Socially Awkward Quotes:

I'm definitely on the spectrum of socially awkward.

- Mayim Bialik

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Awkward, Spectrum, Socially Awkward

I'm certainly honest - and I can be socially awkward.

- Norman Reedus

topic: Awkward, Honest, Socially Awkward, Social Awkwardness

I am a socially awkward mandork. (Nick)

- Sherrilyn Kenyon

topic: Awkward, Socially Awkward

No matter what I do with my life, or how successful I am, I will always be a socially awkward penguin inside.

- Wil Wheaton

topic: Successful, Awkward, Matter, Sociability, Socially Awkward

I wanted to do a movie about being really good at something, yet being socially awkward and not as advanced in your personal life as you are in your creative life.

- Alicia Witt

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Creative, Being Real, Awkward, Socially Awkward, Creative Life

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

- Temple Grandin

source: "Autism & animal welfare activist Temple Grandin". The Tavis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. July 5, 2013.

topic: Discipline, People, Awkward, Socially Awkward

I'm kind of a nervous person in general. I'm socially awkward. I'm not tall and sensuous. I usually wear sweats everywhere I go. Oh, and I burp a lot.

- Carrie Underwood

topic: Sweat, Awkward, Kind, Socially Awkward

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?

- Penn Jillette

source: "A Gift of a Bible". "Penn Says" episode 192, videolog on Crackle.com, December 9, 2008.

topic: Life, Faith, Hate, Socially Awkward, Everlasting Life

It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathing—they are not all bad. Those devils have been my angels. Without them I would never have disappeared into language, literature, the mind, laughter and all the mad intensities that made and unmade me.

- Stephen Fry

topic: Beauty, Depression, Laughter, Self Loathing, Socially Awkward

I get so nervous. I happen to be socially awkward and shy. I spent a lot of my time as an adult not going places.

- Christina Ricci

topic: Awkward, Adults, Shy, Socially Awkward, Social Awkwardness

Writing has always allowed me to escape. I was a very lonely child. Because I was very socially awkward, I would always have trouble making friends. And so reading and writing allowed me to have friends and to have an active imaginary life that really sort of kept me sane.

- Roxane Gay

source: "Roxane Gay Will Make You Proud to Be a Bad Feminist". Interview with Hannah Levintova, www.motherjones.com. July 24, 2014.

topic: Lonely, Children, Reading, Socially Awkward, Lonely Child

I'm a bad dater. I'm the most socially awkward person, like carrying on conversations and stuff.

- Lauren Conrad

topic: Awkward, Carrying On, Stuff, Socially Awkward

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.

- Helen Keller

topic: Friendship, Sweet, Book, Socially Awkward, Disenfranchised

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.

- Melissa McCarthy

topic: Coffee, Interesting, People, Socially Awkward

For me, and I suspect a lot of socially awkward people, dealing with people face-to-face seems really traumatic. Particularly if you have massive sweating issues, and particularly if on top of that you have quite smelly sweat that smells like onion soup.

- Caitlin Moran

source: Source: www.buzzfeed.com

topic: Sweat, Smell, Issues, Socially Awkward

Interestingly, the actress who, in her own persona, may be gentle, shy, and socially awkward, someone whose hand trembles when pouring a cup of tea for a visiting friend, can convincingly portray an elegant, cruel aristocrat tossing off malicious epigrams in an eighteenth-century chocolate house.

- Wallace Shawn

topic: Hands, House, Awkward, Socially Awkward

I think most interesting people are socially awkward even if they're able to hide it most of the time. If Henry Darger hadn't been a shut-in would we love him so much? Any act that we do in private is amazing and profound because it is private. You don't have to worry about being socially awkward in the privacy of your own home... well, unless I show up.

- Laurel Nakadate

topic: Home, Thinking, People, Socially Awkward

I was hesitant to approach people. I'm socially awkward. But I was working on a number of memorials, and finally it dawned on me: These are memorials to people who wrote, so I should use their writing. That's how I started to quit.

- Jenny Holzer

source: Interview with Kiki Smith, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 26, 2012.

topic: Writing, Numbers, People, Socially Awkward

I was just starting out, trying to become a screenwriter, and I became the Austin slam champion three times. For a nerdy, kind of a socially awkward guy, that did wonders for my self esteem.

- Ernest Cline

topic: Self Esteem, Guy, Champion, Socially Awkward, Nerdy

In fact, there are autism clusters, you know, around some of the big tech centers. You take two socially awkward computer programmers and put them together, that can kind of concentrate the autistic genes.

- Temple Grandin

source: "Autism & animal welfare activist Temple Grandin". The Tavis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. July 5, 2013.

topic: Two, Autism, Awkward, Socially Awkward

He's been in love with Miss Gina since high school, but he doesn't really know how to talk to girls, so he's just been...staying around her since then. He just tends to go where she goes." "Isn't that stalking?" Jazza said. "Legally, no," I replied. "I asked my parents this when I was little. What he does is creepy and socially awkward, but it's not actually stalking.

- Maureen Johnson

topic: Girl, School, Parent, Gina, Socially Awkward

Homeschooling will certainly produce some socially awkward adults, but the odds are good they would have been just as quirky had they spent twelve years raising their hand for permission to go to the bathroom.

- Quinn Cummings

source: Quinn Cummings (2012). “The Year of Learning Dangerously: Adventures in Homeschooling”, p.20, Penguin

topic: Odds, Hands, Years, Homeschooling, Socially Awkward

Steve Jobs was probably mildly on the autistic spectrum. Basically, you've probably known people who were geeky and socially awkward but very smart. When does geeks and nerds become autism? That's a gray area. Half the people in Silicon Valley probably have autism.

- Temple Grandin

topic: Jobs, Smart, Autism, Very Smart, Gray Area

Show me a novelist – or, indeed, a reader – who wasn’t a socially awkward, self-conscious adolescent, prone to clumsiness and excessive reading and I’ll… well, I’ll probably bang my shoulder on the door frame as I storm out. Many of the most unforgettable female fictional protagonists are gauche, self-doubting, plain and think too much.

- Charlotte Mendelson

topic: Reading, Thinking, Doors, Socially Awkward, Clumsiness

When you're socially awkward, you're isolated more than usual, and when you're isolated more than usual, your creativity is less compromised by what has already been said and done. All your hope in life starts to depend on your craft, so you try to perfect it. One reason I stay isolated more than the average person is to keep my creativity as fierce as possible. Being the odd one out may have its temporary disadvantages, but more importantly, it has its permanent advantages.

- Criss Jami

topic: Creativity, Average, Perfect, Introversion, Odd One

I was nonverbal until I was four years old. Back in the 50s, I was the kind of kid they used to just put away in an institution. But then you get the milder autism where there's no speech delay, but they're socially awkward. Those kids were around when I was a child. They were just called geeks and nerds.

- Temple Grandin

source: "Autism & animal welfare activist Temple Grandin". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. July 5, 2013.

topic: Children, Kids, Years, Socially Awkward, Nonverbal

I'm seeing too many smart kind of socially awkward kids, a lot milder than I was, not getting employment because they're not learning job skills.

- Temple Grandin

source: "Autism & animal welfare activist Temple Grandin". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. July 5, 2013.

topic: Jobs, Smart, Kids, Socially Awkward

I'm seeing too many kind of socially awkward kids that get through schools and then they can't hold a job because they haven't learned the discipline of get up in the morning.

- Temple Grandin

source: "Autism & animal welfare activist Temple Grandin". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. July 5, 2013.

topic: Morning, Jobs, School, Socially Awkward

My parents, though very loving, were not what one would ever describe as outgoing and therefore when I was young I was quite shy and socially awkward. Having a camera changed all that. It gave me an excuse to go anywhere and approach anybody.

- Derek Ridgers

source: Source: therumpus.net

topic: Parent, Awkward, Cameras, Socially Awkward