Top 100 Quotes About Awkward
#1. On 'Awkward,' we really like to send the message out that we're relatable, and that we get what people are going through.
Jillian Rose Reed
#2. So many times you see beautiful lovemaking scenes with a lot of exposure or an awkward lovemaking scene, but I think it's very rare that you see it private.
Ang Lee
#3. She's been used to hiding her feelings for so long, no wonder her manner can be a little awkward.
Sophie Kinsella
#4. Granville did not come to enquire after me, as I had known he would not. I had always considered him made awkward by painful emotion, but now I considered that perhaps hew as only unfeeling.
Anna Freeman
#5. An awkward, unscientific lie is often as ineffectual as the truth.
Mark Twain
#6. Music has generally involved a lot of awkward contraptions, a certain amount of heavy lifting.
Tom Waits
#7. I'm sort of awkward with technology, and I think I'm the type of guy who would have something cool happen to him, and it would take, like, five days to figure out how to tweet it.
Ben Bass
#8. Any attempts to feign normal social interactions were just depressing because it was so glaringly obvious that everyone I spoke to for the rest of my life would feel awkward and self-conscious around me, except maybe kids like Jackie who just didn't know any better.
John Green
#9. Life can be awkward at times. It is part of the growing process.
Jim Fargiano
#10. I never felt comfortable in real life very well. It's always been an awkward kind of thing for me and so when I hit the stage I just sensed freedom. I sensed, 'Here's a place that I can have all the experiences of life and not feel uncomfortable about it.'
Nick Nolte
#11. I know people who enjoy having 10 people running around and doing things for them. I don't. I feel awkward in such situations. It gives you a false sense of importance.
Sonam Kapoor
#12. To varying degrees, we all feel awkward. Whether we hide it with arrogance, shyness, modesty; whether we play the clown or the trendsetter, everyone struggles.
Miranda Hart
#13. It was a little awkward walking behind his mom when, about eight hours ago, I had been rolling around on the floor with her son with my shirt pulled halfway up my back.
Katie Kacvinsky
#15. I was pretty socially awkward as a kid, which is a common thread among animators. You have this need to connect to the rest of the world, but as soon as you do you feel totally awkward and abnormal. And so to relate to the world, you sit and draw.
Pete Doctor
#16. We look at each other for a moment and for once I feel awkward. It's not that I'm not into humility; I've just never had to practise it.
Melina Marchetta
#17. I've always been afraid that somewhere, future time travelers flip through our mirrors as if they were t.v. screens, catching our most awkward and personal moments.
Fran Krause
#18. I'd like to look below my eyes and see not language staring back at me, not sentences or single words or awkward pen lines, but a surface clear and burnished as glass.
William H Gass
#19. I was invited to a dinner party by an ex, and I was convinced that he wanted to rekindle our relationship. I prohibited my friends from coming with me because I didn't want to make it awkward for them when he professed his love to me.
Chrissie Fit
#20. The quarterback is the most vulnerable one on the field. He's in an awkward position a lot of times when he throws the ball. So he does have to be protected. You lose a quarterback, you're in trouble. I don't know if they can make it too safe. I think health becomes an issue.
Bud Grant
#21. For me, some of the happiest moments on a live-action film are the awkward moments. One actor says something to another actor. They didn't expect that performance from that actor; that affects their return performance.
Gore Verbinski
#22. Kami concentrated on the scarecrows going by and scribbled: "Write in your notebook to avoid this awkward moment!" Angela
Sarah Rees Brennan
#23. It's awkward going to parties with people you don't know, especially when they think they know you.
Nicholas Hoult
#24. I love solving the problems of having groups work together and removing barriers. But to actually turn around and be in the center of that is an awkward place to be.
Edwin Catmull
#25. Become gloriously comfortable in your own skin, however awkward the fit.
Srividya Srinivasan
#26. I really hate being recognised. I'm quite a shy person, and I'm not very good at talking to strangers. So when people come up to me in the street, I just find it quite awkward. I don't really know what to say to them.
Hannah Murray
#27. I'm disciplined about writing. I get up every day knowing I have to produce work. I'm less concerned about other aspects of the job, such as the prizes and promotions. Promoting my work can be awkward, unless I feel sociable enough. Prizes encourage me to work harder on my next project.
Sefi Atta
#28. They assumed I didn't understand the conversation, and it was much easier to let them think that. My mother said I was at an awkward age. I didn't feel especially awkward, so I presumed she meant it was awkward for them.
Joanna Cannon
#30. Books educate people and educated people ask awkward questions of those who govern them. The educated, in short, are considered ungovernable. Better to keep people ignorant of the past and to concentrate their minds on the utopia that lies ahead.
The Economist
#31. I started out really into musical theater. So you can imagine I was super popular. I wasn't awkward looking at all.
Allison Williams
#32. For me, and I suspect a lot of socially awkward people, dealing with people face-to-face seems really traumatic. Particularly if you have massive sweating issues, and particularly if on top of that you have quite smelly sweat that smells like onion soup.
Caitlin Moran
#33. I think sports gave me the first place where this awkward girl could feel comfortable in my own skin. I think that's true for a lot of women-sports gives you a part of your life where you can work at something and you look in the mirror and you like that person.
Teri McKeever
#34. Let me tell you what I look like: pale face, long hair, and a tiny start of a paunch. In addition, an awkward gait, and a cigar in the mouth and a pen in pocket or hand.
Albert Einstein
#35. Don't be stupid and awkward," the dolphin says. "You want to walk together or not?"
"You are a stupid piece of shit. Go away from me."
The dolphin goes into the center of a circular clothing rack and quietly cries.
Tao Lin
#36. Reunions are always fraught with awkward tensions - the necessity to account for oneself; the attempt to find, through memories, an ember of the old emotions ...
Anita Shreve
#37. You are my new hero. Seriously, I might actually be in love with you now. Would it be awkward if we made out?
Rachel Hawkins
#38. Artemis and Holly stood together in their underwear, gingerly locking fingers. They had crossed space and time together, weathered rebellions and tangled with demented despots. Coughed blood, lost digits, inhaled dwarf fumes and swapped eyeballs, yet they found holding hands awkward.
Eoin Colfer
#39. Weave sex is a little awkward.
Nia Long
#40. A lot of fans that recognize me go, 'I kind of hate you,' and I'm all, 'Cool, well, you've just made this sufficiently awkward.'
Sophie Turner
#41. A close friend is someone with whom we can allow ourselves to enter the daydreaming attentional mode, with whom we can switch in and out of different modes of attention without feeling awkward.)
Daniel J. Levitin
#42. If I'm not comfortable, I just look awkward.
Gia Coppola
#43. But for today it is working in this
awkward kind of working. And that
is enough for a beginning.
David Levithan
#44. Prayer is like a great love. When you start dating the silence can be awkward, but as you grow to know each other you can sit in silence for hours and just being with each other is a great comfort.
Matthew Kelly
#45. You go through those awkward, dorky, geeky stages, and growing up in the industry amplifies all that. Fortunately, I have a mother who encouraged me to build my confidence from within and embrace my imperfections.
Jurnee Smollett
#46. Republican presidential hopeful Mike Hucka-BS is attacking actress Natalie Portman for getting pregnant without being married. It could get a little awkward if he runs into Sarah and Bristol Palin at Fox News.
Jay Leno
#47. At Pixar, we do a million versions of the movie, and every one of them goes through their awkward teenage phase where it's terrible and doesn't make sense, and we just keep working on it.
Dan Scanlon
#48. Golf is an awkward set of bodily contortions designed to produce a graceful result.
Tommy Armour
#49. What the hell is she doing? Jake asked, his mouth slack as he watched her dance. The dance wasn't some seductive siren call. It was odd and slightly awkward and joyous.
Lexi Blake
#50. The masterstroke of male fraternity, I believed, was the practice of never speaking of anything remotely personal or related to one's emotions. That way, no one is ever made uncomfortable. Any such awkward moments can always be dispelled with a flurry of pretend-punches.
Lynn Coady
#51. This morning I watched a Diane Sawyer interview where there wasn't one awkward pause. The trick is to pose good questions. "So how was being in the war?" I ask. I'm always saying the wrong thing.
Kathleen Hale
#52. Today was awkward, but I think that's because it feels like a very awkward time. It isn't about you, and it isn't
about love. It's about everything crashing together at once.
David Levithan
#53. Writing novels reminds me of being an awkward 15-year-old typing on a Commodore 64 in his bedroom, trying to be the next Stephen King.
Duane Swierczynski
#54. They say that God is in the details. Then again, they also say that the Devil is in the details. Boy, talk about awkward ...
Dana Gould
#55. The sound of the ocean breaking our silence was like chocolate syrup poured into a glass of milk, dispersing into awkward dark clumps while waiting to be stirred.
Rachel Cohn
#56. It was Alec who brought their lips together.
Seregil's first reaction was disbelief. But Alec was insistent, clumsy but determined. It lasted an instant, an eternity, that one awkward kiss, and it spoke silent volumes of bewildered honesty.
The moment that followed was too fragile for words.
Lynn Flewelling
#57. All of us fractured, awkward collages of experience wrapped tight to present a defensible face to the world.
Mark Lawrence
#58. He's an indulgent sort of man ... ...
With a quick lip and a fierce tongue, the sort of tongue that draws you in with charm and words of praise, awkward silences and desperate worships.
Coco J. Ginger
#59. It is awkward to see a director on the screen.
Shekhar Kapur
#60. I'm usually a bit awkward in houses that I haven't been to before, so it's a way to not look weird. If I find something I've read before it automatically makes me more comfortable.
Adi Alsaid
#61. The teenage years are ridiculously crucial and hard and, um, awkward.
Aimee Teegarden
#62. In London, too, there's always someone dropping in, but not here - it's too awkward a place to get to. I like people to come and stay. I'm not anti-social; I'm just unsocial.
Martin Gayford
#63. We worry about appearing awkward in a presentation. But up to a point, most people seem to feel more comfortable with less-than-perfect speaking abilities. It makes the speaker more human - and more vulnerable, meaning he is less likely to attack our decisions or beliefs.
John P. Kotter
#64. People who grew up as child stars have the same thing in common. You're cute, they love you; you go through the awkward stage, they don't accept you any more. Very few make the transition to adult star,
Michael Jackson
#65. 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
#66. Great ideas often have no reference points.
We have nothing to compare them to. They are original, and awkward. And so they are the most vulnerable to people trying to kill them. They do not conform to what exists, so they challenge us.
David Hieatt
#67. She turned and plunked herself down on the padded webbing. "He's a little awkward, a little tongue-tied around women, and a man that fit and good-looking without a girlfriend?
Barbara Dunlop
#68. I like parties, but I'm shy, and I often find myself standing around, feeling awkward.
Michael Bergin
#69. It would seem this is the gift modernity has bestowed upon our generation: the practice of "dating," an awkward procedure where a man and a woman find themselves talking rot to each other in a darkened room. If it were up to me, I would say modernity can keep it, as I want no part.
Suzanne Rindell
#71. To be a poet, it's a challenge to do it in poverty, to do it in wealth. To do it in the academy, to do it in a relationship where you're happy. Everything changes the game. To do it in the awkward state of love, despair, dying. You just have to work it.
Eileen Myles
#72. It's not just you ... I guess it's been a slow week for news." I laughed. "We're now the hottest story in town."
He smirked at me. "Oh, good, and I was worried that this would be awkward."
Stephens, S.C. (2012-08-16). Effortless (Thoughtless Book 2) (p. 282). Gallery Books. Kindle Edition.
S.C. Stephens
#73. The surest way to become Tense, Awkward, and Confused is to develop a mind that tries too hard - one that thinks too much.
Benjamin Hoff
#75. I was starting to hate my sixteenth birthday. A poufy white dress and a cake with roses made out of pink icing and awkward dancing with boys in awkward suits was starting to sound like a great alternative. Seriously. Sign my up, I wouldn't even complain.
Alyxandria Harvey
#76. I imagined that it might be awkward to talk to your wife about her performance, so going into it I was a little nervous. But doing it was actually a wonderfully inspiring experience.
Lasse Hallstrom
#77. Although in the past I had seen a few exchanges of genuine affection between them, the Warshaw men were awkward and ill at ease with each other.
Michael Chabon
#78. Children of course are monstrously conventional, repelled at once by whatever is off-center, out of whack, unmanageable. And being an only child I had been coddled a good deal (also scolded). I was awkward, precocious, timid, full of my private rituals and aversions.
Alice Munro
#79. I went through my awkward teenage years. I don't want to go back.
Ashley Wagner
#80. All I've ever wanted for my kids is for them to be happy. There's no pressure on Victoria to do anything, but she genuinely loves performing. My son Simon is in advertising. They're both tremendous people. I don't think they've ever been awkward, even Simon as a teenager.
Tony Blackburn
#81. Why is straight the default? Everyone should have to declare one way or another, and it shouldn't be this big awkward thing whether you're straight, gay, bi, or whatever. I'm just saying.
Becky Albertalli
#82. Usually, the energy in elevators is so awkward; I mean, I can't imagine the politics in the ones in the Conde Nast building.
Marco Brambilla
#83. The critic said, but don't you feel awkward about biting the hand that feeds you? I said no, I enjoy just gnawing it up to the shoulder.
Myles Horton
#84. Right, that was awkward. Eve, you stay and ... , bake or something."
"The hell I will.
Rachel Caine
#85. I'm a big people pleaser; I had a very awkward adolescence. Part of me is still that person who wants everyone to like me.
Alissa Nutting
#86. Certainly, people feel awkward when they have their photograph taken. They want to see it, but they don't want to see it.
Nigel Barker
#87. It was rather awkward, insofar as we were both teetering between the possibility of something and the possibility of nothing.
David Levithan
#88. I've always been a geek and slightly awkward ... slightly umm ... I was never the cool kid at school.
David Tennant
#89. The awkward moment in which I discover that both my wife and my sister have made out with the same guy.
Rachel Morgan
#90. I'm scared of flying. And dying." There. She'd said it, and it was out there. Now when Nicole screamed a lot and peed her pants, it wouldn't be so awkward because she'd warned everyone.
T.S. Joyce
#91. Vladimir Putin celebrated his 63rd birthday today. He had a nice party, but it got awkward when two of his friends got him the same country.
Jimmy Fallon
#92. Awkward When CNBC Discusses Tim Cook's
Anonymous
#93. I feel like I'm nothing without wildlife. They are the stars. I feel awkward without them.
Bindi Irwin
#94. My parents, though very loving, were not what one would ever describe as outgoing and therefore when I was young I was quite shy and socially awkward. Having a camera changed all that. It gave me an excuse to go anywhere and approach anybody.
Derek Ridgers
#95. I think everyone has their awkward phases. Growing up isn't easy for everyone. I definitely had my awkward moments.
Emily Ratajkowski
#96. Black and awkward is the worst, because black people are stereotyped as being anything but awkward in mainstream media ... Black people are always portrayed to be cool or overly dramatic, anything but awkward.
Issa Rae
#97. 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
#98. She shook her head and dropped the focus of the light down to the ground. "Well, thanks for ...
everything. Dinner. And stuff. Showing me the ranch."
Why were things so awkward with him?
"Sure." He put his hands in his pockets. "See you tomorrow?"
"Yeah. Tomorrow.
Maisey Yates
#99. I always thought I was sort of awkward and goofy-looking. I'm still kind of gangly.
Troy Garity
#100. A little voice in the back of my head said, Don't trust him! You're not special! You're weird and awkward and a bigheaded Neanderthal freak with Medusa hair! He's confused you with someone else! Almost immediately, I told that voice to eat shit and die.
Penny Reid
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