Shy Quotes

the little street Into its gloom retires, secluded and shy.

The biggest thing you can give a kid is self-esteem, so that they're not shy to do different things.

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!

Bullies are often people who are shy and can't make friends easily, so, as the theme of the movie 'A Bronx Tale' tells us, it is better to be feared if you can't be loved.

The shy and the extroverted have this in common — that they both fancy they are the center of attention.

I was very, very shy when I was little. Acting lets you access all those different parts of yourself to make the character authentic.

The shy little Mayflower weaves her nest, But the south wind sighs o'er the fragrant loam, And betrays the path to her woodland home.

Do not to be as shy around girls, because they're probably just as shy and just as scared as you are.

Mother my friends are no longer my friends And the games we once played have no meaning I've gone serious and shy and they can't figure why So they've left me to my own daydreaming.

When I am talking to people who I feel don't like me or are mean, I get really shy, and I kind of curl up personality wise.

I graduated from school for graphic design, and I started to get into acting class just to get over severe fright. I was an extremely shy person. I could barely say hello to anybody.

I'm not shy about asking the customer, because I want to talk about who she is and what she wants from me.

Ah, pray no mistake, We are not shy; We're very wide awake The Moon and I.

I'd been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that's part of being shy.

I've learned the importance of speaking up for myself and voicing my opinions and my ideas. I'm definitely a shy person.

I am a very shy person who is just close to himself. So I would refrain from talking about my personal life.

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

We fear extremes and shy away from too much ardor in religion as if it were possible to have too much love or too much faith or too much holiness.

You've got to believe in yourself, you've got to have a very clear vision, and you've got have the fire in the belly and go out and not be shy with working because it takes a lot of work.

I was so shy and when my sister was born I found it hard. I was really strange and kind of too quiet.

I'm not as shy as everybody makes me out to be.

A politician's record is like a tin kettle to a dog's tale - it's a noisy appendage, wich makes the dog conspicuous and invites everybody to shy a brick at him.

All the shy people are doomed! Natural selection favors the loud and the aggressive

There are so many people afraid of a task. They get so overwhelmed by the obstacles in front of them that they shy away from reaching beyond a position of safety.

It's hard for me to believe that a shy, bespectacled college graduate like Brad Meltzer who's a novelist and a father is a really setting out to be weirdly misogynistic.

You bet I'm shy. I'm a shyster lawyer.

I'm actually really shy.

I'm not shy. I'm modest, but I'm very outgoing.

I probably am more shy than people realize. But I'm shy when I leave a studio and I am just myself.

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.

Me being a shy kid, very closed off, showing vulnerability in a character was sort of a safe space on stage. It's always been in my toolbox, there for me when I need it.

When I was young, I was very shy and quiet, because we moved all the time. My dad was in the Navy, so we moved every two years.

When you're shy, a camera becomes an entry into life. It was a kind of shield I could hide my shyness behind, and it allowed me to become an active observer rather than a passive one.

[My half-sister] Ella and I always were much closer as basic types; we're dominant people, and [my other half-sister] Mary has always been mild and quiet, almost shy.

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

I've always been very shy of doing television. I've always said 'no.' Not to be disrespectful to anyone - I didn't want to say 'yes' and then let people down.

I can be shy when I talk to women. I'm a shy dude.

Michael (Jackson) was so shy, he'd sit down and sing behind the couch with his back to me while I sat with my hands over my eyes-and the lights off.

I used to be terribly shy, so I was either shy or over the top, and I always had a difficult time.

I've always been quiet and kind of shy. I'm sociable, but I would probably migrate to a corner.

Because there are hundreds of different ways to say one thing, I, being a writer, songwriter, and poet, speak childishly and incoherently. In speech there is so much to decide in so little time.

But when I close my eyes, I'm more like THIS under the surface: I'm laughing and scheming and dreaming.

Everybody wants to be somebody fancy. Even if they're shy.

Clearly she was expected to say something, but panic at having to speak stole the thoughts from her head.

I was quite a shy child. I would get terribly nervous and throw up before my birthday party. And then I would be fine. I feel the same now. I get nervous, then it's fine.

I'm not a very shy person. I'm just somebody who's got a lot of work and who doesn't like to parade himself in new celebrity contexts.

If you see a shy person, ask them some questions like, 'Why are you so shy? Tell everyone, we're all listening.

When a shy person smiles, it’s like the sun coming out.

Who shall ever tell how much an unmerited disfavor crushes a shy person? Who can ever depict the misfortunes of timidity?

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.