Richard Coyle Quotes

I've always been a geek and slightly awkward... slightly umm... I was never the cool kid at school.

I felt like the big geek in high school. And I still feel like a big geek.

I was regarded as the school freak which further reinforced a lot of inhibitions and doubts I had about myself. I was a shy, frightened teenager for a long time.

I know this sounds strange, but as a kid, I was really shy. Painfully shy. The turning point was freshman year, when I was the biggest geek alive. No one, I mean no one, even talked to me.

I absolutely hated high school. As a freshman, I was 5 feet tall and weighed 95 pounds... When I got to high school, I had no social skills. Was I a nerd? More of a dork. Definitely not one of the popular kids.

I was pretty dorky in high school. I was pretty much of a recluse.

As a teenager, I was very awkward in my skin. I was never in the cool gang. I had braces and was quite the geek as well as a tomboy.

I was so shy, I didn't have friends 'til 16 or something.

I was definitely always the bigger girl and kind of weird. I didn't make friends very easily and I was a big reader, so I was very antisocial, and I knew that people were judging me.

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 was almost tragically shy, like, clinically. I should've been admitted somewhere. I think my parents knew, but maybe they didn't think much about it. It's hard walking the Earth shy. You miss out on a lot.

I was an awkward kid.

When I was a kid, I was super shy.

A shy kid might look longingly at other kids playing in the schoolyard, afraid and unsure about how to approach them, but an introvert is perfectly content on her own.

In school, I was the quietest girl ever! I had a lot of trouble in school. Kids were mean to me.

At school I was always taller than the rest of my class, and because I was an only child, I was comfortable with adults but shy and awkward with other kids. I was quiet, bookish, and in spite of my size, hopeless at sports. In short, I was different. And even in the earliest grades, I got pounded for it.

I was very introverted. You know, I had my close group of friends, but I really didn't care what the cool kids were doing.

I was a bit of a loner as a teenager. I never went to a single social event, because they terrified me.

I didn't go out on one date in high school.

I was nervous to even talk to other kids in my class. I would hide in my room when my parents had people over.

I was really shy and kept to the theater department. I was keeping my eyes down when I walked through the halls. So, no nemesis. Not in high school, anyway.

I was the awkward, shy chick in high school.

I was kind of a loner growing up.

I didn't make a lot of friends in high school. It's a cruel time, and I was very geeky.

I was voted 'most shy' in seventh grade! Can you even believe it?