Daisy Shah Quotes

I don't like cold people at all. It makes me feel really insecure.

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.

I'm easy to hate.

I can be more cold than people would like me to be.

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.

I suppose I'm a bit mean. My face on camera doesn't lend itself to happy nice guys. I think it's just that my bone structure looks menacing.

People come up to me and they're usually nice, but as it goes on you realise that some people aren't nice. Some people are not nice at all.

I like New York, man - I ain't gonna front. The only thing I probably don't like about New York is that, coming from the South, people aren't hospitable. You tell somebody 'Hi,' and they look at you like you're out your freaking mind.

Some people ain't approachable, and some people are.

I know I can be very standoffish.

My face frowns by default, so when I'm most calm is when I appear the least approachable.

His mouth is for export and his head has no entrance.

I generally hate the luxury modern apartment with too many things out of sight and so clean you cannot touch.

I just don't have this magnetic personality that everyone is drawn to. I don't make friends easily... I'm just not one of those people.

I'm not fit company for man or beast.

That's the poisoned chalice: when you're shy, people assume you're arrogant.

I usually kept everybody at arm's distance.

The Turkish people are the friendliest I've ever met.

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

… a rude and remote kingdom

I'm well aware that I have been described in some quarters as being 'enigmatic, taciturn, prickly, explosive and forbidding'. Well, I have my moods like anyone else; I won't deny it.

Some people kind of are afraid of me.

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.

I think ballet has a bad reputation of being stuffy and depleted.