Sophie Ellis-Bextor Quotes

'Awkward' is a ubiquitous teen word to denote socially unsanctioned behavior. It usually implies first- or secondhand embarrassment when you or a friend step outside the rules. Awkward doesn't sound overtly judgmental or negative; it's deliberately vague.

You'll reach into your wallet to brandish a photograph of a new puppy, and a friend will say, 'Oh, no - not pictures.'

Anything I shouldn't laugh at makes me laugh. I mean, I'm bad at that, when somebody is singing something terribly and I'm thinking to myself, 'If I laugh now, this is the absolute worst thing I could ever do,' and then I start laughing and I can't stop.

I go to the gym in a baseball cap, sweats and then run into a boy I like. It happens - so what?

When people ask me really stupid questions or get it really wrong, I feel embarrassed for them. I don't really feel angry at them.

I abhor nothing more than bumping into someone I know on the Tube.

I was in preschool and a girl actually kissed me on the cheek. I didn't know what to do. I didn't know what it meant, so I instantly grabbed her face and kissed her on the lips. And, then I got suspended.

It's kind of awkward to eat alone in a restaurant because everybody's looking at me.

I was just sitting in Target, just getting over my cold. I blew my nose and I see these people looking at me and kind of whispering and pointing. Finally, I went, 'Is everything okay? Did I do something wrong? Do I have a booger on my face and no one's telling me?' I'm just not used to it.

If something can be said to make an awkward moment even worse, I'm going to say it.

When someone watches us eating, we feel exposed. We might also harbor a suspicion that the person staring wants to steal food from our plate. The taboo, in any case, is long-standing.

I'm not some weirdo who wants to take off his shirt.

It would be more weird if people didn't stare at me or shout at me.

My weave fell off. I was running in PE, and it got caught in a tree. People were looking at me funny.

I can't make eye contact when people sing 'Happy Birthday' to me.

I'd never dance at school discos, I couldn't believe people could show themselves like that.

I'm just saying, 'Hey, throw me a bone. How about a smile, cute t-shirt? Look at me.' Nothing - unless it's a turn to their friends to go, 'Hey, why is that weird guy looking at us?'

Restaurants are minefields for the socially inept

Seeing him like this, dressed just for her in so patent a manner, she could not hold back the fiery blush that rose to her face. She was embarrassed when she greeted him, and he was more embarrassed by her embarrassment. The knowledge that they were behaving as if they were sweethearts was even more embarrassing, and the knowledge that they were both embarrassed embarrassed them so much that Captain Samaritano noticed it with a tremor of compassion.

Embarrassment is the worst! It's the feeling of having your entire body go numb and not knowning what to do with yourself for that one moment

The etiquette question that troubles so many fastidious people New Year's Day is: How am I ever going to face those people again?

I think that music at inappropriate times with inappropriate volumes can be the funniest thing ever.

There is no embarrassment quite like the embarrassment of listening to a person for whom one has a regard making a fool of himself.

Actually, there is no way of making vomiting courteous. You have to do the next best thing, which is to vomit in such a way that the story you tell about it later will be amusing.

It was epic. It was awkward. It was epically awkward.