Top 49 Embarrassingly Quotes
#1. Time had been filled, reliably, agreeably, they had not been left adrift, and for this they were truly embarrassingly grateful.
Alice Munro
#2. We're currently living with a generation of established novelists who are embarrassingly out of date with respect to social networking, internet skills, and so on.
Charles Stross
#3. You know when he takes your hand and puts it in the hand of the person you marry? That's the only part I've ever really wanted." Embarrassingly enough, it was true.
Kiera Cass
#4. It's often the case that when a critic uses an embarrassingly accurate term to describe what a wrong-doer is doing, the wrong-doer protests: "Why don't you use my white-washed, conscience-soothing euphemism?" Such euphemisms, they claim, help promote "civilized debate."
Steve Kangas
#5. I spent a week living as a man. Which was actually, I'm sorry to say, embarrassingly easy for me to do.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#6. I'm horrible at remembering names, embarrassingly bad.
Sam Trammell
#8. In an ideal world, we would have been orphans. We felt like orphans and we felt deserving of the pity that orphans get, but embarrassingly enough, we had parents.
Miranda July
#9. Embarrassingly enough, I often can't remember how I came to write something.
Tom Stoppard
#10. If they didn't stop this, she was going to come
embarrassingly quickly.
Possibly even right now.
Not to mention the fact she never let men she barely knew unzip her and suck on her nipples.
Amy Andrews
#11. Yes, one of the benefits of being embarrassingly rich is that you find out if you have syphilis much earlier than the average peasant would.
Abigail Barnette
#12. You can be a writer who doesn't read everyday. But you're not fooling anyone. It shows, rather embarrassingly, in your work.
Don Roff
#13. Without recourse to eternal souls and a Creator God, it becomes embarrassingly difficult for liberals to explain what is so special about individual Sapiens.
Yuval Noah Harari
#14. It's embarrassingly plain how inadequate language is.
Anthony Doerr
#15. I keep expectations so embarrassingly low that I broke my contract and went and got a hair-cut.
Cristin Milioti
#16. I focused, rather embarrassingly, on his chest which was rising and falling slowly.
I left teeth marks!
Kyra Lennon
#17. Gansey had always felt as if there were two of him: the Gansey who was in control, able to handle any situation, able to talk to anyone, and then, the other, more fragile Gansey, strung out and unsure, embarrassingly earnest, driven by naive longing.
Maggie Stiefvater
#18. The Doctor ... is embarrassingly human for an alien.
Steven Moffat
#19. I was very depressed after breaking off my engagement with Johnny ten years ago. I was embarrassingly dramatic at the time, but you have to remember I was only 19 years old.
Winona Ryder
#20. Unseen University had never admitted women, muttering something about problems with the plumbing, but the real reason was an unspoken dread that if women were allowed to mess around with magic they would probably be embarrassingly good at it ...
Terry Pratchett
#21. It is embarrassingly unscientific to speak of anything creating itself from nothing.
Ray Comfort
#22. Embarrassingly for Obama, it appeared that his administration had jumped the gun on banning the bullets.
John R. Lott Jr.
#23. A lot of my poems are about how ill I am and how I probably won't live beyond next week. I publish a poem and everyone says 'cluck cluck, how wonderful, how brave', but then embarrassingly I'm still here! You see the problem?
Clive James
#24. As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.
Lance Morrow
#25. Pinot, the most romantic of wines, with so voluptuous a perfume, so sweet an edge, and so powerful a punch that, like falling in love, they make the blood run hot and the soul wax embarrassingly poetic.
Renee Carlino
#26. With a ready tongue and rapier wit, Hamilton could wound people more than he realized, and he was so nimble in debate that even bright people sometimes felt embarrassingly tongue-tied in his presence.
Ron Chernow
#27. I was seventeen, very old, embarrassingly young,
Maya Angelou
#28. Nobody likes me," he concluded at the tail end of a ten-minute pity fest.
"Can't imagine why," Quinn murmured. I turned my snort of laughter into a fake cough,
which was an embarrassingly feeble attempt at subterfuge when you consider the fact that
I didn't have any lungs.
Robin Wasserman
#29. I don't remember; I was in a rage haze. Also I was showing off, which can be at the very least embarrassingly transparent and at the very worst
Amy Poehler
#30. I met Jay Jonhson. I won him the way poor people occasionally win the lottery: Shameless perseverance and embarrassingly dumb luck, and every time I see one of those sly, toothless, beaten-down souls on TV holding a winning ticket, I think, Go, team.
Amy Bloom
#31. You'd better touch me before something happens spontaneously that makes me look embarrassingly desperate."
"Really?" He lowered just close enough for his chest to graze the fabric covering her bra, squeezing a squeak from her throat. "I'd like to watch that. You're making abstinence sound fun.
Brynn Kelly
#32. 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
#33. Though the problems of the world are increasingly complex,
the solutions remain embarrassingly simple.
Bill Mollison
#34. The list of women to potentially be on a major party ticket, in both parties, is embarrassingly short.
Eleanor Clift
#35. A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.
Henry Ford
#36. Driving through the refugee camp made us think about how embarrassingly frivolous most of our problems are.
Brad Van Orden
#37. During our visits, he consumed an embarrassingly varied assortment of cheap beer and wine, vacillating between fury and melancholy as one might imagine Richard Nixon to be doing not far away. Sometimes he choked on his emotions so badly I feared I would have to perform the Heimlich maneuver on him.
Viet Thanh Nguyen
#38. With an embarrassingly little amount of effort on his part, he twisted the Glock out of her fingers and flung it across the drive...
"Going so soon?" he asked.
"The company isn't to my liking.
Avery Flynn
#39. My family is just embarrassingly proud of me. My brothers get a little protective ... overly protective. I've made rules now where I say: "You can't go outside and scream at people if they have cameras!"
Kristen Stewart
#40. I was embarrassingly well-versed in Marvel lore, so it was pretty easy to slip into that world. But really, already, by the time I'd started writing superhero comics, my dream was really to be writing my own characters.
Brian K. Vaughan
#41. I've always scribbled, and I still do it. I've written numerous scripts for films for which I think I'd be perfect as the complex, intelligent and, yes, modern heroine. Embarrassingly bad, all of them. I've had to come to terms with the fact that I'm not a writer.
Romola Garai
#42. Don't get me wrong: I can and do waste time on the Internet with the best of them, but in some respects, I am an embarrassingly analog guy. I am not on Facebook. I write whole books on yellow legal pads. I do not own a cell phone.
Jonathan Dee
#43. I'm mildly obsessed with skin care. I do a lot of masks at home, like Elisha Coy's Korean Collagen masks. I also use an embarrassingly wide variety of facial creams.
Nina Arianda
#44. I'm empathetic to a fault. I really do - embarrassingly enough - tear up when someone squishes a bug in front of me.
Kristen Bell
#46. Never too late to learn some embarrassingly basic, stupidly obvious things about oneself.
Alain De Botton
#47. My work is frequently described as cold, which is baffling, since it seems to me embarrassingly, shame-makingly, scandalously warm. I find my work filled with sentiment, and I can't imagine why people find it cold.
John Banville
#48. It took Marvel Comics years to begin to put together any worthwhile superheroines. The first crop was, to a gal, embarrassingly disappointing. They had all the measly powers that fifties and sixties male chauvinism could contrive to bestow on a superwoman.
Michael Chabon
#49. You can't know how weird your own life is until you get some distance on it. Everything seems mundane or boring or embarrassingly small.
Kyle Minor
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