Shied Quotes

#1. Love is vivid. I never wanted the pale version. Love is full strength. I never wanted the diluted version. I never shied away from love's hugeness but I had no idea that love could be as reliable as the sun. The daily rising of love.

Jeanette Winterson

#2. Moroi shied from the sunlight but as I watched Sydney, I knew without a doubt that humans had been made for the sun.

Richelle Mead

#3. People always say you can't do a red lip if you have red hair but I've never shied away from it. I think you can absolutely do that. It's more about hair colour and complexion.

Kate Walsh

#4. India and China have not shied away from addressing boundary questions, have wisdom to find a fair and mutually acceptable solution ... We have been able to put all issues on the table.

Li Keqiang

#5. Ageing, slightly mad and on the threshold of retirement, it was an uneasy combination and it was no wonder that people shied away from her or made only the most perfunctory remarks. It was difficult to imagine what her retirement would be like - impossibe and rather gruesome to speculate on it.

Barbara Pym

#6. I like to take chances. The actors I admire are the ones who aren't afraid to make themselves nasty, bad or even goofy. I've never shied away from controversial characters.

Matt Dillon

#7. Coming from a business family, she shied away from abstractions.

Stephen L. Carter

#8. Work has been my lover - I've shied away from any commitments.

Dennis Christopher

#9. I turned round and Jeeves shied like a startled mustang.

P.G. Wodehouse

#10. I think some teams shied away because of it, ... But Minnesota stuck with me and I was happy about that.

Eddie Griffin

#11. Lots are written about how 'she shows up at board meetings in the saree.' My God, I have never worn a saree to board meetings; people play it out in different ways. I think I have never shied away from the fact that I am an Indian, and I don't intend to, but you can be at home with both cultures.

Indra Nooyi

#12. What's happened - in our country, anyhow - is that the young people have shied away from the formality of the concert hall, that tie - and - tails philharmonic image.

Chuck Mangione

#13. I was sports editor for my high school newspaper, but I think I shied away from journalism.

Jenna Bush

#14. His error was in going to Gen. Nathaniel P. Banks's party. At Banks's party they probably had a little too much liquor. Afterward Grant was riding very, very rapidly; his horse shied when it saw an omnibus driving along the city streets.

Edwin C. Bearss

#15. I've never shied away from who I am, even when people asked me to be softer, quieter or warmer. I've proudly remained me.

Krista Ritchie

#16. I would not have shied away from an assignment to sail a canoe around Cape Horn or to take charge of the government of Afghanistan.

Jan Valtin

#17. I never shied away from a challenge and I love doing big, epic films. They're interesting to me just on a pure music level, just in terms of the amount of music I could create for a symphony orchestra and chorus.

Howard Shore

#18. As I get older, I 've shied away from a lot of convention. I've just been making my records.

Kool Keith

#19. Great sci-fi has never shied from tackling the Big Questions, though really great sci-fi never forgets to entertain us along the way. Shock and awe applies to art, as well.

Rick Yancey

#20. Television has shied away from being too dark, because so much has happened to us recently here in the West, and people are sort of wanting to see more uplifting sorts of things.

Idris Elba

#21. In my first company, Seer Technologies, where I was chief technology officer, we shied away from the media. We watched every word and were guarded in front of journalists.

Vivek Wadhwa

#22. Great artists are the ones who have put their entire selves out there to be adored, humiliated, to be picked at, cherished, all of those things, and haven't shied away from that.

Carmen Ejogo

#23. I've always shied away from online data storage. I don't even use my employers' network drives for anything sensitive. I want to control access myself.

Barton Gellman

#24. Perhaps the noblest private act is the unheralded effort to ... open our hearts once they've closed, to open our souls once they've shied away.

Mark Nepo

#25. I shied away from that line of thought, lest it bring up too many old memories.

Jim Butcher

#26. Ellie would think back on that moment and remember that Dirty hadn't so much as flinched when she'd touched him. In fact, he'd never shied away from her touch again. Not once, from that day forward.

Madeline Sheehan

#27. If you know Hillary Clinton, you know this is a woman who has never shied away from a fight.

Karen Finney

#28. Conditioning was something I always shied away from, now I've learnt that training never stops.

Mark Donnelly

#29. Look, none of the artists who I admire or respect have ever shied away from a role because it might make them unpopular with somebody.

Matt Bomer

#30. I felt him on a different level. I shied away from saying a soul-deep level even though that's what I suspected. His energy charged mine. Kind of like a battery being plugged in. It was impossible not to feel his presence.

Cambria Hebert

#31. I don't think I've shied away from anybody. I'm not scared. I respect hitters, but I'm not afraid.

Mark Prior

#32. I've always shied away from conventional wisdom, though I know the power of it.

Peter Jennings