When 'Newsies' first came out, it just crash-landed with a thud; it won a Razzie for worst song of the year, and… — Alan Menken 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
What is asserted by a man is an opinion; what is asserted by a woman is opinionated. A woman with ideas and… — Marya Mannes 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
We are all human. We've all done despicable things. If you haven't been amassing embarrassment you've been not taking enough risks in… — Lou Sanders Copy Share Image
“I will serenade you from the street, Maggie Windham. I will be so callow, you will marry me to save me from… — Grace Burrowes Copy Share Image
“I understand how families become estranged, not by design, but by embarrassment. You come to a point when so much time has… — Michelle Richmond Copy Share Image
But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Physical courage to a person of honour is easier and less risky than acts that could subject him to embarrassment or humiliation… — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
No pains must be spared to wipe out all feeling of diffidence, embarrassment, or shame on the part of those receiving relief;… — Heber J. Grant Copy Share Image
Laughter is binary: It either happens or it doesn't. As each joke arrives in the course of a film, the cavernous space… — David Dobkin Copy Share Image
At the trial of Chelsea Manning, the government could point to no case of specific damage that had been caused by the… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
In fact, numerous scientific laboratory tests and field observations have led to the conclusion that animals are conscious, intelligent, emotional beings. They… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
There are moments when it frightens us, threatening to expose us as inauthentic. Well, the big-time impostors we read about in literature… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
She would have colored gracefully with embarrassment had she not possessed the complexion of one of those “heathen Italians,” as her mother… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
To my embarrassment, I was crying again. Real girl tears for the second time, these ones born out of frustration. That didn't… — C.E. Murphy Copy Share Image
“A wasteland of embarrassment and social upheaval can be neatly avoidedby following a single precept in life: Do not lie” — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
It's not that that I'm not comfortable being naked, but when you grow up fat, you can't take away the shame or… — Paloma Elsesser Copy Share Image
Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one is nothing. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
“I die. I breathe in and breahe in and cannot exhale. I explode all over my friends. They forget my name and… — Joe Haldeman Copy Share Image
There's a blush for won't, and a blush for shan't, and a blush for having done it: There's a blush for thought… — John Keats Copy Share Image
We're often afraid of looking at our shadow because we want to avoid the shame or embarrassment that comes along with admitting… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Pat Robertson is an embarrassment to the church and a danger to American politics, .. It's time for Christian leaders of all… — Jim Wallis Copy Share Image
The beginning and the end of love are both marked by embarrassment when the two find themselves alone. [Fr., Le commencement et… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
O, wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free… — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
I was an embarrassment to the department when they did research assessment exercises. A message would go round the department: 'Please give… — Peter Higgs Copy Share Image
You are young. So you know everything. You leap into the boat and begin rowing. But, listen to me. Without fanfare, without… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
The hours of waiting have been transformed into tension, the tension has become fear, and the fear makes you embarrassed about showing… — Anonymous 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
One never comes into embarrassment, if one is ready to balance. To ask oneself never in embarrassment, what have you in these… — Siegfried Lenz Copy Share Image
Unless people feel that they are accepted and that they have a right to express their feelings without fear of embarrassment or… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
“So, what are you doing with my little sister today?” Daniel asked. I closed my eyes in defeat. “I’m afraid I can’t… — Michelle Hodkin 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
If there is a sort of national American emotion I would call it optimism. If there is an English one I would… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Dear alcohol, We had a deal where you would make me funnier, smarter, and a better dancer... I saw the video... we… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When an acquaintance goes by I often step back from my window, not so much to spare him the effort of acknowledging… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
What is it in people, or just in people like me, that would rather let a lie go by, would rather wish… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
Once when I had remarked on the affection quite often found between cat and dog, my friend replied, "Yes. But I bet… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I felt, by turns, numb, hot with a monstrous embarrassment, and sick as though I'd eaten splinters of glass and was slowly… — Vanora Bennett Copy Share Image
“Embarrassment wasn't what I had in mind. "Put it this way: I'm not really interested in any of them wanking off to… — Georgia Cates Copy Share Image