Embarrassment Quotes

262 Embarrassment quotes by 231 unique authors

But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be… — George Eliot
The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment he can tolerate. — Douglas Engelbart
For my first show at 'SNL', I wrote a Bill Clinton sketch, and during our read-through, it wasn't getting any laughs. This weight of embarrassment… — Tina Fey
I've had many nicknames over the years: V, Nessa, Nessy Poo, Nessy Bear and Van. Only my parents call me Van, though, and I hate… — Vanessa Hudgens
If I were trying to avoid embarrassment, I wouldn't have stumbled my way through 'Dancing with the Stars.' — Penn Jillette
Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost… — Steve Jobs
Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book… — Helen Keller
All parents are an embarrassment to their kids. Often, grandparents are the relief. Kids don't have to resist you. — Anne Lamott
When an acquaintance goes by I often step back from my window, not so much to spare him the effort of acknowledging me as to… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
I'm embarrassed every time I look a teacher in the eye, because we ask them to do so much for so little. — Phil McGraw
To my embarrassment I was born in bed with a lady. — Wilson Mizner
Sotomayor's vainglorious lecture bromide about herself as 'a wise Latina' trumping white men is a vulgar embarrassment - a vestige of the bad old days… — Camille Paglia
I'm not a do-gooder. It embarrassed me to be classified as a humanitarian. I simply take part in activities that I believe in. — Gregory Peck
I used to be a discipline problem, which caused me embarrassment until I realized that being a discipline problem in a racist society is sometimes… — Ishmael Reed
I don't know - is everything the U.S. does a shocking embarrassment? — Jane Smiley
Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into war, use chemical… — Lewis Thomas
I hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment. — Paul Tillich
Asteroids have us in our sight. The dinosaurs didn't have a space program, so they're not here to talk about this problem. We are, and… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
The band broke up because I couldn't bear Rotten anymore because he was an embarrassment with his silly hats and his, like, shabby, dirty, nasty… — Sid Vicious
It does kids no favors, and sets them up for a potential lifetime of poor health and social embarrassment, to excuse them from family meals… — Andrew Weil

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