Embarrassment Quotes - Page 11

• I used to have a silk dressing gown an uncle bought in Japan and when I came downstairs in it, my dad used to call me Davinia. There was never embarrassment about that kind of thing. My sister used to dress me up a lot. She thought I was a little doll.

  David Walliams

  Uncles, Dad, Japan

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Regard yourself as a small corporation of one. Take yourself off on team-building exercises (long walks). Hold a Christmas party every year at which you stand in the corner of your writing room, shouting very loudly to yourself while drinking a bottle of white wine. Then masturbate under the desk. The following day you will feel a deep and cohering sense of embarrassment.

  Will Self

  Team, Party, Drinking

  "Ten rules for writing fiction (part two)" by Hilary Mantel, Michael Moorcock, Michael Morpurgo, Andrew Motion, Joyce Carol Oates, Annie Proulx, Philip Pullman, Ian Rankin, Will Self, Helen Simpson, Zadie Smith, Colm Tóibín, Rose Tremain, Sarah Waters, Jeanette Winterson, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

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• Most true things are kind of corny, don’t you think? But we make them more sophisticated out of sheer embarrassment.

  Michel Faber

  Thinking, Kind, Corny

  Michel Faber (2014). “The Book of Strange New Things”, p.100, Canongate Books

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• The moments when something new has entered us, something unknown; our feelings grow mute in shy embarrassment, everything in us withdraws, a silence arises, and the new experience, which no one knows, stands in the midst of it all and says nothing.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  New Experiences, Silence, Feelings

  Rainer Maria Rilke, Maurice Betz, Will Stone (2012). “Rilke in Paris”, p.51, Hesperus Press

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• The discovery of magic can happen only when we transcend our embarrassment about being alive, when we have the bravery to proclaim the goodness and dignity of human life, without either hesitation or arrogance. Then magic can descend onto our existence.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Discovery, Bravery, Arrogance

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Eight: Great Eastern Sun; Shambhala; Selected Writings”, p.107, Shambhala Publications

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• Pat Robertson is an embarrassment to the church and a danger to American politics, .. It's time for Christian leaders of all stripes to call on Robertson not just to apologize but to retire.

  Jim Wallis

  Christian, Leader, Stripes

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• The student who would build his knowledge on solid foundations, and proceed by just degrees to the pinnacles of truth, is directed by the great philosopher of France to begin by doubting of his own existence. In like manner, whoever would complete any arduous and intricate enterprise, should, as soon as his imagination can cool after the first blaze of hope, place before his own eyes every possible embarrassment that may retard or defeat him. He should first question the probability of success, and then endeavour to remove the objections that he has raised.

  Samuel Johnson

  Eye, Imagination, Doubt

  Samuel Johnson (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.77

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• A bird in the hand may be worth two in the bush, but remember also that a bird in the hand is a positive embarrassment to one not in the poultry business.

  George Ade

  Hands, Two, Bird

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• It is Proust's courtesy to spare the reader the embarrassment of believing himself cleverer than the author.

  Theodor Adorno

  Believe, Proust, Courtesy

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.49, Verso

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• As well as being a vulgar producer of her own spectacle, and an embarrassment to her family, Cindy Sheehan is at best a shifty fantasist.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Producers, Vulgar, Wells

  "What Cindy Sheehan Really Wants" by Christopher Hitchens, www.slate.com. August 19, 2005.

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• Prayer is the act by which man, detaching himself from the embarrassments of sense and nature, ascends to the true level of his destiny.

  Henry Parry Liddon

  Prayer, Destiny, Men

  Henry Parry Liddon (1872). “The Life of Faith and the Athanasian Creed: a Sermon [on John Iii. 36], Etc”, p.10

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• Not the least of the hardships to which the dying are subject is the visitation of their loved ones. The poor darlings, God bless them, may feel every impulse to condole and console, but their primary sensation is nonetheless one of embarrassment in the presence of the unspeakable and a guilty gratitude that it is not yet their fate.

  Louis Auchincloss

  Gratitude, Fate, Dying

  Louis Auchincloss (2004). “East Side Story: A Novel”, p.87, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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

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• When it comes to politics, we have an internal glass ceiling. We stand as good a chance as a man to win a political race, but women don't want to run at the same rate as men do. People point to the work-family balance issue, but I think it's much more than that. Many women don't have children, or have children who are no longer at home. There are some deeper psychological and emotional issues in play, like the fact that many of us feel like the embarrassment, humiliation and personal demonization in politics are simply more than our hearts can take. What stops us is fear.

  Marianne Williamson

  Running, Children, Heart

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• The faxes went out from the producers and the director to my agents to my manager to call me and ask me to lose weight. I just remember sitting in my trailer hysterically crying from the embarrassment I felt about myself, my body - and that no one could talk to me directly.

  Ali Larter

  Sitting, Body, Remember

  "Reality Check: Ali Larter Is Insecure, Just Like the Rest of Us". www.popsugar.com. June 18, 2008.

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• This is a source of much embarrassment and puzzlement to me about myself. (It) probably requires psychoanalysis of why there is this aberration in my life. The rest of my conduct, I think you will agree, is not reflective of my driving record, and I apologized for it.

  Zulima Farber

  Thinking, Aberration, Records

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• Less and less frequently do we encounter people with the ability to tell a tale properly. More and more often there is embarrassment all around when the wish to hear a story is expressed. It is as if something that seemed inalienable to us, the securest among our possessions, were taken from us: the ability to exchange our experiences...Experience has fallen in value. And it looks as if it is continuing to fall into bottomlessness.

  Walter Benjamin

  Fall, Taken, People

  "Illuminations". Book by Walter Benjamin, 1950.

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• Childhood is what ended me up in the hospital and teetering on the edge of deathly alcoholism. It was really good for me to accept it. To accept all the embarrassment and the shame so I don't feel like I used to.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Childhood, Shame, Accepting

  "INTERVIEW: Augusten Burroughs, Author of ‘Running With Scissors’". Interview with Laremy Legel, www.ropeofsilicon.com. October 27, 2006.

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• For some reason, I was born without a sense of embarrassment or shame.

  Jason Segel

  Shame, Reason, Born

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• There are moments when it frightens us, threatening to expose us as inauthentic. Well, the big-time impostors we read about in literature run this risk constantly, flirting with destruction, not just humiliation or embarrassment. It's a spectacle that we can't help but find compelling, and it involves a certain level of courage that we sneakily admire, perhaps.

  Walter Kirn

  Running, Flirting, Risk

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Universal truths have become an embarrassment, but they won't quite go away.

  Mason Cooley

  Truth, Going Away, Universal

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• Comedy has traditionally been about fear of embarrassment.

  Marco Roth

  Comedy

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I have an intense personal interest in making the use of American capital in the development of China an instrument for the promotion of the welfare of China, and an increase in her material prosperity without entanglements or creating embarrassment affecting the growth of her independent political power, and the preservation of her territorial integrity.

  William Howard Taft

  Integrity, Independent, Creating

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• Dogs have a sense of smell much greater than ours and they're much faster than we are. We have fairly dull senses, fairly slow locomotion. In our Olympic trials, we celebrate speeds that would be an embarrassment to a bird or a dog or another animal.

  Neal Barnard

  Dog, Animal, Smell

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Paul LePage has become a terrible embarrassment to the state I live in and love. If he won't govern, he should resign.

  Stephen King

  And Love, Should, States

  Twitter post from Jun 30, 2015

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