Quotes of: Small-talk Keyword

One thing I've learned about people is that the easiest way to get them to like you is to shut up and let them do the talking.

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

It’s easy to talk about how much you love God, but loving others reveals how much you truly do.

Moments of Grace for a Woman's Heart

I'm talking to myself in two different personas now. I'm reaching for a full-throttle meltdown and why not? Why stop halfway? Why not just go for it, jump on and ride the wave?

My Beating Teenage Heart

I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them. Brian Fitzgerald, talking about his children.

My Sister's Keeper

I know I am talking nonsense, but I’d rather go rambling on, and partly expressing something I find it difficult to express, than to keep on transmitting faultless platitudes.

The Magic Mountain

The money… will talk?' said Mr Spools carefully. 'Imps,' said Moist. 'They're only a sort of intelligent spell. They don't even have to have a shape. We'll print them on the higher denominations.

Making Money

... I since cricket match do long to talk with one of my arms around you, then place both arms round you and share with you, the above now seems sweeter to me than words can say.

Maurice

This is Denmark. We are Danes. We keep our distance. We do not pick a seat close to strangers if other seats are available. We do not talk to strangers in the trains.” William Wilson in the short story 'Metro' by Steen Langstrup

Metro

It is good to stop by the track for a space, put aside the knapsack, wipe the brows, and talk a little of the upper slopes of the mountain we think we are climbing, would but the trees let us see it.

A Modern Utopia

My father used to say, 'If you want to know the artist, look at the art'. He was usually talking about Stanley Matthews or Don Bradman when he said it.

Nineteen Seventy Four

It's much easier to talk about following Jesus when you are making general statements rather than specific commitments.

Not a Fan: Becoming a Completely Committed Follower of Jesus

Got nothing to say now, huh? Figures." She snorted. Hearing voices was one thing, but talking back to them probably hiked her up to a whole new level of psychosis. Awesome.

North of Need

I can’t sell you while you’re trying to sell me. So how about we just talk and call it networking?

#Networking is people looking for people looking for people

The only candidate I'd allow to play my music would be Bigfoot, and unless we're talking about foraging for squirrels, he's notoriously apolitical.

Not Cool: The Hipster Elite and Their War on You

Monotonous talk of the end of American hegemony, the universal cliché of the period, is mostly a way of avoiding mounting a serious opposition to it.

The Obama Syndrome: Surrender at Home, War Abroad

Of course I want to kill you," said Skulduggery. "I want to kill most people. But then where would I be? In a field of dead people with no one to talk to.

Kingdom of the Wicked

We had an unspoken love for one another. Probably because she’d never talk to me or return my phone calls or texts. 

Love Quotes for the Ages. Specifically Ages 19-91.

I make love like a snake disguised as an elephant and a donkey. But I mustn’t talk about sexual congress and Congress simultaneously. 

Love Quotes for the Ages. Specifically Ages 19-91.

To talk about love isn’t as good as to make about love. During sexual intercourse, I’m very approximate.

Love quotes for the ages. Specifically ages 18-81.

I could not stop talking because now I had started my story, it wanted to be finished. We cannot choose where to start and stop. Our stories are the tellers of us.

Little Bee

From the way that people have always talked about your heart being broken, it sort of seemed to be a one-time thing. Mine seemed to break all the time.

Lullabies for Little Criminals