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
The secret of the creative life is how to feel at ease with your own embarrassment. We're all in the dirty laundry… — Paul Schrader Copy Share Image
Seeing him like this, dressed just for her in so patent a manner, she could not hold back the fiery blush that… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
I'm a voyeur. I say that with no embarrassment. If I could have a superpower, being invisible would be it, no question.… — Thomas Schlamme Copy Share Image
I think it would be a good thing in the creative community if there was less embarrassment of this word 'commercial' because… — Eric Fellner Copy Share Image
Knapsack of the Metaphysicians.- Those who boast so mightily of the scientificality of their metaphysics should receive no answer; it is enough… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
That moment of embarrassment when you wave at someone but they don't wave back. — Anonymous 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
The Democratic Party is that amazing thing, out of power for six years and yet exhausted. They're pale, tired, and unready. Too… — Peggy Noonan Copy Share Image
My inner world seems largely to consist of three rotating emotions: embarrassment, rage, and tension. Sometimes I feel excited, but I think… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
There is one thing that has disappeared, not just from the U.S. but from the entire world, is the idea of ever… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
One of the reforms to be carried out during the incoming administration is a change in our monetary and banking laws, so… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
She wants you to be a god," I told him. "I know." His face twisted with embarrassment, and in spite of itself… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
The moments when something new has entered us, something unknown; our feelings grow mute in shy embarrassment, everything in us withdraws, a… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Of course, everyone's parents are embarrassing. It goes with the territory. The nature of parents is to embarrass merely by existing, just… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
One of the most frightening things about your true nerd, for may people, is not that he's socially inept - because everybody's… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
And it struck me that talking about our financial situation is very much like men not wanting to talk about sexual impotence.… — Neal Gabler Copy Share Image
Paul LePage has become a terrible embarrassment to the state I live in and love. If he won't govern, he should resign. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
All beings so far have created something beyond themselves; and do you want to be the ebb of this great flood and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Diffidence may check resolution and obstruct performance, but compensates its embarrassments by more important advantages; it conciliates the proud, and softens the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I know parental embarrassment usually stops somewhere at fifteen, but he just kept on giving me good reasons. — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
