Other relaxations are peculiar to certain times, places and stages of life, but the study of letters is the nourishment of our… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“Not a word had dropped from my lips, or from hers, that could unsettle either of us—and yet the same unacknowledged sense… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
The embarrassment after the anger is biggest humiliation a person can experience. — Marilyn Monroe Copy Share Image
Your peers when you're a teenager will always be the keepers of your embarrassment and regret. It was one of life's great… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
I’ve met plenty of embarrassing parents, but Kronos, the evil Titan Lord who wanted to destroy Western Civilization? Not the kind of… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
one must verge on the unknown, write toward the truth hitherto unrecognizable of one’s own sincerity, including the avoidable beauty of doom,… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
Voting in this country has essentially been relegated to a very fledging group of election officials, who receive no training and operate… — DeForest Soaries Copy Share Image
“See?" I crowed. "I know what I'm doing. Two weeks, tops, and you'll be begging to dip your fries in my shake."… — Elise Allen Copy Share Image
Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
Friends: Only know a few things about you. Best friends: Could write a very embarrassing biography on your life story. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
That awkward moment when you confidently say the wrong answer aloud in class. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I had a lot of failed relationships, a lot of unhappiness, a lot of shame and embarrassment, bad self-image stuff. — David Furnish Copy Share Image
The two things that I wanted in my life were to have a movie career and to be married, to have a… — Sam Elliott Copy Share Image
This Weekend's Forecast: Drunk with a good chance of making an ass out of myself. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is a complete embarrassment and literally shameful that the country that first of all invented environmentalism and gave it to the… — Bill McKibben 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
“S: But Chris, I think his embarrassment isn't in relation to you or me but to himself. What can he do? C:… — Chris Kraus Copy Share Image
The motivation comes from the embarrassment of having lost and the way it sits with you. — Ben Morgan Copy Share Image
“Every creative act involves a leap into the void. The leap has to occur at the right moment and yet the time… — Anne Bogart Copy Share Image
God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us: we should not know what to do… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If you are so embarrassed about yourself that cannot even present your real face to others , why don't you put some… — Senora Roy Copy Share Image
“Sometime during high school he’d gotten . . . kind of . . . beautiful, and Harper found it easier to not… — Summer Hines 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
