Small talk Quotes

“didn’t have time for small talk.”

— Ann Cleeves

I'm not great at small talk.

— Courteney Cox

Everything but "I LOVE YOU" is small talk.

— Andrea Gibson

I can't abide small talk.

— Matt Roper

Money talks. If it's the dollar, it's small talk.

— Croft M. Pentz

Small talk is the biggest talk we do.

— Susan RoAne

“I like small talk. Let’s discuss midgets.”

— Jarod Kintz

Teas, Where small talk dies in agonies.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

— J.D. Robb

“I hate small talk, always have. Hate the awkward, too tight effect it has on my skin, my throat.”

— Kristen Callihan

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

— Amy Hempel

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

“To say that I fail at small talk is like saying Superman dislikes kryptonite.”

— Ruby Dixon

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

— Paul Rudd

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

— Anushka Sharma

You're going to merge your mind with the mind of eternity that goes on forever; that is not easy. It's very intense.…

— Frederick Lenz

“He made small talk on the way about how he was abandoned as a child and will only rest easy once he…

— Harvard Lampoon

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

— Gunter Grass

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

“No child, still less a foetus, has ever mastered the art of small talk, or would ever want to. It’s an adult…

— Ian McEwan

“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

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

— Rohit Saraf

In spite of being professionally gregarious, in my nonpaid hours I'm a bit of a hermit. After being around a crew of…

— Rob Lowe

Households that have lost the soul of cooking from their routines may not know what they are missing: the song of a…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Like so many other office workers of the world, I will obey my master, the clock, and will obediently nod to my…

— Rob Payne

“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

In my family there was no small talk, only talk about serious things like global politics - trying to interpret the distant…

— Luljeta Lleshanaku

I don't think my acting was ever bad; I always knew that I could do it. But when you go to audition…

— Mary Lynn Rajskub

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

— Will Oldham

“I've been talking to myself a lot lately. I don't know what that's about, but my mother was the same way. She…

— Dan Chaon

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

— Ken Goldman

“Alec: So you met jace. What did you think? Kit: Of Jace? Alec: Just making small talk. Kit: Jace isn't much like…

— Cassandra Clare

“He had crossed the room with no notion what he might say or do - he had no knowledge of the language…

— Diana Gabaldon

“Risking a glance at the dignified young man beside her- what was his name?- Mr. Arthurson, Arterton?- Pandora decided to try her…

— Lisa Kleypas

“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

“10 Ways to Be More Personable and Friendly 1. Listen more than you speak. 2. When you do speak, ask questions of…

— Susan C. Young

I was taken by William Burroughs’ presence and intelligence from the first time I was introduced to him, by Lester Bangs in…

— Kate Simon