Quotes About Good Small Talk

#1. You're only as good as you're next thought of yourself.

Curtis Tyrone Jones

#2. You're only as good as your next thought of yourself.

Curtis Tyrone Jones

#3. I've had small depressions, days when I've woken up and felt sad, especially when I'm so far away from home. I've got my religion and that is my therapy, although I think it would be good for me to have someone I can talk to. But I have friends. I haven't got a therapist but maybe I should.

Beyonce Knowles

#4. You know I hate parties. With the passion of a televangelist on Sunday morning. I suck at small talk and mingling. Give me a booth in a bar and a few good friends, and I'm a happy girl. But parties suck.

Kristen Callihan

#5. The best way to become good at small talk is not to talk small at all.

Keith Ferrazzi

#6. I never really know the protocol for this kind of situation. It's like when you're in line at a store, and a grandma starts telling you all about her grandchildren or her arthritis, and you smile and nod along. But then it's your turn to check out, so you're just like okay, well, good-bye forever.

Becky Albertalli

#7. Cyndi Lauper is really good at talking to you about normal things. It's strange to be in the presence of a big celebrity like that. You want to make these connections and say things related to being a fan. It's not as interesting for them. She's amazing at making small talk without it seeming small.

Barrett Foa

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

Mohamed ElBaradei

#9. He could say nothing. He had no right to be there, he had already been profoundly changed, he was no good at small talk, she was half naked, it was dawn and he loved her.

Mark Helprin

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

Caitlin Moran

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. Give me a small intimate gathering of five people, a dinner party, where one-on-one conversations can be had, where people talk about current events, good books, good food, and weird news. That was my idea of a good time.

Penny Reid

#14. 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

#15. Death was the hot bath you promised yourself while you endured small talk and uncomfortable shoes. You could stop pretending to have a good time when you were dead.

Liane Moriarty

#16. I'm not good at small talk; I'm not good at big talk; and medium talk just doesn't come up.

Amy Hempel

#17. Small talk acts like your toothpaste that helps combat this process with good conversational hygiene. Here

Jack Steel

#18. The Internet means everything to everybody and it's growing by the day. You can't survive as a business, especially a small business, without having some form of good Internet presence; whether you're a shop or it's a showcase or just a way to talk to your customers.

Theo Paphitis

#19. If it doesn't do you any good, dump it. Take some action, push that lever, flush it away, and don't look back. Take small steps everyday of your life, and start taking control of what you say when you talk to yourself.

Dave Pelzer

#20. But it wasn't that I wasn't big on socializing. It was that I wasn't very good at mingling. Small talk did nothing for me. Connecting in a vague way that was meaningless left me cold.

Kristen Ashley

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

Nick Frost

#22. Ah. I suppose." Oh, this was deeply unpleasant. Being trapped into meaningless small talk with an idiot had never intrigued him, even on a good day. Which this wasn't.

Morgan Rhodes