Embarrassing Quotes - Page 6

• Stalkers lips curled into a sneer. "You won't make a move without him, huh? That's embarrassing." "No," I said softly. "It just hurts because you wish it was you.

  Ann Aguirre

  Hurt, Moving, Wish

  Ann Aguirre (2012). “Outpost”, p.122, Macmillan

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• I kind of missed the whole running into each other thing. Provided a lot of excitement." "I don't miss that," I admitted, bending over and rummaging through my bag for my notebook. "That was really embarrassing." "It shouldn't have been." "Easy for you to say. You're the one who got plowed. I was doing the plowing." Cam's mouth opened. Oh my God, did I really just say that? I had.

  J. Lynn

  Notebook, Running, Missing

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• The beauty of that June day was almost staggering. After the wet spring, everything that could turn green had outdone itself in greenness and everything that could even dream of blooming or blossoming was in bloom and blossom. The sunlight was a benediction. The breezes were so caressingly soft and intimate on the skin as to be embarrassing.

  Dan Simmons

  Summer, Dream, Spring

  Dan Simmons (2009). “Drood”, p.755, Hachette UK

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• Sometimes the greatest things are the most embarrassing.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Sometimes

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

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• I mean, it's very subtle and a little embarrassing to me, but I really believe there are things which nobody would see unless I photographed them.

  Diane Arbus

  Believe, Mean, Littles

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• The giant raised his fist, and a voice cut through the dream. "Leo!" Jason was shaking his shoulder. "Hey, man, why are you hugging Nike?" Leo's eyes fluttered open. His arms were wrapped around the human-sized statue in Athena's hand. He must have been thrashing in his sleep. He clung to the victory goddess like he used to cling to his pillow when he had nightmares as a kid. (Man, that had been so embarrassing in the foster homes.) He disentangled himself and sat up, rubbing his face. "Nothing," he muttered. "we were just cuddling. Um, what's going on?

  Rick Riordan

  Dream, Nike, Sleep

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• Nico, you can do this," Jason said. "It might be embarrassing, but it's for the scepter." Nico didn't look convinced. In fact he looked like he was going to be sick. But he squared his shoulders and nodded. "You're right. I- I'm not afraid of a love god." Favonius beamed. "Excellent! Would you like a snack before you go?

  Rick Riordan

  Snacks, Sick, Jason

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• D'you know how embarrassing it is to mention good and evil in a scientific laboratory? Have you any idea? One of the reasons I became a scientist was not to have to think about that kind of thing.

  Philip Pullman

  Thinking, Ideas, Evil

  Philip Pullman (2007). “The subtle knife”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• For the most part, I do the thing which my own nature prompts me to do. It is embarrassing to earn so much respect and love for it.

  Albert Einstein

  Humility, And Love, Love And Respect

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• So let us take our fair share of the true refugees and act responsible as a government in providing for their necessary expenses. Let us stop skewing the whole process by taking some folks who are not truly refugees in order simply to meet our foreign policy needs or domestic policy demands. There has to be a better way to meet those needs and demands than we are doing now. I think it is embarrassing to all of us who truly know the mission of the Refugee Act.

  Alan K. Simpson

  Thinking, Government, Order

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• After all these years, it's still embarrassing for me to play on the American golf tour. Like the time I asked my caddie for a sand wedge and he came back ten minutes later with a ham on rye.

  Chi Chi Rodriguez

  Dirty, Golf, Play

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Message to all rioters: put down your brick, put away the spray paint, and leave the cop cars alone; you're acting like soccer fans! It's embarrassing.

  Jim Rome

  Soccer, Car, Acting

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• I used to drink, I did, I had to quit. Man, I was an embarrassing drunk. I'd get pulled over by the cops, I'd be so drunk I'd be out dancing to their lights thinking I'd made it to another club.

  Bill Hicks

  Men, Thinking, Light

  "Bill Hicks: Sane Man". Documentary, Comedy, 1989.

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• The assumption of merit is easier, less embarrassing, and more effectual than the actual attainment of it.

  William Hazlitt

  Genius, Merit, Assumption

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• The writer must be in it; he can't be to one side of it, ever. He has to be endangered by it. His own attitudes have to be tested in it. The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing himself, always.

  Arthur Miller

  Fun, Attitude, Writing

  Richard Isadore Evans, Arthur Miller (1969). “Psychology and Arthur Miller”, Praeger Publishers

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• Homosexuality is an ugly sin, repugnant to those who find no temptation in it, as well as to many past offenders who are seeking a way out of its clutches. It is embarrassing and unpleasant as a subject for discussion but because of its prevalence, the need to warn the uninitiated, and the desire to help those who may already be involved in it, it is discussed in this chapter.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Past, Temptation, Desire

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• I will never shy away from embarrassing myself for a good cause

  David Cook

  Shy, Causes, Good Causes

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• The most embarrassing one is that I had no idea - and please excuse me - that you guys call a condom a rubber. My version of a rubber is an eraser. I've done that - very loudly asked for a rubber and people have given me strange looks. That was embarrassing!

  Emma Watson

  Ideas, People, Guy

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• My mistakes do happen on a grand scale and very public level. They're humiliating, embarrassing. But if nothing bad happens to you, you'll just continue to act ridiculous.

  Christian Slater

  Mistake, Levels, Ridiculous

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• Yesterday Jerry Springer bowed out of the Ohio Senate race. He said, 'If I can't run the most embarrassing campaign in America, then I'm out of here.'

  Craig Kilborn

  Running, Race, Ohio

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• For me, I'm OK doing embarrassing things, when it's with somebody else. I'm not the only person to look at.

  Amy Smart

  Looks, Persons

  "Interview: the Cast of Crank". Interview with Stax, www.ign.com. August 29, 2006.

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• But truly, women are amazing. Think about it this way: a woman can grow a baby inside her body. Then a woman can deliver the baby through her body. Then, by some miracle, a woman can feed a baby with her body. When you compare that to the male’s contribution to life, it’s kind of embarrassing, really.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Funny, Baby, Women

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• Even if I tried to be my dad, it would be a mediocre, slightly embarrassing version.

  Jason Ritter

  Dad, Would Be, Mediocre

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• Look closely at the most embarrassing details, and amplify them.

  Brian Eno

  Details, Looks, Amplify

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• We suppose that could be considered a hedged position for the awards committee, one that would never occur in the hard sciences such as physics and chemistry, where a prize shared among three with divergent views would be an embarrassing mistake or a bad joke. While a Nobel Prize might well be the culmination of a life’s work, shouldn’t the work accurately describe the real world?

  Seth Klarman

  Real, Mistake, Awards

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