Quotes About Reserved

She had always kept things to herself. That was one sure truth.

He was thinking that in nearly every person there was some special physical part kept always guarded.

I'm not the type of guy who is going to be out in front of a microphone for attention.

The film industry does not interest me greatly. The people, I don't mingle with them much. I meet them when I have to.

I keep a lot of things inside. I don't like showing too much emotion. Early in the minor leagues, they wanted me to show more emotion, but it wasn't me.

A man's body is as the shell, or the tablet, of his soul, as he is reserved or ingenuous, overflowing or self-contained.

And from a quiet modesty that would have become a vestal, which seemed continually to impress upon him that he had no great claim on the world's room, Oak walked unassumingly and with a faintly perceptible bend, yet distinct from a bowing of the shoulders.

But it is a curve each of them feels, unmistakably. It is the parabola. They must have guessed, once or twice—guessed and refused to believe—that everything, always, collectively, had been moving toward that purified shape latent in the sky, that shape of no surprise, no second chances, no return. Yet they do move forever under it, reserved for its own black-and-white bad news certainly as if it were the Rainbow, and they its children. . . 

Arriving at Wilfrid Derome, I parked in the lot reserved for cops. Screw it. It was Saturday and I might have God in my Mazda.

Hmm…Allen's such a good boy. He hasn't said a word about me.

He's a man of few words," Danielle said with her patented lah-de-dah intonation, although the set to her face belied her tone.

I don't like to share my personal life… it wouldn't be personal if I shared it.

Her stoic attitude contributed to the air of mystery surrounding her, long before she had any secrets to keep.

You lose it if you talk about it.

We are articulate, but we are not particularly conversational. An Englishman won't talk for the sake of talking. He doesn't mind silence. But after the silence, he sometimes says something.

Truthfully, I mostly can be as private as I want.

Park Bo Gum has a very reserved personality. Becoming close with him was a struggle. Just trying to talk in informal speech took two hours.

I probably tweet one or two things a year. Some guys use it for publicity... I'm not going to put myself out there.

I definitely tell things at arm's length but that is conscious. No part of me wants everybody to know what's going on.

I'm not a loud, extravagant person; I'm never going to be that and, to be honest, I don't want to be like that.

The man had all the warmth, all the friendliness, of a pinecone.

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In the South, you don't say exactly what's going on or what's on your mind.

I've been told I'm a good guest. I don't take up much space, I don't eat a lot, and I keep my complaints to a minimum.