Awkward Quotes - Page 6

• I was called a bookish child. Mother sent me to a ballet teacher in Cincinnati when I was nine years old. I guess I was an awkward child and the family wanted me to be graceful. When I found out I liked to dance and people seemed to like to watch me, I was determined to go places.

  Vera-Ellen

  Mother, Teacher, Children

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The writing process for a short story feels more like field geology, where you keep turning the thing over and over, noting its qualities in detail, hammering at it, putting it near flame, pouring different acids on it, and then finally you figure out what it is, or you just give up and mount it on a ring and have an awkward chunky piece of jewelry that seems weirdly dominating but that you for some reason like. I could be wrong about field geology here.

  Rivka Galchen

  Giving Up, Writing, Flames

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• The awkward moment when Santa accidentally leaves the price tag on your present.

  Eddy Sims

  Birthday, Price Tag, Santa

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• Kissing is something that makes up for a lot of other crap you have to put up with...It can be confusing and weird and awkward, but sometimes it just makes you melt and forget everything that is going on.

  Maureen Johnson

  Kissing, Forget Everything, Confusing

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

  Frank Iero

  Play, Zing, Feels

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• There are so many times in my life when I wish I had the power to destroy anyone who would threaten or seek to humiliate the people I love. When you were a small, shy, awkward kid like me, and you saw and experienced some of the things I did and you can do nothing, you're going to gravitate to those comic books and fantasies where the nerd gets bit by a radioactive spider and can beat up the bad guys.

  Bao Phi

  Book, Kids, People

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• We were in an awkward position against Yugoslavia in that in order to win we needed to score more goals than they did.

  Jose Antonio Camacho

  Football, Winning, Order

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