Shy Quotes
920 quotes by 775 authors
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We all have these places where shy humiliations gambol on sunny afternoons.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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The company accountant is shy and retiring. He's shy a quarter of a million dollars. That's why he's retiring.
— Milton Berle
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I was a very shy girl who led an insulated life; it was only when I came to Oxford, and to Harvard before that, that…
— Benazir Bhutto
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I'm quite shy, so I hate seeing my private life splashed over the papers.
— Andrea Bocelli
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I never was shy, but as far as telling jokes, I'm the worst. I like physical comedy; it's where I feel comfortable.
— Malin Akerman
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I used to feel so shy speaking to girls. It was even worse when they were around their crew because they would diss me.
— Chris Brown
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I'm not a natural story-teller. Put a keyboard in front of me and I'm fine, but stand me up in front of an audience and…
— Bill Bryson
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I know this sounds strange, but as a kid, I was really shy. Painfully shy. The turning point was freshman year, when I was the…
— Jim Carrey
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I have to struggle to change people's perceptions of me. I grew very frustrated with the perception that I'm this shy, retiring, inhibited aristocratic creature…
— Helena Bonham Carter
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I'm very shy really. I spend a lot of time in my room alone reading or writing or watching television.
— Johnny Cash
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Writing is showbusiness for shy people. That's how I see it.
— Lee Child
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I mean, it didn't matter to me that there were people, it didn't matter that I was shy Just the sound was so captivating that…
— Eric Clapton
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I was born in 1949, and by the time I was 10, I figured out that my hope chest was not aimed in the same…
— Dorothy Allison
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The British tend to shy away from the spotlight. We don't like being singled out in any way, and I think that is something which…
— Damon Hill
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Through the open door A drowsy smell of flowers -grey heliotrope And white sweet clover, and shy mignonette Comes fairly in, and silent chorus leads…
— John Greenleaf Whittier
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I say no words... I can't speak with him. I shy. He too good.
— Pavel Datsyuk
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Be thoughtful of others and you will not be shy, for they are incompatible addictions.
— Robert Breault
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I'm like a chameleon. I adapt to my situation. It's very slowed down here. I like it that way. I'm a guy that's very reserved,…
— Kevin Durant
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I was a skinny, scrawny guy. I stuttered horrendously, couldn't speak at all. I was a very shy, reserved player and a very shy, reserved…
— Bill Walton
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I was the original socially depraved shy ghetto kid.
— Bob Cousy
Who Wrote These Shy Quotes
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