Shy Quotes

The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.

I'm so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.

My feelings are too loud for words And too shy for the world.

I've come from nowhere, and I'm not shy to go back.

I never felt comfortable with myself, because I was never part of the majority. I always felt awkward and shy and on the outside of the momentum of my friends' lives.

Steve is very quiet, even shy. I am very gregarious. So, opposites.

I'm shy, paranoid, whatever word you want to use. I hate fame. I've done everything I can to avoid it.

Syncopations are no indication of light or trashy music, and to shy bricks at 'hateful ragtime' no longer passes for musical culture.

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've always found Mr. Disney to be somewhat of a shy person, a kid at heart

They remember me as this shy girl sitting under the table. But they obviously didn't know what was going on in my head.

I sometimes shy away because I don't want to be too 'showy-offy' but the older I get I think, 'You have a handkerchief, put it in your pocket.'

I am quite shy and people think I'm aloof.

I saw all the suffering that Kurt Cobain went through. I saw this real vibrant person turn into a real shy, timid, withdrawn person.

The shy man will not learn; the impatient man should not teach.

I can be very shy...but when I'm around people I know, I can be extremely loud.

Some animals are secretive; some are shy. A cat is private.

Fame is a skittish jade, more fickle even than Fortune, and apt to shy, and bolt, and plunge away on very trifling causes.

I fear the day when the Kuffar are proud of their falsehood, and the Muslims are shy of their faith.

Scientists have found the gene for shyness. They would have found it years ago, but it was hiding behind a couple of other genes.

My first language was shy. It's only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.

I was very shy, and it was a lot easier for me to communicate if I had a camera between me and other people.

I think I've always been half out of my shell and half in. Sometimes I can be extremely wild and sometimes I can be extremely shy. It just depends on the day.

A bunch of six nicer people, I couldn’t be more fortunate to call my family — from Lee Pace, who is so dear. When I first saw him, I said he’s like a Gary Cooper. He’s bashful, he’s shy, he’s sensitive, he’s a great actor, he’s beautiful, he’s delicious.

Most inventors and engineers I've met are like me. They're shy and they live in their heads. The very best of them are artists. And artists work best alone.

No one really knew Freddie. He was shy, gentle and kind. He wasn't the person he put over on stage.

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

On a scale of one to ten, I'm probably a six when it comes to flirting. I'm quite shy.

I've always had to conquer fear when I'm on stage. Basically, I was and still am a very shy person. It's absolutely in conflict with what I do. But once I deliver the first joke I'm okay. It's like I'm out there all by myself just delivering my lines to nobody in particular without ever trying to notice the audience in front of me.

I was born in Copenhagen, and when I was a year old, we moved to Bangalore. I was always a shy person and was happy with just a few friends and that came from my own social awkwardness. I did not know how to make conversations.

The problem is that mainly the metal press has an interest in Burzum, and the rest of the world... probably hardly even know Burzum exists, and those who do shy away due to my fairly (:-))

I was too shy to go and meet Princess Diana.

You can't shy away from your greatness just because you're afraid you're not great enough

Social taboos are shy like virtue; once lost, there is no remedy

We are all ordinary. We are all boring. We are all spectacular. We are all shy. We are all bold. We are all heroes. We are all helpless. It just depends on the day.

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.

As a young person, and I know it’s hard to believe that I was shy, but you could take your camera, and it would take you to places: it was like having a friend, like having someone to go out with and look at the world. I would do things with a camera I wouldn’t do normally if I was just by myself.

I'm always shy in front of an audience, so I'm always at the back, in the shadows, just doing it. I don't like the front, the adulation.

My family is the treasure. I thank them heartily but I can't say this seeing them face to face since I'm too shy haha.

The year I turned 26, as the head of my own brokerage firm, I made $49 million, which really pissed me off because it was three shy of a million a week.

The music is key. It has the power to transport you. I go from being a slightly insecure, shy kind of a person offstage, to this super-confident, motivated, entity onstage.

I'm shy, but when the time comes to be wild, I'm fun-loving, adventurous, and mysterious.

It's not that easy to find someone I can relate too. I'm tough to crack because I'm shy.

No director wants to be directed, but no good director... would shy away from the good ideas of others.

I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness ... Shyness is only the effect of a sense of inferiority in some way or other. If I could persuade myself that my manners were perfectly easy and graceful, I should not be shy.

Imitate. Don’t be shy about it. Try to get as close as you can. You'll never get all the way, and the separation might be truly remarkable.

People assume you can't be shy and be on television. They're wrong.

The most lasting reputation I have is for an almost ferocious aggressiveness, when in fact I am amiable, indulgent, affectionate, shy and rather timid at heart.

I tend to be sort of quiet and shy and awkward in social situations.

I don't know if it is obvious, but I am extremely shy.