Awkward Quote by Elif Batuman Download Open image “'Awkward' implies both solidarity and implication. Nobody is exempt.” — Elif Batuman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Awkward Both Nobody Solidarity
Awkwardness comes from the realization that, when you look around the world, it's difficult to identify anyone who isn't either the victim or the… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
I think what probably happens when you put two awkward/clunky people together is that their awkward/clunky world seems like a normal world. — Jack Antonoff Copy Share Image
'Awkward' is a ubiquitous teen word to denote socially unsanctioned behavior. It usually implies first- or secondhand embarrassment when you or a friend step… — Mary H.K. Choi Copy Share Image
Awkwardness is a more real disadvantage than it is generally thought to be; it often occasions ridicule, it always lessens dignity. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Awkwardness is when there's a risk of a perception gap between what you mean and what you appear to mean. — Carolyn Hax Copy Share Image
I'm as awkward as it gets,dude,but I embrace the awkward! I embrace the awkward and make everyone else feel awkward. — Christofer Drew Copy Share Image
Complete independence does not mean arrogant isolation or a superior disdain for all help. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
My parents were born into a secular country. They met in Turkey's top medical school, moved to America in the nineteen-seventies, and became researchers… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
“I leafed through the phrase book. If a Martian read it, the Martian would probably decide to avoid Hungary.” — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
You can't invent something you have no epistemological access to. In a way, it's all recombination. — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
Poetry is another space, like love, where we extend that extra credit to the writer. — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
“Svetlana said that she identified with that Madonna more than with any other woman in any other painting. She kept asking me what painting… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
One of the most painful parts of a breakup is having the feeling that your life is a story, and then the other person… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
“Dracula visited the Wolf Department at the Zoological Gardens. "These wolves seem upset at something," he observed. The next morning the cage was all… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
I like to think that I know a lot of words, but I definitely don't know all of them. — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
“I don't know if I ended up siding with the academics just because I happened to end up in graduate school, or if I… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
People don't become writers because they love having spontaneous, real-world interactions with living people as bodies with clothes in time. — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
“Each work of criticism is supposed to build on the body of work, to increase the total sum of human understanding. It's not like… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
Humor is really important to me. All my favorite writers are writers I consider to be funny, including Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, even though that's… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
“Having to talk to people was the one thing, but soliciting conversation was something else. If I acted squirmy or didn't make eye contact,… — Hilary Thayer Hamann Copy Share Image
I'm an American, and always will be. I happen to love that big, awkward, sprawling country very much - and its big, awkward, sprawling… — James Jones Copy Share Image
In the 1998 Oscars, I found myself in the bathroom in a stall, next to Tom Selleck. So I leaned over and I said… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
The creation of George Smiley, the retired spy recalled to hunt for just such a high-ranking mole in 'Tinker, Tailor,' was extremely personal. I… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
A new constitution should be more amendable. A needlessly confusing system of courts should be altered to produce an arrangement that would be simple,… — Charles Edison Copy Share Image
I don't really have loads of friends - three or four who are close. The thing that I love the most is playing with… — Tom Odell Copy Share Image
You can get through very serious and sometimes horrible and sometimes embarrassing and very awkward situations with humor. It gives us a way out. — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
Yeah, it was horrible! I mean really horrible. I felt incredibly awkward. It was not something I was [looking forward to]. I don't know,… — Emma Watson Copy Share Image
Steadying herself with both hands on the table, she managed an awkward bow.... 'Your Highness,' she stammered, head lowered... The prince flinched and cast… — Marissa Meyer Copy Share Image
I never felt comfortable in real life very well. It's always been an awkward kind of thing for me. — Nick Nolte Copy Share Image