Douglas Adams Quotes

I called Vee. "How are you doing?" I asked. "Good. How are you?" "Good." Silence. "Okay," Vee said in a rush, "I am still totally freaked out. You?" "Totally.

You tend to get reluctant to talk about anything until the day before filming.

When people have recently asked me my profession, I have not dared to reply.

I guess you could say I'm cautious, or a coward.

I was a very shy child. I remember being in a kindergarten open house with my mother and children saying 'Hi' to me, and I still remember feeling this way - but I don't know why - but I wouldn't even say 'Hi' back. I was that shy.

Oh, I try to stay as far away from karaoke as humanly possible!

I can't stand to ask anyone, 'How was that?'

Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want.

People don't like silence, so they'll keep talking to fill the void.

people who say its a long story, mean it's a stupid short one that they are too embarrassed and couldn't be bothered to tell

It is one of my faults, that though my tongue is sometimes prompt enough at an answer, there are times when it sadly fails me in framing an excuse; and always the lapse occurs at some crisis, when a facile word or plausible pretext is specially wanted to get me out of painful embarrassment.

I'm not looking at anything now. I'll look at it at the time. What I have seen, what I've seen is so bad.

I tried to think of something to say. Excuse me? Hello? Marry me? Anything would have done.

most people are perfectly afraid of silence

Forget about tennis, I was scared to open my mouth. I didnt even feel worthy of saying something and not sounding stupid.

I see people, as they approach me, trying to make up their minds whether they'll 'say something about it' or not. I hate if they do, and if they don't.

…there is no nakedness that compares to being naked in front of someone for the first time.

Warily, she dares to allow me a smile. "It's okay. It's just...I'm not too good at talking to people." She looks away again as her shyness smothers her. "So, do you think it'd be all right if we don't talk?

I believe I shall never be old enough to speak without embarrassment when I have nothing to talk about.

How many people have never raised their hand before?

What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?

Reluctance to begin is quick to befriend procrastination. . . .

The preciousness of the moment, which should make it easier to talk, makes it harder.

Unused to the situations in which I find myself, and embarassed by the slightest difficulties, I seldom discover, till too late, how I ought to act.

He didn't say a lot so I tend to remember what he did say. And I don't remember that he had a lot of patience with havin to say things twice so I learned to listen the first time.