Awkward Quotes

Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you've made is worth the misery of having to review it. (Federico Fellini)
I feel like I'm nothing without wildlife. They are the stars. I feel awkward without them. View quote
Bindi Irwin
Many great writers have been extraordinarily awkward in daily exchange, but the greatest give the impression that their style was nursed by the closest attention to colloquial speech. View quote
Thornton Wilder
The Unexpected always comes at the most awkward times. View quote
Larry Niven
Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new. View quote
Brian Tracy
Everyone is like a butterfly, they start out ugly and awkward and then morph into beautiful graceful butterflies that everyone loves. View quote
Drew Barrymore
I went through an awkward adolescence and had braces. View quote
Christina Ricci
The existence of other people is essentially awkward. View quote
Lionel Shriver
Give me the clear blue sky over my head, and the green turf beneath my feet, a winding road before me, and a three hours' march to dinner - and then to thinking! ... I begin to feel, think, and be myself again. Instead of an awkward silence, broken by attempts at wit or dull common-places, mine is that undisturbed silence of the heart which alone is perfect eloquence. View quote
William Hazlitt
I writhe when I see myself on the screen. I'm such a dreadfully clumsy hulking image. I say to myself, "Why doesn't he get off? Why doesn't he get off?" I mean, I look like such an idiot. Some fat awkward thing dredged up from some third-rate drama company. I must stop thinking about it, otherwise I shan't be able to go on working. View quote
Peter Sellers
Everyone goes to the 'Grands-Boulevards' and let himself loose.. .Do not picture these in costume, they are not for the most part.. ..perhaps a clown with a big nose, or two girls with bare necks and short skirts.. ..the parade of the queens of the halls [Paris' markets] is also one of the events.. ..Some are pretty but look awkward in their silk dresses and crowns, particularly as the broad sun displays their defects – perhaps a neck too thin or a painted face which shows ghastly white in the sunlight. (Edward Hopper)
Mere bashfulness without merit is awkward; and merit without modesty, insolent. But modest merit has a double claim to acceptance, and generally meets with as many patrons as beholders. View quote
Joseph Addison
It is awkward to listen to oneself being praised, and I was always a shy man. View quote
H. Rider Haggard
Where's the superficial? I was, and therefore am, dim, gloomy, a drag, unfashionable, unfanciable, and awkward. This doesn't seem like superficial to me. These aren't flesh wounds. These are life-threatening thrusts into the internal organs. View quote
Nick Hornby
I love the gym, but I still want to look a bit awkward at it. I don't want to look too on top of it, you know? View quote
Marc Jacobs
I'm an American, and always will be. I happen to love that big, awkward, sprawling country very much - and its big, awkward, sprawling people. View quote
James Jones
It is uncomfortable to ask condemned people about their sentences just as it is awkward to ask wealthy people why they need so much money, why they use their wealth so poorly, and why they don't just get rid of it when they recognize that it is the cause of their unhappiness. View quote
Anton Chekhov
An awkward consequence of heightening experience when one is inexperienced, of self-transcendence when one has not much world to lose, is that afterward one cannot be sure that one was somewhere or had newly experienced anything. If you aren't much in the world, how do you know you are "out of this world?”. View quote
Paul Goodman
Whether I serve one or two terms in the Presidency, I will find myself at the end of that period at what might be called the awkward age-too old to begin a new career and too young to write my memoirs. View quote
John F. Kennedy
Kissing is something that makes up for a lot of other crap you have to put up with...It can be confusing and weird and awkward, but sometimes it just makes you melt and forget everything that is going on. View quote
Maureen Johnson
The truth doesn't set you free, you know. It makes you feel awkward and embarrassed and defenseless and red in the face and horrified and petrified and vulnerable. (Melina Marchetta)
In truth, nothing was the same. She forgot about the stars... and taking notice of the sea. She was no longer filled with all the curiosities of the world and didn't take much notice of anything... other than how heavy... and awkward the bottle had become. View quote
Oliver Jeffers
But then, our way is the natural way ordained by god herself, whereas I have no idea whose set of social accidents and economic anomalies have contoured the ways of your odd and awkward land. View quote
Samuel R. Delany
I am a socially awkward mandork. (Nick) View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
But then she was not awkward, she was slow-flowing, graceful, seductive - a seductiveness that had nothing to do with breast and hips and legs, but was an invitation to forget the world in the recesses of the body. View quote
Bernhard Schlink