[In the aftermath of death] Small talk feels too small, big talk too enormous. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I am not a vivacious person in real. I hate smiling. I hate doing small talk. — Anushka Sharma Copy Share Image
I am not good at small talk. I will hide in a cupboard to avoid chitty-chat. — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
“He was able to sit in silence for long stretches without feeling a need to make small talk.” — Charles R. Cross Copy Share Image
“I just predicted the future, Small talk = Short Term Relationships.” — Deyth Banger Copy Share Image
It's hard to do a variety show. It's hard to do all that small talk and make it sound real. — Bob Einstein Copy Share Image
“Why do people value others’ time so little? Now we would have the inevitable small talk. I could have spent fifteen minutes… — Graeme Simsion Copy Share Image
“I’m not very good with dating. I never was at twenty-two and I’m not much better at forty-two. Small talk… tiptoeing around… — Carol Mason Copy Share Image
“His wife is washed up against him, clinging lifelessly to his arm like seaweed, with no pretense of listening to the priest's… — Paul Murray Copy Share Image
Not wanting anyone to pop my bubble by speaking to me, I immediately began reading Lesbian Nuns, and that did the trick.… — John Waters Copy Share Image
Given any new technology for transmitting information, we seem bound to use it for great quantities of small talk. We are only… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
“I might have hasked a question..., except that 1. I didn't know what it was, and 2. I didn't care to learn,… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I usually found so-called "small talk" boring. I like "large talk", which is more about theories and concepts, mixed with facts and… — Holly Goldberg Sloan Copy Share Image
“You're not big on people, are you?" "I wouldn't say that. Just ... when faced with the choice between small talk with… — Kirsten Hubbard Copy Share Image
“I cannot stand small talk, because I feel like there’s an elephant standing in the room shitting all over everything and nobody… — Paul Gilmartin Copy Share Image
The time that Ted and I spend talking about our careers is almost infinitesimally small. We mostly talk about our kids and… — Mary Steenburgen Copy Share Image
“Things are embarrassing, best to avoid them. But since your death I prefer a naturalist style of conversation. Let's strip it down… — Rosamund Lupton Copy Share Image
And the purpose of small talk is not to be controversial, clever or even interesting. It's simply to fill the silent void… — Gyles Brandreth Copy Share Image
Be present. Make love. Make tea. Avoid small talk. Embrace conversation. Buy a plant, water it. Make your bed. Make someone else's… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
In a foreign country it is far from easy to study a scene at length when you know that at any minute… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
“And it suggests, says Jadzia Jagiellowicz, the lead scientist at Stony Brook, that sensitive types think in an unusually complex fashion. It… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
“In most settings, people use small talk as a way of relaxing into a new relationship, and only once they’re comfortable do… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
“For example, highly sensitive people tend to be keen observers who look before they leap. They arrange their lives in ways that… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
[However], the sufferer from depression has no option, and therefore finds himself, like a walking casualty of war, thrust into the most… — William Styron Copy Share Image
“Robbie and Cecilia had been making love for years - by post. In their coded exchanges they had drawn close, but how… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
“Do you know someone who needs hours alone every day? Who loves quiet conversations about feelings or ideas, and can give a… — Jon Rauch Copy Share Image
“Sports contained the truth, I decided, the unspoken truth (how quickly we damn ourselves when we start to talk, how small and… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
“Maybe we should do some more homework. ” Homework had been their code word for making out before they’d realized that they… — Kimberly Derting Copy Share Image
I feel like we're all here on this planet, and intimacy is important. I can't bear small talk, it's awful. I want… — Simon Amstell Copy Share Image
“When she woke up crying for one of her nightmares, the Kolker would stay with her, brush her hair with his hands,… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
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