Shy Quotes - Page 9

• It didn't help that she was painfully shy and kept to herself, because then they just thought she was stuck-up, which she wasn't. She was just quiet.

  Melissa de la Cruz

  Helping, Quiet, Stuck Up

  Melissa de la Cruz (2010). “Blue Bloods: Number 1 in series”, p.11, Hachette UK

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• You might want to get up," he said. "Everyone will be here quite soon to rescue you, and you may prefer to have clothes on when they arrive." He shrugged. "I would, at any rate, but then, I am well known to be remarkably shy.

  Cassandra Clare

  Clothes, May, Want

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.433, Simon and Schuster

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• You shy, Francesca?” Javier asks me later on. I shake my head. “Not really.” I’m just sad, I want to say. And I’m lonely.

  Melina Marchetta

  Lonely, Want, Ask Me

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.40, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Shy gold begins to peep through the sombre green - the wattle's wedding dress - and Spring is near. Then suddenly it seems, one golden morning, the Bush awakes, a living thing. Flowers bloom, birds sing, and all the world puts on its gayest dress to greet the laughing Spring.

  C. J. Dennis

  Nature, Morning, Laughter

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• The river was always there inside of me, but I was very shy. I could see that this was my path. I felt destiny in my own music.

  Paula Cole

  Music, Destiny, Rivers

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• Not like Tobias, who is almost shy when he smiles, like he is surprised you bothered to look at him in the first place.

  Veronica Roth

  Firsts, Looks, Tobias

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• I have worked with investors for 60 years and I have yet to see anyone - not even when capital gains rates were 39.9 percent in 1976-77 - shy away from a sensible investment because of the tax rate on the potential gain.

  Warren Buffett

  Years, Gains, Investment

  "Stop Coddling the Super-Rich" by Warren Buffett, www.nytimes.com. August 14, 2011.

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• So many people shy away from using color in their homes for fear of getting it wrong...But ignorance and fear are no reason to live in a bland box.

  Jonathan Adler

  Home, Ignorance, Color

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• A championship contender in the early twentieth century needed charisma and a knack for cultivating sponsorship, and Rubinstein was the epitome of the shy and unsocial chess player. Now matter how great his chess skills, he lacked the people skills to be a self-promoter and fund-raiser.

  Garry Kasparov

  Success, Player, Self

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• It's wrong for women to be constantly shy and embarrassed about their bodies. There are so many images of unattainable beauty that are so destructive. It's important to show how your body really is. As the cliche has it, beauty comes from within.

  Alex Kingston

  Important, Body, Unattainable

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• I had not thought of violets of late,
  The wild, shy kind that springs beneath you feet
  In wistful April days.

  Alice Dunbar Nelson

  Spring, Feet, Violet

  Alice Dunbar-Nelson, “Sonnet”

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• As a child, I was very shy. Painfully, excruciatingly shy. I hid a lot in my room. I was so terrified to read out loud in school that I had to have my mother ask my reading teacher not to call on me in class.

  Kim Basinger

  Mother, Teacher, Children

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• I’m very shy, I feel very awkward.

  Jessica Chastain

  Awkward, Feels

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

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• My mom didn't ever think I would take to acting because I was a very shy, very reserved kind of child. But obviously, something changed!

  Abigail Breslin

  Mom, Children, Thinking

  "Tribeca Interview: Abigail Breslin and Alessandro Nivola in Janie Jones : Rock God Meets Rock Child". Interview with Cynthia Ellis, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 6, 2011.

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• I'm a bit shy, I suppose, and a bit lazy.

  Joan Collins

  Lazy, Bits

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• To be honest, I was kind of a shy kid growing up.

  Dave Franco

  Growing Up, Kids, Honest

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

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• I always had a sketchbook with me when I was young. I was hiding behind it, basically, hiding behind drawing because I couldn't cope with people in real life; I was very shy and very nervous around people.

  Robert Crumb

  Real, Drawing, People

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• I'm kind of shy and quiet. But I'm only shy in my personal life. If I'm working, somehow I'm not and it goes away.

  Riley Keough

  Quiet, Kind, Ifs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'd always been the confident guy in school. I was good in math and English, but I was still shy. I couldn't get up and speak in front of people. I was asked to do it when I was 10 years old and I burst out crying.

  Chris Vance

  School, Math, Years

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• But then the fate of shy people is that all of their fears usually come true.

  Manu Joseph

  Fate, People

  Manu Joseph (2015). “The Illicit Happiness Of Other People”, p.6, HarperCollins Publishers India

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• One thing I think celebrities shy away from is exposing the reality that we're all the same. Somebody's not more important because they have a Bentley or a big house or a famous boyfriend or plastic surgery - we're all the same.

  Aubrey O'Day

  Thinking, Reality, House

  "Aubrey O’Day: ‘Last night I was stolen by a hawk’". PopWrap interview, pagesix.com. October 22, 2009.

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• You each have the same energy and it sings within you. You need not be shy of it, it is your own. You need not look to gurus, or Gods, or Seths. It dwells within your own being.

  Jane Roberts

  Spiritual, Law Of Attraction, Energy

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• I'm not really quiet or shy. Ask any of my friends! But I always ground my poetry in life itself. Poetry is an art of language, though, so I am always aware of every word's meaning, or multiple meanings.

  Anne Stevenson

  Friends, Art, Multiple Meanings

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• From a timid shy girl I had become a woman of resolute character, who could no longer be frightened by the struggle with troubles.

  Anna Dostoyevskaya

  Girl, Struggle, Character

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• I still sweat bullets if I go on The Tonight Show, but I tell myself, You can either have fun tonight or you can be shy and miserable. You ask my friends or anyone I work with now - nobody would say I was shy.

  Lara Flynn Boyle

  Fun, Sweat, Tonight

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