Quotes of: Small-talk Keyword

Do the other kids make fun of you? For how you talk?' 'Sometimes.' 'So why don't you do something about it? You could learn to talk differently, you know.' But this is my voice. How would you be able to tell when I was talking?

Before I Fall

I would say things like 'I am the greatest! I'm pretty! If you talk jive, you'll drop in five! I float like a butterfly, sting like a bee! I'm pretty!' When white people heard me talking like this, some said, 'That black man talks too much. He's brag...

Muhammad Ali

My first year in Japan was very tough, just like my first year in the minors. But at least there I had a lot of Dominican people and Latin people I can talk to. If you don't have anybody to talk to, you can get depressed. But if you find someone who ...

Alfonso Soriano

Song of Myself I have heard what the talkers were talking, the talk of the beginning and the end, But I do not talk of the beginning or the end. There was never any more inception than there is now, Nor any more youth or age than there is now, And wi...

Walt Whitman

How monotonous our speaking becomes when we speak only to ourselves! And how to the other beings – to foraging black bears and twisted old cypresses – that no longer sense us talking to them, but only about them, as though they were not present i...

Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology

The small talk that sprang readily to their lips came to hers only with a tremendous effort. After an opportunity had come and gone, she often scolded herself for not saying this or doing that, for laughing too loud or smiling too little. Whenever sh...

Of Bees and Mist

We need to talk,” she said. “All of us. About what we‘re going to do now.” “I was going to watch ,” said Jace. “Its on next.” “No you‘re not,” said Magnus. He snapped his fingers and the TV went off, releasing a small puff of sm...

City of Ashes

If I were to suggest that between the Earth and Mars there is a china teapot revolving about the sun in an elliptical orbit, nobody would be able to disprove my assertion provided I were careful to add that the teapot is too small to be revealed even...

Bertrand Russell

Talking, talking. Spinning a web of words, pale walls of dreams, between myself and all I see.

Grendel

When we talk about mortality we are talking about our children.

Blue Nights

You restored me to the concept of home.

We Need to Talk About Kevin

Time hangs off me like molting skin.

We Need to Talk About Kevin

The rabbit of Easter. He bring of the chocolate.

Me Talk Pretty One Day

When you learn to talk people up, you will never talk yourself down.

Richmond Akhigbe

Even the frankest and bravest of subordinates do not talk with their boss the same way they talk with colleagues.

Robert K. Greenleaf

You know, I think whatever a comic talks about onstage is all they talk about offstage.

Sarah Silverman

Onstage, I find absolutely nothing but exhilaration in not talking.

Teller

Those who talk don't know what is going on and those who know what is going on won't talk.

Larry Speakes

It is not talking but walking that will bring us to heaven.

Matthew Henry

I really like to hear actors talk about acting, but I don't really like hearing myself talk.

Michael Keaton

People talk about immigration, but they won't talk about the corruption that actually exists between Mexico and the U.S.

Robert Rodriguez