Embarrassing Quotes

#1. Guys like him ruin it for everybody else. It's just embarrassing. Or maybe he's not embarrassed because he probably believes he's not doing it-that's how liars are.

Chris Chelios

#2. Everything about this is embarrassing" she said. "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

#3. There was an embarrassing moment at a recent Democratic fundraiser. When John Kerry was handed a $10 million dollar check, he said, 'I do.'

Craig Kilborn

#4. Embarrassing ourselves in front of strangers is literally one of the worst things that can happen to us. It's in the slot where polio used to be. Awkwardness, rejection, missing out. We've conquered everything else and these constants of human life are all that remain to bedevil us.

Alexandra Petri

#5. How embarrassing would that be to be found dead, naked in your bathroom, in a pile of Honey Dust?

Deanna Chase

#6. Your good friends can write a book on you; but Your best friends can create an embarrassing full fledged 3 hours movie on you, with silliest jingles and animation made ever.

Vikrmn

#7. Is it too much?"
"No. It's like you completed the circuit," I say, gripping his other hand. "I feel kind of drunk, though."
"Drunk on power?" he asks.
I giggle. "Shit, Snow. Stop talking. This is embarrassing.

Rainbow Rowell

#8. There was something fundamentally embarrassing about being a young woman ... [the] embarrassment of wanting to be more assured, more substantive, more whole, of moving to tap resources that simply weren't there.

Michelle Orange

#9. It's so embarrassing to receive an award for doing what you should be doing.

Arthur Hiller

#10. I do embarrassing things all the time, but I don't really get embarrassed. It's like I'm unaware of my embarrassing things.

Eliza Doolittle

#11. What are you?
I opened my eyes gingerly. The flashlight that had blinded me was lying a few feet from my head now, which gave me just enough light to see what appeared to be a twelve-year-old girl sitting on my chest.
I'd gotten my butt handed to me by a sixth grader? That was embarrassing.

Rachel Hawkins

#12. It's a good giggle to look back at yourself in your 20s. You thought you were so fierce and fabulous, and it's just embarrassing.

Tabatha Coffey

#13. It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'Try to be a little kinder.

Aldous Huxley

#14. Such silly things, children - and so embarrassing - because they keep changing themselves out of shame, out of a need to be loved or something.

Gregory Maguire

#15. He leaned his forehead against the mirror and closed his eyes. It was embarrassing to see himself smile like that.

Rainbow Rowell

#16. There are no embarrassing answers-just embarrassing questions.

Carl T. Rowan

#17. Don't cover up your sore with your wealth. Your wealth has limitations. At the Limit the sore will embarrassing by surface

Ikechukwu Joseph

#18. I think that 'Degrassi' really challenged its actors. I was on it for seven years, and it was one of my first jobs. I can't even watch the early episodes - they're so embarrassing! But I really do think I grew as an actor and learned a lot over the seven years.

Stacey Farber

#19. I have about 4 albums of Disney songs, but the embarrassing part is that I know each song word for word, and have dances choreographed for most.

Jessica De Gouw

#20. It's embarrassing that we're in the 21st century and we don't even know what makes gravity work. I'm getting older and thinking maybe I should tackle more than the mundane. I may fail, but at least I will have tried.

Woody Norris

#21. Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton is now facing a kind of personal dilemma. She can't decide whether to drop the name Clinton from her name, or drop the name Rodham. They can't figure out which one is more embarrassing.

Jay Leno

#22. Noctis ... this is a little embarrassing, but ... your male anatomy is bothering me.

Dahlia L. Summers

#23. That was just too embarrassing, although there was a sort of poetic justice to peeing on your enemies when they weren't able to get to you. And it wasn't like they would kill me less painfully if I didn't pee on them.

Elle Casey

#24. Mind your own Brazilian! The words fly out of my mouth before I can stop them. Oops.
OK. The trick when you've said something embarrassing by mistake is to pretend nothing happened.

Sophie Kinsella

#25. Young actors often don't think of the consequences of doing nudity or sex scenes. They want the role so badly that they agree to be exploited, and then end up embarrassing family, friends, and even strangers.

Natalie Portman

#26. I work with really cool people, and so far I haven't been approached in any embarrassing manner when it comes to image.

Sondre Lerche

#27. I much preferred the peaceful life on the road, where I didn't have to ask embarrassing questions and do all the things real reporters have to do.

Charles Kuralt

#28. The whole quantum setup ends up being embarrassing in the special way something pretentious is embarrassing when it's also wrong.

David Foster Wallace

#29. The real life of the party is flattened beneath the bed, taping actual sex encounters, not sitting cross-legged on the floor with a guitar, embarrassing himself and others.

David Sedaris

#30. I always entertain the notion that I'm wrong, or that I'll have to revise my opinion. Most of the time that feels good; sometimes it really hurts and is embarrassing.

Anthony Bourdain

#31. Someone who has a disability is not necessarily in distress. You may be embarrassing and inconveniencing someone by butting in and making assumptions.

Mallory Ortberg

#32. The dominant purpose of the First Amendment was to prohibit the widespread practice of government suppression of embarrassing information.

William O. Douglas

#33. I wanted to write in film or something like that. I thought acting was an embarrassing thing to say you wanted to do, especially when you're young. It seemed really uncool.

Max Minghella

#34. Guston tacked toward celebrating the crap of life not for its own ironic sake, but as the ever-present still life that surrounds the embarrassingly, even tragically human. No Duchampian object is ever tragic. Many if not most of Guston's objects, even the most hilarious, are.

Ross Feld

#35. Philosophy was that death should not be embarrassing; he was not about to powder its nose.

Mitch Albom

#36. My dad's name is Vernon and my mom liked the initials, V. V. My sisters and I got named Victoria, Valerie and Vincent so we'd be V. V.'s, too. But, then when you start getting pets' names that start with a 'v,' it's a little embarrassing.

Vince Vaughn

#37. The most embarrassing thing that ever happened to me was when I was wearing a hair extension and it fell out on set.

Oliver Sykes

#38. I'm quite shy, so if there's a guy I like, I actually ignore him because I can't speak to him. I get all red and sweaty, and it's embarrassing.

Silvia Colloca

#39. I have a season pass to several of the VH1 shows, like 'Rock of Love' and Flavor Flav's show. It's kind of embarrassing because it's completely ignorant television - it's all totally fake and garbage - but I still love it.

Megan Fox

#40. To me, failure is not fatal unless you quit; getting knocked down is not embarrassing unless you allow it to keep you down.

John Ashcroft

#41. But you have to understand that I consider myself a very modest artist, or whatever, and not of importance really at all - it is quite embarrassing to me to be asked my opinion about things. I am only a wee Scottish poet on the outside of everything.

Ian Hamilton Finlay

#42. My most embarrassing moment was probably when I was on tour and I would throw the mic out of my hand and catch it but one time I dropped it and I felt so stupid. My most exhilarating moment is every time I step on stage to perform.

Shawn Desman

#43. Ignorance is indeed bliss, but it is also dangerous and embarrassing.

Ted Nugent

#44. A lot of controversy over this possible invasion of Iraq. In fact, Nelson Mandela was so upset, he called Bush's dad. How embarrassing, when world leaders start calling your father.

Jay Leno

#45. You know what, when you screw up in the ring, it's so embarrassing.

Jake Roberts

#46. One of these modest little moves may be more embarrassing to your opponent than the biggest threat

Siegbert Tarrasch

#47. Rejection is a universally embarrassing topic and 'Electra Heart' is my response to that. It is a frank album.

Marina And The Diamonds

#48. Today the Secretary of State said that of the 247 candidates, so far 115 of them have been certified. How embarrassing is that? Imagine if you were turned down because you didn't meet the high standards set by Larry Flynt and Gallagher.

Jay Leno

#49. It's one of those secrets that's embarrassing to acknowledge, but we do love our students.

Joyce Carol Oates

#50. I can finally see that all the terrible parts of my life, the embarrassing parts, the incidents I wanted to pretend never happened, and the things that make me "weird" and "different," were actually the most important parts of my life. They were the parts that made me ME.

Jenny Lawson

#51. Human societies are based on the human tendency to want things, and are geared to satisfying those wants: possessions or facilities to bring ease and personal satisfaction. The results are frequently disappointing, and always terminate in the embarrassing non sequitur of death.

Diarmaid MacCulloch

#52. I don't care for sex. I find it an embarrassing, dull exercise. I prefer sports, where you can win.

Norm MacDonald

#53. Fantastic," I said without an ounce of enthusiasm. "I'm just one more embarrassing confession away from taking over the world."
Spencer Nye

Jason Letts

#54. It was the most natural thing in the world because from out of his mouth were coming most of the things I felt. In another person, one i did not have this attachment to, it would have been gushing, clingy and embarrassing, from him it was like having a mirror held up to my soul.

Dorothy Koomson

#55. I'm just glad you didn't get you greedy little claws on the OTHER sketchbook. THAT would have been embarrassing.

Michelle Hodkin

#56. Things got said, the kinds of embarrassing things that don't go away. Tempers ran high. My paternal grandfather's teak desk required a new panel, which never quite matched the others. Intellectual debate can be very hard on furniture.

Nancy Kress

#57. I never sleep alone. If there is no one to sleep next to, I'll sleep next to a stuffed animal. It makes me feel secure and safe. It's a little embarrassing to admit it; I'm an old man now. It's important to me though.

Keith Richards

#58. I don't get it. Scratch, bite, squeal, slap. Why do women fight like that? They've got fists. It's embarrassing to our entire gender.

J.D. Robb

#59. As a kid, I loved going to lots of thrift stores with my parents. There was a period where I thought it was embarrassing, and then I started to get older - I realized they were really cool.

Tessa Thompson

#60. (Bonhoeffer's) change was not an ungainly, embarrassing leap from which he would have to retreat slightly when he gained more maturity and perspective. It was by all accounts a deepening consistent with what had gone before.

Eric Metaxas

#61. I asked many friends if Australian anti-intellectualism was still a living force and they all told me it was. If you are above average intelligence, hide this embarrassing fact.

George Mikes

#62. I'm not the first to admit that raising a child in Park Slope, Brooklyn, can bear an embarrassing resemblance to the TV show 'Portlandia.' My wife and I try to have some ironic distance from the culture of organic, chemical-free parenting, but we're often participants.

Adam Davidson

#63. What's really sad is that a lot of very talented people are being forced to do things that are very embarrassing and I don't intend to be one of them.

Boy George

#64. To be let go from a soap opera is the most embarrassing confidence basher in the world. It's like, 'Oh, if I'm not good enough for that, I'm not good enough for anything.'

Cam Gigandet

#65. Foo shuddered. It had been less than an hour since the cops led Abby away and already he missed her like a severed limb. It was embarrassing. How could hormones and hydrostatic pressure make you feel like this? Love was very unscientific.

Christopher Moore

#66. I've got everything I need right here." That sentimental thought met a room full of cheesy and sarcastic "aw's" and an empty water bottle thrown at my head. No, stop guys, really. You're embarrassing me.

Rachel Higginson

#67. Parents have that special skill of making the truth, no matter how benign, an embarrassing thing. We all know this.

M O Walsh

#68. ...{N}othing is harder for the developing writer than overcoming his anxiety that he is fooling himself and cheating or embarrassing his family and friends.

John Gardner

#69. My parents were hugely supportive like that. I was always the best - it's so embarrassing, isn't it? I was always the best at everything.

Francesca Annis

#70. The virtue of art lies in detachment, in sequestering one object from the embarrassing variety. Until one thing comes out from theconnection of things, there can be enjoyment, contemplation, but no thought.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#71. It has often been hard for me to know if people are serious when they talk about making T-shirts. Just to be clear: Nobody ever means it, ever. Making and wearing matching, themed T-shirts is embarrassing. Unless you want to make some with me right now, or something.

Katie Heaney

#72. I suddenly felt all girly and giggly, which was a complete foreign feeling. If I started twirling my hair, I was going to have Trent shoot me.

Sariah Wilson

#73. It's almost embarrassing how much support I have. I mean, I always tell people I feel like I'm perfectly set up to have cancer. I have great health insurance, I have a savings account. I have work lined up. I have friends and family. I have the best doctors I can get.

Tig Notaro

#74. I had no idea what to expect moving to New York. It's embarrassing to say, but I didn't even realize that people bought contemporary art ... that people actually paid for it ... I know that's really dumb. I was really naive. I had no idea artists made money.

Wade Guyton

#75. The book of Jonah becomes an embarrassing and public reading of your family business. (page iii)

Michael Ben Zehabe

#76. It is the answers, not the questions, that are embarrassing.

Helen Suzman

#77. When I was growing up, it was so embarrassing to be from Jersey.

Tate Donovan

#78. Rachel bit her lip. I hope you're right. I'm a little worried. What if someone asks what's on the next math test and I start spouting a prophecy in the middle of geometry class? The Pythagorean theorem shall be problem two ... Gods, that would be embarrassing.

Rick Riordan

#79. 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

#80. Nothing is so embarrassing as watching someone do something that you said couldn't be done.

Sam Ewing

#81. Divorce is an embarrassing public admission of defeat.

Tracy Letts

#82. If there is a devil, his greatest tool is division. He divides us into this group and that group and whispers that the worst, most embarrassing thing we can do is jump sides. The worst thing we can do is change our minds. Now, how silly is that? I change my mind about things every day.

S.T. Rogers

#83. 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

#84. At least with all the blood moved to his face he'd be able to leave the table without further embarrassing himself.

Nicole Castle

#85. He might be older than hr, but her hormones didn't care. No, they screamed 'fuck yeah, let's ride.' Her nipples tightened and she thanked God she'd worn a bra that morning. Talk about embarrassing if that was the first thing he's see.

Carrie Ann Ryan

#86. One of the embarrassing problems for the early nineteenth-century champions of the Christian faith was that not one of the first six Presidents of the United States was an orthodox Christian.

Mortimer Adler

#87. It's pleasant and bothersome and embarrassing all at once. Especially when you haven't done much and are a celebrity.

Nastassja Kinski

#88. Unless you are a Bernard Shaw you find a preface a most embarrassing business.

Stacy Aumonier

#89. a question is embarrassing for a moment, but not asking is embarrassing for a lifetime

Haruki Murakami

#90. I've been embarrassing myself since about birth.

Phil Lester

#91. My day goes from one embarrassing moment to the next.

Ted Danson

#92. I always say that in order to appreciate warm weather, you must experience cold. I wouldn't change one thing - all the embarrassing moments, the defeats, all of everything - through all of this, I have learned me.

Floyd Patterson

#93. You realize that by standing as you are, everyone will think we are kissing. And that is terribly embarrassing for me. I have much better taste in men.

Cassandra Clare

#94. This is embarrassing and personal, but once a month, since I was twelve years old, I go to my favorite jewelry store and try on my dream ring.

Jennifer Love Hewitt

#95. It had to be the most surreal, embarrassing, awkward moment of his life, standing petrified in his mother's backyard in front of a broken lawn mower, sporting a woody and discussing sex for sale with the landlady.

Linda Kage

#96. It's not hard to connect with the music on an emotional level and get inside the songs. It's odd, very vulnerable, and slightly embarrassing to be standing and singing and playing music in front of a bunch of strangers.

Matt Berninger

#97. Plenty of couples snipe at each other in sometimes embarrassing ways in front of company.

Tina Brown

#98. My dad has worked so hard his whole life. He doesn't deserve to see his daughters going out embarrassing themselves and flashing their knickers. I want to make my parents proud.

Petra Stunt

#99. Perfectionism is the enemy of the idea muscle. Perfectionism is your brain trying to protect you from harm - from coming up with an idea that is embarrassing and stupid and could cause you to suffer pain.

James Altucher

#100. I don't know if I was always an open person, but I think stand-up comics specifically have this way of running towards embarrassing things - whereas regular people tend to run away - because the embarrassing story is always going to be the really funny story.

Aisha Tyler