Small talk Quotes · Page 5

“You hardly know me and yet you invited me out on a date,’ said Miss Dearheart. ‘Why?’ Because you called me a…

— Terry Pratchett

“Each subatomic particle within you is in touch with all that is. Every particle in the universe takes its characteristics from the…

— George Leonard

“I receive remarkable letters. They are opened for me, unfolded, and spread out before my eyes in a daily ritual that gives…

— Jean-Dominique Bauby

“Yes," Charlie was saying now, "I get up nice and early before the sun and do the little things that need doin'…

— Edwin O'Connor

“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

To have nice interactions with people is a better than to make anyone uncomfortable, than to try to fill up some kind…

— Paul F. Tompkins

“When I arrived, I immediately saw the mother of an ex-boyfriend, the kind of ex-boyfriend that would make you want to look…

— Ree Drummond

Teas, Where small talk dies in agonies.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Small talk is the biggest talk we do.

— Susan RoAne

I can't abide small talk.

— Matt Roper

I have no small talk and Peel has no manners.

— Duke of Wellington

Don't like small talk, love rainy days.

— Melissa Gilbert

I'm not great at small talk.

— Courteney Cox

“didn’t have time for small talk.”

— Ann Cleeves

small talk comes from small bones

— Ezra Pound

I am not good at small talk. I will hide in a cupboard to avoid chitty-chat.

— Caitlin Moran

“If there's one thing I was horrible at, it was small talk.”

— S.H. Kolee

I am not a vivacious person in real. I hate smiling. I hate doing small talk.

— Anushka Sharma

“He was able to sit in silence for long stretches without feeling a need to make small talk.”

— Charles R. Cross

I'm not good at small talk. I'm really not. I'm not that great at any talk.

— Paul Rudd

It's hard to do a variety show. It's hard to do all that small talk and make it sound real.

— Bob Einstein

Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk.

— Elizabeth Bowen

“And oddly, she realized, it wasn’t small talk when it was with a friend. It was just . . . talk.”

— J.D. Robb

During the Samuel Johnson days they had big men enjoying small talk; today we have small men enjoying big talk.

— Fred Allen

“How's things, buddy?" Trey asks after we run through a few finger-warming exercises. I realize this is what people call small talk.…

— Julie Buxbaum

“I'm going to be honest with you. I don't want to sit here all night making small talk when all I want…

— Karli Perrin

“He avoided small talk at the best of times, and this, unquestionably, was a million horrific miles from the best of times.”

— Jane Harper

I love it when someone starts a conversation - romantic, platonic, small talk - as long as it's related to food.

— Rohit Saraf

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

“I'm driving so it's your job to make small talk." "Oh." "Not that small." He waved at the security guard as we…

— Marta Acosta

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

“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

“And it suggests, says Jadzia Jagiellowicz, the lead scientist at Stony Brook, that sensitive types think in an unusually complex fashion. It…

— Susan Cain

I just have a hard time with small talk. My friend Jocelyn says I'm too quiet, but I'm really not quiet. I…

— Lauren Barnholdt

Most personal correspondence of today consists of letters the first half of which are given over to an indexed statement of why…

— Robert Benchley

“Parker and her mother exchanged small talk like a pair of strangers in an elevator. What a nice day it was and…

— Abby Slovin

To me, the best purpose of an interview would be to illuminate some things about how somebody works for the benefit of…

— Will Oldham

“But when they talked now, there was a space between their words, a space that both of them tried to fill with…

— Rachael Herron

“Well, I guess I don't say much, unless I've got something to say. Makes me not a lot of fun at parties.…

— Amelia C. Gormley

“For example, highly sensitive people tend to be keen observers who look before they leap. They arrange their lives in ways that…

— Susan Cain