Stan Salett Quotes

I grew up in a house where there was lots of teasing and language play and laughter; it was very important. When I was a teenager, you wouldn't go to a bar and find lots of televisions everywhere. People were talking. Talk was the mental fire you would gather around in the evening. It occupied a big part of your existence.

I'm a talkative person because I like to get to know a person and I like you to get to know me.

The person who talks a lot or talks over people misses out because they weren't listening.

I speak relatively little, except when I'm at home and I'm asking for things.

I see people in terms of dialogue and I believe that people are their talk.

I do do a lot of talking, because it saves me listening.

Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are checks drawn on insufficient funds.

When I have people around, I'm a chatterbox. But when I'm alone, I never speak. I don't talk to myself; it's just not my schtick.

A man and a woman may become quite intimate in a quarter of an hour. Almost certainly will they endeavour to explain themselves to each other before many minutes have elapsed; but a man and a man will not do this, and even less so will a woman and a woman, for these are parallel lines which will never meet.

I have a very open line of communication with both my children.

What we've tried to do is have neighbors, colleagues, friends and family talking.

The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society.

If people did not compliment one another there would be little society.

I like intelligent women. When you go out, it shouldn't be a staring contest.

Back in the old days, when I was a child, we sat around the family table at dinner time and exchanged our daily experiences. It wasn't very organized, but everyone was recognized and all the news that had to be told was told by each family member. We listened to each other and the interest was not put on; it was real.

Each person's life is lived as a series of conversations.

That's all small talk is - a quick way to connect on a human level - which is why it is by no means as irrelevant as the people who are bad at it insist. In short, it's worth making the effort.

The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.

In the midst of a discourse, speak not.

I never spoke to this many Yankees at one time.

I once said that democracy is a discussion. But real discussion is only possible where men trust one another, and honestly seek the truth. Democracy is a conversation among equals, the thinking of free people open to complete publicity—the word "parliament" has a fine meaning, if only we could give it body!

When you agree with someone, you tend not to talk about it for too long.

I don't like to be the only person talking in a room.

I simply can't do one-word message replies: Yes. Ok. No. Sure. Cool. None of these are options for me. I must write something extra. Something personal. I put kisses and emoticons. Emoticons, by the way, are my very best friends. They have removed all the pressure of thinking up something personal to say.

I enjoy talking to people and sometimes razzing them and that's just me.