“After they had skated around the pond several times, my father asked my mother to marry him. I expect he did it… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Being an evil dude: You create this false identity of who you really are and hide behind that as a means to… — Blake Judd Copy Share Image
A certain awkwardness marks the use of borrowed thoughts; but as soon as we have learned what to do with them, they… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I'd always thought that my awkwardness was a thin veil disguising the real me. The me that was funny and could write… — Sarra Manning Copy Share Image
Often, joking for me is a way of diffusing the awkwardness of a situation, so it's kind of exhilarating to be a… — Emma Stone Copy Share Image
Awkwardness and feeling alienated are always going to be a part of comedy. — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
I think I have a certain awkwardness, and I don't know how that works on screen. — Sarita Choudhury Copy Share Image
That's usually how I get to know strangers - get inappropriately touchy. Once they've experienced the awkwardness of you being way too… — Natasha Lyonne Copy Share Image
Besides the fear of ending up with the totally wrong person, the first time between two persons is underscored by two things:… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
It has not been an easy cross to bear. It has caused considerable confusion. My husband constantly complained about the awkwardness of… — Sister Parish Copy Share Image
I give you Mercedes Athena Thompson, our newest member." Much awkwardness ensued. — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
In stating as fully as I could how things really were, it was often very difficult and I wrote awkwardly and the… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
A lot of support gets withheld out of fear of awkwardness and misspeaking. — Carolyn Hax Copy Share Image
Chance in music doesn't have to involve the I Ching or rolling dice or throwing yarrow stalks. It can involve an out-of-tune… — David Grubbs Copy Share Image
Poetry is the essence of everything, and it’s through deep contact with reality and living fully that you reach poetry. Very often… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
I feel like I grew 10 years between the ages of 18 and 20 - it was such an intense period of awkwardness and change. — Olivia Rodrigo Copy Share Image
To his surprise, she leaned over and kissed him on the forehead, a kiss so full of affection that it dispelled the… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
