Quotes tagged ‘Embarrassment’

“Fender: You consider me a friend? Rodney Copperbottom: Sure. What else would I consider you? Fender: I don't know. An embarrassment? A way to rebel against your parents? A desperate cry for help? The list is endless.”

— Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel, David Lindsay-Abaire, Ron Mita, Jim McClain, Fender (voice), Robin Williams, imdb.com

“I tried a meditation class at the Y once, but all I could think about was not farting.”

— Matt Hubbard, Alan Yang, June, Maya Rudolph, imdb.com

“Come on, Kurt, what you're doing here is wrong, and you know it! Now if this is about you and me, let's lay it all down now. All right, sixteen years ago, I made the biggest mistake of my life: I cheated. I was stupid. I embarrassed myself, I embarrassed my country, my friends, my family, my teammat…”

— Lynn Siefert, Michael Goldberg, Tommy Swerdlow, Irving 'Irv' Blitzer, John Candy, imdb.com

“British Official: We must also be concerned about the potential for embarrassment. Irv: Oh, pardon me. I didn't realize that four black guys in a bobsled could make you blush.”

— Lynn Siefert, Michael Goldberg, Tommy Swerdlow, Irving 'Irv' Blitzer, John Candy, imdb.com

“Ricky Bobby: Hey, Greg. Greg Biffle: [shakes Ricky's hand] Hey. Good to see you back. Ricky Bobby: Thanks, bud. Greg Biffle: You're not gonna be runnin' up the road in your underwear again, are ya? Like in Charlotte? Ricky Bobby: You know what? That hurts, man. [Greg laughs, then suddenly stops] Gre…”

— Will Ferrell, Ricky Bobby, Will Ferrell, imdb.com

“[Bruce bows respectfully to T'Challa] We don't do that here. [Rhodey chuckles at Bruce dying of embarrassment]”

— Stephen McFeely, Christopher Markus, T'Challa / Black Panther, Chadwick Boseman, imdb.com

“Dr. Cox: Shower Shorts? J.D: For the man who has nothing to hide, but still wants to.”

— Neil Goldman, Garrett Donovan, John 'J.D.' Dorian, Zach Braff, imdb.com

“You can imagine my embarrassment when I learned that I had killed the wrong man.”

— Joe Valachi, imdb.com

“I was too shy to ask any of the girls I knew at school, but there was this new girl in class, and because she was new, it was open season on her. As luck would have it, she was put at the desk directly in front of me in the classroom, so one morning I plucked up courage and asked her, without any id…”

— Eric Clapton, amazon.com

“The passion for office among members of Congress is very great, if not absolutely disreputable, and greatly embarrasses the operations of the government. They create offices by their own votes and then seek to fill them themselves.”

— James K. Polk, en.wikiquote.org

“The sense of shame I feel about an incident is proportionate not just to the gravity of the situation, but also to the number of people who witnessed it.”

— Paula Hawkins, amazon.com

“No one has ever died of embarrassment--never, not once in the whole history of time.”

— Meg Cabot, amazon.com

“Youth, with all its accompanying risks, humiliations, and uncertainties, the pressure to do it all before it’s too late.”

— Lena Dunham, amazon.com

“When there’s an elephant in the room, introduce him.”

— Randy Pausch, goodreads.com