Embarrassing Quotes - Page 12

• It is embarrassing that the United States is so far behind the rest of the world when it comes to mCommerce.

  Braden Kelley

  Innovation, United States, World

  4 Copy quote

• It was so embarrassing, everytime I see it, I blush. Imagine if you saw yourselves like that. It's one thing to get dressed up and do the movie star thing, but I mean, it's my job to be outside of that and it's not like I'm on the outside when they're all watching me. [About the famous car wash scene from One Night at McCool's]

  Liv Tyler

  Movie, Jobs, Stars

  5 Copy quote

• Any good history book is mainly just a long list of mistakes, complete with names and dates. It's very embarrassing.

  A. Whitney Brown

  Mistake, Book, Names

  A. Whitney Brown (1991). “The Big Picture: An American Commentary”, Harper Perennial

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• You pretty much have to be bad at it [stand-up] for several years to get good at it, so there's no avoiding embarrassing yourself.

  W. Kamau Bell

  Years, Avoiding

  4 Copy quote

• It's almost embarrassing to go back into my liberal background because it was about as shallow a belief system as humanly possible.

  Andrew Breitbart

  Belief, Shallow, Backgrounds

  51 Copy quote

• I think that I probably inevitably fetishize nature, although I try not to, because it's kind of embarrassing, repulsive behavior. I think it's just an extension of me being old-fashioned.

  Phil Elvrum

  Thinking, Trying, Kind

  Interview with Brandon Stosuy, believermag.com. July 1, 2009.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The thing about death is that it's embarrassing. No one wants to focus on it for very long. We're happy to talk about sex all day long but no one wants to talk about the moment where it all ends.

  Laurel Nakadate

  Sex, Long, Focus

  Interview with Scott Indrisek, believermag.com. October 1, 2006.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Anomalocaridids seemed to lack front limbs, being an arthropod - being a joint-legged animal - and not having legs, it's kind of embarrassing.

  Benjamin Van Roy

  Animal, Legs, Joints

  4 Copy quote

• A successful poem says what a poet wants to say, and more, with particular finality. The remarks he makes about his poems are incidental when the poem is good, or embarrassing or absurd when it is bad and he is not permitted to say how the good poem is good, and may never know how the bad poem is bad. It is better to write about other people's poetry.

  Randall Jarrell

  Writing, Successful, People

  "Mid-Century American Poets". Book by John Ciardi, "Answers to Questions" (p. 171), 1950.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• New York congressmen have recently been plagued by a string of embarrassing scandals. Shirtless craigslist hunk Chris Lee, nonconsensual staff tickle monster, Eric Massa, naked texter Anthony Weiner, so this guy is now running to join those dubious ranks and win the Michael Grimm seat. And he`s campaigning on the promise that he`s too old to be too gross. And I`m not paraphrasing the campaign pledge.

  Rachel Maddow

  Running, New York, Winning

  4 Copy quote

• I was ashamed to let anyone know that I was living in a shelter. I remember one time coming home and some kids saw me and were like, "What you doing here? This is a shelter!" But I was like, "My mom's working there." It was pretty embarrassing.

  ASAP Rocky

  Mom, Home, Kids

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• Age, with shamefaced relief, has learned the solvent quality of Time. It is this quality which makes possible the contemplation of certain embarrassing heavenly reunions.

  Margaret Deland

  Age, Quality, Relief

  Margaret Deland (1969). “Dr. Lavendar's People”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I went to a hypnotist. He put me under a spell, and every time I had a craving for a cigarette, I would throw up. It's very embarrassing right after sex. I find it pretty hard to get that second date after that. Girls get all snobby after you barf on them.

  Norm MacDonald

  Girl, Sex, Cigarette

  16 Copy quote

• If you do talk dirty, make sure that you enunciate because there's nothing more embarrassing than having to repeat yourself.

  Chelsea Handler

  Dirty, Ifs, Repeats

  5 Copy quote

• The central fact for me is, I think, that the [role of the] intellectual... cannot be played without a sense of being someone whose place it is publicly to raise embarrassing questions, to confront orthodoxy and dogma (rather than to produce them), to be someone who cannot easily be co-opted by governments or corporations, and whose raison d'etre is to represent all those people and issues that are routinely forgotten or swept under the rug.

  Edward Said

  Thinking, Issues, Embarrassing Questions

  "Representation of the Intellectual". Book by Edward Said, 1994.

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• I am interested in most mythology. Celtic or Christian no more than anything else. I will admit to a pleasure and sense of hope in what I see as the basic teachings of Christ, stripped of the nonsense that has sometimes been accumulated about them and the embarrassing misunderstanding.

  Tanith Lee

  Christian, Teaching, Sometimes

  4 Copy quote

• Grover Norquist is a mean-spirited, humorless, dishonest little creep... an embarrassing anomaly, the leering, drunken uncle everyone else wishes would stay home... [He] is repulsive, granted, but there aren't nearly enough of him to start a purge trial.

  Tucker Carlson

  Uncles, Home, Mean

  Slate magazine, July 17, 1997.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The big challenge for me was just trying to ignore the embarrassment of being an actor. It's a pretty embarrassing thing to do. You've got people pointing cameras at you and hundreds of people watching you, as you're trying to be great. And often, almost every time, you're not.

  Chris Pratt

  People, Challenges, Trying

  Source: collider.com

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• When I grew up, there were no teletypewriters or video calls, so I primarily interpreted phone calls. At that time, where I lived, it wasn't embarrassing to have Deaf parents; it was cool to be able to speak a different language than everyone else.

  Jack Jason

  Phones, Parent, Different

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Though my heart is filled with feelings I want to convey You see, I can't express them in words If I had not met you I wouldn't even have such an embarrassing pain

  Ayumi Hamasaki

  Pain, Heart, Feelings

  4 Copy quote

• It used to be embarrassing. In the beginning, because you listen to yourself so much, you think, I must look like an asshole right now - or sound like an asshole. And then, you just get to that point where you've done so many ridiculous, ridiculous things in the booth from screaming, to having orgasms, to whatever your director is asking you to do for this character, you just lose your inhibitions.

  Rachael MacFarlane

  Character, Thinking, Sound

  Source: collider.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think what Jewish culture taught me and what the - and Jewish culture now is everyone's culture - is all these embarrassing things, all these guilt-filled things, all these anxiety filled things are material.

  Robert Mankoff

  Thinking, Anxiety, Guilt

  "'New Yorker' Cartoon Editor Explores What Makes Us Get It". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. March 24, 2014.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is an embarrassing time to be an American. It really is. It's humiliating.

  Jessica Lange

  Humiliating

  13 Copy quote

• There's a lot we should be able to learn from history. And yet history proves that we never do. In fact, the main lesson of history is that we never learn the lessons of history. This makes us look so stupid that few people care to read it. They'd rather not be reminded. Any good history book is mainly just a long list of mistakes, complete with names and dates. It's very embarrassing.

  A. Whitney Brown

  Mistake, Stupid, Book

  A. Whitney Brown (1991). “The Big Picture: An American Commentary”, Harper Perennial

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• But my drive to win is so great ... I just step over that line. ... It's very embarrassing, ... one of the things you totally regret. So you look at yourself in the mirror and say, 'I was stupid.'

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Regret, Stupid

  4 Copy quote