Tamora Pierce Quotes

I feel the producers really exploited my lack of talent at this time. I looked like an idiot up there. I want to be good, not something that people will laugh at.

Anyone can lose a fight. That doesn't bother me. But the shame that comes afterwards is unbearable.

The worst is when you bomb and when you bomb in front of someone you're trying to impress. That's the worst.

Nobody wants to be associated with failing to qualify for the World Cup finals. I cannot imagine the shame of it.

Now I know what it is like to feel like a total idiot.

Every time I fumble or drop a ball I am embarrassed.

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

I always think that I've embarrassed myself.

To be let go from a soap opera is the most embarrassing confidence basher in the world. It's like, 'Oh, if I'm not good enough for that, I'm not good enough for anything.'

I was 23 years old, a freshman at university, and there I was, on the first day, sitting in a remedial English class. I was so ashamed I almost got up and left, but somehow I knew inside that if I ran away from this, I would hate myself forever.

It wasn't my finest hour. It wasn't even my finest hour and a half.

I certainly was not going to add to his humiliation in the hour of defeat.

One time, when I was in my teens, jamming in a Kansas City club, I was doing all right until I tried doing double tempo on 'Body and Soul.' Everybody fell out laughing. I went home and cried and didn't want to play again for three months.

You have a bad day at the office, four people know. You suck in a movie, everyone knows.

I don't want to end up being some joke on a bad TV series.

Once I got beat by Mayweather I felt so ashamed. I cancelled all my functions, all my appearances, I didn't want to walk down the street. I was too embarrassed to even go and have a pint with my mates.

All our careers end the same: Face down and embarrassed.

You create something, and when it doesn't work, it's kind of like people make fun of your kid or something.

Luke, I don't want to discourage your curiosity, but I have to remind you, if something goes wrong, this is an exceptionally embarassing way to die." Mara

I pity bashful men, who feel the pain Of fancied scorn and undeserved disdain, And bear the marks upon a blushing face, OF needless shame, and self-impos'd disgrace.

Nay, you'll be ashamed of me everyday of your life," he answered; "and the more ashamed, the more you know me; and I cannot bide it.

I'm not supposed to be the one that's caught with his pants down.

Sadness usually results from one of the following causes either when a man does not succeed, or is ashamed of his success.

If you still have to ask, shame on you