“My little ankle-strap sandals curled with embarrassment for her.” — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Right now, my daughter's just rolling her eyes at everything I do; I'm just an embarrassment. — Elizabeth Perkins Copy Share Image
Do something good, no one sees it...Do something embarrassing, everyone sees it... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The awkward moment when you're pretending you're talking to someone on the phone and then it rings. — Brandon Samuel Copy Share Image
Because I am an Englishman I spent most of my life in a state of embarrassment. — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
It is not our failures that distress us so much as our idiocies. — Anna Robertson Brown Lindsay Copy Share Image
You will be most effective when members can compliment each other without embarrassment and disagree without fear. — Peter R. Scholtes 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
I mean, the Globe is the most famous theater in the western world. The British have absolutely neglected it. It's an embarrassment… — Sam Wanamaker 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'm a grown woman. I can come up with plenty of things that I've done and said or didn't say or failed… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
Question: Why does anyone bother to listen to economists anymore? The profession has become an embarrassment, and the most respected economists have… — Stephen Moore Copy Share Image
A lot of talent is a gift, but a lot is also luck. I'm very aware of that. I was born in… — Paul Simon 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
Watching a make-out while wrapped in a blanket with a guy she wanted to make out with made her feel exposed. Obvious.… — Lisi Harrison Copy Share Image
The fragility of love is what is most at stake here—humanity's most crucial three-word avowal is often uttered only to find itself… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
[Winning the White House was an achievement], but as an African-American, [Barack Obama], I think the symbolism is in how he conducted… — Ta-Nehisi Coates 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
That awkward moment when you're trying to dodge someone, and you both step the same way twice. — Hussein Nishah 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
Artists tend to be beyond embarrassment the way little children tend to be beyond embarrassment. — Carl Andre Copy Share Image
I definitely have shame and embarrassment, it's about the way I handle it. — Rachel Sennott Copy Share Image
So many wonderful books to write, and not enough hours in the day. An embarrassment of riches. — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
That akward moment when you arrive at the party and see someone else wearing the same dress. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Humble yourself and avoid the embarrassment of someone else humbling you. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I believe I shall never be old enough to speak without embarrassment when I have nothing to talk about. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
That moment of embarrassment when you wave at someone but they don't wave back. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This Weekend's Forecast: Drunk with a good chance of making an ass out of myself. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All encounters with children are touched with social embarrassment. — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
“I felt my mouth go dry, my throat constrict. What possible interpretation could Peter place on those words, other than that they… — Jennifer Paynter Copy Share Image
“You cannot be a powerful and life-changing presence to some people without being a joke or an embarrassment to others.” — Mark Manson Copy Share Image