Talking Down Quotes

Adults are interested if you don't play down to the little 2 or 3 year olds or talk down. I don't believe in talking down to children. I don't believe in talking down to any certain segment. I like to kind of just talk in a general way to the audience. Children are always reaching.

Not all. Some of them he probably lectured to death.

Look, I think if you talk down to a kid or aim specifically at a kid, most kids aren't gonna like it, really, because most kids can feel when you are being patronizing.

One of the things I hate about TV for kids is that it conescends to them.

It gets tiresome being spoken to as if you are a child, even if you happen to be one.

Some people never learn how to talk to kids. They turn up the volume and enunciate with extra care, as if talking to a partially deaf immigrant. They sound as if they're reading lines somebody else wrote for them, or as if what they're saying is really for the benefit of other adults listening and not just for the child. Kids sense that and turn off.

People do like to talk us down, it's a Scottish thing. We are pessimistic, we look for the negatives all the time.

You'd be surprised how condescending people can be.

You've got to be vulnerable when you're talking to kids. There's nothing worse than some adult standing up there just talking down to some kid. You can't work that way.

If you're talking down to the audience, no matter how brutish it is, they know it and they hate you for it.

It's very insulting when you're in charge and someone is talking down to you.

We don't talk, we hold forth. We don't converse, we expound.

There's a difference between children's literature and all-ages literature. One is written expressly for children. The other is written for everyone, including children. And the difference usually manifests in not talking down to kids.

I found it really difficult when teachers talked down to me.

If you start writing to an audience you're talking down to them. I've never written for any age group, I just write character. If you can capture that you'll get the audiences, and it will be a wide range, as it is for 'Twilight,' it's a pretty wide range.

Some men love only to talk where they are masters. They like to go to school-girls, or to boys, or into the shops where the sauntering people gladly lend an ear.

I don't think any of my kids' books talk down to kids.

I don't like the idea of talking down to kids. I think I was talked down to, and you rebel against that.