Quotes About Awkward

#1. For TV you also get those pre-interviews when researchers ask you what you're going to say. The pre-interview drives me insane. If they've already decided the outcome, why don't I just hand in an essay? Maybe if we talk we'll find something out. I'd rather just have an awkward pause. - Author: Jarvis Cocker

#2. I was just starting out, trying to become a screenwriter, and I became the Austin slam champion three times. For a nerdy, kind of a socially awkward guy, that did wonders for my self esteem. - Author: Ernest Cline

#3. I don't like vampires personally. I don't know any. - Author: Mitt Romney

#4. I didn't necessarily fit in in high school. I felt very awkward. I still feel completely awkward and weird in my body sometimes. I'm hoping that's going to go away, but I've just embraced it as reality. - Author: Amy Adams

#5. Yeah, it was horrible! I mean really horrible. I felt incredibly awkward. It was not something I was [looking forward to]. I don't know, but it looked good. We somehow managed to make it look realistic. I was proud of myself that I managed to power through and be professional. - Author: Emma Watson

#6. It would be a bit awkward to be with a girlfriend who didn't love what you do. - Author: Ashton Irwin

#7. I like awkward moments. They are full of tension and suspense. Anything's possible or, at the very least, they are the source of some electric sizzle. - Author: Donna Lynn Hope

#8. The good thing about my fans is that they like when I'm awkward and real, so I'm able to just go on stage and be my dorky self. - Author: Tori Kelly

#9. Inspecting? What do you mean? I don't understand. I'm collecting insects. My specialty is sand and insects.
What?
Collecting insects. Insects. Insects.I catch them like this!
Insects? - Author: Kobo Abe

#10. Never ignore the elephant in the room. That's rude; play with it and introduce it. - Author: Donna Lynn Hope

#11. It is awkward to listen to oneself being praised, and I was always a shy man. - Author: H. Rider Haggard

#12. I'm a very self-conscious person; I think we all are, but I'm especially not very comfortable in my body. I always feel really weird and awkward on the street or on the stage. It has nothing to do with circumstances; it's just an ongoing psychological state, like white noise. - Author: Sufjan Stevens

#13. Steve Jobs was probably mildly on the autistic spectrum. Basically, you've probably known people who were geeky and socially awkward but very smart. When does geeks and nerds become autism? That's a gray area. Half the people in Silicon Valley probably have autism. - Author: Temple Grandin

#14. I kind of do this awkward body language because, growing up, I had a really hard time expressing myself vocally. - Author: Analeigh Tipton

#15. What is a fine person or a beauteous face,
Unless deportment give them decent grace;
Blessed with all other requisites to please,
To want the striking elegance of ease;
Awkward, embarrassed, stiff, without the skill
Of moving gracefully, or standing still. - Author: Winston Churchill

#16. You know, even with the 'Awkward Black Girl' episodes, they come out once a month. That's great for me, it's comfortable, it gives each time to digest, time for new people to get on to it and caught up, but oftentimes I have people who are almost demanding a higher output from me. - Author: Issa Rae

#17. I was at an all-girls' school, so there were a lot of us who were really awkward. I was this tall when I was 11, so I was really awkward and self-conscious. No one would really have wanted to be mean to me. I was too unimportant. - Author: Sigourney Weaver

#18. It's that awkward moment when you realize that the only nearby food is you. I - Author: Eric A. Shelman

#19. I wish I were less awkward around strangers. I never know what to say when someone asks me who I am and what the hell I'm doing in their house. - Author: Andy Ihnatko

#20. I was like the runner-up to Miss Mediocrity and my prize was awkward silence. - Author: Rae Mariz

#21. Writing a novel mimics what we bring to our journey of life. God is the great editor who purges the faulty, the awkward, and all the bits that are just plain wrong, so the optimal story can finally emerge. - Author: Denise M. Baran-Unland

#22. I get invited to premieres, and I've been to a few fashion shows and stuff, but I always get really bored. I feel quite awkward. You have to wear something by them, and it all feels like, 'Why am I doing free advertising for you?' - Author: Bat For Lashes

#23. (Note to anyone considering joining a class: there is no need to turn up in full Strictly Come Dancing salsa outfit including fake tan. Everyone just wears jeans. Briefly awkward.) - Author: Miranda Hart

#24. My tone must have seemed hostile, even though I wasn't angry or offended; there was just a touch of sarcasm. He tried to respond but he did so in an awkward, muddled way, half in dialect, half in Italian. He said he was sure that his mother was wandering around Naples as usual. - Author: Elena Ferrante

#25. There's no arguing, no needling, no discussion. It is quiet and awkward and terrifying. - Author: Luchia Dertien

#26. Impoliteness is frequently the sign of an awkward modesty that loses its head when surprised and hopes to conceal this with rudeness. - Author: Friedrich Nietzsche

#27. What's up, gangstas? It's the M-I-Double-Tizzle. - Author: Mitt Romney

#28. I'd gone from being simply awkward to being completely weird. Like I'd traveled a long way, only to feel like I was stuck in the same place. - Author: C.L.Stone

#29. I don't want to leave. - Author: Svetlana Chmakova

#30. I don't actually like dates. I get awkward as I never know what to do. - Author: Selena Gomez

#31. That was the most awkward Wednesday he ever remembered. - Author: J.R.R. Tolkien

#32. As you're growing up, it's odd, because directors don't expect you to grow up. They think you'll be young forever, but as an actor, there is an awkward period when you're too young for old or too old for young, and it can be an odd time. - Author: Nicholas Hoult

#33. What's your name, anyway?"
That awkward shrug again. "They call me Wolf at the fights."
" Wolf? " How ... predatory. - Author: Marissa Meyer

#34. What'll Geoffrey do when you pull off your First, my child?" demanded Miss Haydock.
"Well, Eve
it will be awkward if I do that. Poor lamb! I shall have to make him believe I only did it by looking fragile and pathetic at the viva. - Author: Dorothy L. Sayers

#35. I was very awkward as a kid. I was a square trying to fit into a circle and it never worked for me. The harder I tried, the harder I fell. For some reason I was a real target and I got beat up and called names. - Author: Sarah McLachlan

#36. She was a girl. A living girl, smart and sweet and awkward and unusual, and she was worth far more than they could ever realize. - Author: Marissa Meyer

#37. There is an awkward silence that overcomes you when cross paths with the person that kisses your heart the second that you meet them. It balances on the edge of unknown but always desired. - Author: Carl Henegan

#38. For me, my awkward phase corresponded to an interest in rock n' roll. From experience, I'm guessing an insecure childhood is probably quite a common thing among people who start a rock band. - Author: The Edge

#39. Authorities in New York City have foiled a plot by terrorists to blow up the Holland Tunnel. There was one awkward moment when officials informed President Bush the Holland Tunnel was safe. Bush then thanked the Dutch authorities for all their help. - Author: Jay Leno

#40. The thing about dancing is that no matter how good it feels when you're doing it, it's always extremely awkward when it's over. - Owen Gentry - Author: Colleen Hoover

#41. I like working with people I know. It saves a lot of awkward conversations and getting-to-know-you kinda moments. You trust the people if you know them. - Author: John C. Reilly

#42. I got picked on a lot. I was a complete geek in school. I had braces. I didn't have the hot girlfriend. I wasn't ever sought after. I was a stocky, awkward kid who got laughed off the tennis court when I tried that. - Author: Josh Brolin

#43. A new constitution should be more amendable. A needlessly confusing system of courts should be altered to produce an arrangement that would be simple, responsible, and less awkward. - Author: Charles Edison

#44. First dates are so awkward and annoying. I think a casual and fun first date with friends is much more fun than a one-on-one typical first date. - Author: Kourtney Kardashian

#45. Do you want to build a snowman~ Dongwon (Normal Class 8) - Author: Youngpaka

#46. There's always something that happens where I go, 'Oh, that was so awkward!' - Author: Pegi Young

#47. And when you're a weird and awkward and paranoid person at all times, CastieCon is the happiest place on the planet.
It's like, a baseline level of freakiness is expected here, right? So unless you're disemboweling goats in the vendor hall, no one gives a damn who you are or what you're doing. - Author: J.C. Lillis

#48. I know my life is full of awkward pauses, and I think it's hilarious. - Author: Josh Hutcherson

#49. There was an assistant professor I kind of had a crush on, but I was far too awkward and far too nervous to ever say anything. - Author: Lauren Stamile

#50. Don't be an extra in your own movie. Move out of your comfort zone. Don't be afraid of feeling uncomfortable or awkward. Step-out and make it happen. - Author: Bob Proctor

#51. It is uncomfortable to ask condemned people about their sentences just as it is awkward to ask wealthy people why they need so much money, why they use their wealth so poorly, and why they don't just get rid of it when they recognize that it is the cause of their unhappiness. - Author: Anton Chekhov

#52. I like you but you mightn't feel the same way about me, and I wouldn't blame you. To save us both from any awkward moments I've figured out an easy way to do this. Nod if you're even slightly interested in getting to know me. Write a ten page explanation if you're not. - Author: Bill Condon

#53. Meaningful change is always painful. It's always resisted. And it's always awkward. - Author: Amy Daws

#54. My level of awkward makes everyone else feel normal - Author: Taylor Swift

#55. It's such an awkward, strange thing that was concocted, to have auditions. Back in the old days, you'd just have a screen test, and they'd say, 'Oh, you seem natural in front of the camera,' and you'd just go do 10 pictures for Paramount or whatever. - Author: Vinessa Shaw

#56. But then he put aside the awkward encounter, which his mind allowed him to do quite easily. He could compartmentalize at an astonishing level. It came from not giving a shit. - Author: David Baldacci

#57. People of the middle sort like us, thinking people that is, are always tongue-tied and awkward. What is the reason of it? Whether it is the lack of public interest, or whether it is we are so honest we don't want to deceive one another. - Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#58. What if . . . What if I am stupid? Like people say? - Author: Svetlana Chmakova

#59. The last shall not become the first if the last is lagging behind. - Author: Michael Bassey Johnson

#60. To be on set every day with a whole bunch of people that know their job and my job a lot better than I do and I'm supposed to tell them what to do, that's very uncomfortable and awkward. - Author: Timothy Miller

#61. Mother: "I couldn't stand his friends from medical school. They were all pompous and awkward. They knew how to memorize but they didn't know how to be human. Rochester was cold and ugly. Everything there was the same color. I was incredibly lonely." She - Author: Eula Biss

#62. Change is uncomfortable and awkward at first. It has a ripping effect on those who refuse to go along with it. It is not fixed by crying, or worrying, or wallowing in self-pity and mental anguish. - Author: Kcat Yarza

#63. You have to be sharp with all aspects of your game at Augusta. You need to put yourself in the best spot off the tee and hit the longest drive you can, but I think this is really a second-shot course. If you leave yourself with an awkward putt on the greens, it can be very tricky here. - Author: Louis Oosthuizen

#64. Finn."
"Victor."
"Awkward." I looked at both their faces but neither seemed to really notice I was there. The second pissing for distance contest began.
You were going to ask him! - Author: Michelle Flick

#65. Instruments fascinate me because they're completely awkward. When I picked up a guitar for the first time I was like, "What is this?" because it's so foreign and unknown. - Author: Brie Larson

#66. She was part wide-eyed wood nymph, part awkward society miss, and - he was beginning to realize - part testy library elf. - Author: Karen Hawkins

#67. Hence? My habit of reading more than I socialized made me use odd, awkward words without thinking. - Author: April Genevieve Tucholke

#68. There was one awkward moment where a black man stood-up to ask a question and out of habit, Bush said 'Clemency denied.' - Author: Bill Maher

#69. A camel is a very awkward animal to ride, and it's very hard to get used to because they're not very graceful. - Author: Gigi Hadid

#70. Nothing is so awkward as a demonstration of humanity by the enemy. - Author: Kobo Abe

#71. Different century. It's totally okay. - Author: Gwenn Wright

#72. When I was in my early twenties I didn't have a need to rub together, back when my life was a series of wants and whims. But recently I had felt overwhelmed by longings that seemed to lunge out of me in the most awkward situations. - Author: Tyne O'Connell

#73. I know that if I have been working on one paragraph and I have written it three times, it goes in the bin. Unless it comes straight out, it is wrong, it is awkward, it does not fit. - Author: Robert Rankin

#74. Your boyfriend's penis is not an awkward string of spaghetti that has to be scooped up and sucked down. The Emperor of China once asked Lao-tzu: How should I rule the kingdom? To which Lao-tzu replied: Rule the kingdom as you would cook a small fish. A really good blowjob is the same. - Author: Chloe Thurlow

#75. [L]et my reader who is puzzled by my awkward explanations close his eyes for no more than two minutes, and see if he does not find himself suddenly not a compact human being at all, but only a consciousness on a sea of sound and touch ... - Author: Shirley Jackson

#76. I was very skinny and very lanky and kind of awkward. In Puerto Rico, everybody is a little more voluptuous, with these beautiful bodies, and there I was, the skinny, lanky girl. - Author: Joyce Giraud

#77. The concept of barroom shoot-outs and duels in the sun have no part in our tradition either, possibly because we have had so few barrooms and so little sun. (It is awkward to reach efficiently for a six-gun while wearing a parka and two pairs of mittens.) - Author: Pierre Berton

#78. Enchantment and seduction were fine means of persuasion, but when time is short, an awkward but quick concussion could better serve a girl's purpose. - Author: Christopher Moore

#79. Sometimes, you can not click with somebody, and it can feel awkward. - Author: Jeff Bridges

#80. I always made an awkward bow. - Author: John Keats

#81. I took up space. I was a collection of cells and memories, awkward limbs and clumsy fashion crimes; I was the repository of my parents' expectations and evidence of their disappointments - Author: Robin Wasserman

#82. 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. - Author: Robert Gottlieb

#83. A normal adolescent is so restless and twitchy and awkward that he can mange to injure his knee
not playing soccer, not playing football
but by falling off his chair in the middle of French class. - Author: Judith Viorst

#84. Being asked to help can sometimes be as difficult as asking for , because it can feel awkward, uncomfortable, aggravating and inconvenient. Yet we are called to open the door to inconvenience. - Author: Cindee Snider Re

#85. Nature was quick to pass the sponge of her deluges over these awkward sketches (dinosaurs), these first nightmares of Life. - Author: Villiers De L'Isle-Adam

#86. Homeschooling will certainly produce some socially awkward adults, but the odds are good they would have been just as quirky had they spent twelve years raising their hand for permission to go to the bathroom. - Author: Quinn Cummings

#87. If you take 'Cheers' and 'Seinfeld' and watch the early shows, they're kind of awkward. It took a while for the writers and everything to gel. - Author: Amanda Peet

#88. In fact, there are autism clusters, you know, around some of the big tech centers. You take two socially awkward computer programmers and put them together, that can kind of concentrate the autistic genes. - Author: Temple Grandin

#89. It's like an emotional dance party: Some dances will be your favorites
others more awkward or difficult to learn. Some will be boring or make you mad. some you will wish you never needed to do again. But AHA! You think. I will dance all the dances I can. - Author: SARK

#90. There are moments when, like all of us, you get a bit self-conscious and you'd rather not be living any of your day in public. Those are the awkward times, but you've got to have fun with it. - Author: Benedict Cumberbatch

#91. Whatever I feel comfortable in is usually what I'll wear. I go to different events and premieres and walk the red carpet ... those things are awkward enough on their own. You don't want to be pulling up a top all night. I will sacrifice foot comfort though. I love high heels. - Author: Mandy Moore

#92. I have heard about your gifts myself, Miss Roth,' read the subtitle under Brentford's awkward mumble. - Author: Jean-Christophe Valtat

#93. Restaurants are minefields for the socially inept - Author: Graeme Simsion

#94. The existence of other people is essentially awkward. - Author: Lionel Shriver

#95. I had no idea you could be a specialist at awkward conversations - Author: Sophie Kinsella

#96. Presidents are always also storytellers, purveyors of useful national mythologies. And surprisingly enough, Richard Nixon, this awkward man who didn't even really like people, had not been so bad at this duty - at least in the first four years of his presidency. - Author: Rick Perlstein

#97. The subject of kissing seemed to be an awkward one. Better keep quiet about it in future. What was obviously important, was to kiss; not talk about it. - Author: Peter St. John

#98. Whenever you're starting a new show, you have these awkward first lunches and meetings that are sort of mandatory, and everybody shows up, but nobody knows each other. - Author: Lizzy Caplan

#99. To describe a kiss is to describe a diary entry or a pair of underwear - each is personal and private, slightly awkward. Very awkward. But necessary. - Author: Caroline George

#100. Imaginative cook, and her experiments weren't always edible. I was surprised, and sad, that he seemed to remember that far back. "Steak and potatoes," I answered, and he looked relieved. He seemed to feel awkward standing in the kitchen doing nothing; he lumbered - Author: Stephenie Meyer