Small talk Quotes · Page 6

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

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

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

— Charles R. Cross

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

I'm not good at small talk; I'm not good at big talk; and medium talk just doesn't come up.

— Amy Hempel

We are both busy people, so let's cut the small talk.

— David Mitchell

I'm not a good small talker. I'm not into small talk, frankly.

— Mohamed ElBaradei

“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

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 the one who looks at the infant, smiles nervously, and as my contribution to small talk, robotically announces to the parent,…

— Mindy Kaling

“We struck up a conversation, but took pains to keep to small talk at first. We touched on the most trivial of…

— Gunter Grass

If I were a gynecologist, I'd say things like, Okay, enough of the small talk. Let's check under the hood.

— Dov Davidoff

Musing on the phrase 'waste of time.' So much more complex than it appears. Many 'wastes of time' small talk, daydreaming are…

— Tom Peters

“Introverts tend to avoid small talk. We'd rather talk about something meaningful than fill the air with chatter just to hear ourselves…

— Jenn Granneman

“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

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

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

— Rachael Herron

“There he must, despite the anguish devouring his brain, present a face approximating the one that is associated with ordinary events and…

— William Styron

“One of the great things about LinkedIn is it isn’t the same kind of networking that happens at conventions, where you’re wearing…

— Melanie Pinola

“Small talk had been replaced by a general reminiscence that people called “remember when.” “Remember when there was electricity?” “Remember when we…

— Benjamin Wallace

My brother could not write about trifles. Even in society he became animated only when some serious discussion was engaged in, and…

— Peter Kropotkin

Introverts don't like small talk conversation, but they typically don't mind writing. The more people can "see" you on Facebook, Twitter, Google+,…

— Thom S. Rainer

“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

“The British attendees reported a similar difficulty identifying introverts in America because “U.S. Introverts exhibited behavior that in the United Kingdom was…

— Laurie Helgoe

“In a waking dream, he was with her again. She ate the words from his mouth. Talked to him of waves. The…

— Michael Sadoff

“Looking back, Colleen and Neal have somewhat different perspectives. . . . She remembers she "was impressed that he seemed to have…

— Bruce C. Hafen

“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

“Marlboro Man and Tim were standing in the hall, not seven steps from the bathroom door. “ There she is,” Tim remarked…

— Ree Drummond

“Gary Cooper called to invite me to a dinner party he was giving for Clark Gable at his house. When I accepted…

— Farley Granger

“From "Lady In Waiting" in the anthology The Morgue : Now I have yet to meet the corpse could hold up its…

— Ken Goldman

I refuse to indulge in small talk. And compliments, if at all, I save for after the job is done.

— Indira Gandhi

“the tacit tradition of making small talk with your neighbors springs from the desire to establish commonality, even if you’re talking about…

— Martin Lindstrom