Stage-persona notwithstanding, I'm extremely shy and quiet. Almost painfully shy. People misinterpret that as being above it all or not interested.
— J. Michael Straczynski
Action often precedes the feeling.
— Zig Ziglar
War is a foolish, childish, animalistic, unthinking, unintelligent way of trying to accomplish a purpose.
— Jayne Mansfield
I was painfully shy as a child.
— Lesley Nicol
I was a painfully shy person in my pre-acting days.
— Lucy Deakins
It didn't help that she was painfully shy and kept to herself, because then they just thought she was stuck-up, which she wasn't. She was just quiet.
— Melissa De La Cruz
I mean, do you know what you get when you call a suicide hotline in New York city? A busy signal. Literally.
— Brian K. Vaughan
I am shy. Sometimes painfully shy. And it's especially painful when someone reminds me about it.
— David Levithan
People forget that Mozart wrote for commissions. There's a thing in psychology where they think if it's popular, it can't be serious.
— Anthony Hopkins
What shall we taste like to the future? — Bruce Meyer
Urban nature is like living with mass conditions. It sometimes feels like a myth & you are its scribe. — Eileen Myles
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
I'm a hopeless romantic, I say very loudly and proudly. I get a lot of stick for it. — Alex Pettyfer
Maybe we'll all be killed by nanobots hours after you read this sentence. — Randall Munroe
You didn't have to believe what you were saying; you just had to make others believe that you cared. — Julie Kagawa
He was painfully shy, which, as is often the manner of the painfully shy, he overcompensated for by being too loud at the wrong times. — Neil Gaiman
Without our knowledge, love can travel faster than our imagination can fathom. — Debasish Mridha
Take my heart and squeeze it out over the face of Your Bride, the Church. — Catherine Of Siena
I'm painfully shy. — Lindy Booth
Everybody has talent, but ability takes hard work. — Michael Jordan
