That Awkward Quotes

#1. It's that awkward moment when you realize that the only nearby food is you. I

Eric A. Shelman

#2. What's your name, anyway?"
That awkward shrug again. "They call me Wolf at the fights."
" Wolf? " How ... predatory.

Marissa Meyer

#3. I dread that awkward moment when a friend hands you the book that changed his or her life, and it is a book that you have despised since you were fourteen.

Joe Queenan

#4. I feel like all the parts are seniors in high school and seventh graders, and I think I kinda skipped that awkward stage by not working those years.

Nat Wolff

#5. I always believed I was an ugly duckling in a family of swans, you know? I was such a black sheep, and it was the same way in high school ... I was just kind of that awkward theater kid with a bunch of athletes ... it was very 'Glee.'

Lindsay Pearce

#6. Adam had smiled at him and Max had smiled back. And then they both just stood there in that awkward silence that happens when two people are attracted to each other but don't know what to do about it because they are strangers.

Augusten Burroughs

#7. I am gennerally understood tho I do not use that awkward squad of pointings called commas colons semicolons etc.

John Clare

#8. With 'That Awkward Moment', you could argue I'm just playing the girlfriend of Zac Efron, but the director was such a creative force and let me make her my own. I loved being part of something that felt so relevant and fresh.

Imogen Poots

#9. I definitely understand not entirely fitting in. I think everyone has their own version of feeling out of place and I think one of the great things we have the ability to do is to know it's all right. It's OK to have that awkward phase.

Rumer Willis

#10. They were involved in that awkward procedure of getting to unknow each other.

John Irving

#11. I wasn't wondering whether you had a lip fungus, but thank you for getting that awkward conversation out of the way.

Penny Reid

#12. I'm kinda stuck in that awkward in-between stage where my hair is just starting to fall out, but I'm still maintaining my youthful acne.

Greg Fitzsimmons

#13. That awkward moment right before you die when you realize you haven't done enough in life to be considered living." ~Peregrine Storke~

R.K. Ryals

#14. That awkward moment when you realize someone was actually home the whole time you were singing on the tops of your lungs.

Kasey Collin P. Dumdum

#15. Buggery was invented to fill that awkward hour between evensong and cocktails.

Maurice Bowra

#16. My new favorite word is 'awkward.' ... Th e reason we need to be in search of awkward is that awkward is the barrier between us and excellence, between where we are and the remarkable. If it were easy, everyone would have done it already, and it wouldn't be worth the effort.

Seth Godin

#17. I was that 'awkward-didn't-understand-his body-kind of-uncomfortable teen.'

Lee Pace

#18. America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards.

Claire Wolfe

#19. That awkward moment when you discover the guy you never wanted to know becomes the guy you want to understand.

R.K. Ryals

#20. 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.

Anton Chekhov

#21. 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.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#22. 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

Stephenie Meyer

#23. 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.

Judith Viorst

#24. 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

#25. 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.

Elena Ferrante

#26. 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.

Issa Rae

#27. 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.

Temple Grandin

#28. The people that were socially awkward from my generation, they all had paper routes and that taught them the discipline of work.

Temple Grandin

#29. It's awkward how some people refuse to be humans regarding their behaviours! Isn't that against God's will for he created them as humans? And yet, they at night hold hands up and ask God for forgiveness and to grant them their wishes; when he created animals sinless.

Mustafa SULTAN

#30. The reality of it, excuse me, is when you're in the public they already have a perception of you, ... And that can be a little awkward.

Joe Namath

#31. That said, it was pretty awkward and a weird thing to shoot. Some women had a sense of humour about it and we'd laugh, but some were very serious and suspicious ... like I might be doing something bad, or maybe they were just uncomfortable.

Nicole Holofcener

#32. We are no longer awkward younglings. Our enemies may be fearsome, but so are we. It is time we remind them of that.

Christopher Paolini

#33. Some people harbour an awkward clash of feelings - homosexual attraction on the one hand and shame or embarrassment about that attraction on the other. It is well known that the mind struggles to sustain conflicting views.

Evan Davis

#34. The Duplass brothers do that so well - that very simple, very horrifically awkward comedy.

Timothy Simons

#35. Latin! The language of God! Or perhaps He speaks Hebrew? I suppose that's more likely and it will make things rather awkward in heaven, won't it? Will we all have to learn Hebrew?

Bernard Cornwell

#36. I would love 'Awkward Black Girl' to be on television, with the right team of people who understand and get it. If 'Awkward Black Girl' could make it to HBO starring a dark-skinned black girl, that would be revolutionary.

Issa Rae

#37. The waitress looked a little awkward. "Is all that for both you and your sister?

J.R. Ward

#38. Well, on tour I eat terribly, so I balance that by running a lot. And then I started to run with my fans in certain cities. It sounds very nerdy and un-rock n' roll, but I like it. It's fun, and it's better than meeting fans in weird, awkward circumstances. So I take them running with me.

Ellie Goulding

#39. I'm not used to girls, or familiar with their customs. I feel awkward around them, I don't know what to say. I know the unspoken rules of boys, but with girls I sense that I am always on the verge of some unforeseen, calamitous blunder.

Margaret Atwood

#40. I don't like going to dinner by myself; I'll call for delivery before I do that. It's awkward if you're at a table all alone. I'm sure nobody even notices, but there's something about it.

Max Thieriot

#41. The awkward thing is the people in the room besides us. It's not us. It's just the 20 or 30 people that are around on set, who normally wouldn't be on set. That's always interesting.

Mike Colter

#42. I am super awkward at social situations in general, and there's some major stuff going down, so I'm not going to hold to any sort of societal standard, and I'm just going to pretend like we've known each other long enough to say what's on our mind, and I hope that's okay.

Myra McEntire

#43. You should never say anything to a woman that even remotely suggests you think she's pregnant unless you can see an actual baby emerging from her at that moment.

Dave Barry

#44. Just make sure you find your own style rather than going with what everyone else is wearing. If you feel comfortable, it's going to get you noticed in the right way. That's better than worrying about what everyone else is wearing and feeling awkward. That's the most important thing.

Nick Youngquest

#45. I never particularly thought of myself as great with girls. I can be awkward, and I have a strange sense of humor at times. But I've also been learning to try and embrace that.

Matt McGorry

#46. I find it very hard to believe that people would prefer an awkward picture with me than a normal conversation.

Alison Pill

#47. The thing about dancing," he says, folding his arms across his chest, "is that no matter how good it feels when you're doing it, it's always extremely awkward when it's over.

Colleen Hoover

#48. What we wanted to do was tell a story that felt relatable to anyone who's been a teenager. We haven't all been a second-generation Pakistani-American girl with superpowers, but we've all been 16 and awkward.

G. Willow Wilson

#49. Don't be special. That's what I would say to my younger self if I could pinpoint the moment when I went astray. But there was no one moment. I was always astray

Leila Sales

#50. That must be why we get along so fabulously," Amaranthe said. "You being the less talkative sort and me being happy to fill in the awkward silences with ... awkward un-silences." Sicarius said nothing. "Yes, just like that.

Lindsay Buroker

#51. I like to play the grey areas in life - that's the most uncomfortable place to be. Nobody likes to be in that in-between state where there don't know what's going to happen. There's a lot of tension in that, and a lot of stuff to play with - where it's uncomfortable and awkward and sad and scary.

Melanie Lynskey

#52. What we call debt is a hump on our backs; it is an awkward load that crushes one; and loads are carried only by stupid animals, by camels, mules, and donkeys; the back of an intelligent person is flat!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#53. I like to prowl ordinary places.
I feel sorry for us all or glad for us
all
caught alive together
and awkward in that way.
there's nothing better than the joke
of us
the seriousness of us
the dullness of us

Charles Bukowski

#54. Rider Bit down on his lower lip. " So, you know, I'm swords of inviting myself along." he really wanted to meet my best friend? His head tilted to the side. " And if you think that's not cool, this is about to get real awkward.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#55. But then she was not awkward, she was slow-flowing, graceful, seductive - a seductiveness that had nothing to do with breast and hips and legs, but was an invitation to forget the world in the recesses of the body

Bernhard Schlink

#56. It is the responsibility of scientists never to suppress knowledge, no matter how awkward that knowledge is, no matter how it may bother those in power; we are not smart enough to decide which pieces of knowledge are permissible, and which are not. ...

Carl Sagan

#57. Dating is just awkward moments and one person wants more than the other. It's just that constant strangeness. I think it's a very real thing.

Jason Schwartzman

#58. Our friendship--if I could even call it that--was obviously awkward and flawed, but at least it was honest. "~America Singer,

Kiera Cass

#59. I've been awkward forever. I have really low expectations for myself. When I do perform to some sort of social standard, I leave feeling really comfortable. I'm either so awkward that I look retarded or I'm so awkward that everyone else feels retarded.

Earl Sweatshirt

#60. They were actually sitting at a table, like two old friends, not like the hunter
and the hunted. And it wasn't especially awkward. They were comfortable together,
despite the fact that she'd hit him with a bus. Maybe his scheme would work.

Janet Evanovich

#61. However, it has come to our attention that there is a small safety "glitch" with the Git R Done 447, which might cause it to fire too soon or even randomly, accidentally killing someone you love. Awkward, we know.

Libba Bray

#62. In several speeches and interviews, Donald Trump has brought up his book 'The Art of the Deal,' and said that Obama would have negotiated a better deal with Iran if he had read it. It got even more awkward for Obama when Iran was like, 'It worked for us - you guys got screwed!'

Jimmy Fallon

#63. You told me I smelled - like bacon."
"Well," he said evenly. "That's awkward.

Michelle Hodkin

#64. Apart from its ill-fated name and frightening body, everything about the crab as a creature is creepy. It only moves sideways. To the right and then jerking to the left. It always looks like it's trying to avoid an awkward situation. "Uh-oh. I owe that guy money," as he sidesteps away.

Jim Gaffigan

#65. For the most part, it is really nice when people come up to me, because I do think that people who are awkward relate to me, and that's really nice. It's generally good.

Rashida Jones

#66. They said words they did not mean, and their conversations seemed to follow all kinds of rules - rules that no one has ever explained to Oscar.

Anne Ursu

#67. I was chubby and awkward, and the only way I could really meet girls was to join children's theater, so that's what I did.

Craig Brewer

#68. Give me everything you have," I told [Preston].
"Really, Cammie. I never knew you thought of me that way.

Ally Carter

#69. I don't really have loads of friends - three or four who are close. The thing that I love the most is playing with my band, and with everything else I feel kind of uncomfortable. I don't think I'm socially awkward. I just prefer being behind a piano.

Tom Odell

#70. Here I'd thought that the end of the world might have meant I got to stop having incredibly awkward conversations.

Domashita Romero

#71. 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

#72. The girl whose table I occupied was reading a book but I couldn't help but notice that all this time, she was secretly watching me.
"You are beautiful."
I took my eyes off my phone and I saw the girl talking to me. I was embarrassed and didn't know what to say or how to react.

Nico J. Genes

#73. 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

#74. 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

#75. I was just about to open the door, when it opened up right in front of me. And there stood my parents.
Is there a word for that moment when two parties are so equally shocked to see each other given the circumstances that all they can do is stare at each other, openmouthed?

August Westman

#76. 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

#77. 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

#78. 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

#79. Words were few and failing between them as though the silence that sat with them had laid its old lips on theirs and sucked them dry of speech. For where could one begin? With the weather? But here there was no weather. These few sad rooms were the old man's world. His horizons were all walls.

Michael Bedard

#80. The awkward moment in which I discover that both my wife and my sister have made out with the same guy.

Rachel Morgan

#81. 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

#82. 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

#83. 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

#84. 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

#85. I went at one stage to turn on the radio, but he glared
at me so ferociously that I hurriedly lean't back in my
seat and looked out the window instead.
- heller 1

J.D. Nixon

#86. I think three or four years ago, people would have said my biggest weakness was that sometimes I was awkward on television, with my stammer, but I think they'd say that much less now.

Ed Balls

#87. In fact, all the comic-book shops in the world are really just one essential place, and their entrances but doors to a single coincidence. That's why you always see there, no matter where you are, the same dreamy, awkward clients.

Eugene Lim

#88. the most embarrassing, awkward moments of your life are only remembered by you and no one else. That no one judges you when you walk into a room and all they really want to know, is if you're judging them.

Pleasefindthis

#89. Magnus got to his feet. "I do believe that's my cue to leave as well," he said. Clary noticed he was avoiding looking at Alec. "I'd say it's been nice meeting you all, but, in fact, it hasn't. It's been quite awkward, and frankly, the next time I see a single one of you will be far too soon.

Cassandra Clare

#90. I always tried not to be too mean, but my problem is that the people I tend to find hilarious don't usually have senses of humor. So interacting with them is a little bit of an awkward engagement, because I can't really make them laugh, on top of which I've been doing an impression of them.

Ana Gasteyer

#91. It took one move, one Podunk town - shit, one girl - to realize that we're all just people. Rich, poor, talented, awkward - we're all just people, trying to survive the world that seems hell bent on trying to ruin us before we can find our place. It

Kristen Kehoe

#92. I'm seeing too many kind of socially awkward kids that get through schools and then they can't hold a job because they haven't learned the discipline of get up in the morning.

Temple Grandin

#93. The fact that my mother was on television every week while I was young was occasionally awkward, and often frustrating.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

#94. It's hard to tell a shallow person that they should care more about the feelings of the awkward and the alienated.

John Flansburgh

#95. In Mississippi, you don't admit that you're gay. It's just an awkward thing down South, which is sad.

Lance Bass

#96. I thought if I moved away, I could move away from all of it, but the memories were still with me. The fact that I was shy and awkward didn't change just because I changed locations.

Eileen Cook

#97. Dating is kind of hard. Like dinner or something like that. Like a forced awkward situation is very strange. Especially for me, for some reason.

Zac Efron

#98. Hiding here, are you? That's awkward." "Why?" "Because I had intended to hide here myself." "You may hide here with me, if you wish.

Cassandra Clare

#99. My favorite is the garlic press. I think it's beautiful as an object. But the awkward part of it all is that I don't use it much because I'm allergic to garlic.

Michael Graves

#100. Just to have the confidence to say, "Which end of that spectrum am I usually on?" That's been very helpful to me. Because it's a really awkward setting.

Mitchell Baker