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«Letters are above all useful as a means of expressing the ideal self; and no other method of communication is quite so good for this purpose. In letters we can reform without practice, beg without humiliation, snip and shape embarrassing experiences to the measure of our own desires...»
«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.»
Author: Hugh Grant
(Actor)
| Keywords:
Bad Taste, cliff, crush, embarrassing, gymnast, Korbut, Olga Korbut, presumably, Richard
«One of the embarrassing problems for the early nineteenth-century champions of the Christian faith was that not one of the first six Presidents of the United States was an orthodox Christian.»
Author: Mortimer Adler
(Editor, Educator, Philosopher)
| About:
America and Americans,
Christianity,
Presidency
| Keywords:
Champions, Christian faith, early Christians, embarrassing, first century, nineteenth, nineteenth century, orthodox, Presidents, The Christian
«Nothing is so embarrassing as watching someone do something that you said couldn't be done.»
Author: Sam Ewing
| Keywords:
embarrassing
«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.»
Author: Nadine Gordimer
| Keywords:
abstraction, Another Country, Beautiful Country, bottles, coca, Coca Cola, cola, desirable, does not exist, embarrassing, grubby, pamphlet, pamphlets, smells, tourist
«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.»
Author: Susan Sontag
(Activist, Critic, Writer)
| Keywords:
devoted, embarrassing, formerly, lowering, modern art, morals, shocking, threshold, thresholds
«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.»
Author: Jay Leno
(Comedian, Host)
| Keywords:
dilemma, dilemmas, embarrassing, facing, Hillary Clinton, senator