Quotes with embarrassing

  • If we could all rephrase the question from What was your most embarrassing moment? to What was your most embarrassing year? Then I might be able to give you an honest answer.

Quotes 1 till 17 of 17.

  • Aldous Huxley It's a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
    - +
    +1
  • Ashleigh Brilliant It’s sometimes easier to do the impossible than to do the embarrassing.
    Ashleigh Brilliant
    American author and cartoonist (1933 - )
    - +
    +1
  • Andy Warhol Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details.
    Andy Warhol
    American artist (1928 - 1987)
    - +
     0
  • Myriam Miedzian If human beings are to survive in a nuclear age, committing acts of violence may eventually have to become as embarrassing as urinating or defecating in public are today.
    Myriam Miedzian
    American philosopher and author
    - +
     0
  • Buddy Wakefield If we could all rephrase the question from What was your most embarrassing moment? to What was your most embarrassing year? Then I might be able to give you an honest answer.
    Poetry
    Buddy Wakefield
    American poet and actor (1974 - )
    - +
     0
  • Katharine Hepburn It's a business you go into because your an egocentric. It's a very embarrassing profession.
    Katharine Hepburn
    American Actress, Writer (1907 - 2003)
    - +
     0
  • Barry McGee It's very intense to go back to the past and revive work that I've already experienced and moved forward from. It's like seeing an old girlfriend - awkward at times, nostalgic at times and downright maddening and embarrassing.
    Barry McGee
    American artist
    - +
     0
  • Elizabeth Hardwick Letters are above all useful as a means of expressing the ideal self; and no other method of communication is quite so good for this purpose. In letters we can reform without practice, beg without humiliation, snip and shape embarrassing experiences to the measure of our own desires...
    Elizabeth Hardwick
    American literary critic, novelist, and short story writer (1916 - 2007)
    - +
     0
  • Susan Sontag Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
    - +
     0
  • Anita Hill My parents are older, and they lead a somewhat sheltered life. It was difficult to talk with them about things that were embarrassing to me, and that I had never spoken to them about.
    Anita Hill
    American lawyer and academic (1956 - )
    - +
     0
  • Bono Sadly, I do my homework. I've a soft spot for the boring minutiae. I read the Charter of the United Nations before meeting with Kofi Annan. I read the Meltzer report, and then I'll read C. Fred Bergsten's defense of institutions like the World Bank and the I.M.F. It's embarrassing to admit.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
    - +
     0
  • Salman Rushdie Stories in families are colossally important. Every family has stories: some funny, some proud, some embarrassing, some shameful. Knowing them is proof of belonging to the family.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
    - +
     0
  • Nadine Gordimer The country of the tourist pamphlet always is another country, an embarrassing abstraction of the desirable that, thank God, does not exist on this planet, where there are always ants and bad smells and empty Coca-Cola bottles to keep the grubby finger-print of reality upon the beautiful.
    Nadine Gordimer
    South african writer (1923 - 2014)
    - +
     0
  • Paul Newman The embarrassing thing is that the salad dressing is out-grossing my films.
    Paul Newman
    American actor (1925 - 2008)
    - +
     0
  • Jimmy Carter We've uncovered some embarrassing ancestors in the not-too-distant past. Some horse thieves, and some people killed on Saturday nights. One of my relatives, unfortunately, was even in the newspaper business.
    Jimmy Carter
    American statesman, 39e President (1924 - )
    - +
     0
  • Boy George What's really sad is that a lot of very talented people are being forced to do things that are very embarrassing and I don't intend to be one of them.
    Boy George
    English singer, songwriter, DJ, fashion designer and actor (1961 - )
    - +
     0
  • Rita Mae Brown As a woman, I find it very embarrassing to be in a meeting and realize I'm the only one in the room with balls.
    Rita Mae Brown
    American writer, activist, and feminist (1944 - )
    - +
    -1
All embarrassing famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com