Awkwardness Quotes - Page 3

• To his surprise, she leaned over and kissed him on the forehead, a kiss so full of affection that it dispelled the awkwardness, even as it caused Miles' heart to plummet, because all kisses are calibrated, and this one revealed the great chasm between affection and love.

  Richard Russo

  Heart, Kissing, And Love

  Richard Russo (2017). “Empire Falls”, p.272, Atlantic Books

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• I'm socially awkward. What draws me to playing socially awkward characters? I think they're interesting. I'm fascinated kind of by - I mean, I know I'm sure I've got my own social awkwardness but I'm kind of fascinated by that and I lived, probably, I attribute it - I lived in New York for a long time, road the subways, saw a lot of awkwardness, but they're just interesting. They're not cookie cutter. They're usually very colorful characters. They see things different ways and, I don't know, its just a kind of - just a kind of life that interesting to me.

  Tony Hale

  Character, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.fanbolt.com

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• There is no shape nor size of body, no awkwardness nor ungainliness, which puts good golf beyond reach. There are good golfers with spectacles, with one eye, with one leg, even with one arm. In golf, while there is life there is hope.

  Charles Walter Simpson

  Eye, Golf, Body

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• In early comics, you see the amazing awkwardness and bizarre reasoning in the storyline, and it's because comics hadn't really been invented yet. There was no format for them to follow. They were just making it up. So I try to incorporate that kind of awkwardness in my comics quite frequently, which is odd. In some ways, I can't be as awkward as I'd like. But I do think that's one way in which my comics are unusual, because I will try to make the artwork look bad, occasionally.

  Michael Kupperman

  Thinking, Awkward, Trying

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I don't speak any languages well enough to make an expert assessment on writing in translation, but since I'm interested in awkwardness in prose, I find I like the way translated texts can sometimes acquire awkwardness in the process of translation. There's a discordance translation can create which I think is sometimes seen as a weakness but which I think can be a really interesting aspect of the text.

  Katie Kitamura

  Writing, Thinking, Interesting

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• What do you think it would have been like if Valentine had brought you up along with me? Would you have loved me?" Clary was very glad she had put her cup down, because if she hadn't, she would have dropped it. Sebastian was looking at her not with any shyness or the sort of natural awkwardness that might be attendant on such a bizarre question, but as if she were a curious, foreign life-form. "Well," she said. "You're my brother. I would have loved you. I would have...had to.

  Cassandra Clare

  Brother, Valentine, Thinking

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “City of Lost Souls”, p.356, Simon and Schuster

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• A lot of support gets withheld out of fear of awkwardness and misspeaking.

  Carolyn Hax

  Support

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• I think if anything, the fact that it's popular right now makes me go: "Well, I guess I'm going to start doing something else then in the next few years." I dunno, it almost feels hackneyed at this point. To start a premise by saying, "I did this awkward thing." But then again, awkwardness and feeling alienated are always going to be a part of comedy. Alienation, I suppose, can't be hackneyed because it will always exist.

  Mike Birbiglia

  Thinking, Awkward, Feelings

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I might say that what amateurs call a style is usually only the unavoidable awkwardnesses in first trying to make something that has not heretofore been made. Almost no new classics resemble other previous classics. At first people see only the awkwardness. Then they are not so perceptible. When they show so very awkwardly people think these awkwardnesses are the style and many copy them. This is regrettable.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Thinking, People, Style

  Ernest Hemingway, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (1986). “Conversations with Ernest Hemingway”, p.121, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• A certain awkwardness marks the use of borrowed thoughts; but as soon as we have learned what to do with them, they become our own.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Learning, Use, Mark

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.107

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• Chance in music doesn't have to involve the I Ching or rolling dice or throwing yarrow stalks. It can involve an out-of-tune guitar, or other impossible-to-replicate moments of awkwardness - even more so than an awkward, out-of-tune live performance, because there's something incredible about the way that an out-of-tune guitar becomes part of the song on a record. I won't be precious and say it's part of the composition - that's nonsensica l - but chance occurrences are so crucial to what's distinctive. It's the fingerprints all over so many of these recordings.

  David Grubbs

  Song, Awkward, Chance

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Will Ferrell is probably the funniest comic actor, certainly of my generation. I am a huge, huge Will Ferrell fan. I'm not a huge comedy buff, truthfully. What I find funny is either something unbelievably stupid, like Dumb And Dumber or Airplane!, where the jokes are just so stupid and pointless, or something like The Office or The Comeback, where the humor is in the excruciating awkwardness of a situation. Stella kind of explores both of those, stupidity and awkwardness.

  Michael Showalter

  Stupid, Airplane, Office

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, tv.avclub.com. January 28, 2008.

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• I'm often in conversations with people who have learning disabilities, and they talk about how they were teased and perhaps laughed at sometimes as children. That was never the case with me. Maybe it was something about my personality, my temperament, but I don't ever remember being teased. I remember the awkwardness of leaving class to go to a special class, but that's all.

  Jerry Pinkney

  Children, Class, People

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Awkwardness gives me great comfort.

  Marc Jacobs

  Giving, Comfort, Give Me

  "Lost and Found". Interview with Amy Larocca, nymag.com. September 5, 2005.

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• I didn't realize then that so much of being adult is reconciling ourselves with the awkwardness and strangeness of our own feelings. Youth is the time of life lived for some imaginary audience

  Douglas Coupland

  Feelings, Adults, Youth

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• Nobody was listening when I learned how to play music. But there's something about being on stage, talking to the audience, looking at them and smiling, that's always been difficult for me. I'm a lot more comfortable now, but there are still moments of awkwardness.

  Norah Jones

  Talking, Play, Listening

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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, Awkward

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• Shyness displays itself differently in me. I think it's more an awkwardness.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Thinking, Shyness, Display

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• Because that was some mega tense awkwardness, a real 'Hello my name is Ever and I'll be your next stalker' kind of moment.

  Alyson Noel

  Real, Names, Next

  Alyson Noel (2013). “The Immortals Bundle 1-3: The Immortals: Evermore, The Immortals: Blue Moon and The Immortals: Shadowland”, p.15, Pan Macmillan

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• Home is the one place in all this world where hearts are sure of each other. It is the place of confidence. It is the place where we tear off that mask of guarded and suspicious coldness which the world forces us to wear in self-defense, and where we pour out the unreserved communications of full and confiding hearts. It is the spot where expressions of tenderness gush out without any sensation of awkwardness and without any dread of ridicule.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Communication, Home, Heart

  Frederick William Robertson (1872). “Sermons Preached at Brighton: By the Late Rev. Frederick W. Robertson ...”

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• I give you Mercedes Athena Thompson, our newest member." Much awkwardness ensued.

  Patricia Briggs

  Giving, Athena, Members

  Patricia Briggs (2009). “Bone Crossed”, p.56, Penguin

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• I can never be important to any one.' 'What is to prevent you?' 'Every thing — my situation — my foolishness and awkwardness.

  Jane Austen

  Important, Situation, I Can

  Jane Austen (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.489, Wordsworth Editions

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• i have to cross the river of extreme awkwardness in order to get to the paradise on the other side.

  David Levithan

  Order, Rivers, Paradise

  John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.68, Penguin

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• Awkwardness aside, it's nice to be liked.

  Veronica Roth

  Nice

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• Much awkwardness ensued.

  Patricia Briggs

  Patricia Briggs (2009). “Bone Crossed”, p.56, Penguin

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