Small Talk Quotes
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Small Talk Quotes & Sayings
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She's commanding and loyal, doesn't suffer fools well or make small talk, demands loyalty, and is extremely intelligent.
— Mimi Wolverton
All talk is small talk.
— Marty Rubin
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.
— Chris Bohjalian
I have no small talk and Peel has no manners.
— Duke Of Wellington
Sorry. I forgot your lust for small talk. And how have you been in the fourteen hours since we last spoke, eight of which you were sleeping?
— Jennifer Crusie
Introverts tend to avoid small talk. We'd rather talk about something meaningful than fill the air with chatter just to hear ourselves make noise.
— Jenn Granneman
Making small talk about what someone is wearing is just another form of unsolicited feedback.
— Sophia Amoruso
Talk about solid turds all you want. The molecular integrity of shit is small potatoes.
— David Foster Wallace
Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
— Fran Lebowitz
Present your product and service simple and direct. Eliminate senseless small talk that takes up valuable time.
— Timi Nadela
Small talk acts like your toothpaste that helps combat this process with good conversational hygiene. Here
— Jack Steel
I'm going to be honest with you. I don't want to sit here all night making small talk when all I want to do is kiss you.
— Karli Perrin
Little kids talk about the strangest things. They really do.
— Stephen Chbosky
She had a pure and fiery hatred for anything that could be classified as small talk.
— Maggie Stiefvater
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— Victor Hugo
Small talk plunged to its death around him.
— Michael Ondaatje
I'm not good at small talk; I'm not good at big talk; and medium talk just doesn't come up.
— Amy Hempel
I'm trying to elevate small-talk to medium talk.
— Larry David
He made small talk on the way about how he was abandoned as a child and will only rest easy once he is avenged. His name was Tom.
— The Harvard Lampoon
He knew. There was no need for small talk.
— Gina Marinello-Sweeney
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.
— Tom Cavanagh
Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk.
— Elizabeth Bowen
If there was an elephant in the supermarket, she'd either not see it at all, or call it Mrs Jones and talk about fishcakes.
— Jeanette Winterson
Isola doesn't approve of small talk and believes in breaking the ice by stomping on it.
— Mary Ann Shaffer
He was able to sit in silence for long stretches without feeling a need to make small talk.
— Charles R. Cross
A long mission was ahead of them, and no one wanted to get on anyone else's nerves with unnecessary chatter.
— Allen Steele
I would rather read a mediocre book than waste time sitting around with people making small talk.
— James D. Sass
Money talks. If it's the dollar, it's small talk.
— Croft M. Pentz
Being a small boy it's very daunting seeing the Queen around and not really quite knowing what to talk about.
— Prince William
Clever talk can confound the workings of virtue, just as small impatiences can confound great projects.
— Confucius
You're only as good as your next thought of yourself.
— Curtis Tyrone Jones
How quickly we damn ourselves when we start to talk, how small and inglorious we always sound.
— Curtis Sittenfeld
Stand tall, talk small, play ball
— Derrick Adkins
I have my small little cult following, I play random shows from house parties to opening up for rock bands.
— Girl Talk
small talk comes from small bones
— Ezra Pound
Everything but "I LOVE YOU" is small talk.
— Andrea Gibson
You're only as good as you're next thought of yourself.
— Curtis Tyrone Jones
I can't abide small talk.
— Matt Roper
Small talk is the biggest talk we do.
— Susan RoAne
Why do people value others' time so little? Now we would have the inevitable small talk. I could have spent fifteen minutes at home practicing aikido.
— Graeme Simsion
The smell of hospitals is like small talk at a funeral - you know its function is to cover up something else.
— Tim Kreider
My voice is never much louder than a ripple, but even small voices sound loud when you talk about things that matter.
— Natalie Lloyd
less small talk and more real talk. — Nikki Rowe
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.
— Yxta Maya Murray
During the Samuel Johnson days they had big men enjoying small talk; today we have small men enjoying big talk.
— Fred Allen
I meet people, and we can get past small talk pretty quickly if they've read my books. It's a great shortcut.
— Ruth Reichl
Turn off any self-talk that tells you that you are destined to live a small life. You're not.
— Loral Langemeier
We don't have to tell secrets. We don't have to talk at all. We could just, you know, kiss . . . and stuff.
— Tracy Brogan
Small talk is a lubricant, not an insult,
— C.D. Reiss
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.
— Andrew Wylie
And oddly, she realized, it wasn't small talk when it was with a friend. It was just . . . talk.
— J.D. Robb
Don't like small talk, love rainy days.
— Melissa Gilbert
We are both busy people, so let's cut the small talk.
— David Mitchell
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.
— Randy Hultgren
If I were a gynecologist, I'd say things like, Okay, enough of the small talk. Let's check under the hood.
— Dov Davidoff
He avoided small talk at the best of times and this, unquestionably, was a million horrific miles from the best of times.
— Jane Harper
I was the murderer of chitchat. My mouth was where small talk went to die.
— A Meredith Walters
For large values of 1, 1 approaches 2, for small values of 2.
— Keith Caserta
Can we talk about the miracle that is the Small World ride? It's like an acid trip drag show.
— Libba Bray
The presence of so many words inside her head made her incapable of small talk, just at the time when she needed small talk most.
— Paullina Simons
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.
— J.M.G. Le Clezio
We Americans are trained to think big, talk big, act big, love big, admire bigness but then the essential mystery is in the small.
— Jim Harrison
I will look at the footprints going in and out of the water and dream up a small blue good to talk to.
— Gerald Stern
Teas, Where small talk dies in agonies.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
Great things can be found in small talk
— Peter V. Brett
Although there is much talk about small firms creating jobs, and increasingly a focus of policymakers, this is mainly a myth.
— Mariana Mazzucato
Make eye contact and small talk.
— Timothy Snyder
I'm not great at small talk.
— Courteney Cox
We were going to talk," she whispered."We are talkin', darlin'. We'll use words when necessary," he said softly. — Carolyn Brown
Great minds talk about ideas; small minds talk about people
— Eleanor Roosevelt
I'm not a good small talker. I'm not into small talk, frankly.
— Mohamed ElBaradei