Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charlotte Gainsbourg

When you fight against your own weaknesses, there's something embarrassing about it.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

The problem with me in doing things simply is that I feel I'm not enough. It's all very embarrassing.

Bess Truman

It's very embarrassing to be put on the spot.

Cassandra Peterson

When I was Elvira, it was probably the phase of my hair getting too high. I thought that if really high hair was good, then really higher hair was even better. So I just started having my hair get higher and higher. In some of the pictures, we had to cut off the picture because it was like Marge Simpson. So that was embarrassing. The wig phase.

Cassandra Peterson

When I was a kid... I don't know which was more embarrassing, when I was really into The Beatles or when I was a hippie.

Ashleigh Brilliant

It's sometimes easier to do the impossible than to do the embarrassing.

Arthur Hiller

It's so embarrassing to receive an award for doing what you should be doing.

Bruce Nauman

I don't like to think about being an influence. It's embarrassing.

Bill Wyman

It's all right leaping about the stage when you're 20 but when you get to 25 it gets a bit embarrassing

Chelsea Handler

If you do talk dirty, make sure that you enunciate because there's nothing more embarrassing than having to repeat yourself.

Charles Kuralt

I much preferred the peaceful life on the road, where I didn't have to ask embarrassing questions and do all the things real reporters have to do.

David Graeber

[A] great embarrassing fact… haunts all attempts to represent the market as the highest form of human freedom: that historically, impersonal, commercial markets originate in theft.

David Cross

I like pot, I enjoy pot, I like to smoke it. But, the one thing I don't like about pot is the subculture it's spawned. I think it's embarrassing and really juvenile and uncreative

David Brooks

If you go in a confirmation process, you're going to be asked about the embarrassing or stupid things you said. You should have a view.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I struggle to learn by rote. I've had meltdowns on set. Which is embarrassing and shameful.

Brian Wilson

I hate those old falsettos, I really do, and it's embarrassing since I've grown up.

Carl Sagan

All of us cherish our beliefs. They are, to a degree, self-defining. When someone comes along who challenges our belief system as insufficiently well-based - or who, like Socrates, merely asks embarrassing questions that we haven't thought of, or demonstrates that we've swept key underlying assumptions under the rug - it becomes much more than a search for knowledge. It feels like a personal assault.

Arthur Miller

The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always.

Carl T. Rowan

There aren't any embarrassing questions — just embarrassing answers.

Carl T. Rowan

There are no embarrassing answers-just embarrassing questions.

Alex Pettyfer

Nothing embarrassing, but hopefully I can call myself a gentleman because of my father.

Aldous Huxley

It’s embarrassing to tell you this, but it seems to come down mostly to just learning to be kinder.

Craig Kilborn

There was an embarrassing moment at a recent Democratic fundraiser. When John Kerry was handed a $10 million dollar check, he said, 'I do.'

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

David Cook

I will never shy away from embarrassing myself for a good cause

Curtis Sittenfeld

I feel like a lot of life is distasteful and embarrassing. And you just push through it. You fix what you can, and you let time pass.

Daniel Clowes

I was 30 before I made a living that was not embarrassing.

Dakota Fanning

I never skimp on TV. I watch an embarrassing amount of TV shows. I don't even know how I do it.

Donald Trump

I think under the leadership of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, the generals have been reduced to rubble. They have been reduced to a point where it's embarrassing for America.

Amy Smart

For me, I'm OK doing embarrassing things, when it's with somebody else. I'm not the only person to look at.

Kurt Vonnegut

How embarrassing to be human.

Kurt Vonnegut

How embarrassing it is to be human.

Nathaniel Buzolic

I love to meet the fans. I just get embarrassed with those who weep. I don't know what to do or what to say. It's a very embarrassing situation.