Isola doesn't approve of small talk and believes in breaking the ice by stomping on it. — Mary Ann Shaffer Copy Share Image
“I would rather read a mediocre book than waste time sitting around with people making small talk.” — James D. Sass Copy Share Image
“He avoided small talk at the best of times, and this, unquestionably, was a million horrific miles from the best of times.” — Jane Harper Copy Share Image
I love it when someone starts a conversation - romantic, platonic, small talk - as long as it's related to food. — Rohit Saraf Copy Share Image
Every morning, after a few sips of coffee and a bit of small talk, each of us retreats with our books, and… — Yxta Maya Murray Copy Share Image
My hair is very fine, so I use Tigi Bed Head Small Talk before I blow dry for volume, and I'm a… — Sasha Jackson Copy Share Image
“If I were among midgets I didn’t know, I’d be afraid they’d see I was uncomfortable making small talk.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
You're going to merge your mind with the mind of eternity that goes on forever; that is not easy. It's very intense.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I’m the one who looks at the infant, smiles nervously, and as my contribution to small talk, robotically announces to the parent,… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
“No child, still less a foetus, has ever mastered the art of small talk, or would ever want to. It’s an adult… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
“She’d just spent the last hours engaged in endless small talk. Now, when it mattered so much, she seemed to have no… — Penn Williamson Copy Share Image
“I am worn out with civility. I have been talking incessantly all night, and with nothing to say. But with you there… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I resisted Twitter for a long time. To me, it was synonymous with networking, which in my mind means unceasing self-promotion and… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
“The absence of conversation didn’t bother Kafuku. He wasn’t good at small talk. While he didn’t dislike talking to people he knew… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
My father took me to see Hank Williams on December 14th, 1952. I was two years and four months of age. And… — Rodney Crowell Copy Share Image
“I did not want passion, I did not want pleasure. Perhaps I didn’t even want proof. And I did not want words,… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
The stage, the screen, the novel, casual conversation, the street discussion, and too often the fireside intimacies are punctuated with blasphemy, to… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Households that have lost the soul of cooking from their routines may not know what they are missing: the song of a… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Looking back, Colleen and Neal have somewhat different perspectives. . . . She remembers she "was impressed that he seemed to have… — Bruce C. Hafen Copy Share Image
“In every generation there are men and women who pretend to be able to instruct us in a way of life that… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
“Marlboro Man and Tim were standing in the hall, not seven steps from the bathroom door. “ There she is,” Tim remarked… — Ree Drummond Copy Share Image
“want to spend an hour talking and getting into the good stuff. I don’t have a lot of patience for small talk.… — Anna Faris Copy Share Image
“And all those boys of Europe born in those times, and thereabouts those times, Russian, French, Belgian, Serbian, Irish, English, Scottish, Welsh,… — Sebastian Barry Copy Share Image
“Dating is all about getting to know somebody, without wasting a lot of time or money. What is the price of love?… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“She’d discovered a fact of modern life by standing at a cash register for hours: mindless work could nevertheless fill up your… — Daryl Gregory Copy Share Image
“It’s not that there’s no small talk, observes Strickland, the leader of the gathering. It’s that it comes not at the beginning… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
“I am not going to make small talk with the enemy, let's be clear about that.' - ppg 31” — Annabel Pitcher Copy Share Image
“She had a pure and fiery hatred for anything that could be classified as small talk.” — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
I find small talk exhausting, and I don't like myself when I'm around people. — Jack Thorne Copy Share Image
I refuse to indulge in small talk. And compliments, if at all, I save for after the job is done. — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
The stress of making small talk with in-laws is called being part of a family. — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
![“Looking back, Colleen and Neal have somewhat different perspectives. . . . She remembers she "was impressed that he seemed to have so much charisma. People were looking to him for answers and just had a great regard for him." Then Neal adds, "So much charisma [that] she turned me down when I first…” quote by Bruce C. Hafen](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/4a0/bruce-c-hafen-27814_charisma_looking-back-colleen-and-neal-have-somew_3103943.jpg)
