It may make a petty person all the more petty, or a shy person more sociable.

FORBES: What Does The Facebook Double Homicide Say About The Dark Side Of Social Media?

And although she considers herself a shy person, she struck up conversations on the bus and at the grocery.

WSJ: Advice for Making New Friends: Share But Don't Overshare

Maybe it has to do with my being a slightly shy person.

FORBES: Cain's 9-9-9 Plan Has Tax Pros Worried About Their Jobs

Often called "pompous, rude and brash" by others, Winner said that, underneath, he was actually a shy and lonely person.

BBC: Obituary: Michael Winner

In his book "Cardinal Ratzinger: The Vatican's Enforcer of the Faith, " Allen says Ratzinger is a shy and gentle person whose former students spoke of him as a well-prepared and caring professor.

CNN: Pope Benedict to resign at the end of the month, Vatican says

Spike was a very quiet, shy withdrawn person and very unconfident.

BBC: Parsons toasts a 'comic icon'

"He's very shy, a normal fellow, a family person who leads his own life and feels it's none of the public's business, " says Jerry Seslowe, chairman of Resource Holdings, a private investment firm in Manhattan he started with Anschutz and the late billionaire Jay Pritzker.

FORBES: Technology

Shy and evasive in person, he fills with a wry swagger when he is just a stream of text.

NEWYORKER: Roulette Russian

But in person, Gorka can be quite shy, even around people he's known for a while.

NPR: John Gorka: Building A Bridge Of Folk Music