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Do not mistake awkwardness for callousness. Remember, I am a solitary person, as I warned you. I'm not accustomed to easy and warm social exchange.
Sometimes, I'm very embarrassed.
My mother said I was at an awkward age. I didn't feel especially awkward, so I presumed she meant that it was awkward for them.
The existence of other people is essentially awkward.
I feel the need to fill the silence, like it's my fault it's even awkward in the first place.
With the flat smile of the deeply inconvenienced.
I think you underestimate my capacity for taking normal human interaction and making it awkward.
I work from awkwardness. By that I mean I don't like to arrange things. If I stand in front of something, instead of arranging it, I arrange myself.
poorly. Then I fell
But if you did, how would you touch me?" she asked, folding the garment neatly before placing it in an open drawer in front of her. I barely had to consider the question before my answer burst forward: "Desperately.
It was rather awkward, insofar as we were both teetering between the possibility of something and the possibility of nothing.
How can I stand before you in silent symbols with open palms?
It was epic. It was awkward. It was epically awkward.
The worst thing is when a guy just looks awkward. It's not attractive.
It's hard to get a hug wrong.
It's sort of weird to be hugged by your Algebra teacher. That's all I have to say.
uncomfortable like this,' the
I'm not sure that I am able to feel embarrassment.
I like awkward moments. They are full of tension and suspense. Anything's possible or, at the very least, they are the source of some electric sizzle.
With a smile, such as come into people's faces when they look at something little, foolish, and absurd, but warmly loved.
But like every kiss, this one is an answer, a clumsy but tender answer to a question that eludes the power of language.
Um...carefully Bella ow.
Grace and chocolate cake can cover a world of awkwardness.
We dropped our hands, both embarrassed by the sincerity of the moment. But I was learning, Sometimes you had to put it all out there, no matter how hard it felt to do so. When the people in your life were worth it, so was the risk.
They walked on rather aimlessly. He hoped she wouldn't notice he was touched, because he wouldn't have known how to explain why. Here lay the great discrepancy between aesthetic truth and sleazy reality.
The awkward thing for me is when the realization happens that I actually might like this girl. Then I become awkward.
the embarrassment
If you can't do it, just laugh about it instead of blushing or being embarrassed.
Close your lips in anger, open in admiration
We held each other's hands and laughed with feigned embarrassment that gradually took hold and became real.
Insert the biggest, most awkward silence in the history of big awkward silences.
Art is awkward until technique has become an unconscious habit.
Within the souls of the awkward and the overlooked often burns something radiant.
I tried to look confused, which is one of my most convincing expressions.
awkward tears or nodding silent
With a sort of mental squint.
I was an awkward kid.
I touch his cheek, see my hand shake, and quickly pull it
back. He grabs my wrist, places my palm back against his
cheek, and closes his eyes like he's in agony. Or bliss. Or
maybe both. Like he's never been touched before.
Sometimes we need to speak oddly to see clearly.
There are awkward moments from which one can retreat, and awkward moments from which there is no escape.
...I tried to pretend that what we were enacting was nothing more than an intricate kind of handshake." ~Malcolm
He swayed side-to-side, fighting against my compulsion. I smiled sweetly, leaning in and grazing my nail across his cheek. "You understand?" Skin contact made it solid. His shock melted into a gooey grin.
J.M. Friedman. Succubus in Seattle (Kindle Locations 173-175).
I raised an alluring eyebrow. Alluringly.
...one half leaning in, one half pulling away.
And in a world without heroes, as the movie trailer voice-over guy might say, the slightly awkward can be slightly cool.
But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.
You move your arms a lot when you talk. Just remember we're holding hands, and that makes us look like a couple of idiots out here playing London Bridge.
I keep saying the word 'weird' over and over again, but it's the only way I can describe it.
How embarrassing to be human.
We routinely participate in elaborate nonverbal exchanges even when we are not consciously aware of doing so.
In the most beautiful relationships, silence is never awkward, for it's
in the silence that we come closer together.
Well, this awkward.' -McKenna
If youre in an awkward position, feel comfortable enough to walk away.
I think people tend to feel odd when I do my act. Unless you are an ironic person, it's not a good place for you to be.
To have one man's nut lay against another man's is a most awkward position to find oneself.
adulation." I stare at the
We look at each other for a moment and for once I feel awkward. It's not that I'm not into humility; I've just never had to practise it.
iconoclastically.
Yeah," he said. They stood awkwardly for a while, then Sam said, "I don't want to sound weird, but you know I love you, right?"
"Love you, too, Sam."
Sam made a move as if to hug her, but stopped himself.
She smiled. "Yeah, we're not the huggy type, are we?
Anger is practical awkwardness.
[ ... ]certainly not one of them would have known what to reply if they had been asked, Why are you holding hands as you go, it simply came about, there are gestures for which we cannot always find an easy explanation, sometimes not even a difficult one can be found.
When I first filmed things, they were always slightly awkward.
Beauty is embarrassing.
Right there, in front of everyone, I threw my arms arond his neck and mashed my mouth against his. He was startled for a second, then his strong arms wraped around me so tightly I could hardly breathe.
"ZOMG," I heard Nudge whisper.
There is as much expression in the feet as in the hands.
We stood facing each other, but it seemed absurd to shake hands, so we just smiled, like two strangers who had collided by accident.
You're not going to get weird on me, are you?"
"How exactly would I get weird on you?"
"I don't know, but the way you just said weird felt a little weird to me.
They were involved in that awkward procedure of getting to unknow each other.
I grab at Smitty and he at me, and, for one horrible, deperately embarrassing second we fly into each others arms like Shaggy and Scooby Don't.
Like a carpenter with two broken legs at the bottom of a beautiful staircase. Maybe I can't climb the stairs, ma'am, but at least let me admire the workmanship.
The pants come down. Most look shamefaced, but tha Arthur McBride is not the least bit shy about showing off his equipment, oh no, he isn't. He grins in my direction. 'Not all that impressive, boyo
Imperfection is endearing.
Note: The most relevant gestures we miss from our everyday interactions aren't the most grandiose. The subtle little here and there gestures are sometimes of profound depth than the grandiose we expect or see.
...smile first, then speak.
I comforted him as well as I could. In such cases men do not need much expression. A grip of the hand, the tightening of an arm over the shoulder, a sob in unison, are expressions of sympathy dear to a man's heart.
I took her in the standard jive hold that I had practised on the skeleton, and immediately felt the awkwardness, approaching revulsion, that I feel when forced into intimate contact with another human.
It was artificial conversation, but it tided us over the first awkwardness.
The most awkward means are adequate to the communication of authentic experience, and the finest words no compensation for lack of it. It is for this reason that we are moved by the true Primitives and that the most accomplished art craftsmanship leaves us cold.
His warmth, which seemed to presume upon some happy old intimacy we did not share, had thrown me into awkwardness.
With grace and beauty, feel.
There's something undeniable about the posture of a person trying not to acknowledge your existance
The Unexpected always comes at the most awkward times.
You are my new hero. Seriously, I might actually be in love with you now. Would it be awkward if we made out?
All I can do is stare stupidly with my mouth hanging wide enough to accommodate
Just as I lay back, she sat up. I sat up, and she flopped back down. Awkward. That was my every move when it came to her.
Now we were both lying down, staring up at the blue sky.
By now, Kate has released her hair and lost her shoes. My tie is off, the top two buttons of my shirt open. Our appearance could make things feel friendly - intimate - like an all-night study session in college.
If we weren't trying to rip each other's thraots open, of course.
tightly, without
She shook off her sense of amazement, and tried to pretend she was watching a period play. There was a lot of flirting going on, plenty of fluttering of ivory fans and eyelashes. It was weird to think that in another two hundred years people would flirt by pole dancing, twerking, and sexting. The
Sadie and I locked eyes. We had a brief, silent exchange, something like:
You ask her.
No, you.
Of course Sadie's better at giving dirty looks, so I lost the contest.
Kissi frowned ar him, then looked at me for explanation. I widened my eyes, grimaced: the look women give each other when they're embarrassed of the men they're with.
He reached out, put his hands on her shoulders and pressed downwards. She fell into a seated position against a fallen tree.
"Sit," he said. "Stay."
"That's cute," she said. "Tell me to 'heel' and see what happens.
I feel incredibly awkward as a human being and incredibly teenaged still.
The situation is very slightly solemn and thus embarrassing, as are all such situations when after the initial lovemaking, the lovers confront a future they are suddenly required to take on.
It was more awkward than the time I caught my parents having sex ... before church, and we all had to ride together in that strangely hot, too small car to God's house.
Blankly expressing oneself can be stronger than words.
I've spent my life being embarrassed.
It's always awkward when someone doesn't realize you're joking and devotes thought time to what you've said. Double that when the person is wearing tinfoil.
Embarrassment is a partner in the creative act.
My new favorite word is 'awkward.' ... Th e reason we need to be in search of awkward is that awkward is the barrier between us and excellence, between where we are and the remarkable. If it were easy, everyone would have done it already, and it wouldn't be worth the effort.
I say weird but what I mean is epically fucking strange.