Awkward Quotes - Page 11

• 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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• The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow - so arbitrary are these transient laws.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Fashion, Law, Today

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• God may forgive sins, he said, but awkwardness has no forgiveness in heaven or earth.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Heaven, Forgiving, Earth

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2397, Delphi Classics

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• Many great writers have been extraordinarily awkward in daily exchange, but the greatest give the impression that their style was nursed by the closest attention to colloquial speech.

  Thornton Wilder

  Giving, Style, Attention

  Interview in "Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, First Series", edited by Malcolm Cowley, 1958.

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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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• I'm a bad dater. I'm the most socially awkward person, like carrying on conversations and stuff.

  Lauren Conrad

  Carrying On, Stuff, Conversation

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• I was a painfully shy, awkward kid, with low self-esteem and almost no social skills. Online, I didn't have a problem talking to people or making friends. But in the real world. interacting with other people - especially kids my own age - made me a nervous wreck. I never knew how to act or what to say, and when I did work up the courage to speak, I always seemed to say the wrong thing.

  Ernest Cline

  Real, Self Esteem, Kids

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• If we go about apologizing for speaking to people of the things of God, we must not be very much surprised if they catch our timidity and they feel awkward and we feel awkward. There is a certain shyness and awkwardness about us when we go to tell men and women of the things of eternal life, which react upon them until they become nervous and awkward too.

  Mildred Cable

  Men, People, Apologizing

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• I was stuck in traffic one day and just kinda thought it would be funny to masturbate. It was sunny and clear out, so I was worried one of the other drivers would see me, but my jeep is pretty high off the ground, so I think no one noticed. I busted a nut and aimed it down, ruining my tweety bird floor mat. I felt kinda stupid after and my mom kept silent the rest of the drive home. It was awkward and I regret it.

  Zach Braff

  Mom, Regret, Stupid

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• Somewhere along the journey of remembering who we really are, we may find ourselves in a very uncomfortable space, a void in which we realize that we haven't totally let go of our old beliefs, and on the other hand we have yet to fully plug into the new truths we have discovered. This awkward "place of mind" can bring on an internal crisis of uncertainty, instability, confusion, frustration, and a most unspeakable despair as the "dark night" sets in and makes its presence felt.

  Nicholas Schmidt

  Letting Go, Dark, Night

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• There is nothing so awkward as courting a woman whilst she is making sausages.

  Laurence Sterne

  Work, Dating, Sausage

  "The Works of Laurence Sterne: Containing The Life and Opinions of Tristan Shandy".

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• 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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• My style as a human being is to indulge people who need to escape, yet I insist on confronting them as a playwright. It's quite embarrassing, it's quite unpleasant, it's quite awkward.

  Wallace Shawn

  People, Style, Needs

  W. Davies King, Wallace Shawn (1997). “Writing Wrongs: The Work of Wallace Shawn”, p.23, Temple University Press

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

  Mitt Romney

  Fun, Silly, Twilight

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

  Mitt Romney

  Fun, Wells, Jokes

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• That's a big lava lamp. Congratulations.

  Mitt Romney

  Congratulations, Lava Lamps, Bigs

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• I don't like vampires personally. I don't know any.

  Mitt Romney

  Vampire, Knows

  "The week in one-liners" by Caitlin Mcdevitt, www.politico.com. June 3, 2011.

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