Shy Quotes - Page 18

• When we are eager to be shy and humble about our accomplishments, we lose confidence in our abilities.

  Claire Shipman

  Humble, Accomplishment, Ability

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• You, of all people, deserve a happy ending Despite everything that happened to you, you aren't bitter You aren't cold You've just retreated a little and been shy, and that's okay If I were a fairy godmother, I would give you your heart's desire in an instant And I would wipe away your tears and tell you not to cry "A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of"

  Jane Austen

  Happiness, Heart, Giving

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• It's hard to mix with a crowd when you're walking down the hallway and everybody else is a foot shorter. I remember hanging out with my friends, like at the mall, and thinking people were staring at me and talking about me. It made me turn inside myself. I became more shy and quiet.

  Randy Johnson

  Thinking, Talking, Feet

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• Swedes are a really humble and shy people in many ways, but I think it's pretty much the same as in the U.S. Little girls want to take photographs with me at lunch.

  Joel Kinnaman

  Girl, Humble, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 'The Killing' has a really great combination of qualities: Even though it's very sad and deals with mourning and grief, it's still exciting. It's about real people and it doesn't shy from the painful points of life.

  Joel Kinnaman

  Real, Grief, People

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

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• People are always saying that I must have been the class clown, with all these voices. No, I was way too shy to be the class clown; I was a class clown's writer.

  Tom Kenny

  Class, Voice, People

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

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• It was an interesting process trying to get Bob to talk about the film because he's such a shy person. He generally likes to talk when he really knows he has something to say.

  Jay Roach

  Interesting, Trying, Bob

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm quite introverted but I'm not shy.

  Marian Keyes

  Introverted

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• I was shy. Bookish. The kind of 13-year-old girl who, instead of having a boyfriend, would have a crush on a dead, 19th-century author!

  Natalie Merchant

  Crush, Girl, Years

  "Natalie Merchant: mother superior" by Kira Cochrane, www.theguardian.com. July 08, 2010.

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• I'm a shy person, so I get really nervous going into interviews.

  Skylar Grey

  Interviews, Nervous, Get Real

  "Skylar Grey on Her New Album, Eminem's Mystique and Why She Almost Quit Music (Q&A)". Interview with Steve Baltin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 9, 2013.

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• The moments when something new has entered us, something unknown; our feelings grow mute in shy embarrassment, everything in us withdraws, a silence arises, and the new experience, which no one knows, stands in the midst of it all and says nothing.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  New Experiences, Silence, Feelings

  Rainer Maria Rilke, Maurice Betz, Will Stone (2012). “Rilke in Paris”, p.51, Hesperus Press

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• I learned that you can constantly improve, and that you should not be shy about your views, and about the direction that you believe is right.

  Christine Lagarde

  Believe, Views, Should

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• The most lasting reputation I have is for an almost ferocious aggressiveness, when in fact I am amiable, indulgent, affectionate, shy and rather timid at heart.

  J. B. Priestley

  Heart, Facts, Reputation

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• Architects themselves tend to shy away from the word, preferring instead to talk about the manipulation of space.

  Alain de Botton

  Space, Manipulation, Architect

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• I've always been shy, but in New Orleans there were times my shyness would cause me actual physical pain. I'd get so claustrophobic around people that I'd bend over from the sickness in my stomach. That's not a good way to be when you're famous, obviously.

  Ricky Williams

  Pain, New Orleans, People

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• I have social anxiety. It's easier up on stage because there's security in being there. When I'm off stage I'm trying not to be a manic freak. I'm quite shy.

  Sia Furler

  Anxiety, Trying, Freak

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• As Summer into Autumn slips
  And yet we sooner say
  "The Summer" than "the Autumn," lest
  We turn the sun away,
  
  And almost count it an Affront
  The presence to concede
  Of one however lovely, not
  The one that we have loved -
  
  So we evade the charge of Years
  On one attempting shy
  The Circumvention of the Shaft
  Of Life's Declivity.

  Emily Dickinson

  Summer, Autumn, Years

  Emily Dickinson, Martha Dickinson Bianchi (1971). “The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.285, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

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• When I became a Sigma Chi it was great, because they were the pople I enjoyed being with and I was very proud of the association. It was kind of an instant confidence builder for me--that what I considered the best fraternity on campus had actually wanted me. And I had always been very shy and without a lot of confidence. So it was a really good social experience and for me it was also a social maturation. It was a great benefit.

  David Letterman

  Benefits, Proud, Association

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• I'm a shy guy... I don't enjoy being bothered but I never say no to a fan. I say yes to everybody... even though sometimes you have some days where you don't feel like it, but it's your duty as athlete to do it. Because the fans that pay it's going to make you live, so you have to do it. So I force myself to do it all the time.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Athlete, Mma, Guy

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• Authors were shy, unsociable creatures, atoning for their lack of social aptitude by inventing their own companions and conversations.

  Agatha Christie

  Writing, Aptitude, Social

  Agatha Christie (1988). “Mrs. McGinty's Dead”, Bantam Books

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• Exactly this type of people like you, at the beginning you're gonna be shy but later on you're gonna jump on a chair and you will scream hit him!

  Wladimir Klitschko

  Motivation, People, Fighter

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• Social taboos are shy like virtue; once lost, there is no remedy

  Gunnar Myrdal

  Social Taboos, Morality, Virtue

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• Love taught me to cry
  So come on courage!
  Teach me to be shy.

  Damien Rice

  Sadness, Cry, Teach

  "Song: 'Cannonball'". 1993.

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• I can't tell stories to save my life. I like to have fun, and I go out and have a lot of fun. But I'm not really an entertainer that way. I'm much more shy.

  Marisa Tomei

  Fun, Stories, Way

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• The shy man does have some slight revenge upon society for the torture it inflicts upon him. He is able, to a certain extent, to communicate his misery. He frightens other people as much as they frighten him. He acts like a damper upon the whole room, and the most jovial spirits become, in his presence, depressed and nervous.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Revenge, Men, People

  Jerome K. Jerome (2008). “The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.101, ReadHowYouWant.com

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