Awkward Quotations | Page 3

I don't care if I'm cool or not. I've always been an awkward person anyway.

There are moments when, like all of us, you get a bit self-conscious and you'd rather not be living any of your day in public. Those are the awkward times, but you've got to have fun with it.

What makes it hard for us is that we're used to playing a fast-paced game and they're used to slowing it down. When we play each other it's a really awkward game. It's a battle of who imposes their game plan on the other one. They're a tough team to play against. You never look forward to playing them.

Where I'm from, we don't do the kiss-on-the-cheek thing. Sometimes we can feel a bit awkward in England. Someone needs to let me know what the rules are because I don't want to be rude. I need a little more etiquette coaching.

I've always been a geek and slightly awkward… slightly umm… I was never the cool kid at school.

Israel's creation was politically amazing and caused by a number of unusual events. And I understand. For centuries, Jews endured horrible suffering, and like other people, deserve the right to self-determination, but the way Israel is going now frightens me. Jews make awkward colonial overlords.

I've been coming doing my job and going home. That's what this has become for me. I've been in so many different awkward positions every year. I can adapt to my surroundings.

While the light burning within may have been divine, the outer case of the lamp was assuredly cheap enough. Whitman was, from first to last, a boorish, awkward poseur.

As the Earth continues to slow, leap seconds will grow more common. Eventually we will need one every year, and then even more. Scientists could have avoided these awkward skips by choosing instead to adjust the duration of the second itself. Who would notice? That is what they did, in fact, until 1955.

I sort of stopped acting for about five or six years. I was at this awkward age. I felt that now that I am no longer young, my acting career is over. And so I sort of put myself in the wine cellar and I aged for like five, six years and now I'm uncorked and it was pretty good. It was the right taste.

The teenage years are an awkward stage in a person's life in which one finds they are older than all the characters on the Disney Channel

When you are interviewing someone, never let your camera person turn off the camera. The second you turn off the camera, they'll say the magic thing that you'd been looking for the whole interview. People want to relax after the performance is done. Don't be afraid of awkward silence. That is your friend.

When you have conflicting viewpoints, it's hard to get people to change their minds, especially when they've dug in their heels. There were certainly tough times and awkward silences. It was a tough experience for everyone involved.

I've seen it and you expect better. You wish it would be picture perfect. ... It was just a little disappointing because the sand made it a little different. Bounces were weird. It was just one of those awkward things.

It would be awkward if we were doing inspections and then a new mandate, with new, changed directives were to arise, ... It would be better have those earlier. My impression is that there is good intensity with talks about that, and we will abide by whatever the council decides.

It was very down to earth. Nobody felt awkward that they didn't know how to act in front of royalty. Pat felt like we're all human beings.

It was up and down. I felt a little awkward in some situations because I haven't been match tough lately. I'm absolutely exhausted.

You have to sit down with kids at ages 6, 7, 8 and start to inoculate them against this insanity by having these awkward conversations about what they might see. Parents have to get to these kids first ? not last.

He would always speak the language of the heart with an awkward foreign accent.

We literally get volunteers ages 18 to 80. They just have to be fit enough to work outside and sit or kneel in what can be awkward positions.

No professional is immune to the occasional work mishap. Acknowledging an awkward situation, apologizing to the appropriate colleague, if necessary, and not dwelling on it are good ways to bounce back from even the most uncomfortable scenario.

Fairfield, Hartford and Delaware all have (contacted him) through third-party sort of type things. It's an awkward time right now to meet face-to-face with people. There's nothing scheduled as of yet right now with any of the three.

But Mike stayed with it and made the play, awkward as it may have looked. He's getting better out there. Slowly but surely, we're getting better.

I've always recognized as high commissioner the importance of standing up to bullies, addressing short-comings and being outspoken, an awkward voice.

They started feeding the ball back to Brand and he took advantage of the mismatches he had. It was hard for us to leave the guy we were guarding to double-team Brand. It put us in an awkward position.

During the recording of my first record, he felt his influence would be greater than it was, ... When it didn't turn out that way, it was sad for him and awkward for me. We've gotten way past that. We're real good friends, he and I. He's very proud of the sound and the path I've taken musically. He knows all the songs and can sit in on any gig I do.

The phone companies are in the awkward position of initiating a service in an already mature market with a disadvantaged cost structure. And on top of that, they have to offer the service at a discounted price just to compete. It's a hard strategy to sustain long-term.

This didn't have a purpose to it. It was becoming a rather awkward situation with the general manager of the team and myself and ownership. We were contemplating making this move just recently. We knew we were probably going to make it and asking somebody to continue on is just not the right thing to do.

This is an awkward moment, to say the least, for the Bush administration to set a high priority to relax these rules in favor of India.

In junior high P.E., I was way too shy to take a shower in front of the other kids. It was a horribly awkward time - body hair, odors... So I'd go from my sweaty shirt back into my regular clothes and have to continue the day.

I let him get into a groove in the second set. He started getting confidence and swung from the hip. If I'd let it go any further in the third he would have gained a lot of confidence and momentum. He's an awkward player to compete against.

I know to many it seems awkward wanting the same job,

I'm very tall, and I hit an awkward stage at about 12 that lasted until my mid-20s when I discovered yoga and finally stopped tripping and banging my elbow on things.

I'm not blaming anybody, but the overall performance was lacking. We were qualifying poorly and that put us back in the field where we keep getting caught up in trouble. A lot of awkward things kept happening.

I'm getting better now, but I used to be incredibly awkward with girls, ... I think any guy who says 'I've never had an awkward moment with a girl' is a liar.

At an awkward time in junior high, when I got braces, my mom encouraged me to take a modeling class so I'd learn to walk properly and wear makeup.

Everyone has embarrassing incidents at work -- it shows we're all human. The best way to handle awkward moments is to gracefully move on, and, if possible, try to find the humor in the situation.

Everyone has strange teenage years. It's not like I can claim some particularly unique set of high school horrors. I think I was just an awkward kid who never felt comfortable in his own skin. I think I was alone a lot by circumstance and then by choice.

It's not awkward to me at all. Kids transfer all the time. I know she stays in touch with some of the players. We've always just wished her the very best.

It's particularly awkward because its an update to an existing release rather than one incorporated in a future release.

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.

It's better to try, no matter how awkward you feel, than not to try it at all. Would you rather deal with the consequences or the prevention?

It's was awkward last year. This year it's more down to business.

It seemed like he'd never left. He blended in, understood the plays we were doing. It didn't seem that awkward at all from our standpoint. Maybe from his it was.

I like to play the grey areas in life - that's the most uncomfortable place to be. Nobody likes to be in that in-between state where there don't know what's going to happen. There's a lot of tension in that, and a lot of stuff to play with - where it's uncomfortable and awkward and sad and scary.

If there was a change of heart in Washington and the focus became less on trade and more on human rights and the military, then states will find themselves in an awkward position.

I know of some toilets in Korea where you can drink tea -- you don't feel you are in an awkward situation.

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.

In New York and L.A., there is sort of that silent competition to be on the cutting edge of something. You end up having a conversation with how the world receives your work, especially if you are writing narrative, not fiction. Sometimes it is an awkward conversation. It's like group therapy.

But he was, in his most difficult moments, more awkward than I anticipated.

Candidly, it is an awkward position to be in, because when the voters speak, they speak,

I'm kinda stuck in that awkward in-between stage where my hair is just starting to fall out, but I'm still maintaining my youthful acne.

Honestly, I'm having a hard time envisioning where this product will fit into consumers' lives. It occupies an awkward position between single-function handheld devices and laptops. I'm not sure a market exists here.

Hopefully, next time we meet will be in the finals. It's very weird and awkward and bizarre to meet so early. I don't think I played my best, and I don't think Venus did, either.

I didn't eat for about four or five days. So it hit me pretty bad. I felt a little bit awkward the last few days just training, getting back into the routine of things again. I'm definitely a lot better than a week ago.

He's kind of this empty vessel of a character, ... His awkward sensibilities, his neuroses, I loved those things. . . .

It was a good game where both teams did a good job of not giving up much. When we play these guys, it's always a grind. I thought we had good effort. It was one shot where the guy made the initial save, but it's awkward for the goalie sometimes.

It was more awkward than I thought it would be,

It just seemed like it was one of those awkward games.

It's an awkward situation, but one I feel I can handle. I'll do my business and let everything else play itself out.

It's an awkward thing for the four home countries to do that. It would cause an awful lot of problems. We have to make sure Scotland doesn't lose its independence. I'd much prefer Scotland than having a British team.

It's an extremely awkward time for key members of the Steering Committee to come forward and ask us to change the numbers. People had nine months to challenge the numbers, now is not the time.

It's always struck me as awkward that we have a two- or three-hour conference session that is less well-attended by the public. Because we've worn ourselves out in the conference session, there's little discussion at the council meeting.

It was kind of awkward at first because a lot of us played against each other for a lot of years in high school. But we all got along great and had a lot of fun.

It was kind of awkward seeing her and having all those other people there looking on. So we didn't get to talk to her. But I'm sure there's no way she (Samantha) would ever get involved in doing anything like this by herself.

It's always awkward to pretend to play. I feel like Ashlee Simpson. Oooh, zing.

i would say it was nice to meet you, but the fact is it wasnt. in fact, it was quite awkward.

All too often, in the heat of the moment, reporters find themselves in the awkward position of repeating 'unconfirmed reports' as if they were news, ... But news without fact-checking is nothing more than glorified rumors.

The first thing you need to do is to look at what you're doing with your hands, and how you're doing that. Are you using your hands in an awkward position, with the hands held upward or bending down or sideways in some way? Or, are you making movements fairly frequently and often quite forcefully?

You've got this awkward confluence of a Fed that's getting nearer and nearer to some critical level of rates and an inflation forecast that has been more in doubt or more in play than it has been for some time,

The commission is being put in an awkward situation through irresponsibility.

Actors, you know, they're often awkward people in real life.

There is nothing so awkward as courting a woman whilst she is making sausages.

As far as rapprochements go, it's awkward and vague, but the advantage of being as emotionally inarticulate as we are is that it will do the trick.

I could show you a picture right now where I look like something from The Hills Have Eyes. Talk about an awkward stage. Puberty was not good at all.

The romance stuff is easy. A sex scene... that's hard, because you don't know what to do. Those scenes are awkward.

It just happened so fast. My hand got jammed in an awkward spot. I knew as soon as it happened that it was definitely broken.

It's always awkward playing somebody for the first time. Tonight I just stayed with executing my shots, stayed comfortable.

It's not worth losing a friend over, but we had 15 very awkward holes after that,

I tried to make the same adjustments that I always do. The first inning was probably a little awkward getting the ball where I wanted to, but the second inning and third it felt a lot better.

It's not that heavy, but it's very awkward to handle.

It's a little bit awkward because the kids aren't with you any more.

As much as I hate auditioning - it's so hard and awkward - it's way better to walk out of that room and win a role because of what you did.

That kind of piece, perhaps most recognizable because of Yoko Ono's similar work, built a bridge between performance art and music - and without raising any awkward social issues.

As a man of civil profession seems awkward in a camp or a garrison, and is even in danger of being despised there, so does an idle man among men of business,

It's a unique situation. Obviously it causes a lot of awkward situations and it's not ideal. But I do think it helped with the search.

It was definitely awkward being out there at shortstop. It was fun (and) exciting. I had a good time with it.

It's just unfortunate that I was kind of caught in an awkward position because normally the way I would take that hit, it wouldn't have exposed itself to be a penalty.

I told Mike it was too much money and he didn't have to do it. But he kept insisting that he give up the money. Still, we are a paycheck-to-paycheck family and it just felt too awkward so I couldn't accept.

It's a funny feeling without him being there. He sits in the same spot every day, and he's not there. It's kind of awkward for us now.

It was an awkward match to go out there and play. I knew I was heavily favored to go out there and win, but with Davis Cup, I've been in enough big ties and been the underdog in that many big matches that it's a different kind of pressure and it sort of levels itself out ... the competition out there.

It was a very awkward decision for me but the way things were shaping up I couldn't do everything and something had to give. I've been to the Commonwealth Games twice and they were fantastic experiences for me. Winning there in 2002 was one of the highlights in my career. But certainly at this point in my career the travel aspect came into my decision. Going to the Games would have meant going around the world twice in four weeks.

It was awkward at first - I felt like the loner. But after I started playing with them, it got better. They're nice and I'm learning a lot from them.

It looks like a whole new ballpark to me. It looks different, a little awkward right now.

He's in a very tough situation, and that's why I think it's the worst problem for baseball since the Black Sox. Because it's so amorphous and so big and so murky. ... For the first time Selig has the awkward position of having to authorize an investigation where he may be a target. No commissioner has ever been in that position.

If I could create a world where people lived forever, or at the very least a few billion years, I would do so. I don't think humanity will always be stuck in the awkward stage we now occupy, when we are smart enough to create enormous problems for ourselves, but not quite smart enough to solve them.

I can really stir up a conversation. Every time I go to a meeting or a casting, I try to make it as light and funny as I can. I'm always making really awkward jokes. You have to make life fun and not take it too seriously. I may look like I'm very serious and into my work, but if you knew me, I'm just a jokester.

I don't see it. I mean, from all of our conversations and everything we talk about, I never even mention it. When someone brings it up when we're walking down the street, it's an awkward situation when they bring it up like that, but I don't see that happening.

For the person who has been around, this is going to be huge. For the person who hasn't been around, they'll never know the awkward problem we had.

He came here at an awkward time at the All-Star break last year. He made a huge difference this year. It took time with Andy Pettitte coming off (elbow) surgery and Lance Berkman coming off knee surgery.