Awkward Quote by Jodie Foster

I started doing movies when I was 14.

— Asin

I was socially awkward for many years. I stuttered, stammered, talked rubbish. I never take up invites to parties, and I've been invited to…

— Alison Moyet

Everyone has a childhood, everyone had awkward years and weird stages. Mine were broadcast for eight years.

— Tina Yothers

I got my awkward years out of the way.

— Charlie Heaton

An increasing number of people who lead mental lives of great intensity, people who are sensitive by nature, notice the steadily more frequent appearance…

— Knut Hamsun

Sci-fi uses the images that sf - starting with H.G. Wells - made familiar: space travel, aliens, galactic wars and federations, time machines, et…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

I just think lots of words have physicality. How about the word 'wobble?' You think that's arbitrary? When you say the word 'wince,' you…

— Roy Blount, Jr

Much as a teacher may wince at the thought, he is also an entertainer—for unless he can hold his audience, he cannot really instruct…

— Sydney J. Harris

In polite society, there is such a thing as sensitivity to some issues, as time has gone on. There was a time when we…

— Quentin Tarantino

Criticism and rejection are not personal insults, but your artistic component will not know that. It will quiver and wince and run to cover,…

— Dorothea Brande

The sense of unhappiness is so much easier to convey than that of happiness. In misery we seem aware of our own existence, even…

— Graham Greene

I sit with Shakespeare and he winces not.

— W. E. B. Du Bois

Some persons take reproof good-humoredly enough, unless you are so unlucky as to hit a sore place. Then they wince and writhe, and start…

— Augustus William Hare

...Baltimore. It's imperfect. Boy, is it imperfect. And there are parts of its past that make you wince. It's not all marble steps and…

— Laura Lippman

There's a certain edge about cruelty. If you're honest about it, most people wince, but say it had to be said.

— Pete Waterman