Chatting Quotes

“[novan]: bassists are very good with their fingers
[novan]: and some of us sing backup vocals, so that means we're good with our mouths too...

(~ IM chat with Novan Chang, 18, bassist)”
― Jess C Scott, EyeLeash: A Blog Novel

“Is it that they think it a duty to be continually talking,' pursued she: 'and so never pause to think, but fill up with aimless trifles and vain repetitions when subjects of real interest fail to present themselves? - or do they really take a pleasure in such discourse?'

'Very likely they do,' said I; 'their shallow minds can hold no great ideas, and their light heads are carried away by trivialities that would not move a better-furnished skull; - and their only alternative to such discourse is to plunge over head and ears into the slough of scandal - which is their chief delight.”
― Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

“At the end of the day, I just want to sit with someone I love and chat about what matters and even what doesn’t.”
― Crystal Woods, Write like no one is reading 2

“Some people were just getting on with their lives, chatting, being young. It simply wouldn't do.”
― Russell Brand

“You prove to people that you don’t pay attention to their words when they see that you don’t remember what they tell you earlier.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream

“Man does not really love social media; he merely hates boredom and loneliness.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Love is an attachment which develops through human interaction.”
― Oscar Auliq-Ice

“المناقشة:رجل .. الدردشة:إمرأة”
― أنيس منصور, قالوا

“what made me come off as arrogant?
'you beckoned me' l say ,remembering that first day.
l what ?
(she shows what he did )
l wait for him to laugh,but when l glance over he has a mortified look on his face.
l may have exaggerated it just a bit l say even though l didn't
That's how you saw me?”
― Kasie West, The Distance Between Us

“I'm still learning how to express myself on the platform but the digital distance and the human values that i learned in my pre-smartphone education don't seem to match together very well sometimes.”
― Alain Bremond-Torrent, "Darling, it's not only about sex"

“Don't let social media make you forget you are blessed offline.”
― Olawale Daniel

“What’s with the phrase “Chatty Cathy”? You’d think you wouldn’t want to abbreviate the derogatory term for someone long-winded. Chatty Catherine sounds more appropriate.”
― Jarod Kintz, There are Two Typos of People in This World: Those Who Can Edit and Those Who Can't

“We almost always start a conversation, or sustain one, merely to cover the silence with, or merely to keep the silence covered by, the sounds of our words, which seldom form important statements or questions.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, On Friendship: A Satirical Essay

“Humans are communicative beings—and for most of them, it’s their downfall. (Victor)”
― G. Gold, How Dare You - Deadly December

“People don’t want to be bitten into like an apple, …to show you their core in one conversation. Sometimes you have to peel the skin away slowly.”
― Sophie Cousens

“I always assume a strange person that is chatting with me is an undercover police officer.”
― Steven Magee

“People chatting away to themselves freak me out!”
― Steven Magee

“It was common to have hallucinations atop the very high altitude mountain of Mauna Kea in Hawaii. Oxygen starvation causes it, it is known to start above 12,000 feet and we were at 13,800 feet. When I see people chatting to themselves, I have sympathy for them. They really do believe someone is with them!”
― Steven Magee