Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

As the gloom and shadow thickened behind him, in that place where it had been gathering so darkly, it took, by slow degrees, - or out of it there came, by some unreal, unsubstantial process - not to be traced by any human sense, - an awful likeness of himself!

Chris Abani

If you encounter a human shadow burned permanently into the concrete in Hiroshima, you realize that this is the trace of a very ordinary person now elevated into the emblematic. Time, shame, complicity, or discomfort are the only things that make us pretend History is impersonal or far removed from the power and consequences of our every lived moment.

C. Wright Mills

Prestige is the shadow of money and power.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

somethings can only be seen in the shadows

Catherynne M. Valente

I’m a monster,” said the shadow of the Marquess suddenly. “Everyone says so.” The Minotaur glanced up at her. “So are we all, dear,” said the Minotaur kindly. “The thing to decide is what kind of monster to be. The kind who builds towns or the kind who breaks them.

Bill Johnson

Your shadow will always release whatever overshadows you

Beth Moore

Let's pursue a walk with God so close that the spotlights of this world-be they for us or against us-are eclipsed by His enormous shadow cast on our path.

Bill Wyman

I'm always shy in front of an audience, so I'm always at the back, in the shadows, just doing it. I don't like the front, the adulation.

Patrik Elias

We're going to have to shadow someone else.

Alan Moore

I'm not a very shy person. I'm just somebody who's got a lot of work and who doesn't like to parade himself in new celebrity contexts.

Al Pacino

I'm so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.

Caroline Kennedy

I'm not as shy as everybody makes me out to be.

Beyonce Knowles

I was so shy and when my sister was born I found it hard. I was really strange and kind of too quiet.

Derek Jeter

I like to dance and sing when there's no one around, but, if I'm out, I'm really shy about it. So it takes a lot to get me going, but I enjoy being around music.

Agnes Varda

I'd been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that's part of being shy.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

Before I started touring, I worked with someone to help me, even physically, because I was so shy. And you can't be shy going onstage. So I had to push myself in a direction that wasn't myself.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

I'm a very shy person towards my intimacy and private life.

Diana Taurasi

I'm not afraid of anyone. I'm not shy about anything. Not even my big nose.

Peter Roby

When you start to have success in athletics and get the adulation and praise that follows, that becomes quite an addiction. It gets you feeling better about yourself -- 'Maybe I am worthy.' That's why it may fuel that passion and drive to be great.

Ed Asner

Where the work goes, I go. Wherever adulation occurs, that's where you'll find me.

Emraan Hashmi

I go for a couple of parties; you won't find me at every film party and never at award ceremonies. I tried attending for the first three to four years, and I've performed at award shows. I sat in them, and I've also exited pretty fast from them. It's just not my place. I'd rather get their adulation in a cinema hall.

Sugar Ray Leonard

Looking back, yes, I made too many comebacks. But each comeback I was 100 percent sure that I would win. I never came back for the money, because I didn't need it. The adulation I was getting anyway in other spheres. But I'm a guy who likes to see how close he can get to the edge of the mountain - that's what makes me tick.

John Banville

the public adulation for Saturday was worrying because here was a 9/11 book that everyone was praising to the sky, making into a bestseller, and it was not a good book for McEwan, who is a very, very good writer. But maybe I shouldn't have been so pompous.

Tim Sandidge

I get enough adulation from my family. I get enough phone calls and asking for tickets that I need. They're a little more happy this year, I think.

Atharva Veda

Stand on your strength. Be unmoved, either by adulation or denigration. Follow My lead. I am unaffected by either; I march on alone, undeterred and of My own accord. I am My own Guide and Witness; have full faith in this.

Scott Stossel

I am living on the razor's edge between success and failure, adulation and humiliation - between justifying my existence and revealing my unworthiness to be alive.

Paul Horn

The enthusiasm, the adulation for us as jazz artists, in Kiev and Odessa was really heartwarming.