Embarrassing Quotes - page 8

My dad has worked so hard his whole life. He doesn't deserve to see his daughters going out embarrassing themselves and flashing their knickers. I want to make my parents proud. (Petra Stunt)
My father has developed a tradition of surprising us at some point by appearing in fancy dress. He buys a new costume each year and typically gets carried away. A couple of Christmases ago he appeared in an inflatable sumo outfit. It's endearing, really, and only quite embarrassing. View quote
Pippa Middleton
Good writing is remembering detail. Most people want to forget. Don't forget things that were painful or embarrassing or silly. Turn them into a story that tells the truth. View quote
Paula Danziger
This is odd, but there are certain things that are really embarrassing to talk about - one is my job and the success that I've had in it, and the other is money. View quote
Rick Moody
I work with really cool people, and so far I haven't been approached in any embarrassing manner when it comes to image. View quote
Sondre Lerche
I think that 'Degrassi' really challenged its actors. I was on it for seven years, and it was one of my first jobs. I can't even watch the early episodes - they're so embarrassing! But I really do think I grew as an actor and learned a lot over the seven years. View quote
Stacey Farber
My mom calls me 'baby face.' It's very embarrassing. View quote
Stephen Colletti
It's a good giggle to look back at yourself in your 20s. You thought you were so fierce and fabulous, and it's just embarrassing. View quote
Tabatha Coffey
It's almost embarrassing how much support I have. I mean, I always tell people I feel like I'm perfectly set up to have cancer. I have great health insurance, I have a savings account. I have work lined up. I have friends and family. I have the best doctors I can get. View quote
Tig Notaro
I dont know if its embarrassing, but I have a lot of girl Christian music. View quote
Tony Oller
Being a teen idol or being a heartthrob on all the magazines, with Shaun Cassidy, Leif Garrett, and Scott Baio - it was embarrassing! I never understood it. I mean, why me? I never really got it. (Willie Aames)
It's embarrassing that we're in the 21st century and we don't even know what makes gravity work. I'm getting older and thinking maybe I should tackle more than the mundane. I may fail, but at least I will have tried. View quote
Woody Norris
I never skimp on TV. I watch an embarrassing amount of TV shows. I don't even know how I do it. View quote
Dakota Fanning
[A] great embarrassing fact... haunts all attempts to represent the market as the highest form of human freedom: that historically, impersonal, commercial markets originate in theft. View quote
David Graeber
I'm not scandalous. I think it's actually embarrassing to be in those, yet some people will do anything to be in those magazines. I'm happy with who I am, and I'm happy with the way people portray me. If it's too normal, than that's their opinion. View quote
Hilary Duff
I think if you like somebody you have to tell them. It might be embarrassing to say it, but you will never regret stepping up. View quote
Don Miller (author)
The assumption of merit is easier, less embarrassing, and more effectual than the actual attainment of it. View quote
William Hazlitt
Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals. View quote
Susan Sontag
If the director says you can do better, particularly in a love scene, then it is rather embarrassing. View quote
Julie Andrews
I don't like to think about being an influence. It's embarrassing. View quote
Bruce Nauman
It was so embarrassing, everytime I see it, I blush. Imagine if you saw yourselves like that. It's one thing to get dressed up and do the movie star thing, but I mean, it's my job to be outside of that and it's not like I'm on the outside when they're all watching me. About the famous car wash scene from One Night at McCool's. (Liv Tyler)
This is embarrassing and personal, but once a month, since I was twelve years old, I go to my favorite jewelry store and try on my dream ring. View quote
Jennifer Love Hewitt
The embarrassing truth - the brontosaurus in the broom closet that nobody wants to talk about - is that the Republican Party was never the party of freedom. That Goldwater business in the 1960s was a fluke, immediately snuffed out by "older, wiser heads" in the GOP like those of Nelson Rockefeller, Weeping Willy Scranton, Henry Cabot Lodge, and George Romney. The Republican Party was created in the 1850s by northeastern mercantilists just like them, to crush the hopes of poor southerners for individual liberty and independence, and keep them bound in serfdom, paying 80 percent of all taxes collected in America. View quote
L. Neil Smith
The most important tactic in an argument next to being right is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without an embarrassing loss of face. View quote
Stephen Jay Gould
Early on, I found the attention completely embarrassing. I'd cringe if I saw my picture on the cover of a magazine. View quote
Julie Christie