Sally Quinn Quotes

Spare a thought for the poor introverts among us. In a world of party animals and glad-handers, they're the ones who stand by the punch bowl. In a world of mixers and pub crawls, they prefer to stay home with a book. Everywhere around them, cell phones ring and e-mails chime and they just want a little quiet.

You don't need to have Asperger's to feel bewildered in a culture that relies so heavily on inconsequential chit-chat to grease the wheels of day-to-day life.

I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.

I just don't get out as much as people think I do.

I am afraid I am totally hermetic to social games in general.

I don't worry anymore about where's the big hangout Tuesday night, Friday. Couldn't tell you and no one comes to me for advice anymore in those areas anymore, so real boring I would say.

One of Brando's problems is that he can't have a conversation with anyone.

I didn't have an incredibly active social life as a teenager. I always wished it was a little bit more exciting than it was.

I didn't have that many friends my first few years of high school. It was very cliquey and I'm super shy, so it was hard to make friends.

In high school, there are so many cliques. You're never safe.

Probably the geekiest attribute that I have of them all is that I've always had a hard time meeting friends. Like no matter where I grew up and I moved around, I always had a hard time.

No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.

It wasn't that I was shy to go out with him, I just didn't want people with preconceived notions to assume anything about why we were together. I was pretty careful for a while.

People aren't throwing themselves at me, but I also don't go out very much. Like, when I do go out, it's for breakfast, so it's a little hard to throw yourself at me during breakfast.

I don't really have a social life.

Well, I don't go out much socially. I don't enjoy going out.

I sometimes feel like it's difficult for people to relate to me, until they spend, like, a day with me, and until they walk around with me in public.

I, of course, am not influenced by the television cameras, but some members are.

You [the President] invite Congressmen to the White House for dinner. And you know what is does? It puts them in great with their wives, because the wives love to be invited to the White House.

I became a people-watcher when I lost all my friends when I was 12.

I thought talking to human beings was just something that could make things complicated and unpleasant. So I didn't talk much. I just watched people.

I'm really shy, man. I don't really talk much. I just read, sit in my room and just read graphic novels because I don't have many friends and many people that like to talk to me.

I get invited to a thousand parties, but do I show up at them? No, I don't.

I don't do well in social environments.

In a lot of ways, in high school, I was very much an outsider and never really felt like I fit into any particular clique or group, and so I found myself solo very often.