your towel at high noon because the light is better.
~ Jill Shalvis
We had reached the doors to my suite, which still felt awkward to say, even in my own head. My suite. Guys like me don't have suites. We have lairs.
~ Jim Butcher
They reminded me of the cartoon I'd seen where one earthworm says to the other at a party, "Don't look now but Harry's been flirting with the wrong end of Sylvia for the last fifteen minutes.
~ Joanna Campbell Slan
Here's what I hadn't realized: the mother you haven't seen for almost thirty-six years isn't your mother, she's a stranger. Sharing DNA doesn't make you fast friends. This wasn't a joyous reunion. It was just awkward.
~ Jodi Picoult
Edward: Wait--you were trying to hit on me? Susan: Damn straight. Edward: The thing is, I'm not. Straight, I mean.
~ Jodi Picoult