Best 202 quotes in «shy quotes» category

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

A shy failure is nobler than an immodest success.

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!

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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 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.

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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 why I was bullied. I was quite shy and skinny. Very nerdy, very bookwormish. I think I was just a target.

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

I genuinely enjoy talking one-to-one. I have no shyness about that.

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.

If you feel strongly about someone, go up to them. Pursue what you want in life. Why be shy about something like that?

I get so nervous. I happen to be socially awkward and shy. I spent a lot of my time as an adult not going places.

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.

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

I have seldom been described as shy.

I like the really human sides of people. To meet them and see that they’re complicated and weird or shy or any of those things sort of makes it even better—to know that they can rise above that and make something great.

I'm a shy, nervous person, and I don't like teaching with "terms." I didn't teach them, like, "This is first person, this is second person, this is foreshadowing," or whatever, so no one probably felt like they were learning anything. But I feel like teaching in that way reduces the concept to a term.