Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cassandra Clare

Henry patted Charlotte’s shoulder anxiously. “Would you like a cool cloth? What can I do to help?” “You could ride up to Yorkshire and chop that old goat’s head off.” Charlotte sounded mutinous. “Won’t that make things rather awkward with the Clave?” asked Henry. “They’re not generally very receptive about, you know, beheadings and things.

Nick Hornby

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.

Mitchell Baker

Just to have the confidence to say, "Which end of that spectrum am I usually on?" That's been very helpful to me. Because it's a really awkward setting.

Mark Hoppus

There is nothing more awkward and more laughable than a naked dude with his wiener flopping.

Mitt Romney

I like music of almost any kind - including this.

Mitt Romney

I don't like vampires personally. I don't know any.

Psy

I'm not that good looking. That's why 'Gangnam Style' works. If someone handsome uses that phrase it's just awkward. But if someone like me uses it, it's funny.

Priyanka Chopra

I never had any awkward situations with Shah Rukh.

L. Frank Baum

And I' declared the Sawhorse, filling an awkward pause, 'am only remarkable because I can't help it.

Steve Carell

So, at least the way I saw it, those first six episodes, we were very new as characters to this documentary crew, so we were more awkward with the crew ... And now that the crew has been there for a while, we're sort of getting used to them and playing to them and getting a little more confident in terms of how we use the camera.

Beanie Sigel

I was never in an awkward position where I had to curb my manhood.

Chrissie Fit

I was invited to a dinner party by an ex, and I was convinced that he wanted to rekindle our relationship. I prohibited my friends from coming with me because I didn't want to make it awkward for them when he professed his love to me.

Edward Luck

I think it is a rather awkward situation and these things are usually worked out quietly. The more we play up this privilege, the more other members are going to dig in. You don't necessarily do yourself a favor by trumpeting the issue.

Mike Birbiglia

I actually wasn't really the class clown growing up. The class clown was always the mean guy who walked up and was like, 'You're fat. You're gay. I'm outta here!' I was always more kind of awkward and introspective.

He knows he can be awkward and irritable. But he only lets it show when he feels colleagues have failed to reach the standard of professionalism required to do the job well.

Gore Verbinski

I try to push and find something awkward. The gems to me are truly awkward situations, and you have to have somebody who's willing to fail because those can't be conceived. They never play if they're thought about and discussed too much. You have to create them right at the moment and look for something honest.

Andre Agassi

His serve was more awkward than I anticipated. If you don't get a good return, he immediately gets on the offense. That's the sign of a great player.

Mark Johnson

I was as nervous as a cat. We had a really wonderful meal, and before dessert, there was sort of an awkward silence while I got up my nerve.

Tony Kanaan

I think it was a great team effort, ... We all worked pretty hard toward getting the pole. It was an awkward day in qualifying. Just we tried, we definitely tried. We have a good setup, we just need to see, see what's going to happen on race day.

Chad Brown

It is not awkward at all. There is a hierarchy and you follow the hierarchy. He is the defensive coordinator. It is not how old you are. He has been doing this for a very long time for someone his age. The hierarchy is also based on how well you do your job, and he does his job very well. He has earned the respect.

Mike Scioscia

It is more awkward for Orlando, because as a shortstop, you round the ball differently. But we've run that shift enough and he has made that play.

Phil Garner

He's better than people want to give him credit. What comes into play is he looks a little bit awkward at times. When he stretches he looks like he's falling instead of in balance, but he makes the play.

Scott Harrison

Hussein was more awkward than I thought. Once I put him down in the fifth round he was still strong. He was just trying to spoil and hold, but big respect to him -- he takes a good punch.

Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them tender.

Ajay Devgan

I'd love to say I simply don't care about all that is written. But these rumours make working together really awkward at one level or another.

I'd always been the big, awkward kid. Now, it's nice to kind of be the big man on campus.

Amitabh Bachchan

I am always embarrassed and a little awkward about receiving this sort of attention.

Ben Bass

I'm sort of awkward with technology, and I think I'm the type of guy who would have something cool happen to him, and it would take, like, five days to figure out how to tweet it.

Courtney Gains

I'm good at cold reading; I've made a living doing this, and most of the time I do audition, but it's very tough. It's a very uncomfortable, awkward process. You never get used to it, really.

Mandy Moore

Whatever I feel comfortable in is usually what I'll wear. I go to different events and premieres and walk the red carpet... those things are awkward enough on their own. You don't want to be pulling up a top all night. I will sacrifice foot comfort though. I love high heels.

Tina Majorino

Ordinarily during the stage of your life when you're going through your adolescence and you're completely awkward and uncomfortable, the rest of the world isn't watching you with bated breath. It's different when you're an actor and you choose to work your way through that period because it only makes it worse.

At school I was always taller than the rest of my class, and because I was an only child, I was comfortable with adults but shy and awkward with other kids. I was quiet, bookish, and in spite of my size, hopeless at sports. In short, I was different. And even in the earliest grades, I got pounded for it.

If you start talking to your kids when they're really young, they're not going to notice anything different. It's not going to be that big awkward moment that parents dread.