Awkward Quotes - Page 16

• I wanted a line in a poem to be the hollow ney of the dervish orchestra whose plaintive wail is a call to God. But all I achieved was awkward shrieking. Not even the pure shriek of a reed in the rain.

  Anne Michaels

  Rain, Poetry, Orchestra

  Anne Michaels (2010). “Fugitive Pieces”, p.112, Emblem Editions

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• One of the most awkward things that can happen in a pub is when your pint-to-toilet cycle gets synchronised with a complete stranger.

  Peter Kay

  Toilets, Stranger, Pubs

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• The most awkward means are adequate to the communication of authentic experience, and the finest words no compensation for lack of it. It is for this reason that we are moved by the true Primitives and that the most accomplished art craftsmanship leaves us cold.

  Ananda Coomaraswamy

  Art, Communication, Mean

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• Run for your lives-the computers are invading. Awesomely powerful computers tackling ever more important tasks with awkward, old-fashioned interfaces. As these machines leak into every corner of our lives, they will annoy us, infuriate us, and even kill a few of us. In turn, we will be tempted to kill our computers, but we won't dare because we are already utterly, irreversibly dependent on these hopeful monsters that make modern life possible.

  Alan Cooper

  Running, Powerful, Hopeful

  Alan Cooper (1999). “The Inmates are Running the Asylum”, Sams Publishing

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• We had fun just messing around and being awkward like they would be awkward. There's always that stage in a friendship when you wonder whether it could be more.

  Emma Watson

  Fun, Would Be, Wonder

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• Yeah, so if that guy can make it in drunk, surely we can make it in sober. I mean, we’re ninjas.' 'Well, maybe you’re a ninja,' I said. 'You’re just a really loud, awkward ninja,' Margo said, 'but we are both ninjas.

  John Green

  Mean, Drunk, Guy

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.72, A&C Black

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• It was awkward at times, especially at first. But I think the reality is they actually saw me with a Razorback on my shirt, and it kind of hit home that, hey, he is over there, he's not at Springdale anymore.

  Gus Malzahn

  Home, Reality, Thinking

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• ..there is nothing worse than the feeling that no one cares whether we exist or not, that no one is interested in what we have to say about life, and that the world can continue turning without our awkward presence. I began to imagine how many millions of people were, at that moment, feeling utterly useless and wretched—however rich, charming, and delightful they might be—because they were alone that night, as they were yesterday, and as they might well be tomorrow.

  Paulo Coelho

  Night, Yesterday, People

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• Don't get stabbed. It makes everything awkward.

  Maureen Johnson

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• He would always speak the language of the heart with an awkward foreign accent.

  Orson Scott Card

  Heart, Language, Speak

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Shadow of the Hegemon”, p.60, Macmillan

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• It was rather awkward, insofar as we were both teetering between the possibility of something and the possibility of nothing.

  David Levithan

  Possibility

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.194, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• There is nothing quite as painful as a truly awkward silence.

  Obert Skye

  Silence, Painful

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• Love, I would later conclude, was all things to all people. Love was the breaking and healing of hearts. Love was misunderstood, love was faith, love was the promise of now that became hope for the future. Love was a rhythm, a resonance, a reverberation. Love was awkward and foolish, it was aggressive and simple and possessed of so many indefinable qualities it could never be conveyed in language. Love was being. The same gravity that relentlessly pulled at me was defied as I rose into something that became everything.

  R.J. Ellory

  Healing, Heart, Simple

  R. J. Ellory (2010). “A Quiet Belief in Angels: A Novel”, p.221, The Overlook Press

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• Show me a novelist – or, indeed, a reader – who wasn’t a socially awkward, self-conscious adolescent, prone to clumsiness and excessive reading and I’ll… well, I’ll probably bang my shoulder on the door frame as I storm out. Many of the most unforgettable female fictional protagonists are gauche, self-doubting, plain and think too much.

  Charlotte Mendelson

  Reading, Thinking, Doors

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• Between memory and reality there are awkward discrepancies.

  Eileen Chang

  Memories, Reality, Discrepancies Between

  "Written on Water". Book by Eileen Chang, trans. Andrew F. Jones New York: Columbia University Press, 2. "Writing of One's Own", pp. 17 - 18, 2005.

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• The conversation was mesmerizing, not for its content but for the cadences of the talk, the rhythm we fell into when we were alone, now as before. Every conversation between friends or lovers creates its own easy or awkward rhythms, hidden talk that runs like a subterranean river under even the most banal exchange.

  Robert Charles Wilson

  Running, Rivers, Cadence

  Robert Charles Wilson (2010). “Spin”, p.82, Macmillan

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• Steve Jobs was probably mildly on the autistic spectrum. Basically, you've probably known people who were geeky and socially awkward but very smart. When does geeks and nerds become autism? That's a gray area. Half the people in Silicon Valley probably have autism.

  Temple Grandin

  Jobs, Smart, Autism

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• If Christians were Christians, there would be no anti-Semitism. Jesus was a Jew. There is nothing that the ordinary Christian so dislikes to remember as this awkward historical fact.

  John Haynes Holmes

  Christian, Jesus, Justice

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• That's a big lava lamp. Congratulations.

  Mitt Romney

  Congratulations, Lava Lamps, Bigs

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• I actually like jokes as well as things that are sort of fun.

  Mitt Romney

  Fun, Wells, Jokes

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• You had your turn madam, let me have mine ... Let me complete. I'm sorry, it's my turn.

  Mitt Romney

  Sorry, Let Me, Turns

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• I like silly stuff, too. I like the 'Twilight' series. That was fun.

  Mitt Romney

  Fun, Silly, Twilight

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• What's up, gangstas? It's the M-I-Double-Tizzle.

  Mitt Romney

  Gangsta

  "Romney does Letterman's Top 10 list, asks "Newt Gingrich, really?"". www.cbsnews.com. December 20, 2011.

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• Oh, I've got glitter in my hair. That's not all that's in my hair, I'll tell you that. I glue it on every morning, whether I need to or not.

  Mitt Romney

  Morning, Hair, Glue

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• The color of his pallor, however, was a curiously basic white - unmixed, that is, with the greens and yellows of guilt or abject contrition. It was very like the standard bloodlessness in the face of a small boy who loves animals to distraction, all animals, and who has just seen his favourite, bunny-loving sister's expression as she opened the box containing his birthday present to her - a freshly caught young cobra, with a red ribbon tied in an awkward bow around its neck.

  J. D. Salinger

  Animal, Boys, Expression

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