embarrassment

Link	Quote	Tags	Author
2cdd40b	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 to school for Career Day.	embarrassment humor kronos	Rick Riordan
edc70fc	Most true things are kind of corny, don't you think? But we make them more sophisticated out of sheer embarrassment.	embarrassment true	Michel Faber
a836039	They did not submit to the obvious alternative, which was simply to close the eyes and fall. So easy, really. Go limp and tumble to the ground and let the muscles unwind and not speak and not budge until your buddies picked you up and lifted you into the chopper that would roar and dip its nose and carry you off to the world. A mere matter of falling, yet no one ever fell. It was not courage, exactly; the object was not valor. Rather, they were too frightened to be cowards.	embarrassment shame war	Tim O'Brien
bda5db6	Embarrassment isn't a just cause of action.	embarrassment	Jodi Picoult
aa68e94	Clothes are nothing more than a fig leaf. And the bodies beneath are just another layer of clothing, an outfit of flesh with an impractically thin leather exterior, in various shades of pink, yellow and brown. The souls alone are real. Seen in this way, there can never be any such thing as social unease or shyness or embarrassment. All you need do is greet your fellow soul.	embarrassment shyness soul	Michel Faber
7e458c1	My parents are like younger, urchinlike brothers and sisters whose faces are dirty and who blurt out humiliating things that can neither be anticipated nor controlled. I sigh and make the best of it. I feel I'm older than they are, much older. I feel ancient.	embarrassment parents	Margaret Atwood
58d4a20	They saw me. Milton's smile curled off his face like unsticky tape. And I knew immediately, I was a boy band, a boondoggle, born fool. He was going to pull a Danny Zuko in when Sandy says hello to him in front of the T-Birds, a Mrs. Robinson when she tells Elaine she didn't seduce Benjamin, a Daisy when she chooses Tom with the disposition of a sour kiwi over Gatsby, a self-made man, a man engorged with dreams, who didn't mind throwing a pile of shirts around a room if he wanted too. My heart landslided. My legs earthquaked.	cruelty daisy-buchanan denial disappointment embarrassment grease jay-gatsby movies nervous pop-culture rejection rude rude-awakening teenagers the-graduate the-great-gatsby tom-buchanan	Marisha Pessl
54871f7	Patrick and I were about as different as two people could possibly be. Nothing embarrasses Patrick very much, and everything embarrasses me. Just being alive embarrasses me.	embarrassment	Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
95f0da7	It embarrassed her, as a child, to think that her father had fallen in love, or, if men must love, then it should have been someone else, someone dark, mysterious and profoundly clever, not an ordinary person who was impatient for no reason and cross when one was late for lunch.	clever dark embarrass embarrassment father impatience impatient late love mediocrity men mother mysterious mystery ordinary	Daphne du Maurier
18b31ed	"His life, for years past, had been mainly a succession of resigned adaptations, and he had learned, before dealing practically with his embarrassments, to extract from most of them a small tribute of amusement. ("The Triumph Of The Night")"	embarrassment resignation	Edith Wharton
6f04197	You can never really trust someone who remembers every embarrassing detail of your adolescence.	embarrassment friends trust	Daniel Clowes

2cdd40b

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 to school for Career Day.

embarrassment humor kronos

Rick Riordan

edc70fc

Most true things are kind of corny, don't you think? But we make them more sophisticated out of sheer embarrassment.

embarrassment true

Michel Faber

a836039

They did not submit to the obvious alternative, which was simply to close the eyes and fall. So easy, really. Go limp and tumble to the ground and let the muscles unwind and not speak and not budge until your buddies picked you up and lifted you into the chopper that would roar and dip its nose and carry you off to the world. A mere matter of falling, yet no one ever fell. It was not courage, exactly; the object was not valor. Rather, they were too frightened to be cowards.

embarrassment shame war

Tim O'Brien

bda5db6

Embarrassment isn't a just cause of action.

embarrassment

Jodi Picoult

aa68e94

Clothes are nothing more than a fig leaf. And the bodies beneath are just another layer of clothing, an outfit of flesh with an impractically thin leather exterior, in various shades of pink, yellow and brown. The souls alone are real. Seen in this way, there can never be any such thing as social unease or shyness or embarrassment. All you need do is greet your fellow soul.

embarrassment shyness soul

Michel Faber

7e458c1

My parents are like younger, urchinlike brothers and sisters whose faces are dirty and who blurt out humiliating things that can neither be anticipated nor controlled. I sigh and make the best of it. I feel I'm older than they are, much older. I feel ancient.

embarrassment parents

Margaret Atwood

58d4a20

They saw me. Milton's smile curled off his face like unsticky tape. And I knew immediately, I was a boy band, a boondoggle, born fool. He was going to pull a Danny Zuko in when Sandy says hello to him in front of the T-Birds, a Mrs. Robinson when she tells Elaine she didn't seduce Benjamin, a Daisy when she chooses Tom with the disposition of a sour kiwi over Gatsby, a self-made man, a man engorged with dreams, who didn't mind throwing a pile of shirts around a room if he wanted too. My heart landslided. My legs earthquaked.

cruelty daisy-buchanan denial disappointment embarrassment grease jay-gatsby movies nervous pop-culture rejection rude rude-awakening teenagers the-graduate the-great-gatsby tom-buchanan

Marisha Pessl

54871f7

Patrick and I were about as different as two people could possibly be. Nothing embarrasses Patrick very much, and everything embarrasses me. Just being alive embarrasses me.

embarrassment

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

95f0da7

It embarrassed her, as a child, to think that her father had fallen in love, or, if men must love, then it should have been someone else, someone dark, mysterious and profoundly clever, not an ordinary person who was impatient for no reason and cross when one was late for lunch.

clever dark embarrass embarrassment father impatience impatient late love mediocrity men mother mysterious mystery ordinary

Daphne du Maurier

18b31ed

"His life, for years past, had been mainly a succession of resigned adaptations, and he had learned, before dealing practically with his embarrassments, to extract from most of them a small tribute of amusement. ("The Triumph Of The Night")"

embarrassment resignation

Edith Wharton

6f04197

You can never really trust someone who remembers every embarrassing detail of your adolescence.

embarrassment friends trust

Daniel Clowes