Awkward Situation Quotes

#1. If you're able to arrange a trial period with a new hire, do it. It will give both of you a chance to make sure the position is a good fit - and can help you avoid being in the awkward situation of wanting to fire someone three or four weeks in.

Kathryn Minshew

#2. Yes, alas, I've been on some recording sessions where the music wasn't good. Not so many, really, considering how many I've done. It's a very awkward situation because to do a recording well you focus on the positive of what will make the piece better.

Tony Levin

#3. This might make for an awkward situation. I have a talent for awkward situations.

Peter Davis

#4. Dating is kind of hard. Like dinner or something like that. Like a forced awkward situation is very strange. Especially for me, for some reason.

Zac Efron

#5. Dear Judy Blume, why didn't you write a book about how to survive talking to your centuries-old, super-duper experienced, smoking-hot soul mate about sex for the first time ever? That book would have been extremely helpful in preparing me for this incredibly awkward situation.

Karen Amanda Hooper

#6. I think as any mother would be she was absolutely over the moon. And actually we had quite an awkward situation because I knew and I knew that William had asked my father but I didn't know if my mother knew.

Kate Middleton

#7. Being injured is quite an awkward situation to be in mentally. Physically, it's quite good to have a bit of a rest, but mentally it's hell.

Magnus Backstedt

#8. Apart from its ill-fated name and frightening body, everything about the crab as a creature is creepy. It only moves sideways. To the right and then jerking to the left. It always looks like it's trying to avoid an awkward situation. "Uh-oh. I owe that guy money," as he sidesteps away.

Jim Gaffigan

#9. There is nothing that is quite so reassuring in an awkward situation as knowing that one is well turned-out, and while I hope I am not so fainthearted as to require such stratagems, I am not so foolish as to overlook their value.

Patricia C. Wrede

#10. You're an idiot,' said Mum, when I relayed to her the entire situation on Wednesday. 'Not an unintelligent idiot, but a sort of naive idiot who manages to fall into a difficult situation and then can't get out out of it because she's too awkward.

Alice Oseman

#11. Fold your fleet wings I have brought some dreams to share
A dream that you love someone
A dream that the wars are done

Joni Mitchell

#12. I say this idea of chokin' folks to death to reform 'em, is where we show the savage in us, which we have brought down from our barbarious ancestors. We have left off the war paint and war whoops, and we shall leave off the hangin' when we get civilized.

Marietta Holley

#13. Howard Hughes was this visionary who was obsessed with speed and flying like a god ... I loved his idea of what filmmaking was.

Martin Scorsese

#14. It's not that I have compromised or anything, but it's always been important to me to take good care of myself and be a good example. I'm not much a role model in terms of hair care, though.

Patti Smith

#15. It was an awkward moment. We were burning down our host's house, a situation which any guest seeks to avoid.

Tahir Shah

#16. People say, 'Well don't you regret not having kids?' And I go, 'No, not really.' And then if they keep asking, I always say this, 'Well, you know, maybe I'll adopt.' But I don't mean that. It's just something I say to make me sound like a nicer person.

Wanda Sykes

#17. Again Mosca felt she was up in the rafters, watching the mice. Little mouse, witless with fear. Running the wrong way. And here she was, just watching. Becoming a part of it by doing nothing.

Frances Hardinge

#18. I'd like to rescue people in trouble, like Superman.

Sheridan Smith

#19. I always thought the point was to have a bigger life, to meet more people. So I don't understand Hollywood.

Kathleen Turner

#20. Masturbation and meditation both promote physical and mental wellbeing.

Abhijit Naskar

#21. You can't understand it until you experience the simple joy of the first time your son points at a seagull and says 'Duck!'

Russell Crowe

#22. I don't think it was a surprise that I ended up as an actor, and it was anything but a disappointment.

Martin Freeman

#23. And I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look around. Lucky me, lucky mud.

Kurt Vonnegut

#24. I think ultimately, when you believe somebody is going through a situation and it's either awkward or ridiculous, but you believe it, that can be funny.

Steve Carell

#25. The full Moon's light poured into the room like a stroke from a wide paintbrush...

Peter Hammarberg

#26. Who loves the golden mean is safe from the poverty of a tenement, is free from the envy of a palace.

Horace

#27. Sometimes it's good to take a break. Just as long as you remember it's only a break.

Melody Carlson