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Quotes About Shy

In school I was pretty quiet. Kinda shy until my junior year. But at home I was a freak.
~ Dane Cook
In Halloween, I viewed the characters as simply normal teenagers. Laurie, Jamie Lee's character, was shy and somewhat repressed. And Michael Myers, the killer, is definitely repressed. They have certain similarities.
~ John Carpenter
I believe the most attractive thing about a guy is his personality and the way he views the world. I'm not into bad boys. I like the sweet sometimes even shy guys.
~ Nadia Ali
I was very shy as a kid, but films fascinated me a lot. I think every North Indian kid wants to grow up to become an actor at some point. I hail from a small village in Punjab.
~ Arfi Lamba
As a child, I studied violin. My sister, who's 10 years older, was the actress in the family. I was painfully shy.
~ J. Smith-Cameron
He shook out a copy of The Manchester Guardian. He had noticed that conservative newspapers sometimes inspired confidence in the shy.
~ John Cheever
I am shy by nature and in a way it is a blessing in disguise because being alone does not really make me feel lonely and it is better to be alone with your thoughts rather than in a crowd.
~ Unknown
The river was always there inside of me, but I was very shy. I could see that this was my path. I felt destiny in my own music.
~ Paula Cole
Shy bairnes get nay toffee
~ Jade Thirlwall
Shostakovich hated the way propaganda amplified his life and sought to make it heroic. It galled him. He was naturally shy. Fame was deadly in Stalin's Russia. It marked you out for destruction.
~ Unknown
The flowers, when they saw me, seemed to press forward like eager puppies, leaping and clamouring for my touch. I felt almost shy of them, but day by day I grew bolder, and at last I knelt in the damp earth before a clump of hellebore.
~ Madeline Miller
Among these contemptuous women, poor Germaine had the disadvantage of being young--and almost pretty, in a shy, mousy way. She possessed the nonspecific clumsiness of someone who makes such a constant effort to be inconspicuous that she is creatively awkward--without meaning to, Germaine hoarded attention to herself; her almost electric nervousness disturbed the atmosphere surrounding her.
~ John Irving
I'm actually very introverted. I'm very shy. I'm very emotional.
~ Tom Ford
[My father] loved me tenderly and shyly from a distance, and later on took a naive pride in seeing my name in print.
~ Arthur Koestler
It's hard for me to believe that a shy, bespectacled college graduate like Brad Meltzer who's a novelist and a father is a really setting out to be weirdly misogynistic.
~ Grant Morrison
I fear the day when the Kuffar are proud of their falsehood, and the Muslims are shy of their faith.
~ Umar
Fear pounds on the door to our heart demanding to be let in. Joy is modest and often comes into our lives like a shy person entering a room; it can take a while to even notice it's there.
~ Jonathan Carroll
I was shy, " said six-foot-one of bashful male. He grunted as a sharp, feminine elbow thudded inconspicuously into his side.
~ Anne Gracie, The Perfect Rake
The girl sounded uncharacteristically bashful as she offered her gift. It was a small, hand-sewn pillow, with one word embroidered crookedly on its front. Loveawoo, it said.
~ Unknown
What we provide is an atmosphere... of orchestrated pulse which works on people in a subliminal way. Under its influence I've seen shy debs and severe dowagers kick off their shoes and raise some wholesome hell.
~ Unknown
Shy and arrogant and anxious to be loved. Homesick and pleased to be away from home at last." Excerpt From: Michael Frayn. "Copenhagen".
~ Michael Frayn
The company accountant is shy and retiring. He's shy a quarter of a million dollars. That's why he's retiring.
~ Milton Berle
A pity for herself that she was so withdrawn a character. Recluse would be a truer word to describe her.
~ Unknown
A few minutes?" Feeling suddenly shy, she crossed her arms over her chest. The smile on his face widened, becoming touched with the feral wildness of the cat. It made thinking difficult. "I believed males needed a longer recovery time to mate." "Not this kitty cat." Rising to his feet, he said, "Get ready to play.
~ Nalini Singh