That awkward moment when you get mad at someone and slam the door then realized you forgot something so you have to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“George's hand lifted and fell away again. It seemed an insult to imply that anything so small as a touch could stop… — Mette Ivie Harrison Copy Share Image
Dissimulation, even the most innocent in its nature, is ever productive of embarrassment; whether the design is evil or not artifice is… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
*What happens when me and my mom get bored* Me: *dancing* Mom: What are you doing? Me: I'm dropping it like it's… — Danielle Boyd Copy Share Image
“Paul Slazinger says, incidentally, that the human condition can be summed up in just one word, and this is the word: Embarrassment.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most embarrassing experience is being caught at a lie by a simpleton who sneers at our asinine cleverness. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
Always ask for what you want, because the worst thing that can happen is embarrassment but the best thing that can happen… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Followers do not like themselves, of course; that's why they crawl. And masters have nothing but contempt for their subservants, which is… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
One peculiarity of an astronaut's job is that we do everything in public. Also, you don't want to make a mistake. In… — David Saint-Jacques Copy Share Image
Why get excited over this latest episode in the long, sad history of American anti-intellectualism? Let me suggest that, as patriotic Americans,… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
I have an intense personal interest in making the use of American capital in the development of China an instrument for the… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
I actually want to write a treatise in defence of pretension. I think the word 'pretension' has become like the word 'ironic'… — James Murphy Copy Share Image
Not the least of the hardships to which the dying are subject is the visitation of their loved ones. The poor darlings,… — Louis Auchincloss Copy Share Image
“I knew it was coming. I knew they didn't have the nerve. Three days in and they've got faces like vexed tomatoes,… — Mark E. Smith Copy Share Image
Dogs have a sense of smell much greater than ours and they're much faster than we are. We have fairly dull senses,… — Neal Barnard Copy Share Image
I certainly do believe that a lot of comedy comes from awkwardness and embarrassment - pointing out the ways things are uncomfortable.… — Christian Finnegan Copy Share Image
I have my own difficulty with movies in which the suffering of the characters is too real, and many find it difficult… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
I wish I could go back and re-write my first novel for the first time. Because I really didn't know what I… — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
Today, women make up about half our workforce. But they still make 77 cents for every dollar a man earns. That is… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“Experience is the best school, Failures, Mistakes, Embarrassments, and Heartaches are teaching there, Offering only one lesson called Life, That you could… — Nelson M. Lubao Copy Share Image
“On my way out I didn't look at the dark guy, the suicide bomber, again. I think I didn't look at him… — Assaf Gavron Copy Share Image
What a wonderful thing it is to have a good friend. He identifies your innermost desires, and spares you the embarrassment of… — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
The secret of how to live without resentment or embarrassment in a world in which I was different from everyone else. was… — Al Capp Copy Share Image
“Miss Clerricot blushes most charmingly and raises a hand to cover a portion of her countenance. It is a shame, this ill-feeling… — William Trevor Copy Share Image
Prayer is the act by which man, detaching himself from the embarrassments of sense and nature, ascends to the true level of… — Henry Parry Liddon Copy Share Image
Whether one has natural talent or not, any learning period requires the willingness to suffer uncertainty and embarrassment. — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image
I'd violated the primary rule of junior and senior high-- don't get people talking about you too much. This was wearing the… — Darin Strauss Copy Share Image
After all, to get the whole universe totally wrong in the face of clear evidence for over 75 years merits monumental embarrassment… — Halton Arp Copy Share Image
We thought why don't we just make ourselves the marks of the show. Have our three friends turn the screws on each… — Joe Gatto Copy Share Image
My strong sense now is that, as women have become more equal in society, so their depictions onscreen have become lamer and… — Allison Pearson Copy Share Image
The best gift you can give yourself is getting over the fear of embarrassment because then you're completely free to try anything. — Jesse Itzler Copy Share Image
I have to learn to ignore my feelings. Not just the feeling of hunger and the feeling of full, but the feeling… — Joey Chestnut Copy Share Image
I don't think I have any guilt or embarrassment about any of the TV shows I watch. Maybe the fact that the… — Ross Butler Copy Share Image
The best way to give assistance to those who are deeply embarrassed and to calm them down is to praise them decisively. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If I had to pick one quality that best predicts success (other than wanting to be successful) it would be the willingness… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
“She threw a couple of logs into the fireplace and glared at them until they burst into flame out of sheer embarrassment.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The failure to invest in our public transportation and public life, I think, is a scandal and a shame, and it should… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
I HATED the Salinger story. It took me days to go through it, gingerly, a page at a time, and blushing with… — Elizabeth Bishop Copy Share Image
Besides the obscurity arising from the complexity of objects, and the imperfection of the human faculties, the medium through which the conceptions… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“I knew it was Peter playing. I fancied he was trying to tell me something - an absurd idea, but it persisted… — Jennifer Paynter Copy Share Image
