Quotes about Small Talk

I can't abide small talk. Votes: 6

Don't like small talk, love rainy days. Votes: 6

Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk. Votes: 6

During the Samuel Johnson days they had big men enjoying small talk; today we have small men enjoying big talk. Votes: 6

My hair is very fine, so I use Tigi Bed Head Small Talk before I blow dry for volume, and I'm a firm believer in Tigi Rockaholic dry shampoo to keep volume throughout the day. Votes: 5

small talk comes from small bones Votes: 4

[In the aftermath of death] Small talk feels too small, big talk too enormous. Votes: 4

The stress of making small talk with in-laws is called being part of a family. Votes: 4

If I were a gynecologist, I'd say things like, Okay, enough of the small talk. Let's check under the hood. Votes: 4

Musing on the phrase 'waste of time.' So much more complex than it appears. Many 'wastes of time' small talk, daydreaming are imperatives. Votes: 4

Every morning, after a few sips of coffee and a bit of small talk, each of us retreats with our books, and travels centuries away from this place. Votes: 4

Let's clear one thing up: Introverts do not hate small talk because we dislike people. We hate small talk because we hate the barrier it creates between people. Votes: 4

Men prominent in life are mostly hard to converse with. They lack small-talk, and at the same time one doesn't like to confront them with their own great themes. Votes: 4

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 seashell in my pocket. Was I only dreaming? Votes: 4

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 secret pact. No question, no small talk..agreed Votes: 4

I crave the sweet surrender of sleep and my dreams' uncensored communication: no tiresome small talk, sucking up to impress, or tiptoeing around charged topics. Dreams are the naked truth; get ready for it. Votes: 4

I just have a hard time with small talk. My friend Jocelyn says I'm too quiet, but I'm really not quiet. I just tend to come across that way to new people because I don't like to talk first. What if the other person doesn't want to be bothered? Votes: 4

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 feeling 'a dull pain in the brain'--a physical pain, as he used to say--when he was with people who cared only for small talk. Votes: 4

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 small talk of clinking measuring spoons, the yeasty scent of rising dough, the painting of flavors onto a pizza before it slides into the oven. Votes: 4

Most personal correspondence of today consists of letters the first half of which are given over to an indexed statement of why the writer hasn't written before, followed by one paragraph of small talk, with the remainder devoted to reasons why it is imperative that the letter be brought to a close. Votes: 4

During depression the world disappears. Language itself. One has nothing to say. Nothing. No small talk, no anecdotes. Nothing can be risked on the board of talk. Because the inner voice is so urgent in its own discourse: How shall I live? How shall I manage the future? Why should I go on? Votes: 4

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 of issues, that beneath the small talk and sketchy biographies and received opinions, people carried with them some central explanation of themselves. Stories full of terror and wonder, studded with events that still haunted or inspired them. Sacred stories. Votes: 4

I'm not great at small talk. Votes: 2

I'm not a good small talker. I'm not into small talk, frankly. Votes: 2

I'm hopeless at small talk and have a problem making eye contact. Votes: 2

I'm not good at meeting people, and I'm not good at small talk. Votes: 2

Making small talk about what someone is wearing is just another form of unsolicited feedback. Votes: 2

I am not a vivacious person in real. I hate smiling. I hate doing small talk. Votes: 2

I am not good at small talk. I will hide in a cupboard to avoid chitty-chat. Votes: 2

I meet people, and we can get past small talk pretty quickly if they've read my books. It's a great shortcut. Votes: 2

My English is closer to the literary English, and I'm not very familiar with jokes in English or with, you know, with small talk in English. Votes: 2

I don't Twitter or blog. I'm bad at small talk, and don't have good 'chat'. Talk to me about publishing, and I can go on for hours. Votes: 2

I hate having to do small talk. I'd rather talk about deep subjects. I'd rather talk about meditation, or the world, or the trees or animals, than small, inane, you know, banter. Votes: 2

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. But I'm not always comfortable with the idea of small talk at a party. Votes: 2

In a way, we tried to make 'The Salvation' a contemporary film with contemporary emotions. At the same time, in the script, you get a feel that all the small talk is not a part of our universe. It's more precise talk. Votes: 2

In spite of being professionally gregarious, in my nonpaid hours I'm a bit of a hermit. After being around a crew of fifty people for twelve hours a day on a film set, I really like my alone time, and as always, I abhor small talk. Votes: 2

Maybe it was the home tutoring, or the late start to formal schooling, or an overly cautious and protective upbringing, but in any case, I never became a talkative person. As an adult, I am not always comfortable in social gatherings with small talk. I must have inherited my father's gentle nature. Votes: 2

Teas, Where small talk dies in agonies. Votes: 0

Small talk is the biggest talk we do. Votes: 0

Everything but "I LOVE YOU" is small talk. Votes: 0

I'm trying to elevate small-talk to medium talk. Votes: 0

Money talks. If it's the dollar, it's small talk. Votes: 0

I have no small talk and Peel has no manners. Votes: 0

We are both busy people, so let's cut the small talk. Votes: 0

Even as a very small child I used to talk to God. Votes: 0

I imagine how cool it would be if all small talk wasn't lies. Votes: 0

I don't waste time in flowery small talk, as people do in India. Votes: 0

I thought of God as being able to talk big and write *very* small. Votes: 0

Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine. Votes: 0

Clever talk can confound the workings of virtue, just as small impatiences can confound great projects. Votes: 0

Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine." Votes: 0

Isola doesn't approve of small talk and believes in breaking the ice by stomping on it. Votes: 0

Turn off any self-talk that tells you that you are destined to live a small life. You're not. Votes: 0

He was able to sit in silence for long stretches without feeling a need to make small talk. Votes: 0

Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk without loss of esteem Votes: 0

I'm not good at small talk; I'm not good at big talk; and medium talk just doesn't come up. Votes: 0

I refuse to indulge in small talk. And compliments, if at all, I save for after the job is done. Votes: 0

I can say, particularly as a mother of four small children. I can talk about the coarsening of our culture. Votes: 0

Being a small boy it's very daunting seeing the Queen around and not really quite knowing what to talk about. Votes: 0

I will look at the footprints going in and out of the water and dream up a small blue good to talk to. Votes: 0

It's such a small place, not much to do but talk and listen. The men are jealous and the women all in competition. Votes: 0

Any movie that gets made and ends up in a position where people are coming to talk about it, it's not a small thing. Votes: 0

We Americans are trained to think big, talk big, act big, love big, admire bigness but then the essential mystery is in the small. Votes: 0

You talk to the farmers, the ranchers, our small community bankers, and boy, one of the No. 1 issues is the regulations coming out of Washington. Votes: 0

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 rigidly. Votes: 0

In a certain way, novelists become unacknowledged historians, because we talk about small, tiny, little anonymous moments that won't necessarily make it into the history books. Votes: 0

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 small talk. Votes: 0

I think the big thing is to talk about getting people working again and addressing the issues that are keeping small business from being able to grow. Votes: 0

A sofa on an elevator would be like a slow roller coaster where you get to work on your small talk skills. Oh yes, I am an adrenaline junky. Votes: 0

We may talk a good game and write even better ones, but we never outgrow those small wounded things we were when we were five and six and seven. Votes: 0

I'm the one who looks at the infant, smiles nervously, and as my contribution to small talk, robotically announces to the parent, "Your child looks healthy and well cared for. Votes: 0

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 from being overwhelmed by nonsense. Votes: 0

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 was half naked, it was dawn and he loved her. Votes: 0