“A long mission was ahead of them, and no one wanted to get on anyone else's nerves with unnecessary chatter.” — Allen Steele Copy Share Image
“If you're worried about your very life, the last thing you want is small talk.” — Rhys Bowen 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
I don't like meeting strangers. I don't like bars. I don't like small talk. I have five friends, and that's enough. — Myha'la 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
Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk without loss of esteem — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
“there was no such thing as small talk when one of you is naked and paying the other one to be there.” — Caimh McDonnell 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
American life is based on a reassurance that we like one another but won't violate one another's privacies. This makes it a… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
“Silence—people are afraid of it—they feel the need to make small talk, anything, just to break the stillness. I don’t feel any… — Henry Martin 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
“He had a fund of small talk, a pleasant voice, a caressing glance and his moustache was irresistible. Crisp and curly, it… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
to the Indian, politics are what the weather is to an Englishman. Politics are an introduction to a stranger on a train,… — Santha Rama Rau 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
“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
“Analyzing data from 79 men and women who wore inconspicuous devices that recorded some of their conversations over the course of four… — Meghan Daum 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
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
“Look you don't know I'm your soul mate," Lily said. " You barely know me at all. I have terrible habits. I… — Sarah Beth Durst 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
“He had crossed the room with no notion what he might say or do - he had no knowledge of the language… — Diana Gabaldon 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
“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
“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
“Darren’s been quiet since we stripped down to our bathing suits and waded into the water, like his mind is somewhere else.… — Kristin Rae Copy Share Image
“When I was drinking I was doing it to suppress emotion, yes, but I was also doing it because it made me,… — Lauren Sapala Copy Share Image
“We needed to drive down the road a couple of miles to meet the rest of the cowboys and gather the cattle… — Ree Drummond Copy Share Image
“Kasha didn't say a word as we ate. She sat with her back to us, staring at a mountain range far in… — D.J. MacHale Copy Share Image
“I realize this is what people call small talk. I also realize the world would be a better place without it.” — Julie Buxbaum Copy Share Image
I find small talk exhausting, and I don't like myself when I'm around people. — Jack Thorne Copy Share Image
The stress of making small talk with in-laws is called being part of a family. — Judith Martin 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
