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Quotes About Awkward

This is not a date; this is an audition for a play about a terrible date.
~ Jami Attenberg
Do you happen to remember me, young man?' asked the archbishop kindly, surprisingly speaking in French instead of Latin. 'No, Monseigneur, I cannot honestly say that I do,' replied Arn with embarrassment, looking at the ground.
~ Jan Guillou
Is this what it's like for you—you walk in on naked people?" he asked. "The kind of people who you never, ever want to see naked in the first place?" "It happens more often than you'd think," I said. "No wonder you shoot people and blow up things," he said. "That is no way to live.
~ Jana Deleon
Dating is just awkward moments and one person wants more than the other. It's just that constant strangeness. I think it's a very real thing.
~ Jason Schwartzman
My heart pounding, I tried to follow what I saw the others doing. It did not seem difficult, though I managed to step on the troll's feet several times. Luckily, he did not try to converse with me. It was not long before he led me off the dance floor and then left me. Relieved, I hoped he would pass along the word that the troll lady in the colorless dress had two left feet.
~ Edith Pattou
He was as inexpressive as he is to-day, and yet oddly obtrusive: one of those uncomfortable presences whose silence is an interruption.
~ Edith Wharton
Mary that that 'swift return' was going a bit far. She glanced nervously at the coffin, as if Eleanor might fling off the lid and hop out any moment, throwing open her arms to embrace the word, with the awkward theatricality of the photograph on the order service.
~ Edward St. Aubyn
Imagínate que a ella le vino su primer período en mi casa. A ese nivel de intimidad, puh galla.
~ Alberto Fuguet
I hate first dates. I made the mistake of telling my date a lie about myself, and she caught me. I didn't think she'd actually demand to see the bat cave.
~ Alex Reed
That politics is showbusiness for ugly people is well known – what's less understood is that it is high society for the socially awkward.
~ Alexander Bell
The most embarrassing thing a human being can experience is when they spam a sentence and accidently say ''v'' whilst attempting to paste the sentance.
~ Alexis Loera
Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle of his freedom from responsibility and must therefore reckon with the most vehement resistance.
~ Alfred Adler
When we were at the CMT Awards this year, Robert Plant was there. What an icon, I love him... But I can't go up and speak to him, because I don't want to seem like a goob.
~ Jennifer Nettles
Well, sometimes if I go out to dinner with my family, people will come up to me and put their hand across my plate for me to shake, sometimes when I have a bite of food in my mouth. I find this a bit disturbing.
~ Abdul Qadeer Khan
I'm not a big fan of guitar face: you know, when someone's playing guitar, and they make this really embarrassing face, like they smush their lips together and... they look you in the eye, and it's really humiliating.
~ Lucas Till
I was a very clumsy Jewish kid.
~ William Klein
People who know me know that I am very clumsy, always fumbling, and I talk rubbish most of the times.
~ Dimple Kapadia
I am so clumsy! Like I fall off of bicycles.
~ Leigh Bardugo
I find it really awkward to go to dinner on a first date. I like to go to a comfortable, loungy place or do something fun, like bowling or a concert.
~ Whitney Port
Once, after I had just worked out, I hopped on the elevator at the gym only to look up and see Conan O'Brien on it with me. I was so sad. I was all sweaty, but I love him so much, and I couldn't help but nerd out on him.
~ Ashlan Gorse Cousteau
I met Bon Jovi on the way to Washington, D.C. I think I called him Jon Jovi. Ugghhhh. I just smiled and pretended it didn't happen. I love him and his wife; they're so sweet. I was very nervous.
~ Tamron Hall
After a while, there was one of those awkward, off-romantic moments. "It's not my age, is it?" he said, earnestly. He was seventy-four. "No, no," I said, "I guess I'm just neurotic." That seemed all right.
~ Renata Adler
The chimneys, rank on rank, cut the clear sky; the moon, with a rag of gauze about her loins, poses among them, an awkward Venus.
~ Richard Aldington
This is a common form of exchange when Mississippians meet for the first time. They want to know about each other's ancestors, and which families they married into. If kinship ties can be established, so much the better. If there was a feud in the past, it could get awkward.
~ Richard Grant