Unwillingness to Engage Quotes

You can talk to a fade but a hook won't listen.

Although Salinger had long since cut me out of his life completely and made it plain that he had nothing but contempt for me, the thought of becoming the object of his wrath was more than I felt ready to take on.

Republicans have been losing the war of words for years now. Now they are just caving because they don't even want to try. I don't agree with that approach.

Our minds have a tendency to wander. To duck and feint and keep us at a slight remove from the moment at hand.

America slept because most Americans preferred it that way.

Supposedly I'm impossible to talk to. But it's honestly not me being difficult. Sometimes you just don't have a lot to say.

I'm not going to entertain something that took place not three months, not six months, not a year but two years ago. I'm not going to sit up here and say anything about it, whether I did or did not do it, because I don't want to beat a dead horse talking about it. It's not going to affect me any way, shape or fashion.

[Grover Cleveland] had a sort of patent way of shaking hands which he probably invented for self-protection. He grabbed the visitor's hand, gave it a slight squeeze, and dropped it like a hot potato. He never under any circumstances whatsoever permitted a visitor to grip his large, fat hand.

I was never interested in being an overly public person.

People write me letters and say I should answer them. But I don't like to answer letters. I don't write letters. I've never written my mother one.

It's not good to be in a situation where people don't want to direct you or don't want to question something.

Just so you know, I'm a really boring interview. I hate doing them.

It was bad on Linda. She had to deal with this guy who didn't want to get out of bed and, if he did, wanted to go back to bed pretty soon after. He wanted to drink earlier and earlier each day and didn't really see the point in shaving. I was generally pretty morbid.

I resolved to try to steer clear of politics. That wasn't easy.

A lot of designers, they did tell me no. They didn't really wanna work with me.

Disorder makes me feel at ease if I'm alone, embarrassed if I'm not.

People come to me to say I don't sell; Brazilian media say I don't give interviews. Nobody is obligated to do anything.

As evidenced during my failed audition, I'm a thorough introvert who would completely hate living in a 'Real World' house. I would have taken my Ikea comforter to the confessional room and never come out.

When you're walking at the airport, you're expected to smile at people because they know you... I find that tough. I'm only trying to protect myself. So I don't take my eyes off the floor. People can take that as attitude. But it's actually shyness. Yes, it is a bad habit. But it's a defense mechanism.

But I tend to think of the expressive part of me as rather tedious - never curious or responsive, but blind and self-serving.

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

I actually tried replying to what I thought were some unfair comments on the Internet once or twice, and I never heard back. What seems to happen with some people is they're very much interested in voicing their own opinions, but not in having them challenged.

I don't want to be the center of attention. My posture has changed. I walk with my head down and shoulders slumped. Suddenly I carry myself as if I'm ashamed of something.

You can ask me anything you want. That doesn't mean I'm going to answer you.

I am such a coward when it comes to political arguments. I tend to sort of recoil rather than engage.