Quotes of Embarrassing - somelinesforyou

“ My lawyers tell me that this is so frivolous, so over the top, so embarrassing to the judiciary that we ought to be able to get it out of here quickly. ”

- Tom Delay

“ This is a glaring, embarrassing problem that Microsoft has to fix. ”

- Richard Williams

“ Mmm. Lost a planet, Master Obi-Wan has. How embarrassing. How embarrassing. ”

- Frank Oz

“ But some of them - It was embarrassing. ”

- Bruce Weber

“ Yeah, sure, it's embarrassing, I guess. ”

- Jonah Goldberg

“ I don't know what happened, but there was a major malmisorganization problem there. ”

- Murray Walker

“ Nothing is so embarrassing as watching someone do something that you said couldn't be done. ”

- Sam Ewing

“ Somebody who never got over the embarrassing fact that he was born in bed with a lady. ”

- Sydney J. Harris

“ I had a huge crush on Olga Korbut, the gymnast. The only other person was Cliff Richard, which is embarrassing - it means that when I was seven I had bad taste and was presumably gay. ”

- Hugh Grant

“ It is not advisable, James, to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener. ”

- Ayn Rand

“ 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

“ To an adolescent, there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent. ”

- Dave Barry

“ It's a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than try to be a little better. ”

- Aldous Huxley

“ The embarrassing thing is that the salad dressing is out-grossing my films. ”

- Paul Newman

“ It's a business you go into because your an egocentric. It's a very embarrassing profession. ”

- Katharine Hepburn

“ 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

“ 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

“ As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead. ”

- Lance Morrow

“ A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large. ”

- Henry Ford

“ Its embarrassing, you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on a Best Sellers List. ”

- Abbie Hoffman

“ Few things in life are more embarrassing than the necessity of having to inform an old friend that you have just got engaged to his fiancee. ”

- W.C. Fields

“ I've given up smoking and started going to the gym. I think they raised an eyebrow when I first went in, but it's a very quiet gym. I couldn't do it in front of the general public, it would just be too embarrassing, huffing and sweating away with all these muscly blokes watching you. ”

- Norman Cook

“ We have our own system,... and journalists in our system are not put in prison for embarrassing the government by revealing things the government might not wish to have revealed. The important thing is that our system, under which journalists can write without fear or favor, should continue. ”

- Chris Patten

“ I don't know what to do!" cried Scrooge, laughing and crying in the same breath; and making a perfect Laocoon of himself with his stockings. "I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a school-boy. I am as giddy as a drunken man… ”

- Charles Dickens

“ Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton is now facing a kind of personal dilemma. She can't decide whether to drop the name Clinton from her name, or drop the name Rodham. They can't figure out which one is more embarrassing. ”

- Jay Leno

“ The most embarrassing thing for me was the day Bob Hope called me up and I was spaced out on cocaine. I was supposed to do his TV special, and I didn't turn up. Consequently, I was blacklisted by NBC for a long time. I damaged my career, and almost ruined my whole life. ”

- Andy Gibb

“ Women often postpone their lives, thinking that if they're not with a partner then it doesn't really count. They're still searching for their prince, in a way. And as much as we don't discuss that, because it's too embarrassing and too sad, I think it really does exist. ”

- Jane Campion

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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
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