Shy Quotes
920 Shy quotes by 740 unique authors
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I've always been shy, but in New Orleans there were times my shyness would cause me actual physical pain. I'd get so claustrophobic around people…
— Ricky Williams
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I have social anxiety. It's easier up on stage because there's security in being there. When I'm off stage I'm trying not to be a…
— Sia Furler
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But hopes are shy birds flying at a great distance, seldom reached by the best of guns.
— John James Audubon
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Television forces people to be larger than life. I would be too shy.
— Heston Blumenthal
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When I became a Sigma Chi it was great, because they were the pople I enjoyed being with and I was very proud of the…
— David Letterman
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I'm a shy guy... I don't enjoy being bothered but I never say no to a fan. I say yes to everybody... even though sometimes…
— Georges St-Pierre
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Kids are shy and they often don't want to make eye contact or say "thank you."
— Viggo Mortensen
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I used to envy people who had written books, the way I think women envy other women who've had babies. I was resentful, shy, and…
— Joan Juliet Buck
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I was very, very nervous about the naked scenes. I'm very shy and reserved. But it was Bertolucci and I have seen Last Tango. It's…
— Eva Green
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This fighting-shy of every obligation partly explains the phenomenon, half ridiculous, half disgraceful, Of the setting-up in our days of the platform of "youth" as…
— Jose Ortega y Gasset
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However we may flatter ourselves to the contrary, our friends think no higher of us than the world do. They see us through the jaundiced…
— William Hazlitt
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People shy away from it [MMA] because they think it's a brutal, brutal sport, and I've said, 'Guys, MMA is safer than football and boxing,...…
— Herschel Walker
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I think for a group that has a reputation for being shy and elusive, we're actually outspoken.
— Stevie Jackson
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The British often shy away from any cinematic interpretation of real sex. They sometimes have what I call "subtle sex," which is really introspective and…
— Steve Coogan
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I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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I never expected to get the Tom Jones treatment and it amazes me that I do. Strangely it's women who throw their underwear at me…
— Ellie Goulding
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Lots of shy people dress a bit too much. It's just kind of an armour. People say the same thing about me.
— Eva Green
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People think I'm so strong, but I'm very shy.
— Eva Green
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People go into cartooning because they're shy and they're angry. That's when you're sitting in the back of a classroom drawing the teacher.
— Matt Groening
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In school I was pretty quiet. Kinda shy until my junior year. But at home I was a freak.
— Dane Cook
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I was a pretty shy, lonely kid. I blossomed about age 17, when I went to college.
— Francis Ford Coppola
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I'm not shy about heated debate or passionate discourse, but when people get crazy or rude, that's a buzz kill. There's got to be a…
— Mos Def
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I'm shy, paranoid, whatever word you want to use. I hate fame. I've done everything I can to avoid it.
— Johnny Depp
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If I kind of like a guy, then I'm a fantastic flirt. But with a guy I truly like, I get painfully shy.
— Shannen Doherty
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When I was a teenager, I was fat. I was shy. I wore glasses. I had a big eyebrow and hair all over my body.…
— Gloria Estefan
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