Shy Quotes - Page 36

• If I wanted to go be social I would. I don't have any fear of that. I don't feel like I'm a shy person at all.

  Tobey Maguire

  Social, Feels, Wanted

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• Lonely Places, then are the places that are not on international wavelengths, do not know how to carry themselves, are lost when it comes to visitors. They are shy, defensive, curious places; places that do not know how they are supposed to behave.

  Pico Iyer

  Lonely, Wavelength, Visitors

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• I am a very shy, introverted guy.

  Dave Pelzer

  Guy, Introverted

  "No pain, no gain". Interview with Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. February 15, 2004.

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• When sex is necessary for the plot of a book, or a character development, then I don't shy away from it. Why should I?

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Sex, Book, Character

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• I've never had a desire to be famous. Lots of actors are actually extremely shy. I have shy areas.

  Jeremy Northam

  Desire, Actors, Areas

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• Being chronically shy I needed to create a persona for myself and be involved with a band where I could be ruler of my own kingdom. Then Pulp became hugely popular and I lost control of it, which is when it all went wrong.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Band, Kingdoms, Lost

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• There is a shyness about me, and I really need to get out more.

  Priscilla Presley

  Needs, Shyness

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• You know what I think the guy who reviewed the live show for Pitchfork suffers from? Shy/asshole confusion. I'm not an asshole. I don't think I have to prove that to anyone, but I'm just putting that out there. I just think people should know that I'm not trying too hard. I think some people are just bitter that they ended up reviewing the show rather than playing the show, perhaps.

  Nicholas Thorburn

  Thinking, People, Confusion

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• I'm too shy for personal appearances, and I've found out that anytime I talk about my writing, I can't do any writing for many weeks afterward.

  Anne Tyler

  Writing, Literature, Appearance

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• Steve is very quiet, even shy. I am very gregarious. So, opposites.

  Jayne Meadows

  Opposites, Quiet, Introvert

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• I'm a very shy person towards my intimacy and private life.

  Charlotte Gainsbourg

  Intimacy, Private Life, Persons

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

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• My first serious project was photographing badgers - very, very difficult as they are shy and nocturnal.

  Nigel Dennis

  Firsts, Nocturnal, Serious

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• It wasn't that I was shy to go out with him, I just didn't want people with preconceived notions to assume anything about why we were together. I was pretty careful for a while.

  Rose McGowan

  People, Together, Want

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• Well, Bill, I don't think you're going to find many shy people that are in the political business.

  Scott McCallum

  Thinking, People, Political

  "The Governor of Wisconsin and Prof. Ward Churchill". "The O'Reilly Factor", www.foxnews.com. February 21, 2005.

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• The year I turned 26, as the head of my own brokerage firm, I made $49 million, which really pissed me off because it was three shy of a million a week.

  Jordan Belfort

  Years, Three, Week

  "The Wolf of Wall Street". www.imdb.com. 2013.

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• Hey sexy boy, set me free, don't be so shy, play with me My dirty boy, can't you see, you are the one for meeeee.

  Alexandra Stan

  Sexy, Dirty, Boys

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• Im shy. I can go on a trip for days and not go because I wont sit on a toilet seat on a plane. Im certainly not going to go on somebodys lawn. Could you imagine, in a cocktail dress?

  Farrah Fawcett

  Dresses, Toilet Seat, Goes On

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• Nature is shy and noncommittal in a crowd. To learn her secrets, visit her alone or with a single friend, at most. Everything evades you, everything hides, even your thoughts escape you, when you walk in a crowd.

  Edwin Way Teale

  Secret, Crowds, Walks

  Edwin Way Teale (1987). “Circle of the seasons: the journal of a naturalist's year”, Olympic Marketing Corp

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• I was a shy, awkward sort of a boy and my fathers frequent absences from home, along with my hero worship for him, made me even shyer.

  Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.

  Father, Hero, Home

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• Now, some of you may be shy by nature, perhaps feeling yourselves inadequate to respond affirmatively to a calling. Remember that this work is not yours and mine alone. It is the Lord's work, and when we are on the Lord's errand, brethren, we are entitled to the Lord's help. Remember that the Lord will shape the back to bear the burden placed upon it.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Feelings, Bears, Calling

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• I have had strange animals as pets all my life. I was shy growing up, and shy people tend to interact better with animals than people. Animals are direct, not duplicitous.

  Yvonne Craig

  Growing Up, Animal, People

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• He [Gen. Douglas MacArthur] was a great thundering paradox of a man, noble and ignoble, inspiring and outrageous, arrogant and shy, the best of men and the worst of men, the most protean, most ridiculous, and most sublime.

  William Manchester

  Men, Sublime, Noble

  William Manchester (1979). “American Caesar”

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• I become irritated when I am being written off as aloof or stand-offish when I'm shy and don't know what to say.

  Trent Reznor

  Irritated, Knows, Written

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

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• I've always found Mr. Disney to be somewhat of a shy person, a kid at heart

  Annette Funicello

  Heart, Kids, Found

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• I'm shy and can't for the life of me barge around and slap people on the back. I sit in a corner by myself and am tickled to death when someone comes over to talk to me

  Alan Ladd

  People, Barges, Talk To Me

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