Awkwardness Quotes · Page 7

To have properly studied the liberal sciences gives a polish to our manners, and removes all awkwardness.

— Ovid

“residual awkwardness between them. It wasn’t exactly comfortable to spend time in the company of a man whose wife you had once…

— Lisa Kleypas

“They sat in the companionable awkwardness caused by knowing extremely private things about each other that had never been directly confided.”

— Jodi Picoult

Awkwardness is a more real disadvantage than it is generally thought to be; it often occasions ridicule, it always lessens dignity.

— Lord Chesterfield

I work from awkwardness. By that I mean I don't like to arrange things. If I stand in front of something, instead…

— Diane Arbus

My position in life has always been to be that person in the room who can make the conversation and break down…

— Big Narstie

“She was beautiful, but her youth, the very awkwardness of her age, prevented her from flaunting it.”

— Richard J. O'Brien

“I said goodbye too early, and then stood there enjoying the awkwardness of her lingering presence.”

— Jarod Kintz

I have heard that stiff people lose something of their awkwardness under high ceilings, and in spacious halls. I think, sculptureand painting…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are two distinct sorts of what we call bashfulness; this, the awkwardness of a booby, which a few steps into the…

— Henry Mackenzie

“It was over, the awkward moment, the dreaded moment, sliding past in a ripple of commonplaces, the easy mechanical politenesses that are…

— Mary Stewart

The awkwardness and embarrassment which all feel on beginning to write, when they themselves are the theme, ought to serve as a…

— Charles Caleb Colton

'Illustrado' is not an autobiography. Only the ideas are autobiographical; the ideas of bitterness, frustration, unchanging society, an individual lost, social awkwardness...…

— Miguel Syjuco

You learn timing on the road. You learn structure and how to read an audience. You learn so much about the business…

— Marlon Wayans

“Mine is the tongue tied silence of awkwardness, hers the smiling silence of anticipation, and then we utter inanities to each other,…

— Meir Shalev

Barbarian --A Code of Conduct honored by all true barbarian warriors, requiring excellent coordination with weapons, closeness to nature, awkwardness with women,…

— Piers Anthony

“That's your favorite word, huh? Weird. Everything's weird. The sky, the ocean, the sand. The whole world is weird." He grinned at…

— H.R. Willaston

Sometimes there is such beauty in awkwardness. There's love and emotion trying to express itself, but at the time, it just ends…

— Ruta Sepetys

“felt the same kind of awkwardness you feel when a friend you’re with runs into someone he knows whom you don’t, and…

— Charles Rosenberg

“When walking into a room, worry not. Everyone else is afraid. People are scared of people who are scared of people.”

— Karl Kristian Flores

“In other words, it is impossible: we cannot function properly, and the evening ends in confusion and awkwardness, and very early.”

— Nick Hornby

All forms of madness, bizarre habits, awkwardness in society, general clumsiness, are justified in the person who creates good art.

— Roman Payne

“The ease I had come to expect with him had evaporated, replaced by awkwardness, a confusing tendency towards wrong turns and misunderstandings”

— Kate Morton

“Too late; my awkwardness had already made an unforgettable appearance, so, of course, I couldn’t be let off the hook.”

— Katherine McIntyre

“The boy was barely into his teens; the awkwardness hadn’t left him yet, and he had limbs that seemed too long, a…

— Brandon Sanderson

That awkward moment when you remember something funny, and can't stop smiling like an idiot.

— Anonymous

Dating is great unless you don't like horrible awkwardness, lying, and a deep foreboding sense of disappointment that never goes away.

— Dov Davidoff

“Perhaps anything that he did would have pleased Lucy, but his awkwardness went straight to her heart.”

— E.M. Forster

“It's also awkward to be so short you can see all the way up into someone's cerebral cortex, but welcome to my…

— Ashley Poston

“For her part, she seemed totally unaware of how her eyes could meet mine and turn my tongue to leather in my…

— Robin Hobb

Awkwardness is where tension is, and tension is where the story is. It's also where the comedy is, which I'm interested in;…

— Lorrie Moore

Everywhere there is craft and technique; everywhere there is artistry and form. Art itself, technique, is ponderous and clumsy, and because of…

— Kazimir Malevich

“[The photos] all bore the hallmarks of very expensive lighting and artistry, but Godric was projecting variations on the same emotion in…

— Hester Browne

“This is the best thing about men's friendships: most any awkwardness can be ignored by mutual agreement and, true connection being unimaginable,…

— William Landay

Nobody was listening when I learned how to play music. But there's something about being on stage, talking to the audience, looking…

— Norah Jones

Whenever you get a bunch of guys that are funny or think they’re funny, when you first meet, there’s always a lot…

— Chris Jericho

I have come to the belief that there is not merely an accidental relationship between bad writing and routine sociological research, but…

— Elizabeth Hardwick

I think the core criterion is the social awkwardness, but the sensory issues are a serious problem in many, many cases of…

— Temple Grandin