Laurie Halse Anderson Quote

Nothing is as irritating to a shy man as a confident girl.

Alcohol is one of the quickest vehicles with which we escape shyness, our problems, and self-consciousness, for a few hours.

Charlie?''Uh-huh?''Do you like me?''Uh-huh.''You know what I mean?''Uh-huh.''Are you nervous?''Uh-huh.'

They saw me. Milton's smile curled off his face like unsticky tape. And I knew immediately, I was a boy band, a boondoggle, born fool. He was going to pull a Danny Zuko in when Sandy says hello to hi...

I get very nervous when I have to take my wedding ring off.

When they got to their hotel she went straight up to bed, but he paused to get a drink. There was, in the vestibule, a flower stall and he bought a handful of roses, stiffly wired into a bouquet, befo...

If I am not at 'peace', then I can be altogether confident that I've placed a larger 'piece' of myself in the hands of someone other than God.

Some people are attracted to sickness, to the kind of madness where sparks fly off the head, to the incoherence of despair, masked by nervous energy, which winds up looking like bewildered joy.

Everything makes me nervous - except making films.

I like to smile. I smile even when I'm nervous since it calms me down and shows my friendliness.