Quotes About Stuttering

I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer.

There were periods during my childhood when I stammered so badly I couldn't talk at all.

Stuttering is painful. In Sunday school, I'd try to read my lessons, and the children behind me were falling on the floor with laughter.

Thith ith too nautheating for wordth!" Libby said, grabbing Jake and running back into the house.

I never realized it until I watched an interview, but sometimes my brain stutters between thoughts, and for some reason it comes out as an 'ummmm.' I'm hoping it's because I'm so smart, and there's just too much information to process, but it's more than likely just because it's a small processor.

I was a closet stutterer.

Stuttering is only a problem–in fact is only abnormal–because our culture places so much value on efficiency and self-mastery. Stuttering breaks communication only because ableist notions have already decided how fast and smooth a person must speak to be heard and taken seriously. An arbitrary line has been drawn around "normal" speech, and that line is forcefully defended.

I think stutterers are funny. And I know it's rude and politically incorrect to laugh at stutterers. But I think it is okay because I know why they're funny. They make people nervous. People think, when on earth are they going to get the word out, so they start laughing out of their own nervousness.

I get horrified when I have to do table reads with the whole cast, because there's a lot of stuttering coming from me, so I have to do a lot of prep.

For the next two years, singing was the only time I didn't stutter. I sang for everything I wanted, like some Disney princess making a wish.

People don't know. People are ignorant. They feel that if you stutter, then you're slow or whatnot.

Stammering is different than stuttering. Stutterers have trouble with the letters, while stammerers trip over entire parts of a sentence. We stammerers generally think of ourselves as very bright.

I have been a lifelong stutterer, and when I was young, I experienced some very difficult times.

He sounded good, didn't he?" added Franck. "He only stuttered eight times." "That's what I mean.

As she stared at the restless pixels on the screen, her impatience grew. This agitation was familiar, a paradoxical feeling that built up inside her when she was spending too much time online, as though some force was at once goading her and holding her back. How to describe it? A temporal stuttering, an urgent lassitude, a feeling of simultaneous rushing and lagging behind. It was a horrible, stilted, panicky sensation, hard to put into words.

this is what temporial stuttering FEELS LIKE like a stut stut STUTTERY RUSHING FORWARD in TIME WITHOUT a MOMENT OR an INSTANT TO DISTINGUISH ONE INSTANCE from THE next GROWING EVER LOUDER AND LOUDER WITHOUT PUNCTUATION until SUDDENLY WITHOUT WARNING IT stops.

The happiest stutterers, I learned, are those who are willing to stutter in front of others.

People who lusted after Marilyn Monroe had no idea she stuttered. It is the secret of her sexiness, actually.

Gerald Jonas's book about stuttering is called 'The Disorder of Many Theories.' Back theory seems to suffer from the same 'Rashomon' effect: as with almost every human problem, there is no dearth of answers and no answer.

When I finally addressed my stuttering - I was almost through with medical school by the time that I finally sought therapy for speech - one of the exercises was making sure that we say what we want to say and not substitute words.

Het zal u misschien verbazen, heer, maar toen ik zelf zo jong was stotterde ik verschrikkelijk. Het was werkelijk dramatisch, heer, werkelijk waar. Ik kon nauwelijks twee woorden achter elkaar zeggen zonder...' 'Nou, daar ben je inderdaad overheen gegroeid, merk ik,' onderbrak de baron hem droogjes.

So by the time I got to Michigan I was a stutterer. I couldn't talk. So my first year of school was my first mute year and then those mute years continued until I got to high school.

I carried a heart at war—a heart at war with others, myself, and the world. I had been using my stuttering as a weapon in that war and had gotten myself into a place where I was seeing and feeling crookedly and self-justifyingly. That was my problem.

The one thing I've learned is that stuttering in public is never as bad as I fear it will be.