“They prefer to devote their social energies to close friends, colleagues, and family. They listen more than they talk, think before they… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
“Each subatomic particle within you is in touch with all that is. Every particle in the universe takes its characteristics from the… — George Leonard Copy Share Image
Men prominent in life are mostly hard to converse with. They lack small-talk, and at the same time one doesn't like to… — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
“The fatal misconception behind brainstorming is that there is a particular script we should all follow in group interactions.... [W]hen the composition… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
In my family there was no small talk, only talk about serious things like global politics - trying to interpret the distant… — Luljeta Lleshanaku Copy Share Image
“My man Daniel sees twenty patients a day, many of whom he has never met before their appointment. With only fifteen to… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
“The most reliable topic for small talk is the goings-on of stars whether they’re rising or falling, and whether nor not a… — Victoria Moran Copy Share Image
“This is the Number. It is in the things we do, the people we meet, the ID cards that we carry. It's… — Yudhanjaya Wijeratne Copy Share Image
“...and he suddenly opened his eyes and stared straight ahead into an empty space till slowly we returned into view. I can… — Dermot Healy Copy Share Image
“Strolling, keeping step, his stout polished well-made boots setting themselves down firmly beside her thin-soled black suede, they put off as long… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
“They both loved her, of course. They’d probably still love her even if they knew she’d seduced him. Yes, because he was… — Kathryn Smith Copy Share Image
“Thomas's mistake, like most of the behavior he leaked into the world, had been avoidable: to join another human being in a… — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
“You hardly know me and yet you invited me out on a date,’ said Miss Dearheart. ‘Why?’ Because you called me a… — Terry Pratchett 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
“But Beatrice Blaine! There was a woman! Early pictures taken on her father's estate at Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, or in Rome at… — F. Scott Fitzgerald 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
Enough with the small talk, my girl pussy is a waterpark. Every little thing I do turn her on, that's autostart. — Lil Wayne Copy Share Image
“Like most drunks, Billy bypassed the small talk and slapped his bleeding, broken heart into my palm like a lump of raw… — Andrew Michael Hurley 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
“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
“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
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
I find small talk exhausting, and I don't like myself when I'm around people. — Jack Thorne Copy Share Image
Introverts .. may have strong social skills and enjoy parties and business meetings, but after a while wish they were home in… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
