#awkward

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness. ↗

— Helen Keller

#awkwardness #barrier #book #discourses #disenfranchised

I wasn't always this confident. Growing up as the awkward gay kid in a small town in Pennsylvania, you're constantly told, 'Don't be yourself, don't be proud of who you are.' ↗

— Carson Kressley

#awkward #be yourself #confident #constantly #gay

He shook his head, just looking at me. - "What?" I asked. - "Nothing" he said. - "Why are you looking at me like that?" Augustus half smiled. "Because you`re beautiful. I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence." A brief awkward silence ensued. Augustus plowed through: "I mean, particularly given that, as you so deliciously pointed out, all of this will end in oblivion and everything." I kind of scoffed or sighed or exhaled in a way that was vaguely coughy and then said, "I`m not beau-" - "You are like a millennial Natalie Portman. Like V for Vendetta Natalie Portman." - "Never seen it." - "Really?" he asked. "Pixie-haired gorgeous girl dislikes authority and can`t help but fall for a boy she knows is trouble. It`s your autobiography, so far as I can tell." His every syllable flirted. Honestly, he kind of turned me on. I didn`t even know that guys could turn me on - not, like, in real life. ↗

— John Green

#awkward #beautiful #boy #flirt #girl

I'd violated the primary rule of junior and senior high-- don't get people talking about you too much. This was wearing the brightest shirt on the playground. This was Mom giving you a kiss in the lobby. ↗

— Darin Strauss

#embarrassment #high-school #life

Order is never observed; it is disorder that attracts attention because it is awkward and intrusive. ↗

— Eliphas Levi

#attracts #awkward #because #disorder #intrusive

President Bush left for Canada today to attend a trade summit. Reportedly, the trade summit got off to an awkward start when the president pulled out his baseball cards. ↗

— Conan O'Brien

#awkward #baseball #bush #canada #cards

I was a nerd growing up, and I'm a little antisocial and awkward. ↗

— Louis C. K.

#awkward #growing #growing up #i #little

I've always felt myself to be an outsider. I've always felt awkward. ↗

— Jeremy Paxman

#awkward #felt #i #myself #outsider

I never felt comfortable with myself, because I was never part of the majority. I always felt awkward and shy and on the outside of the momentum of my friends' lives. ↗

— Steven Spielberg

#awkward #because #comfortable #felt #friends

It was strange at times. We had to make out so much that we kind of got over it. It was really awkward. ↗

— Clea Duvall

#got #had #kind #make #much