Awkward Quotes - Page 10

• Keep my planets in orbit,
  Never forfeit or quit,
  Move forward...
  I talk with the awkward slang,
  I walk with the Wu-Tang.

  RZA

  Rap, Moving, Hip Hop

  Song: Tragedy

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• I found college awkward: another teacher, same old chalkboard.
  I felt I was shifting backward, when I expected to shoot forward.

  MC Paul Barman

  Teacher, Rap, College

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• Whether I serve one or two terms in the Presidency, I will find myself at the end of that period at what might be called the awkward age-too old to begin a new career and too young to write my memoirs.

  John F. Kennedy

  Writing, Careers, Two

  John F. Kennedy, Dominique Enright (2003). “The Wicked Wit of John F. Kennedy”, Michael O'Mara Books

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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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• They had me all happy, singing. It was very awkward. I think the writers are frantically planning something appropriate to honor him, but we don't know what.

  Kristin Chenoweth

  Thinking, Honor, Singing

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• And when you try too hard, it doesn't work. Try grabbing something quickly and precisely with a tensed-up arm; then relax and try it again. Try doing something with a tense mind. The surest way to become Tense, Awkward, and Confused is to develop a mind that tries too hard-one that thinks too much.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Confused, Thinking, Relaxation

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• My space chums think my unique hookup with humanity could be evolution's awkward attempt to jump-start itself up again. They're thinking just maybe, going crazy could be the evolutionary process trying to hurry up mind expansion. Maybe my mind didn't snap. Maybe it was just trying to stretch itself into a new shape. The cerebral cortex trying to grow a thumb of sorts.

  Lily Tomlin

  Crazy, Unique, Thinking

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• In Middle America men are awakening. Like awkward and untrained boys we begin to turn toward maturity and with our awakening we hunger for song. But in our towns and fields there are few memory haunted places. Here we stand in roaring city streets, on steaming coal heaps, in the shadow of factories from which come only the grinding roar of machines. We do not sing but mutter in the darkness. Our lips are cracked with dust and with the heat of furnaces. We but mutter and feel our way toward the promise of song.

  Sherwood Anderson

  Song, Memories, Maturity

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• It's always awkward to pretend to play. I feel like Ashlee Simpson. Oooh, zing.

  Frank Iero

  Play, Zing, Feels

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• Children of course are monstrously conventional, repelled at once by whatever is off-center, out of whack, unmanageable. And being an only child I had been coddled a good deal (also scolded). I was awkward, precocious, timid, full of my private rituals and aversions.

  Alice Munro

  Children, Only Child, Aversion

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• Everyone goes to the 'Grands-Boulevards' (in Paris, ed.) and let himself loose... ...Do not picture these in costume, they are not for the most part... ...perhaps a clown with a big nose, or two girls with bare necks and short skirts... ...the parade of the queens of the halls (markets) is also one of the events... ...Some are pretty but look awkward in their silk dresses and crowns, particularly as the broad sun displays their defects - perhaps a neck too thin or a painted face which shows ghastley white in the sunlight.

  Edward Hopper

  Girl, Queens, Two

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• Homeschooling will certainly produce some socially awkward adults, but the odds are good they would have been just as quirky had they spent twelve years raising their hand for permission to go to the bathroom.

  Quinn Cummings

  Hands, Years, Odds

  Quinn Cummings (2012). “The Year of Learning Dangerously: Adventures in Homeschooling”, p.20, Penguin

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• Don't have sex in the lobby - it's usually awkward.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Sex

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• Few are born bold. Even Napoleon had to cultivate the habit on the battlefield, where he knew it was a matter of life and death. In social settings he was awkward and timid, but he overcame this and practice boldness in every part of his life because he saw its tremendous power, how it could literally enlarge a man(even one who, like Napoleon, was in fact conspicuously small).

  Robert Greene

  Men, Practice, Life And Death

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• A man who knows the world will not only make the most of everything he does know, but of many things he does not know, and will gain more credit by his adroit mode of hiding his ignorance than the pedant by his awkward attempt to exhibit his erudition.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Knowledge, Ignorance, Men

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.83

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• Abortion is the easy way out. It’s hardly surprising that people should choose the most convenient exit from awkward situations.

  Tony Abbott

  People, Abortion, Way

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• Chemists do not usually stutter. It would be very awkward if they did, seeing that they have at times to get out such words as methylethylamylophenylium.

  William Crookes

  Would Be, Chemist, Seeing

  "The Norton History of Chemistry" by William H. Brock, W W Norton & Co Inc., (p xxvi), 1993.

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• I'm a very self-conscious person, I think we all are, but I'm especially not very comfortable in my body. I always feel really weird and awkward on the street or on the stage. It has nothing to do with circumstances, it's just an ongoing psychological state, like white noise.

  Sufjan Stevens

  Thinking, Self, White

  "Sufjan Stevens: 'I've always been insecure about what I do'". Interview with Tim Lewis, www.theguardian.com. May 7, 2011.

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• Where's the superficial? I was, and therefore am, dim, gloomy, a drag, unfashionable, unfanciable, and awkward. This doesn't seem like superficial to me. These aren't flesh wounds. These are life-threatening thrusts into the internal organs.

  Nick Hornby

  Flesh, Threatening, Superficial

  "High Fidelity". Book by Nick Hornby, 1995.

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• Men lose more conquests by their own awkwardness than by any virtue in the woman.

  Ninon de L'Enclos

  Men, Virtue, Conquest

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• The more freedom I allow myself as a writer to wander, become lost and go into uncertain territory - and I am always trying to go to the more awkward place, the more difficult place - the more frightening it is, because I have no plan.

  Nicole Krauss

  Always Trying, Territory, Lost

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• One way to tell if you're really comfortable with a person is if you can be quiet together sometimes and not feel awkward. If you don't feel obligated to say something brilliant or funny or surprising or cool. You can just be together. You can just be.

  Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

  Together, Way, Brilliant

  Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (2010). “It's Not Like I Planned It This Way: Including Alice; Alice on Her Way; Alice in the Know”, p.312, Simon and Schuster

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• It is so easy to close down to risk, to protect ourselves against change and growth. But no baby bird emerges without first destroying the perfect egg sheltering it. We must risk being raw and fresh and awkward. For without such openness, life will not penetrate us anew. Unless we are open, we will not be filled.

  Patricia Monaghan

  Baby, Eggs, Perfect

  Patricia Monaghan (1999). “The Goddess Companion: Daily Meditations on the Feminine Spirit”, p.109, Llewellyn Worldwide

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• Computer programmers tend, by and large, to be quirky and highly individualistic. Trying to organize or manage such awkward characters is normally as thankless as herding cats

  John Naughton

  Character, Cat, Quirky

  John Naughton (2015). “A Brief History of the Future”, p.209, Hachette UK

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• There is that small chance I’ll get what I want; to be someone to relate to for anyone who is as alienated, awkward, spastic and passionate as me.

  Max Bemis

  Passionate, Want, Chance

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