Small Talk Quotes

55 quotes by 53 authors

Given any new technology for transmitting information, we seem bound to use it for great quantities of small talk. We are only saved by music… — Lewis Thomas
Just because you can leap off a drum kit doing a scissors kick while hitting a chord, people expect you to be an extrovert socially.… — Alex Kapranos
I can't abide small talk. — Matt Roper
The stress of making small talk with in-laws is called being part of a family. — Judith Martin
Musing on the phrase 'waste of time.' So much more complex than it appears. Many 'wastes of time' small talk, daydreaming are imperatives. — Tom Peters
I'm hopeless at small talk and have a problem making eye contact. — Gary Numan
I am not good at small talk. I will hide in a cupboard to avoid chitty-chat. — Caitlin Moran
We are both busy people, so let's cut the small talk. — David Mitchell
Households that have lost the soul of cooking from their routines may not know what they are missing: the song of a stir-fry sizzle, the… — Barbara Kingsolver
My brother could not write about trifles. Even in society he became animated only when some serious discussion was engaged in, and he complained of… — Peter Kropotkin
small talk comes from small bones — Ezra Pound
Sometimes there would be someone else out there, someone she didn't know, but when they saw each other each would nod, as if making a… — Nicholas Sparks
That's what the leadership was teaching me, day by day: that the self-interest I was supposed to be looking for extended well beyond the immediacy… — Barack Obama
Not wanting anyone to pop my bubble by speaking to me, I immediately began reading Lesbian Nuns, and that did the trick. No one attempted… — John Waters
Isola doesn't approve of small talk and believes in breaking the ice by stomping on it. — Mary Ann Shaffer
He could say nothing. He had no right to be there, he had already been profoundly changed, he was no good at small talk, she… — Mark Helprin
Normally, small talk is enough for me to form an opinion of someone. I make quick judgments, often completely wrong, and then stick by them… — Alex Garland
[However], the sufferer from depression has no option, and therefore finds himself, like a walking casualty of war, thrust into the most intolerable social and… — William Styron
[In the aftermath of death] Small talk feels too small, big talk too enormous. — Anna Quindlen
I dreamt we walked together along the shore. We made satisfying small talk and laughed. This morning I found sand in my shoe and a… — Maya Angelou

Who Wrote These Small Talk Quotes

53 authors contributed a total of 55 Small Talk Quotes, led by these top contributors: