Best 202 quotes in «shy quotes» category

There is a certain delightful sort of hope which the introvert can receive only by having company over...the hope that they will leave soon.

Well,” said a very amused voice. “This is unexpected.” Tessa sat bolt upright, pulling the heavy coverlet around her. Beside her, Will stirred, propping himself up on his elbows, eyelids fluttering open slowly. “What—” The room was filled with bright light. The torches had come on at full strength, and it was like the place was lit with daylight. Tessa could see the wreck of the room that they had made: their clothes scattered across the floor and the bed, the rug before the fireplace rucked up, the bedclothes wound about them. On the other side of the invisible wall was lounging a familiar figure in an elegant dark suit, one thumb hooked into the waistband of his trousers. His cat-pupilled eyes glimmered with mirth. Magnus Bane. “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.

When they got to their hotel she went straight up to bed, but he paused to get a drink. There was, in the vestibule, a flower stall and he bought a handful of roses, stiffly wired into a bouquet, before proceeding to the oppressive gorgeousness of their bridal suite. The lift was lined with looking glass, so that as he shot upwards he got an endlessly duplicated version of himself, stout and nervous, a light cloak flung over his shoulder and flowers in his hand: an infinitely long row of gentlemen carrying offerings to an unforgiving past.

When you get shy, you’re simply thinking of yourself. Stop it. Step out of yourself.

Why not give a try? Why you are shy, shameful, afraid and so on and so on? - Give a try!

...words are so strong and I am so timid - my soul ignores warnings and I end up covered with your paint ...

Why do we have to behave like idiots to prove we're not a stereotype? Why do we have to rebel against ourselves? Enjoy the freedom to be shy

Timidity is the silent acceptance of bondage

You're not shy. You just like who you like.

Your shyness alone will bring you more emotional and material losses than all of your other negative attributes.

Although I am a public figure, I'm still a little shy. I don't think my own personality is important. I prefer to keep some small dosage of privacy.

A Man who is Shy and Modest, is An Amazing Character, but a Women who is Shy and Modest is Beyond Amazing.

You might be an introvert if you were ready to go home before you left the house.

After ages of bombast, the rhetoric of virtue has become ironic and shy.

A gift of flowers to a woman implies that she is as deliciously desirable as the blossoms themselves; but there may be another and hidden message, contained in the old-fashioned phrases like 'shy as a violet, 'clinging vine,' not originally conceived as pejoratives, that tells more of the truth - which is that flowers are also emblems of feminine submission.

A lot of country making films in English, but in Japan we are very shy to speak English.

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

At the root of the shy temperament is a deep fear of social judgment, one so severe it can sometimes be crippling. Introverted people don't worry unduly about whether they'll be found wanting, they just find too much socializing exhausting and would prefer either to be alone or in the company of a select few people.

Be thoughtful of others and you will not be shy, for they are incompatible addictions.

As a kid, I never thought I'd be an actress. Never, ever, ever, no way. I was really shy - bordering on social disorder shy - and I was really academic.

A shy failure is nobler than an immodest success.

Don't be shy. Go for it and ask your crush out.

Dolly Parton made me chicken and dumplings. That Tennessee woman can burn some pots! And we know that I am not necessarily shy to a fork!

Even now I can't stand being recognized in the street. I just hate it when strangers come up and try to talk to me. I'm pathologically shy.

Donald Trump appalls me. I won't be shy about that.

Don't go getting all shy on me now, Lana," he drawled, squeezing my sides with his hands

Don't try to be what you're not. If you're nervous, be nervous. If you're shy, be shy. It's cute.

Even when I became the typical shy adolescent, I never minded performing. I felt there was a kind of safety, a protection about being on stage, about losing myself in another character.

For a long time, I thought I was ugly and disfigured. This made me shy and timid, and I often reacted to insults that were not intended.

God doesn’t want us to live timid, shy, weak, wimpy, fearful, boring lives. He wants us to be bold, con dent and courageous, unafraid to try new things. And it never ceases to amaze me what God will do through a person who simply steps out in faith.

Go see old virgins! Now ask a strange boy out, you shy, Retarded thing!

Having limits to push against is how you find out what you can do. I have always been full of contradictions. I am shy but I love the freedom of the stage. I need reassurance but at the same time I don’t want it. I hate being afraid but I can’t help wanting to frighten myself. That is how you grow.

I always find that I'm less sarcastic in France and maybe I'm a bit more shy and a bit more reserved, even more polite. My voice tends to go up quite a lot. I'd love to speak more languages just to discover who I become in a different language.

He's a shy man. Life has taught him not to show off what is most precious to him.

I am naturally pretty shy. I've come out of it a pretty good bit because I'm kind of a strange combination of being really shy and also being a born entertainer. I've got both in me and I guess it depends on my surroundings as to what's going to come out more prominently.

Generally, if I can't be true to the creator's intention and spirit, I will probably shy away from working on a character.

I can be shy, but I’m not really. I try to be better at overcoming these things people have said.

I believe that if you want to go make your mark on the world you've got to go out and do it. Don't be shy, be adventurous.

I cannot tell you that I am 100-percent comfortable, but for sure I am more confident of my goals, because I know what I can expect from this kind of event. At the beginning, everything was a mysterious, far-from-me world, and now it's more accessible. Of course, exposing myself is always very difficult. I cannot say that I'm a shy person, but I don't see myself as a superstar. I will never see myself like that.

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.

I could always make people around me laugh. It was more of a defense mechanism more than anything else, because I was a pretty shy guy.

I can be very reserved about things. My business side isn't shy. I can be like a general. But I've got a shy side. I'm also a lot deeper than people think, and a lot more sensitive. But I don't let people in too much.'

I don't why I was bullied. I was quite shy and skinny. Very nerdy, very bookwormish. I think I was just a target.

I could say that making clothes is my way of communicating, because I was always so shy.

I feel like politics have always informed what I do. If you know anything about my music, you know I've never been shy about stating how I vote.

I don't like when there's too much conversation because I'm shy and it makes me uncomfortable.

I felt suddenly shy. I was not used to shy. I was used to shame. Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want. Shame is when you turn your head away from something you do not want.

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.

If I kind of like a guy, then I'm a fantastic flirt. But with a guy I truly like, I get painfully shy.

If writers possess a common temperament, it's that they tend to be shy egomaniacs; publicity is the spotlight they suffer for the recognition they crave.