Best Awkward Situations Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: House of Sky and Breath

“They stood together in a false intimacy, a nervous contact. And he was in love with her.”

Love Contact Intimacy Being In Love Awkward Situations

Source: Women in Love

“In situations like this, most people wish for a hole to open up and swallow them into the ground. But I don’t want that. What I want is to be the hole. I don’t know what that sentiment means, but I’m sure I mean it.”

Funny Awkward Situations

Book:Instructions for Dancing

Source: Instructions for Dancing

“Yes, alas, I've been on some recording sessions where the music wasn't good. Not so many, really, considering how many I've done. It's a very awkward situation because to do a recording well you focus on the positive of what will make the piece better.”

Wells Done Situation Focus Pieces Awkward Considering Alas Session Awkward Situations

Author:Tony Levin

“In the 1998 Oscars, I found myself in the bathroom in a stall, next to Tom Selleck. So I leaned over and I said ‘looks like we’re a couple of peeing Toms.’ His angry silence is something I’ll never forget.”

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Author:Tom Hanks

“Being injured is quite an awkward situation to be in mentally. Physically, it's quite good to have a bit of a rest, but mentally it's hell.”

Bits Situation Hell Awkward Injured Awkward Situations

Author:Magnus Backstedt

“The best thing a man can do on a first date is be a friend. I think that's the biggest mistake men make on the first date. Just get to know me. Be my friend. Just kick it with me as if I was hanging with a homeboy. It shouldn't be this awkward situation. It should be that we're there, having a great time.”

“A very awkward situation occurs often in New York City when you are walking down a relatively empty sidewalk and there happens to be a person walking right next to you in the same direction as you at the exact same pace as you. I never know whether to pass or draft. It becomes sort of a strange competition.”

Knows Persons Happens Next Cities Situation New York Strange Walking Empty Competition New York City Pace Awkward Sidewalk Awkward Situations

Author:Aaron Karo

“I never did well meeting strangers, so my favorite part of partying as a couple was that I didn't need to strike up conversation from scratch. If you've ever had to go out and meet new people on your own, you would understand. It can be a bit of an awkward situation. If you're already out at a party with someone you know, it takes that pressure off.”

People Ifs Knows Needs Wells Bits Party Situation Couple Conversation Pressure Meetings My Favorite Stranger Strikes Awkward Scratches Meeting New People Awkward Situations

Author:Andrew W.K.

“I tend to be sort of quiet and shy and awkward in social situations.”

Social Situation Quiet Shy Awkward Awkward Situations

Author:Tony Kushner

“There is nothing that is quite so reassuring in an awkward situation as knowing that one is well turned-out, and while I hope I am not so fainthearted as to require such stratagems, I am not so foolish as to overlook their value.”

Wells Values Situation Knowing Foolish Awkward Reassuring Stratagem Awkward Situations

Book:The Cecelia and Kate Novels: Sorcery & Cecelia, The Grand Tour, and The Mislaid Magician

Source: The Cecelia and Kate Novels: Sorcery & Cecelia, The Grand Tour, and The Mislaid Magician

“Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.”

“Abortion is the easy way out. It’s hardly surprising that people should choose the most convenient exit from awkward situations.”

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Author:Tony Abbott

“Order is never observed; it is disorder which attracts attention because it is awkward and intrusive.”

Order Attention Disorder Awkward Order And Disorder Awkward Situations

Author:Eliphas Levi

“You can get through very serious and sometimes horrible and sometimes embarrassing and very awkward situations with humor. It gives us a way out.”

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Author:Janet Evanovich

“Dating is kind of hard. Like dinner or something like that. Like a forced awkward situation is very strange. Especially for me, for some reason.”

Kind Hard Reason Situation Strange Dating Dinner Awkward Awkward Situations

Author:Zac Efron

“I never had any awkward situations with Shah Rukh.”

Situation Awkward Awkward Situations

Author:Priyanka Chopra

“If you're able to arrange a trial period with a new hire, do it. It will give both of you a chance to make sure the position is a good fit - and can help you avoid being in the awkward situation of wanting to fire someone three or four weeks in.”

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Author:Kathryn Minshew