Embarrassment Quotes - Page 3

• To my embarrassment I was born in bed with a lady.

  Wilson Mizner

  Bed, Born

  Evanell K. Powell Brant, Addison Mizner, Wilson Mizner (1979*). “Debauched Proverbs and Other Miznerisms of Addison Mizner and Wilson Mizner”

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• Embarrassment isn't a just cause of action.

  Jodi Picoult

  Causes, Action

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.55, Simon and Schuster

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• All parents are an embarrassment to their kids. Often grandparents are the relief. Kids don't have to resist you.

  Anne Lamott

  Kids, Grandparent, Relief

  "Anne Lamott's directions for grandparents: 'Some Assembly Required'". Interview with Katia Hetter, www.cnn.com. April 6, 2012.

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• Asteroids have us in our sight. The dinosaurs didn't have a space program, so they're not here to talk about this problem. We are, and we have the power to do something about it. I don't want to be the embarrassment of the galaxy, to have had the power to deflect an asteroid, and then not, and end up going extinct.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Sight, Space, Dinosaurs

  "'Space Chronicles': Why Exploring Space Still Matters". Interview with David Greene, www.npr.org. February 27, 2012.

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• The reason to retire is to try to avoid embarrassment; you ought to do it before people are dropping big hints. You want to be the first to come up with the idea. You don't want to wait until you trip and fall off the stage.

  Garrison Keillor

  Fall, Ideas, People

  "Keillor To Retire From Prairie Home In 2013" by wenn.com, March 18, 2011.

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• Setting a good example for your children does nothing but increase their embarrassment.

  Doug Larson

  Children, Example, Doe

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• The secret of the creative life is to feel at ease with your own embarrassment.

  Paul Schrader

  Creative, Secret, Ease

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• If I had to pick one quality that best predicts success (other than wanting to be successful) it would be the willingness to risk embarrassment.

  Scott Adams

  Success, Risk, Quality

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• For my first show at 'SNL', I wrote a Bill Clinton sketch, and during our read-through, it wasn't getting any laughs. This weight of embarrassment came over me, and I felt like I was sweating from my spine out. But I realized, 'Okay, that happened, and I did not die.' You've got to experience failure to understand that you can survive it.

  Tina Fey

  Inspirational, Laughing, Bills

  "Funny girl". www.seventeen.com. January 24, 2008.

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• The best way to give assistance to those who are deeply embarrassed and to calm them down is to praise them decisively.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Giving, Way, Calm

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• I think it's fair to say that Donald Trump was born without the embarrassment gene or the moral reservation gene.

  Mark Shields

  Thinking, Moral

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Somehow, some way, every person in the arts has to find an accommodation with disappointment and embarrassment. They are the pollen in the air we breathe. If you must go into the arts, go into them for yourself alone. On some basic level you must enjoy the act of doing it ... Otherwise, you are going to end up frustrated and unhappy. Recognition in the arts is luck and gravy.

  Joan Rivers

  Art, Disappointment, Air

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• The motivation comes from the embarrassment of having lost and the way it sits with you.

  Ben Morgan

  Motivation, Way, Lost

  Source: www.independent.co.uk

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• One who is always deeply involved in what he is doing is above all embarrassment.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Involved

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• OMG YOU GUYS it has come to my attention that SOMEONE on the internet is saying that my fictional 19th century zombies are NOT SCIENTIFICALLY SOUND. Naturally, I am crushed. To think, IF ONLY I’d consulted with a zombologist or two before sitting down to write, I could’ve avoided ALL THIS EMBARRASSMENT.

  Cherie Priest

  Writing, Thinking, Two

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• Necessity relieves us from the embarrassment of choice.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Destiny, Choices

  "Reflections and Maxims". Book by Luc de Clapiers, 1746.

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• I remember back to my days as a teenager. When you get your feelings hurt, you feel that moment of embarrassment. You think: "No one wants to talk to me ever again. It's all over." I reassure people that's totally not the case. These bullies are just hateful people doing hateful things. Sometimes, it's a lesson in tough love, but you keep positive, smile in the face of hateful adversity and move on. It makes you a stronger person.

  John Cena

  Hurt, Teenager, Moving

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• And now I've got to explain the smell that was in there before I went in there. Does that ever happen to you? It's not your fault. You've held your breath, you just wanna get out, and now you open the door and you have to explain, 'Oh! Listen, there's an odor in there and I didn't do it. It's bad.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Doors, Smell, Doe

  Ellen Degeneres (2011). “My Point...And I Do Have One”, p.48, Bantam

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• Embarrassment felt a lot like eating chili peppers. It burned in the back of your throat and there was nothing you could do to make it go away. You just had to take it, suffer from it, until it eased off.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Suffering, Going Away, Peppers

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• Real mothers don't just listen with humble embarrassment to the elderly lady who offers unsolicited advice in the checkout line when a child is throwing a tantrum. We take the child, dump him in the lady's cart, and say, "Great. Maybe you can do a better job." Real mothers know that it's okay to eat cold pizza for breakfast. Real mothers admit it is easier to fail at this job than to succeed.

  Jodi Picoult

  Mother, Jobs, Children

  Jodi Picoult (2010). “House Rules: A Novel”, p.178, Simon and Schuster

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• Even when I took first prize, topped the class, won the race, I never really won anything. I was merely avoiding the embarrassment of losing.

  Portia de Rossi

  Race, Class, Firsts

  Portia de Rossi (2011). “Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

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• My inner world seems largely to consist of three rotating emotions: embarrassment, rage, and tension. Sometimes I feel excited, but I think that's just positive tension.

  Carrie Fisher

  Thinking, Three, World

  Carrie Fisher (2011). “Postcards From the Edge”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

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• She had always maintained a cynical facade, using it as a defence against embarrassment, fear, loneliness… but at the moment she felt unusually vulnerable.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Loneliness, Cynical, Vulnerable

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• You are doing God's work. You are doing it wonderfully well. He is blessing you, and He will bless you, --even--no, -especially--when your days and your nights may be most challenging. Like the woman who anonymously, meekly, perhaps even with hesitation and some embarrassment, fought her way through the crowd just to touch the hem of the Master's garment, so Christ will say to the women who worry and wonder and weep over their responsibility as mothers, `Daughter, be of good comfort; thy faith hath made thee whole.' And it will make your children whole as well.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Mother, Daughter, Children

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• It's not just the embarrassment of tears. That's part of it, no doubt, but what embarrasses me much more, and always will, is the paralysis that took my heart. A moral freeze: I couldn't decide, I couldn't act, I couldn't comport myself with even a pretense of modest human dignity.

  Tim O'Brien

  Heart, Doubt, Tears

  Tim O'Brien (2009). “The Things They Carried”, p.54, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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