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Quotes About Shy

A Nightingale!" he marvelled. Ah, so Matron had told him that much. Lib was always shy of introducing the great lady's name into conversation and loathed the whimsical title that had come to be attached to all those Miss N. had trained, as if they were dolls cast in her heroic mould. "Yes, I had the honour of serving under her at Scutari." "Noble labour." It
~ Emma Donoghue
Rescue Remedy or similar products can help shy and fearful pets.
~ Amy Shojai
Yet as I tried to elicit the specific details of what he wanted, he became shy and reticent—almost irritable. "Something that's not so . . . baggy," he said as he impatiently gestured to his drab constable uniform. I could understand his concern. Major Kira's tightly wrapped figure made us all look baggy.
~ Andrew J. Robinson
At my very core, I'm pretty shy. I just happen to have a weird job.
~ Johnny Depp
I got into performing fairly young and went from, like, a shy kid to a total weirdo.
~ Thomas Middleditch
I do think a lot of brands shy away from politics, and that's a shame. I want BOB to be political, despite us being a small independent company.
~ Dawn O'Porter
The one good thing about being kind of shy is that nobody bugs you when you want to be left alone.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
I'm just a real loner kind of person, and yeah, kinda dark. But I'm happy. Not sad. I'm just shy and nervous.
~ Clea Duvall
We are all ordinary. We are all boring. We are all spectacular. We are all shy. We are all bold. We are all heroes. We are all helpless. It just depends on the day.
~ Brad Meltzer
You know, you're an interesting girl, Lara Jean. You seem shy and kind of babyish at first, but you're actually very confident. That was a compliment, by the way." "Thanks," I say. If someone is giving you a compliment, I don't think they should have to tell you they're giving you one; it should probably be obvious to the person receiving it.
~ Jenny Han
Aw, he's shy. How loveable, huggable, stuff-in-a-bag-and-take-home-able.
~ Jeri Smith-Ready
He smiled as only the truly shy can smile. It was not the easy grin of the confident, nor the quick slashing smile of the extremely durable and the wicked. It had no relation with the poised, intently used smile of the courtesan or the politician. It was the strange, rare smile which rises from the deep, dark pit, deeper than a well, deep as a mine, that is within them.
~ Ernest Hemingway
I think that you may find that Tamera's a little more vibrant and energetic, but I'm much more likely to go up to a person and say, 'Hi, I'm Tia, nice to meet you.' Whereas Tamera is like... well... she's a little shy. She's down to earth. I'm more extroverted and she's more introverted when meeting people.
~ Tia Mowry
I'm not a brazen extrovert, but I'm not as blushing or demure as people might think.
~ Susie Dent
I was a very, very shy, insecure teenager.
~ Twiggy
I was this very self-conscious, shy person once I hit my teens.
~ Ileana D'Cruz
The Marines looked away. It was not that they were shy. It was just that they were embarrassed. They felt awkward in their clumsy habiliments of war. They felt heavy with themselves and their world, as though they had blundered into some Eden which had not known the serpent.
~ Robert Leckie
She loved all the creatures of the farm. Each one, even a hen, was like a person to her, even more real than many of the real people she knew. Some were playful or bold, and some were shy. Some were gentle, and some were wicked. Some were smart, like Fido, and some were foolish, like the hens.
~ Roger Lea MacBride
It had been everything he had dreamed it would be, multiplied by a million. She wasn't a myth. She was a living breathing creature, hard and strong and sinewy and perfumed, warm and shy and giving.
~ Lee Child
10. "I always wanted to be in the world of entertainment. I just love the idea of an audience being happy with what I am doing. Writing is showbusiness for shy people. That's how I see it.
~ Lee Child
I always wanted to be in the world of entertainment. I just love the idea of an audience being happy with what I am doing. Writing is showbusiness for shy people. That's how I see it." —Lee Child
~ Lee Child
I always wanted to be in the world of entertainment. I just love the idea of an audience being happy with what I am doing. Writing is showbusiness for shy people. That's how I see it.
~ Lee Child
They came one at a time or in shy small groups. I remember when sea-kindly showed up, a sentimental favorite, followed by desiccated and massive. Brusque appeared all by itself, which seemed apt; merry and boisterous arrived together. This would be a good time to ask for your patience if I use an adjective too many now and again—even now, some years on, they're still returning. I'm just so glad to see them.
~ Leif Enger
POKSI (Physically Okay but Socially Inept)
~ Jody Gehrman