#bash

Now that I'm being very successful, publishers are trying to mainstream me, but I'm unabashedly genre. It's what I like to read, what I like to write. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#genre #i #like #mainstream #me

Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#bashfulness #mere #merit #without

When I've tried to reinvent the wheel, I get bashed for not doing the familiar things. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#doing #familiar #familiar things #get #i

I think I'm a bit less inhibited, and not thinking too much before speaking. It's not about being shameful, I'm just a bit more unabashedly myself because of this thing, and it probably started at age 15. I can be around people and say what I think without fear. ↗

— Kristen Stewart

#age #around #because #before #being

I don't mean to be bashful, but I was. ↗

— Willie Mays

#i #mean

A gentleman has his eyes on all those present; he is tender toward the bashful, gentle toward the distant, and merciful toward the absent. ↗

— Lawrence G. Lovasik

#bashful #distant #eyes #gentle #gentleman

When I was small, my most serious handicap was a painful bashfulness in the presence of strangers. ↗

— George McGovern

#handicap #i #most #painful #presence

If you stand up for women, then don't bash me. ↗

— Olivia Munn

#me #stand #stand up #then #up