Awkward Quotes - Page 17

• I knew it might put him in an awkward position that we had a discussion before finality has finally happened in this presidential race.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, Race, Political

  "Bush Busy Mapping Out Future Agenda". www.cnn.com. December 3, 2000.

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• I reveled in the smallness, the coziness of an upstairs bedroom in a traditional American Cape Cod house the half-floor that forces you to duck, to feel small and naive again, ready for anything, dying for love, your body a chimney filled with odd, black smoke. These square, squat, awkward rooms are like a fifty-square-foot paean to teenage-hood, to ripeness, to the first and last taste of youth.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Teenage, Love You, Ducks

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• The media tends to portray the teenage world as one where drinking and sex is taken for granted. In fact, I think most teenagers don't drink, are unsure of themselves, and feel awkward around members of the opposite sex.

  Louis Sachar

  Sex, Teenage, Drinking

  "A Few Words From Louis Sachar". "Small Steps" Hardcover Edition, www.penguinrandomhouse.com. 2008.

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• It's awkward, because sometimes you find new friends that are cooler than your old friends, and then your old friends desperately try to cling on to you even though you sort of hate them by now.

  Panda Bear

  Hate, Old Friends, Trying

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• Impoliteness is frequently the sign of an awkward modesty that loses its head when surprised and hopes to conceal this with rudeness.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Hope, Modesty, Rudeness

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• There was one awkward moment where a black man stood-up to ask a question and out of habit, Bush said 'Clemency denied.'

  Bill Maher

  Men, Black, Habit

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• For the most part, it is really nice when people come up to me, because I do think that people who are awkward relate to me, and that's really nice. It's generally good.

  Rashida Jones

  Nice, Thinking, People

  "Q&A: The Beautiful Rashida Jones". Interview with Anna Peele, www.esquire.com. February 5, 2013.

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• I went through awkward, chubby, total weirdo phases.

  Kesha

  Phases, Weirdo

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I definitely understand not entirely fitting in. I think everyone has their own version of feeling out of place and I think one of the great things we have the ability to do is to know it's all right. It's OK to have that awkward phase.

  Rumer Willis

  Thinking, Feelings, Phases

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It was awkward, revisiting a world you have never seen before: like coming home, after a long journey, to someone else’s house.

  Umberto Eco

  Home, Journey, Long

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• There is something fascinatingly awkward about an author photo. I'm drawn to those glossy shots in the back of books, mostly because the subjects never look happy to be there.

  Pamela Ribon

  Book, Looks, Shots

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• She crossed the room to him, put her arms around him, clung to him, turning her face to the side, learning all at once that it was awkward to show a person all of one's love when one's nose was broken.

  Kristin Cashore

  Broken, Noses, Arms

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.217, Penguin

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• And you are worth the time it takes to take the time to get to know you. We've managed to muttle through the awkward stage of i like you and you like me, but when we both finally said 'yes' life became a multiple choice test, not knowing anything we became each others best guess. and, holding your hand is less like exploration and more like discovery. lady, i don't have to study you to be sure. you're the choice i made before i knew what the other choices were

  Shane Koyczan

  I Like You, Discovery, Hands

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• Dont ever be impressed with goal setting; be impressed with goal getting. Reaching new goals and moving to a higher level of performance always requires change, and change feels awkward. But take comfort in the knowledge that if a change doesn't feel uncomfortable, then it's propably not really a change.

  John C. Maxwell

  Moving, Goal, Comfort

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• We look at each other for a moment and for once I feel awkward. It's not that I'm not into humility; I've just never had to practise it.

  Melina Marchetta

  Humility, Looks, Moments

  Melina Marchetta (2006). “On The Jellicoe Road”, p.53, Penguin UK

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• But then she was not awkward, she was slow-flowing, graceful, seductive - a seductiveness that had nothing to do with breast and hips and legs, but was an invitation to forget the world in the recesses of the body

  Bernhard Schlink

  Seductive, World, Body

  FaceBook post by Bernhard Schlink from Feb 14, 2012

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• The truth doesn't set you free, you know. It makes you feel awkward and embarrassed and defenseless and red in the face and horrified and petrified and vulnerable.

  Melina Marchetta

  Red, Faces, Vulnerable

  Melina Marchetta (2003). “Saving Francesca”

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• Everytime i have turned the page he re-enters my life as awkward as postscript

  Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

  Pages

  Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (1999). “Sister of My Heart”, Doubleday Books

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• Look, let me just say it: He was hot. A nonhot boy stares at you relentlessly and it is, at best, awkward and, at worst, a form of assault. But a hot boy . . . well.

  John Green

  Romantic, Boys, Hot

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.172, Penguin

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• Foxy girls know that silence may be golden-but only for four seconds. Anything longer and you're heading for Awkward Avenue.

  Meg Cabot

  Girl, Silence, Four

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• Henry patted Charlotte’s shoulder anxiously. “Would you like a cool cloth? What can I do to help?” “You could ride up to Yorkshire and chop that old goat’s head off.” Charlotte sounded mutinous. “Won’t that make things rather awkward with the Clave?” asked Henry. “They’re not generally very receptive about, you know, beheadings and things.

  Cassandra Clare

  Goats, Yorkshire, Helping

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.527, Simon and Schuster

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• So . . . middle school? Awkward.Having a hobby that's different from everyone else's? Awkward. Singing the national anthem on weekends instead of going to sleepovers? More awkward. Braces? Awkward. Gain a lot of weight before you hit the growth spurt? Awkward. Frizzy hair, don't embrace the curls yet? Awkward. Try to straighten it? Awkward!So many phases!

  Taylor Swift

  School, Weekend, Hair

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• There were days, rainy gray days, when the streets of Brooklyn were worthy of a photograph, every window the lens of a Leica, the view grainy and immobile. We gathered our colored pencils and sheets of paper and drew like wild, feral children into the night, until, exhausted, we fell into bed. We lay in each other's arms, still awkward but happy, exchanging breathless kisses into sleep.

  Patti Smith

  Children, Sleep, Kissing

  "Just Kids". Book by Patti Smith, January 19, 2010.

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• There is always the risk: something is good and good and good and good, then all at once it gets awkward.

  John Green

  Risk

  John Green, Lauren Myracle, Maureen Johnson (2009). “Let It Snow: Three Holiday Stories”, p.114, Penguin

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• I wouldn't want to be a talk show host. That's another awkward compliment people make. 'You should have your own talk show.' And I think, no thank you.

  Andy Richter

  Thank You, Thinking, Should Have

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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