Pathologically Shy Quotes

#1. Monsieur Saint Laurent was pathologically shy, and he made the Saint Laurent woman in his own image. Like her, I am shy. And to protect myself, I adopted something of an androgynous look, just as his women did.

Carine Roitfeld

#2. Even now I can't stand being recognized in the street. I just hate it when strangers come up and try to talk to me. I'm pathologically shy.

Jimmy Nail

#3. When I was at Brown, I wanted to write the great American novel, but I was too scared to take a creative course. I signed up for one, got in, and just didn't have the courage to go. I was a tremendously shy person, almost pathologically shy. The thought of peers critiquing my work - oh, God.

Nathaniel Philbrick

#4. I was so full of joy, the happiest kid. Things changed. I don't want to talk about it. I needed attention. I was pathologically shy. I'd climb the highest tree or try to ski off the highest mountain. I'd get into fights. I wanted contact. I'd hit somebody, just for that.

Lena Olin

#5. But the idea of an Aryan race could never become metaphysically true, despite all the violence unleashed to create it, because there simply is no Aryan race. There is only the idea of it - and the consequences of trying to make it seem real. The male sex is very like that.

John Stoltenberg

#6. Plus I am being hounded by all the fabulous new drummers, Bill Stewart at the head of the pack.

Bill Bruford

#7. One may gain one truth at the expense of another.

Anais Nin

#8. I loved and protected my own children like a fierce mama bear, but one of them died anyway. It was a dark day when I realized that part of my responsibility in Casey's death was that I did not love all the children of the world in that same real, not abstract, way.

Cindy Sheehan

#9. The caterpillar turns to liquid before turning into a butterfly. Liquid. Thus washing away any speck of his caterpillar self as he lies completely vulnerable to his environment in his chrysalis shell. One good solid gust of wind and the caterpillars boned.

The Hippie

#10. I chose a brunette, a redhead, a blond, and a kid with hair as black as print on paper.

E.L. Konigsburg

#11. If a jayvee team puts on Lakers uniforms, that doesn't make them Kobe Bryant.

Barack Obama

#12. I grew up loving horror films. But I had to step away since I didn't want all that negative stuff in my psyche. I didn't want to conceptualize those thoughts into my life.

Keke Palmer

#13. Ingenious, really, how many ways Muggles have found of getting along without magic.

J.K. Rowling

#14. now had a cure for all forms of cancer, which had eradicated the disease in a matter of weeks.

Ernest Cline

#15. Desires and wishes don't lead to success. Plans and efforts do. Create a vision, chalk out an action plan, put in your best efforts and give yourself a headstart in achieving your dreams.

Roopleen

#16. The room was darker and smelled of evergreen, as though my mother had been dreaming of trees.

Scott Heim