Maelle Gavet Quotes

I know I can be very standoffish.

I usually kept everybody at arm's distance.

I'd be the first to say that I'm a distant individual. I have a tendency to come across as being aloof and dismissive.

I'm exactly as I appear. There is no warm, lovable person inside. Beneath my cold exterior, once you break the ice, you find cold water.

There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.

It's true that I'm not cozy. I'm more reserved.

I'm fun with people I know. But at the same time, people also say that I am a little cold, rude, and moody. 'Moody' is the word they generally use for me.

p.61 He [Roark] was usually disliked, from the first sight of his face, anywhere he went. His face was closed like the door of a safety vault; things locked in safety vaults are valuable; men did not care to feel that. He was a cold, disquieting presence in the room; his presence had a strange quality: it made itself felt and yet it made them feel that he was not there; or perhaps that he was and they weren't.

Obama's even keel sometimes comes across as aloof or even cold.

I have always seen cold and controlled men as the right ones for me.

I am quite shy and people think I'm aloof.

Sri is an introvert. She doesn't talk to strangers.

I would like to perfect the art of being studiously aloof

I do not wear my emotions on my sleeve. I was once described by my own son Stephen as an emotional ostrich.

I love portraying the totally indifferent person.

He's very concealed, Polanski. We became very close friends, but I don't think I ever saw him drop his guard. I didn't see him upset or anything like that, we just did the work.

To be consistently effective, you must put a certain distance between yourself and what happens to you on the golf course. This is not indifference, it's detachment.

My father was aloof, very strange and very distant.

I am said to be difficult of acquaintance, unwilling to meet any one half way, and showing a social manner which is easy, not diffident, but formal and unresponsive, tending constantly to hold people off.

To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.

Men's hearts are cold. They are indifferent.

People think that I'm very serious.

Nixon was kind of a loner, he had a cold personality.

I am not a vivacious person in real. I hate smiling. I hate doing small talk.

If one comes across sometimes as being cold or brusque, it's simply because I'm striving for the best.