Awkward Quotes - Page 3

• A new constitution should be more amendable. A needlessly confusing system of courts should be altered to produce an arrangement that would be simple, responsible, and less awkward.

  Charles Edison

  Simple, Confusing, Would Be

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• If you believe that there’s a heaven and hell and people could be going to hell—or not getting eternal life or whatever—and you think that, well, it’s not really worth telling them this because it would make it socially awkward. . . . How much do you have to hate somebody to not proselytize? How much do you have to hate somebody to believe that everlasting life is possible and not tell them that?

  Penn Jillette

  Life, Faith, Hate

  "A Gift of a Bible". "Penn Says" episode 192, videolog on Crackle.com, December 9, 2008.

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• We change and it's uncomfortable. We flow for a time and then it's awkward.

  Frazey Ford

  Flow, Uncomfortable

  "Frazey Ford Interview: Finding Beauty". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• It is remarkable what fine hands men of genius write, even when they are as awkward in all other uses of the hand as a cow with a musket.

  Sara Coleridge

  Writing, Men, Hands

  Sara Coleridge Coleridge (1873). “Memoir and Letters of Sara Coleridge”, p.380

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• I don't like to fly. I've never been a good flyer. I have a lot of friends that have permanent nail marks in their arms... The moaning that comes from me when there is turbulence. It's awkward for everyone around.

  Sandra Bullock

  Nails, Lots Of Friends, Arms

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• It could kill you," Maura said. Then there was the awkward moment that arrives when two thirds of the people in the room know that the other third is supposed to die in fewer than nine months, and the person who is meant to die is not one of the ones in the know.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Two, People, Nine

  Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.93, Scholastic Inc.

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• Sometimes, you can not click with somebody, and it can feel awkward.

  Jeff Bridges

  Sometimes, Clicks, Feels

  "An interview with Seabiscuit co-stars Jeff Bridges and Chris Cooper". Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. July 22, 2003.

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• Far too often, we fathers avoid the subject because it's so awkward. The subject I am referring to is: buying gifts for women. This is an area where many men do not have a clue. Exhibit A was my father, who was a very thoughtful man, but who once gave my mother, on their anniversary, the following token of his love, his commitment, and-yes-his passion for her: an electric blanket.

  Dave Barry

  Fathers Day, Mother, Passion

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• Great endowments often announce themselves in youth in the form of singularity and awkwardness.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Time, Youth, Form

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Parke Godwin (1848). “The Auto-biography of Goethe: Truth and Poetry: from My Own Life”, p.59

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• She does not want to feel even the faintest temptation to call his mobile number, as she had done obsessively for the first year after his death so she could hear his voice on the answering service. Most days now his loss is a part of her, an awkward weight she carries around, invisible to everyone else, subtly altering the way she moves through the day. But today, the Anniversary of the day he died, is a day when all bets are off.

  Jojo Moyes

  Moving, Loss, Years

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• I love love
  I love being in love
  I don't care what it does to me
  The Format, in "Inches and Failing".
  Masood, a young lady has fallen in love with me-at least so I judge from her letters. Awkward is it not-awkward and surprising. You would be flattered and twirl your moustache, but I am merely uncomfortable. I wish she would stop, as she is very nice, and I enjoyed being friends. What an ill constructed world this is! Love is always being given where it is not required.

  E. M. Forster

  Life, Nice, Being In Love

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• It's kind of awkward to eat alone in a restaurant because everybody's looking at me.

  Louis C. K.

  Kind, Restaurants

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• What is a fine person or a beauteous face,
  Unless deportment give them decent grace;
  Blessed with all other requisites to please,
  To want the striking elegance of ease;
  Awkward, embarrassed, stiff, without the skill
  Of moving gracefully, or standing still.

  Winston Churchill

  Dance, Moving, Blessed

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• I like those fancy raincoats you bought. Really sprung for the big bucks.

  Mitt Romney

  Stupid People, Bucks, Fancy

  "Mitt Romney: ‘I Have Worn A Garbage Bag For Rain Gear’" By Amanda Terkel, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 1, 2012.

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• This feels good being back in Michigan. You know, the trees are the right height.

  Mitt Romney

  Feel Good, Tree, Michigan

  "US politics live: Senior Republicans air discontent with GOP candidates" by Richard Adams, www.theguardian.com. February 24, 2012.

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• Who let the dogs out? Who, who.

  Mitt Romney

  Dog, Stupid, People

  "The Republican Field on Martin Luther King: It’s Complicated" by Tim Murphy, www.motherjones.com. January 16, 2012.

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• I'm Mitt Romney-and yes Wolf, that's also my first name.

  Mitt Romney

  Stupid, Names, People

  "Whatzisname Romney, still waiting for the GOP love". Republican Presidential debate in Washington, D.C., www.washingtonpost.com. November 22, 2011.

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• It's something we, guys, have all done. Made tapes for girls, trying to impress them, to meet them on a shared plane of aesthetics. Read them someone else's poetry because they do poetry better than you could do it, because you're too awkward to do it.

  John Cusack

  Girl, Guy, Trying

  "Being John Cusack". Interview with Suzie Mackenzie, www.theguardian.com. July 1, 2000.

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• She wore her sexuality with an older woman's ease, and not like an awkward purse, never knowing how to hold it, where to hang it, or when to just put it down.

  Zadie Smith

  Women, Knowing, Ease

  Zadie Smith (2003). “White Teeth”, p.20, Vintage

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• Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment; that background which the painter may not daub, be he master or bungler, and which, however awkward a figure we may have made in the foreground, remains ever our inviolable asylum, where no indignity can assail, no personality can disturb us.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Disappointment, Silence, Personality

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.312, Courier Corporation

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