Socially Awkward Quotes

If you believe that there’s a heaven and hell and people could be going to hell—or not getting eternal life or whatever—and you think that, well, it’s not really worth telling them this because it would make it socially awkward. . . . How much do you have to hate somebody to not proselytize? How much do you have to hate somebody to believe that everlasting life is possible and not tell them that?

I've always been kind of a shy guy. Not very outgoing. I might not start a conversation, but if somebody else does, I'll chat away.

I'm not, like, a gregarious guy. I don't walk into a room and want to engage people. I'm just not wired that way. One on one, I'm fine.

As for Gussie Finknottle, many an experienced undertaker would have been deceived by his appearance and started embalming on sight.

Cavendish was a great Man with extraordinary singularities-His voice was squeaking his manner nervous He was afraid of strangers & seemed when embarrassed to articulate with difficulty-He wore the costume of our grandfathers. Was enormously rich but made no use of his wealth... He Cavendish lived latterly the life of a solitary, came to the Club dinner & to the Royal Society: but received nobody at his home. He was acute sagacious & profound & I think the most accomplished British Philosopher of his time.

For a few spotty years, I was that tragic geek

I've grown to love L.A., but it's the most socially awkward place. All these people have come there not to be something but to pretend to be someone trying to be someone. Even in line for coffee, you're standing with someone who's trying to be so interesting.

I was kind of a cross between Kristy and Mary Anne among 'The Baby-Sitters Club' characters. I was shy, but I was also kind of a tomboy, and I was really good at sticking my foot in my mouth even though I was shy.

Authors were shy, unsociable creatures, atoning for their lack of social aptitude by inventing their own companions and conversations.

When they tried me out as a host on TV, I found that I just couldn't be that gregarious person. I was stranger than that.

I don't particularly have a wide social circle.

Scientists are rarely to be counted among the fun people. Awkward at parties, shy with strangers, deficient in irony - they have had no choice but to turn their attention to the close study of everyday objects.

I'm quite a reserved person, a bit shy at first when I don't know someone. I like to have a laugh and a joke; people have seen that in me.

Restaurants are minefields for the socially inept

Geek it's really more a characteristic where you don't socialize. You don't talk the normal languages.

I don't think I'm exactly gregarious, you know. I'm not usually known as the loud person in the room.

Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.

That was the most awkward Wednesday he ever remembered.

The people that were socially awkward from my generation, they all had paper routes and that taught them the discipline of work.

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