Sarah Vowell Quotes

I'm not a person that socializes very well.

I wasn't bullied or anything at school, but I was quite shy and didn't speak up too much in class.

I've always been relatively reserved with my social encounters.

I've always been kind of a shy guy. Not very outgoing. I might not start a conversation, but if somebody else does, I'll chat away.

I am innately very shy, and I have struggled with that challenge for years.

I do talk a lot - far more than my husband - but I'm not good at talking to a lot of people. I either talk a lot of rubbish - which I'm sure I do a lot of the time anyway - or I stare at the soup. I'm no good at social presentation.

I'm not good at small talk. I'm really not. I'm not that great at any talk.

I was very shy - I didn't speak to anyone outside of my family until the fourth grade.

I'm quiet, so people might think I'm a mute.

I'm not such a talkative person, and I don't like speaking in front of a lot of people.

I think I am very anti-social.

There's a social element of me that's pretty reserved. High school was when I was starting to come out of my shell because of the theater community.

I don't talk in front of people.

I might not be over-enthusiastic about socialising and making friends, but I am not a loner. I love hanging out with my friends, and I do it often when I am not working. Maybe, since I am not often invited to the 'happening' parties of our industry, where the media is around, I have earned the reputation of being a loner.

For those of us who aren't great with people, we figure that silence is always the safest bet. If you're an introvert, you spend so much of your time wishing that other people would just shut the hell up that you figure you're doing everyone a favor.

At times, I get very lonely because people are afraid to talk to me or don't wait for me to write a response. I'm shy and tongue-tied at times. I find it difficult to talk to people who I don't know.

I become irritated when I am being written off as aloof or stand-offish when I'm shy and don't know what to say.

I'm an introvert, but I disguise my introversion by being an extrovert. If I don't have to be around people, I'm not. If I'm around people, I'm gonna do my thing. But I'm not really with the fake kickin' it - everything's organic, everything's natural.

I was kind of a loner growing up.

I was definitely the kid in the back of the class with his head down the whole time not wanting to speak up and say anything.

I think people think I'm a extrovert but really I'm a introvert.

I used to be the shy kid who would barely raise her hand or speak her mind.

I'm naturally an introvert.

I tended to be the nerdy kid - stood at the back, watching other people having fun - I wasn't always necessarily a big part of the fun myself.

I'm such a homebody. It's actually quite tragic because, if I'm out for drinks, I'll constantly be thinking about when it's acceptable for me to leave.