“I always feel myself being thrust back into loneliness when someone tells me it's cold on a hot day. It isn't good to talk so much about the weather — weather is a highly personal matter, and communication on the subject inevitably fails.” CommunicationWeatherCultural DifferencesPolar BearsChit Chat Book:Memoirs of a Polar Bear Source: Memoirs of a Polar Bear
“If the lift is broken, I'll just sit and wait for them to sort it out. I don't believe in friendly conversation or chit-chat.” IfsBelieveWaitingBrokenConversationDon't BelieveLiftsFriendlyChit Chat Author:Marco Pierre White
“Paul McCartney chit-chats with you, he makes eye contact with you, he seems really interested in what you're saying. He really puts everyone else at ease and makes them feel good so they're not nervous, which I think is really cool.” ThinkingFeelsSeemsEyeFeel GoodContactNervousEaseReally CoolEye ContactChit Chat Author:Rob Huebel
“People with autism aren't interested in social chit-chat.” PeopleSocialAutismChit Chat Author:Temple Grandin
“The silence between us stretched out, but it wasn't awkward. Sometimes there are people you can be quiet with, and you never feel the need to fill the gap with meaningless chit-chat. I'd only become that close to a couple people in my hometown, and I'd always thought it took years. Lucas and I were already there.” PeopleNeedsFeelsYearsSometimesSilenceCoupleQuietGapsMeaninglessAwkwardHometownChit Chat Author:Claudia Gray
“I don't know what you believe in. I believe we just stop. Because if we move on to an afterlife, any kind of afterlife, that means there will be other people there. I'm tired of the chit chat. Oh, that is a handsome boy. He takes after his grandfather. Did they change the breakfast again? It tastes different to me. For Eternity? No thanks.” PeopleIfsKnowsBelieveKindMeanDifferentMovingI BelieveBoysTasteEternityTiredThanksBreakfastAfterlifeGrandfatherHandsomeI'm TiredChit Chat Author:Joey Comeau
“This is what enlightenment is all about - a deep understanding that there is no problem. Then, with no problem to solve, what will you do? Immediately you start living. You will eat, you will sleep, you will love, you will work, you will have a chit-chat, you will sing, you will dance - what else is there to do?” ProblemSpiritualityBeliefUnderstandingSleepLove YouEnlightenmentSolveManifestationNo ProblemDeep UnderstandingChit Chat Author:Rajneesh
“If you explore beneath shyness or party chit-chat, you can sometimes turn a dull exchange into an intriguing one. I've found this to be particularly true in the case of professors or intellectuals, who are full of fascinating information, but need encouragement before they'll divulge it.” IfsNeedsSometimesTurnsFoundWomenPartyCasesInformationEncouragementDullFascinatingProfessorsIntriguingShynessNeed EncouragementDivulgeChit Chat Author:Joyce Carol Oates
“I've never been socially outgoing, but I suspect I've gotten more and more ambivalent about making new friends. I'm irritated by how-do-you-do chit-chat, but that's how new relationships usually begin.” SuspectsIrritatedNew FriendsOutgoingNew RelationshipAmbivalentMaking New FriendsChit Chat Author:Ariel Gore
“The ego, as a collection of our past experiences, is continually offering miserable lines of thought. It's as if there were a stream with little fish swimming by, and when we hook one of them there is a judgment. The ego is constantly judging everybody and everything. It has its constant little chit chat about things that can happen in the future, things about the past, too, and these are the little fish that swim by. And what we learn to do-this is why it takes work-is to not reach out and grab a fish.” IfsLittlesHappensPastLinesJudgingEgoJudgmentConstantFishesMiserableStreamsCollectionsSwimSwimmingReach OutOfferingOur PastHookPast ExperiencesChit Chat Author:Hugh Prather