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1 " It’s the way he had a cup of tea waiting for me when I woke up. It’s the way he turned on his laptop especially for me to look up all my Internet horoscopes and helped me choose the best one. He knows all the crappy, embarrassing bits about me that I normally try to hide from any man for as long as possible… and he loves me anyway. "
― Sophie Kinsella , Can You Keep a Secret?
2 " There's nothing more embarrassing than to have earned the disfavor of a perceptive animal. "
― Michael Chabon , Wonder Boys
3 " I've been embarrassing myself since about birth. "
― Phil Lester
4 " I’ve met plenty of embarrassing parents, but Kronos, the evil Titan Lord who wanted to destroy Western Civilization? Not the kind of dad you invited toschool for Career Day. "
― Rick Riordan , The Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #2)
5 " Sunshine, I... Starla's voice broke off as she entered the room and caught sight of him standing naked in the corner. She eyed him in an odd, detached way, as if he were an interesting piece of furniture.Talon and modesty were strangers, but the way she stared at him made him damned uncomfortable. In spite of the sunlight, Talon grabbed the pink blanket off the bed and clutched it to his middle.You know, Sunshine, you need to find a man like that to marry. Someone so well hung that even after three or four kids, he'd still be wall to wall.Talon gaped.Sunshine laughed. " Starla, you're embarrassing him. "
6 " Out of love for mankind, and out of despair at my embarrassing situation, seeing that I had accomplished nothing and was unable to make anything easier than it had already been made, and moved by a genuine interest in those who make everything easy, I conceived it as my task to create difficulties everywhere. "
― Søren Kierkegaard
7 " 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. "
― Paula Danziger
8 " Roarke: The bodies of the three men were found floating in the Chattahoochee River.Eve: I think it'd be embarrassing to be dead in the Hoochie-Coochie River.Roarke: ChattahoocheeEve: What's the difference?Roarke: Quite a bit, I'd think. "
― J.D. Robb , Promises in Death (In Death, #28)
9 " You are well aware of your effect on women, and I'm sure it gratifies you no end to watch them sigh and salivate over your magnificent physique. I do not wish to spoil your fun, Dain, but I do ask you to consider my pride and refrain from embarrassing me in public." Women...sighing and salivating...over his magnificent physique. Maybe the brutal bedding had destroyed a part of her brain. "
10 " I had the dream again. I was leaning in the back corner of the elevator in my building looking down at the bundle of keys in my hand. Below my hand were the blurred outlines of my black leather lace-up boots and my frayed black jeans. There was ink all over my legs from the screen-printers in my shop. There was ink on the skin beneath the rips at my knee and my thigh where the rough edge of my work table had worn through... The detail was vivid, but there was an ethereal sparkle to everything around the edges. The periphery washed out of focus as if I was looking through a narrow lens... Then the elevator stopped and the door opened. A woman climbed on board. Her face was concealed behind large sunglasses. The realism of the dream became unsteady and I lost grip. The images became fleeting close-ups, stills, and sensations. She was looking at me and my heart began to race... A part of me worried that I was drunk and about to make an embarrassing pass at some poor woman from my building. But when I reached for her, she reached for me too... She pulled my hand down and then the elevator began to plummet. I realized I didn’t have much time. I was surrounded by her scent and warmth... I was so overwhelmed with the sensuality of everything that I lost myself in her... Then I watched her eyes fade into the blackness of my apartment as I woke up. "
11 " The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always. "
― Arthur Miller
12 " Have you ever noticed how parents can go from the most wonderful people in the world to totally embarrassing in three seconds? "
― Rick Riordan , The Red Pyramid (The Kane Chronicles, #1)
13 " Don’t cover up your sore with your wealth. Your wealth has limitations. At the Limit the sore will embarrassing by surface "
― Ikechukwu Joseph , Repositioning Yourself for Greater Success
14 " I picked up the nearest weapon I could lay my hands on: a stapler. I lifted it, going for “menacing.” I admit it lacked a certain elegance, but hey. It was worth a shot. David placed his hand on my arm and pushed it back down.“What?”“Just . . . that’s embarrassing for all of us,” he replied. "
― Rachel Hawkins , Rebel Belle (Rebel Belle, #1)
15 " All of us cherish our beliefs. They are, to a degree, self-defining. When someone comes along who challenges our belief system as insufficiently well based - or who, like Socrates, merely asks embarrassing questions that we haven't thought of, or demonstrates that we've swept key underlying assumptions under the rug - it becomes much more than a search for knowledge. It feels like a personal assault. "
― Carl Sagan , The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
16 " These days, loneliness is the new cancer - a shameful, embarrassing thing, brought upon yourself in some obscure way. A fearful, incurable thing thing, so horrifying that you dare not mention it; other people don't want to hear the word spoken aloud for fear that they might too be afflicted, or that it might tempt fate into visiting a similar horror upon them. "
― Gail Honeyman
17 " When you make an embarrassing mistake, learn to let the memories be enough to let you laugh about it today. "
― Julieanne O'Connor , SPELLING IT OUT FOR YOUR CAREER (Spelling It Out, #2)
18 " Saying that you do not remember something or someone is a less embarrassing or hurtful way of saying that you do not know it or them anymore. "
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
19 " That has to be the most embarrassing thing that's ever happened to me in my whole life. "
― Charles M. Schulz , You're Not Elected, Charlie Brown
20 " a question is embarrassing for a moment, but not asking is embarrassing for a lifetime "
