All talk is small talk.
Marty Rubin
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The best way to become good at small talk is not to talk small at all.
KEITH FERRAZZI I'm not an ace at small talk.
PETER FALK I am interested in cultivating the fundamentally holy nature of all language, including most definit...
EUGENE H. PETERSON It was one of those limp conversations two people have who are never going to see each other again. ...
M.E. KERR Saffron, how are you?" Logan asks and he sounds genuinely interested. How am I? Small talk, right. L.A. FIORE How's things, buddy?" Trey asks after we run through a few finger-warming exercises. I realize this ...
JULIE BUXBAUM The weather is fine,' she said after a moment.
'Have we already run out of things to say?'
JULIA QUINN less small talk
and more real talk.
NIKKI ROWE I'm not a good small talker. I'm not into small talk, frankly.
MOHAMED ELBARADEI Small Talk.
KATHLEEN MARSHALL Small talk is avoiding the truth.
JAIME CONTRERAS Judges do all talk together. It's a small community here.
ROSALYN HIGGINS Great minds talk about ideas; small minds talk about people
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
FRAN LEBOWITZ Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about themselves, and small people talk about oth...
JOHN C. MAXWELL Great people talk about ideas. Small people talk about other people.
TOBIAS S. GIBSON Don't like small talk, love rainy days.
MELISSA GILBERT Talk is cheap, until you hire a lawyer.
UNKNOWN I try never to speak until people have finished with the weather reports.
ASHLEY WARLICK He had always pitched in his conversational ante, and if he had contributed infrequently thereafter,...
KIM STANLEY ROBINSON Texting is more direct. You don't have to use conversation filler.
SHERRY TURKLE I never really know the protocol for this kind of situation. It's like when you're in line at a stor...
BECKY ALBERTALLI الأحاديث التافهة :هى كل ما يدور بين إثنين من المحبين
أنيس منصور It's funny, because you always think the hard part is meeting someone the first time. It's not. It's...
BECKY ALBERTALLI During the Samuel Johnson days they had big men enjoying small talk; today we have small men enjoyin...
FRED ALLEN During the Samuel Johnson days they had big men enjoying small talk; today we have small men enjoyin...
FRED ALLEN Talk is cheap; play the game.
JASON PIERRE-PAUL Teas, Where small talk dies in agonies
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Don't like small talk, love rainy days.
MELISSA GILBERT Small talk… Bernie resented it more than life itself. The weather, sports scores, frivolous gossip...
REBECCA MCNUTT I'd talk to him about what kinds of trees are down here. It was just small talk.
DEAN HARRIS My father could out-weather anybody. Like people anywhere, there were times when it was the only top...
LOUISE ERDRICH A long mission was ahead of them, and no one wanted to get on anyone else's nerves with unnecessary ...
ALLEN STEELE At this point there's something I should explain about myself, which is that I don't talk much, prob...
CéSAR AIRA I'm hopeless at small talk and have a problem making eye contact.
GARY NUMAN Let's clear one thing up: Introverts do not hate small talk because we dislike people. We hate small...
LAURIE A. HELGOE I like to get my hands dirty. Talk is cheap.
CHEN GUANGBIAO My English is closer to the literary English, and I'm not very familiar with jokes in English or...
J. M. G. LE CLEZIO Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk.
ELIZABETH BOWEN I am not good at small talk. I will hide in a cupboard to avoid chitty-chat.
CAITLIN MORAN She's got my all-star vote, ... I think you'll see her in a bunch of these before her career is over...
DAWN STALEY If you chose Option 2 [confrontation], you did well. People will be less likely to engage you in off...
BARATUNDE R. THURSTON Thomas's mistake, like most of the behavior he leaked into the world, had been avoidable: to join an...
BEN MARCUS Introverts tend to avoid small talk. We'd rather talk about something meaningful than fill the air w...
JENN GRANNEMAN The focus should not be on talking. Talk is cheap. It must be on action.
HOWARD BERMAN Many of us dismiss talk that does not convey important information as worthless - meaningless small ...
DEBORAH TANNEN They talk of massacres. They talk of brutality. They talk of all sorts of crimes that have been comm...
WILLIAM WALKER The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
CHAUCER The guilty think all talk is of themselves
GEOFFREY CHAUCER Hard talk punch thought. Hard talk penetrate the heart. A hard talk opens jaws. Hard talk make us po...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I meet people, and we can get past small talk pretty quickly if they've read my books. It's ...
RUTH REICHL If I talk about something I either talk about it or I DO it... the minute I talk about it it's lost ...
CAROL CHANNING When people talk about South Africa, it's all about lions and elephants. But when we talk about ...
MAHENDRA SINGH DHONI All this talk about inspiration and moment is nonsense.
M. F. HUSAIN All I want to talk about is Boston College.
GARY WILLIAMS I am worn out with civility. I have been talking incessantly all night, and with nothing to say. But...
JANE AUSTEN Well, I hate small talk, and I refuse to become one of those old people who spends all their time te...
HELEN COX We talk all the time,
FERNANDO FERRER Talk politics, talk about study and talk positively.
JIANG ZEMIN American life is based on a reassurance that we like one another but won't violate one another...
KARAN MAHAJAN Isola doesn't approve of small talk and believes in breaking the ice by stomping on it.
MARY ANN SHAFFER We talk ... he is mysterious. (But) it?s all good.
RUSSELL CROWE Talk low, talk slow, and don't talk too much.
JOHN WAYNE Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
WILLIAM FAULKNER If I talk about something I either talk about it or I DO it... the minute I talk about it it's l...
CAROL CHANNING That is where all the talk should be done, nowhere else.
JANA PITTMAN I sort of thought that maybe people had to talk that way, sort of saying the same things over and ov...
SHIRLEY JACKSON My voice is never much louder than a ripple, but even small voices sound loud when you talk about th...
NATALIE LLOYD We don't talk about the struggles of the offense or the quarterback problems and all those things. W...
DONNIE HENDERSON Parliament will train you to talk; and above all things to hear, with patience, unlimited quantities...
THOMAS CARLYLE Parliament will train you to talk; and above all things to hear, with patience, unlimited quantities...
THOMAS CARLYLE Relationships are made of talk - and talk is for girls and women.
DEBORAH TANNEN Talk about dance? Dance is not something to talk about. Dance is to dance.
PETER SAINT JAMES Don't talk to me about a man's being able to talk sense; everyone can talk sense. Can he talk nonsen...
WILLIAM PITT Don't talk to me about a man's being able to talk sense; everyone can talk sense. Can he talk nonsen...
WILLIAM PITT THE ELDER Intimacies between women go backwards, beginning with revelations and ending up in small talk withou...
ELIZABETH BOWEN Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk witho...
ELIZABETH BOWEN He was able to sit in silence for long stretches without feeling a need to make small talk.
CHARLES R. CROSS Yes, it did come down to one thing. But I can't talk about that; it's a small industry.
LES WRIGHT It doesn't matter where you're coming from; all that matters is where you are
going. You can't talk...
STEPHEN R. COVEY In general those who nothing have to say
Contrive to spend the longest time in doing it.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL But far more numerous was the herd of such,
Who think too little, and who talk too much.
JOHN DRYDEN What cracker is this same that deafs our ears
With this abundance of superfluous breath?
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Talk with a man out at a window!--a proper saying!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE No, pray thee, let it serve for table-talk;
Then howsome'er thou speak'st, 'mong other things
...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If I chance to talk a little wild, forgive me;
I had it from my father.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE They never taste who always drink;
They always talk who never think.
MATTHEW PRIOR His talk was like a stream which runs
With rapid change from rock to roses;
It slipped from po...
WINTHROP MACKWORTH PRAED Then he will talk--good gods, how he will talk!
NATHANIEL LEE Talk to him of Jacob's ladder, and he would ask the number of the
steps.
DOUGLAS JERROLD No season now for calm, familiar talk.
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS") Stop not, unthinking, every friend you meet
To spin your wordy fabric in the street;
While you...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, SR. He who talks much cannot always talk well.
[It., Chi parla troppo non puo parlar sempre bene.]
GOLDONI My tongue within my lips I rein:
For who talks much must talk in vain.
JOHN GAY "The time has come," the Walrus said,
"To talk of many things:
Of shoes--and ships--and sealin...
LEWIS CARROLL (PSEUDONYM OF REV. CHARLES L. DODGSON) With vollies of eternal babble.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) But still his tongue ran on, the less
Of weight it bore, with greater ease.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) It would talk;
Lord, how it talked!
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER I prithee take the cork out of thy mouth, that I may drink thy
tidings.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Words learn'd by rote a parrot may rehearse,
But talking is not always to converse,
Not more d...
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