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Being Shy Quotes (page 3)

To be misunderstood is the shy man's fate on every occasion; and whatever impression he endeavors to create, he is sure to convey its opposite. Jerome K. Jerome
This unlikely story begins on a sea that was a blue dream, as colorful as blue-silk stockings, and beneath a sky as blue as the irises of children's eyes. From the western half of the sky the sun was shying little golden disks at the sea--if you gazed intently enough you could see them skip from wave tip to wave tip until they joined a broad collar of golden coin that was collecting half a mile out and would eventually be a dazzling sunset. F. Scott Fitzgerald
THE soul should always stand ajar, That if the heaven inquire, He will not be obliged to wait, Or shy of troubling her. Depart, before the host has slid The bolt upon the door, To seek for the accomplished guest, -- Her visitor no more. Emily Dickinson
And I was glad she had the camera as a fence to protect herself, an excuse to be invisible. Cameras are a lifesaver for the very shy people who have nowhere else to hide. Pat Conroy
Thirty-seven of them will be about shy, reclusive pennsylvania dutch lesbian who wants to write, told first-person by a lecherous hired hand. In dialect. J. D. Salinger
He'd been a shy, quiet, bookish kid, and that had been painful; now he was a big dumb guy, and nobody expected him to be able to do anything more than move a sofa into the next room on his own. Neil Gaiman
Listen to me. I’m shy. I’m not stupid. I can’t meet people’s eyes. I don’t know if you understand what that’s like. There’s a whole world going on around me, I’m aware of that. It’s not because I don’t want to look at you, Lucinda. It’s that I don’t want to be seen. Jonathan Lethem
Vladimir Mayakovsky quote: "It must be a little love, -- a baby, sort of, It shies away..."
It must be a little love, -- a baby, sort of, It shies away when the cars honk and hiss Vladimir Mayakovsky
Annette Funicello quote: "I've always found Mr. Disney to be somewhat of a shy person, a..."
I've always found Mr. Disney to be somewhat of a shy person, a kid at heart. Annette Funicello
I'm really shy with my acting when it's off, because the camera gives me an excuse to be in character, whereas otherwise I would just feel like an idiot. Brendan Fehr
Enya quote: "I am really a very shy person. If I appear, it is because of..."
I am really a very shy person. If I appear, it is because of the music, not because I want to be seen. Enya
It is a good idea to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presences may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought. James Douglas
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 better code of conduct, some basic etiquette. Mos Def
I found myself getting more publicly shy when the gala events and big crowds started. Some people embrace it. To me, it's not worth enough to risk my private life being public. Matt Damon
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 is important for me to learn to do. Damon Hill

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