Nervously Awkward Quotes

#1. I think Eric Bana would be a good Superman. He's got that look. I think he'd be a great Superman.

Lou Ferrigno

#2. As digital communications have multiplied, and NSA capabilities with them, the agency has shifted resources from surveillance of individual targets to the acquisition of communications on a planetary scale.

Barton Gellman

#3. I do love the clothes on 'Mad Men' because my character has been so elegant and I would never have had access to these clothes. I think Janie Bryant is a costume designing genius. They'll call and tell me, 'It will only take an hour,' and I'm like, 'I will try on the whole truck!'

Cara Buono

#4. It's often the case that the most strained moments in books are the very beginning and the very end - the getting in and the getting out. The ending, especially: it's awkward, as if the writer doesn't know when the book is over and nervously says it all again.

Robert Gottlieb

#5. ...tales in search of an excuse for their telling.

John Van Maanen

#6. Scuse me - gotta hurry home - left the chillun on the stove.

Walt Kelly

#7. He was a tubby little chap who looked as if he had been poured into his clothes and forgotten to say 'when'!

P.G. Wodehouse

#8. It's Earth day I wonder if we can plant more trees than people for a change?

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#9. She had refused to draw the monster. She feared to give him form.

Christina Dodd