Shy Quotes - Page 12

Among the wealthy, generosity is often merely a kind of shyness.

Do not be shy to call customers who owe you money. It works.

You have to take the good with the bad. Some players only talk to the press when they are doing good. When you're doing bad you shouldn't shy away from them and when doing good, don't run up to them.

My fears are the obvious ones: that marketplace-minded publishers - all four of them - will shy further away from literary fiction, international authors, poetry, and the other marginal but hugely important regions of the book world.

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 wish I could just accept that I'm not that good and not be shy about the fact that I'm not that professional.

I am shy by nature, a person who's always found something burdensome about human interaction and who probably always will, at least to some degree.

One must not be shy where language is concerned.

I'm quite shy, so I hate seeing my private life splashed over the papers.

Are you staring at me because you've seen my doppelganger roaming the halls, playing kind of the cafeteria? Or because you need to borrow a pencil and you're too shy to ask?

I've often said there's two kinds of actors. There's a more gregarious type and the shy type.

Don't shy away from producing your own film and being in charge of its business end as well.

Though shyness per se was unacceptable, reserve was a mark of good breeding.

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

I can't help but be a little more gun-shy and wary about people.

But no matter what the outcome, how the friends turn out in the end, it should not stop you from making new friends. Once bitten, twice shy should not be applied to friendship.

Lonely Places, then are the places that are not on international wavelengths, do not know how to carry themselves, are lost when it comes to visitors. They are shy, defensive, curious places; places that do not know how they are supposed to behave.

I'd let my golden chances pass me by.

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

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.

Men, as a general rule, shy away from therapy because there is no obvious way to keep score.

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

[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.

I'm hideously shy as myself but on stage I can run around naked and bite the heads off fish.

The one good thing about being kind of shy is that nobody bugs you when you want to be left alone.