For my first show at 'SNL', I wrote a Bill Clinton sketch, and during our read-through, it wasn't getting any laughs. This… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
It does kids no favors, and sets them up for a potential lifetime of poor health and social embarrassment, to excuse them… — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
“An open Facebook page is simply a psychiatric dry erase board that screams, “Look at me. I am insecure. I need your… — Shannon L. Alder 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
“It was the particular feel of him that made me want to go back: everything that is said is said underneath, where,… — Jenny Boully Copy Share Image
The most moving scene for me in 'Pride and Prejudice' is the Pemberley music room scene: Elizabeth has just saved Darcy's sister… — Andrew Davies Copy Share Image
“Did you track me down to fuck you?” He didn’t think embarrassment had a sound. But it did. It came out of… — V. Theia 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
In War, the young soldier is very apt to regard unusual fatigues as the consquence of faults, mistakes, and embarrassment in the… — Carl von Clausewitz 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
Each of us has the right and the responsibility to assess the roads which lie ahead, and those over which we have… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I remember back to my days as a teenager. When you get your feelings hurt, you feel that moment of embarrassment. You… — John Cena Copy Share Image
It is one of my faults, that though my tongue is sometimes prompt enough at an answer, there are times when it… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Compare the emotional vocabulary available to a leader (confidence, satisfaction, indignation) with the emotions not permitted (regret, embarrassment, dread, angst, mortification, anger,… — John MacLachlan Gray Copy Share Image
It's this expandable capacity to represent reasons that we have that gives us a soul. But what's it made of? It's made… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
I did an audiobook for 'Rough Crossings,' which I thought was one of the best books I had published. But it was… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
“Richard and I looked at one another again. It was a most singular thing that the arrest was our embarrassment and not… — Charles Dickens 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 do like to make people cringe. That discomfort, tension, embarrassment, pain - all of those things interest me, and not through… — Steve Coogan Copy Share Image
There isn't anybody out there who doesn't have a mental health issue, whether it's depression, anxiety, or how to cope with relationships.… — Howie Mandel Copy Share Image
Perhaps, on the whole, embarrassment and perplexity are a kind of natural accompaniment to life and movement; and it is better to… — Margaret Oliphant 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
A writer, or any man, must believe that whatever happens to him is an instrument; everything has been given for an end.… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
How absurd these words are, such as beast and beast of prey. One should not speak of animals in that way. They… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Keep in mind the public has been brainwashed, and nearly 80% of what is known about me is fantasy and self serving… — John Wayne Gacy Copy Share Image
“It is only your own ego which can feel embarrassment. Are you frightened of making mistakes and feeling foolish? Why? No one… — Ursula Markham Copy Share Image
I'm sitting her thinking, -God, I swear I will take a vow of silence and move to a monastery and worship you… — John Green Copy Share Image
“This isn't just about me," he said. "You're supposed to be head of the Council one day. Prodigium have to trust you,… — Rachel Hawkins Copy Share Image
Like everyone else, I can barely take the waves of embarrassment that come with watching someone do something so badly. Roseanne Barr… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
Celebrities are the fodder of much of the media business, so they're always interested in making you seem provocative when you're not,… — Todd Rundgren Copy Share Image
“However, embarrassment was quickly replaced with a completely different emotion all together when I heard him say the words that I knew… — Karli Perrin 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
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
Real mothers don't just listen with humble embarrassment to the elderly lady who offers unsolicited advice in the checkout line when a… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Parliament will also struggle with Shakespeare. Rappers stutter too when they flirt. The palms of poised politicians sweat. Police officers fart. Princesses… — Karl Kristian Flores Copy Share Image
When I think back to my childhood, it's with a mixture of amusement and embarrassment. I was always forgetting things. My mum… — Rory Bremner Copy Share Image
“As I opened the door, Abel turned toward the shower and zipped up his pants. “Jesus! Shit! I’m so sorry.” I yanked… — Teresa Mummert Copy Share Image
Regard yourself as a small corporation of one. Take yourself off on team-building exercises (long walks). Hold a Christmas party every year… — Will Self Copy Share Image
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
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
