Quotes About Self-conscious

Ripe for romance? Is that not only the self-conscious and sensitive young man's way of saying he was heavy with passion? Is not, perhaps, romance only the fiction by means of which the tender-minded negotiate their lust?

I'm most embarrassed at my art shows, even though I don't show it.

This had happened to him before - in an effort to disappear, he had made himself more conspicuous.

Metafictionists may have had aesthetic theories out the bazoo, but they were also sentient citizens of a community that was exchanging an old idea of itself as a nation of doers and be-ers for a new vision of the U.S.A. as an atomized mass of self-conscious watchers and appearers.

But fiction-writers tend at the same time to be terribly sef-conscious . Devoting lots of productive time to studying closely how people come across to them, fiction writers also spend lots of less productive time wondering nervously how they come across to other people.

I smile when I'm nervous.

Even after all these years, she still said the word "gig" self-consciously, in the same way that she always said "croissant" with the proper French pronunciation, but with an apologetic, self-deprecating look to make up for her pretentiousness.

I think there is something a little too self conscious about enjoying being an outsider.

I work in a medium where I get to be totally invisible and I get great pleasure from that, being a pretty self-conscious person.

Julian Assange is self-consciously an individual. He thinks in his own way, primarily as a physicist, having studied pure maths and physics at university in Australia where he grew up.

I went on television and I wouldn't say a word; I feel so stupid when I watch them again.

I'm not very daring in my street style, usually because there's a photographer around!

I'm not a very gregarious person. I can't bear attention being called to me in a public place, which is ridiculous in a business that pays you to be noticed.

Ian turned around, revealing a tear in his pants that exposed boxers with pink dollar signs on a white background, then quickly spun back around. "Uh, never mind.

Schulz] came to see that the better part of his shyness was really vanity, or self-centeredness. Shyness is an illusion, he would say, late in life. If you get out and do something and talk to people, you don't have to be shy. Shyness is the overtly self-conscious thinking that you are the only person in the world; that how you look and what you do is of any importance.

I am pretty bow-legged. It's annoying.

Daniel's chocolate eyes studied her, and a wave of heat stung her cheeks. What did he think? He said nothing, just raked her with a gaze that made her feel self-conscious and gangly. He stood and held out his hand. I'd better take my gun. Confusion thickened her tongue. Your gun? I'll have to protect you from the other men. He grinned but the admiration in his eyes was clear.

You can definitely notice a girl who has confidence versus one who's thinking, 'How are they judging me?'

Once you attain stardom, you lose that finer touch with society. When you are a man on the street, you get to know every vibration. But once you attain this status, more than you, people become self-conscious by your presence.

Oh good Lord. She definitely hadn't put on enough deodorant for this.

We didn't have time to get you an actual haircut, she said. Seriously, did you do it yourself? Maybe without a mirror? I put a hand up to my head self-consciously and said, I had some help from the General. And, hey, I didn't say anything about your man-shoes. They're steel-toed, she said calmly. In case I need to plant them in anyone's ass as a result of him calling them man-shoes. And seriously, you let Toot help you with your hair?

Males that talk loud are real self conscious...

I'm so self conscious. I worry when I see an indirect status by one of my friends or see people whispering near me, that it's about me.

When someone is staring at you, you secretly get self conscious and wonder what they're thinking.