It's not even necessarily the will or want to win. It's the shame and embarrassment of losing. — Rich Froning Jr Copy Share Image
“The class erupted into noisy laughter and, since I was always, and have always been, determined that merriment should never be seen… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
When once experience taught me that I could work when I chose, and within a quarter of an hour of my determining… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
For an entire wing of the G.O.P., a dysfunctional government, whose only visible activity is mismanaging crises, is not an embarrassment but… — Amy Davidson Copy Share Image
“The fear of getting knocked down is less about the pain of the fall and more about the embarrassment in having fallen.… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Summits [World Summit on the Information Society] are meant to help governments reach a global consensus on major issues which has proved… — David Souter Copy Share Image
I don't look back at things in embarrassment; it's more like, 'Damn, I've grown so much from that.' — Quincy Brown Copy Share Image
I used to have a silk dressing gown an uncle bought in Japan and when I came downstairs in it, my dad… — David Walliams Copy Share Image
Because I am an Englishman I spent most of my life in a state of embarrassment. — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
We should seek to free the moral life from the embarrassments and entanglements in which it has been involved by the quibbles… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
“The position could not have been made clearer, whatever had been said, not only to those directly involved but to Sasha, Nyusha… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
Most people with good jobs, middle-class occupations, what have you, are only one pitfall away from social embarrassment and destitution. It's so… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
He accused me of being Dumbledore's man through and through." "How very rude of him." "I told him I was." Dumbledore opened… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All his words and actions would now be fit for his daughter’s ears and eyes. Life would be lived as if under… — David Nicholls 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
“Are you real?” Stupid. Of course he’s real. “Yes, Julie. I’m not the mystical man from your dreams.” — Caroline George Copy Share Image
I like to eat alone in restaurants, with a book, particularly if I am out of town, alone, on business. It's relaxing.… — Gene Weingarten Copy Share Image
Making this movie as a period piece about a period that was very recent in people's minds. I was in Taiwan [during… — Ang Lee Copy Share Image
I've always felt, as a writer, that radicals are fascinating because they're relations, they have a place in the American family. They're… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
“I blush so easily. Even when I'm not embarrassed, I blush. It's so embarrassing.” — Brenda Hodnett Copy Share Image
I could have done a lot of things on TV, but I don't want to be recognised in the street. I'm not… — Sylvie Guillem Copy Share Image
What an embarrassment that was, being somewhere because there was nowhere else for you to be. — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
There aren't any embarrassing questions — just embarrassing answers. — Carl T. Rowan Copy Share Image