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
“Sure. I'll make small talk. Chit chat. Discuss the ins and outs of a "typical" day. Pass the time lightly. Say tiny… — Victoria Erickson Copy Share Image
“The modern Presidents Club was founded by two men who by all rights should have loathed each other. There was Harry Truman,… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
The American appetite for loneliness impressed me, and there was something about this solitude that freed conversation. One night at a bar,… — Peter Hessler Copy Share Image
I think in terms of being a New Yorker, as my friends would say, I don't take a lot of mess. I… — Jacqueline Woodson 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
“Miraculously, thirty minutes later I found Marlboro Man’s brother’s house. As I pulled up, I saw Marlboro Man’s familiar white pickup parked… — Ree Drummond Copy Share Image
“The highly sensitive [introverted] tend to be philosophical or spiritual in their orientation, rather than materialistic or hedonistic. They dislike small talk.… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
“Before I knew anything about church, I'd assumed that most Christians spoke the same language, shared a sense of fellowship, and beyond… — Sara Miles 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
[In the aftermath of death] Small talk feels too small, big talk too enormous. — Anna Quindlen 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
“Two men are sitting in the back seat of a slow-moving car. They are both politicians. No words pass between the two.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The weather is fine,' she said after a moment. 'Have we already run out of things to say?' His voice was light… — Julia Quinn 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
“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 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
“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
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
“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
“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
[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
You logged off cause I'm online, small talk from small minds. I wanna buy the mall but there ain't shit in this… — J Cole 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