Quotes of: Small-talk Keyword

All talk is small talk.

Marty Rubin

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

Fred Allen

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

Mohamed ElBaradei

I'm not great at small talk.

Courteney Cox

I can't abide small talk.

Matt Roper

Don't like small talk, love rainy days.

Melissa Gilbert

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

Nick Frost

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

Caitlin Moran

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.

Ellen DeGeneres

Small business is crucial. I think we talk so much about large businesses, they're well represented; they talk well for themselves. But most people work for small businesses; most wealth that stays in a community gets generated from them.

Chris Gabrieli

I thought you were makin’ small talk about the weather.” “When have I ever made small talk with you?” “When we first met.” “No, I made small talk with Bessie, your shotgun, until you removed her double barrels from my kisser.” Violet...

An Ex to Grind in Deadwood

The topic of weather isn’t small talk, when you’re conversing with a meteorologist.

Seriously delirious, but not at all serious

Tony: No small talk, huh? They shoot your horse? Tom Reagan: If there's any justice...

Miller's Crossing

Freddy Eynsford-Hill: It's the new small talk. You do it so awfully well.

My Fair Lady

But people in a small town tend to do a lot of talking, even when they don’t know what they’re talking about.

Heebie-Jeebies: Volume One

It's not that there is no small talk...It's that it comes not at the beginning of conversations but at the end...Sensitive people...'enjoy small talk only after they've gone deep' says Strickland. 'When sensitive people are in environments that nurtu...

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

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

Fran Lebowitz

I don't think one gets to choose the kind of comedy he/she does. I may not talk about Rahul Gandhi's take on an ordinance, but I will talk about things as simple as a 'chappal' or a 'sherwani.' My comedy is about small things, and that is how it conn...

Vir Das

If you chose Option 2 [confrontation], you did well. People will be less likely to engage you in office small talk of any kind, but that's likely a benefit when you consider the fact that every ten minutes of office small talk takes one year off of y...

Baratunde R. Thurston

There's a small group of guys in hip-hop that really have money. The whole culture talks about money, but it's a small group that actually has it.

Curtis Jackson

As you probably know, half of the people who work in this country work for small businesses. And it's more than that, because two out of every three net new jobs come from small business. So we mean it when we talk about small business being the engi...

Karen Mills